Sarbanes-Oxley Contracts with Work from Home Options

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Sarbanes-Oxley skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Sarbanes-Oxley over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 316 393 551
Rank change year-on-year +77 +158 -114
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 31 75 71
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.30% 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.46% 2.50% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 53 40
10th Percentile £500 £400 £482
25th Percentile £591 £425 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +28.21%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £741
90th Percentile £803 £713 £776
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £28.72 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £32.80 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £39.60 £100.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.77% -60.40% +60.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £39.60 £67.07
% change year-on-year +76.77% -40.96% +7.31%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

Sarbanes-Oxley is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,129 2,996 5,825
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.39% 12.16% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,475 2,179 4,143
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £420 £423 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £520 £504
Median % change year-on-year -0.58% +3.28% +6.00%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £600
90th Percentile £750 £730 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.31% +8.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 66 125
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.60 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.00 £23.67 £20.00
Median hourly rate £23.50 £39.80 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.95% -10.56% +134.21%
75th Percentile £48.75 £62.81 £56.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.13 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.06 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -39.84% +7.69% +54.76%

Sarbanes-Oxley
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Sarbanes-Oxley as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Sarbanes-Oxley trend for jobs with a WFH option

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Sarbanes-Oxley.

Sarbanes-Oxley daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Sarbanes-Oxley over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Sarbanes-Oxley daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Sarbanes-Oxley
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Sarbanes-Oxley.

Sarbanes-Oxley hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Sarbanes-Oxley
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (19.35%) Confluence
2 2 (6.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.23%) IBM Notes
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (29.03%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (6.45%) SAP GRC
2 2 (6.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 7 (22.58%) AWS
1 7 (22.58%) SaaS
2 6 (19.35%) Azure
2 6 (19.35%) Cloud Computing
2 6 (19.35%) GCP
2 6 (19.35%) IaaS
2 6 (19.35%) Nutanix
2 6 (19.35%) PaaS
2 6 (19.35%) Rubrik
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.23%) OCI
3 1 (3.23%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) DHCP
1 6 (19.35%) DNS
1 6 (19.35%) Firewall
1 6 (19.35%) Kerberos
1 6 (19.35%) NAS
1 6 (19.35%) SAN
1 6 (19.35%) TCP/IP
1 6 (19.35%) VLAN
2 2 (6.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (22.58%) Git
2 6 (19.35%) Jenkins
2 6 (19.35%) JIRA
2 6 (19.35%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.23%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.23%) GoCD
General
1 20 (64.52%) Finance
2 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Banking
4 1 (3.23%) General Ledger
4 1 (3.23%) Law
4 1 (3.23%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Consultant
2 9 (29.03%) Great Plains Consultant
2 9 (29.03%) Microsoft Consultant
3 2 (6.45%) Architect
3 2 (6.45%) Finance Manager
3 2 (6.45%) Lead
3 2 (6.45%) Security Architect
4 1 (3.23%) Analyst
4 1 (3.23%) Audit Manager
4 1 (3.23%) DBA
4 1 (3.23%) Finance Systems Manager
4 1 (3.23%) Functional Consultant
4 1 (3.23%) IT Consultant
4 1 (3.23%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (3.23%) Security Analyst
4 1 (3.23%) Senior
4 1 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (3.23%) Software Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) SQL DBA
4 1 (3.23%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) LDAP
2 1 (3.23%) Jest
2 1 (3.23%) Node.js
2 1 (3.23%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) Clustering
1 7 (22.58%) Replication
2 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (22.58%) Windows
2 6 (19.35%) Linux
2 6 (19.35%) Oracle Linux
2 6 (19.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (19.35%) Solaris
2 6 (19.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) User Acceptance Testing
2 9 (29.03%) Test Scripting
2 9 (29.03%) Use Case
3 8 (25.81%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (22.58%) Vulnerability Management
5 6 (19.35%) Agile
5 6 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (19.35%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (19.35%) Cost Optimisation
5 6 (19.35%) Data Security
5 6 (19.35%) Deployment Automation
5 6 (19.35%) DevOps
5 6 (19.35%) High Availability
5 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (19.35%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (19.35%) Root Cause Analysis
5 6 (19.35%) Security Hardening
5 6 (19.35%) Service Catalogue
5 6 (19.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 6 (19.35%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (35.48%) SQL
2 7 (22.58%) PowerShell
2 7 (22.58%) Python
3 6 (19.35%) Bash
4 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (29.03%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) CISA
3 1 (3.23%) CISM
3 1 (3.23%) CISSP
3 1 (3.23%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.23%) PMP
3 1 (3.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (3.23%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.81%) GDPR
2 4 (12.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (9.68%) COBIT
4 2 (6.45%) COSO
4 2 (6.45%) GRC
4 2 (6.45%) NCSC
4 2 (6.45%) NIST
4 2 (6.45%) PCI DSS
5 1 (3.23%) GLBA
5 1 (3.23%) ISAE 3402
5 1 (3.23%) ISO 9001
5 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (3.23%) ITGC
5 1 (3.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (25.81%) Active Directory
2 6 (19.35%) Docker
2 6 (19.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (19.35%) Ansible
1 6 (19.35%) EMC NetWorker
1 6 (19.35%) Kubernetes
1 6 (19.35%) Netcool
1 6 (19.35%) Terraform
1 6 (19.35%) Tivoli
1 6 (19.35%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (3.23%) CASB
2 1 (3.23%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (3.23%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 17 (54.84%) Microsoft
2 7 (22.58%) Cisco
2 7 (22.58%) HP
2 7 (22.58%) Oracle
3 6 (19.35%) CyberArk
3 6 (19.35%) Dell
3 6 (19.35%) EMC
3 6 (19.35%) IBM
3 6 (19.35%) Isilon
3 6 (19.35%) Qualys
3 6 (19.35%) Serena
3 6 (19.35%) ServiceNow
3 6 (19.35%) Splunk
3 6 (19.35%) VMware
4 3 (9.68%) SAP
5 2 (6.45%) Ariba
6 1 (3.23%) Concur
6 1 (3.23%) Lotus
6 1 (3.23%) McAfee
6 1 (3.23%) Netskope