Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Sarbanes-Oxley skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Sarbanes-Oxley over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 781 704 959
Rank change year-on-year -77 +255 -181
Permanent jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 133 252 282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.26% 0.17%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.98% 1.40% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 85 143 182
10th Percentile £29,750 £44,800 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £50,625 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £61,180 £63,340
Median % change year-on-year -13.37% -3.41% -0.64%
75th Percentile £67,500 £81,250 £79,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £97,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £59,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.13% +19.50% -6.54%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 13,629 18,029 28,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.28% 18.52% 17.13%
Number of salaries quoted 9,164 8,543 13,451
10th Percentile £26,750 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.75%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,825
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.55% +0.68%

Sarbanes-Oxley
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Sarbanes-Oxley as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley.

Salary trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -16 125 £55,000 -10.10% 48
UK excluding London -55 103 £52,500 -12.13% 29
South East +8 46 £50,000 -13.04% 11
Work from Home +7 30 £62,500 -1.96% 21
Midlands +7 27 £65,000 +30.00% 4
North of England +23 26 £50,000 -18.27% 5
Yorkshire +66 23 £32,500 -46.88% 2
West Midlands +20 23 £65,000 +30.00% 2
London +72 22 £62,500 -1.19% 22
East Midlands -13 4 £30,001 -35.13% 2
North West -3 3 £76,500 +39.09% 3
East of England -8 2 - - 2
South West -28 1 £95,000 +11.76% 1
Scotland -74 1 - - 6

Sarbanes-Oxley
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (3.76%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.75%) Apache
3 1 (0.75%) IIS
3 1 (0.75%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (9.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 26 (19.55%) Azure
2 19 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (13.53%) AWS
4 11 (8.27%) Entra ID
5 9 (6.77%) OneDrive
5 9 (6.77%) WhatsApp
6 5 (3.76%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.50%) GCP
7 2 (1.50%) Google Drive
7 2 (1.50%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.52%) Wi-Fi
2 8 (6.02%) SD-WAN
2 8 (6.02%) Wireless
3 7 (5.26%) Firewall
4 5 (3.76%) LAN
5 4 (3.01%) DHCP
5 4 (3.01%) DNS
5 4 (3.01%) Structured Cabling
5 4 (3.01%) VLAN
5 4 (3.01%) VPN
6 3 (2.26%) WAN
7 2 (1.50%) NAS
7 2 (1.50%) SAN
7 2 (1.50%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.50%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.75%) Cisco IPT
8 1 (0.75%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.76%) Power BI
2 2 (1.50%) Spotfire
General
1 52 (39.10%) Finance
2 43 (32.33%) Social Skills
3 40 (30.08%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (18.80%) Legal
5 14 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
5 14 (10.53%) Pharmaceutical
6 12 (9.02%) Law
6 12 (9.02%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (6.02%) Retail
8 7 (5.26%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.76%) Advertising
10 3 (2.26%) Automotive
10 3 (2.26%) Banking
11 2 (1.50%) Games
11 2 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.50%) Marketing
11 2 (1.50%) Music Industry
12 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.75%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (39.10%) Analyst
2 21 (15.79%) Senior
3 14 (10.53%) Change Analyst
3 14 (10.53%) ITSM Analyst
4 13 (9.77%) IT Manager
5 12 (9.02%) IT Risk Manager
5 12 (9.02%) Risk Manager
5 12 (9.02%) Senior Analyst
6 10 (7.52%) Consultant
6 10 (7.52%) Lead
7 9 (6.77%) IT Support
8 8 (6.02%) IT Assistant
8 8 (6.02%) Network Engineer
8 8 (6.02%) Operations Analyst
8 8 (6.02%) Project Leader
8 8 (6.02%) Senior Network Engineer
9 7 (5.26%) Business Analyst
9 7 (5.26%) Information Security Consultant
9 7 (5.26%) Security Consultant
10 6 (4.51%) Operations Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.51%) EDI
1 6 (4.51%) IDoc
2 3 (2.26%) .NET
3 1 (0.75%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.77%) Biopharmaceutical
2 10 (7.52%) Data Protection Act
2 10 (7.52%) Management Information System
2 10 (7.52%) Onboarding
3 8 (6.02%) Driving Licence
4 6 (4.51%) Virtual Team
5 5 (3.76%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.01%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.50%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.50%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.50%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.75%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.75%) Life Science
8 1 (0.75%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.75%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.77%) Windows
2 10 (7.52%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.01%) Apple iOS
3 4 (3.01%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (2.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (31.58%) ITIL
2 34 (25.56%) Information Security
3 32 (24.06%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (23.31%) Risk Management
5 25 (18.80%) Service Management
6 23 (17.29%) Analytics
6 23 (17.29%) Process Improvement
7 20 (15.04%) IT Audit
8 19 (14.29%) Change Management
8 19 (14.29%) Data Analytics
8 19 (14.29%) Project Management
9 17 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (12.78%) ITSM
10 16 (12.03%) Internal Audit
11 15 (11.28%) Computer Science
11 15 (11.28%) Project Delivery
12 14 (10.53%) Configuration Management
13 13 (9.77%) Cybersecurity
13 13 (9.77%) Neuroscience
14 12 (9.02%) Remediation Plan
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.51%) SQL
2 2 (1.50%) C#
3 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 32 (24.06%) Degree
2 12 (9.02%) AWS Certification
3 10 (7.52%) CISSP
4 9 (6.77%) CISA
4 9 (6.77%) Security Cleared
5 8 (6.02%) CCNA
5 8 (6.02%) CCNP
5 8 (6.02%) CCSA
5 8 (6.02%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (6.02%) SC Cleared
6 7 (5.26%) CISM
7 3 (2.26%) CRISC
7 3 (2.26%) FFIEC
7 3 (2.26%) SANS
8 2 (1.50%) ACCA
8 2 (1.50%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 2 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.50%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (27.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (18.80%) NIST
3 21 (15.79%) Cyber Essentials
4 18 (13.53%) GDPR
5 17 (12.78%) PCI DSS
6 15 (11.28%) ITGC
7 12 (9.02%) QA
8 11 (8.27%) COBIT
9 9 (6.77%) GRC
10 8 (6.02%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 7 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 6 (4.51%) GxP
12 6 (4.51%) HIPAA
13 5 (3.76%) GLBA
14 4 (3.01%) FISMA
14 4 (3.01%) SOX 404
15 3 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (2.26%) SOC 2
15 3 (2.26%) Solvency II
16 2 (1.50%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 13 (9.77%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.01%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (3.76%) Backup Exec
1 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.26%) CASB
2 3 (2.26%) SCCM
3 2 (1.50%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.75%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (22.56%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.03%) SAP
3 14 (10.53%) Snow
4 8 (6.02%) CheckPoint
4 8 (6.02%) Cisco
5 6 (4.51%) Adobe
5 6 (4.51%) Meraki
5 6 (4.51%) OpenText
6 5 (3.76%) Veritas
7 4 (3.01%) Avaya
7 4 (3.01%) Citrix
8 2 (1.50%) Google
8 2 (1.50%) NetApp
8 2 (1.50%) Triple Point
8 2 (1.50%) Veeam
8 2 (1.50%) VMware
9 1 (0.75%) CA