Sarbanes-Oxley Contracts

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 510 510 677
Rank change year-on-year 0 +167 -80
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 63 191 180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.33% 0.21%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.04% 2.50% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 103 93
10th Percentile £481 £400 £345
25th Percentile £525 £446 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £700
90th Percentile £750 £713 £761
UK excluding London median daily rate £560 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +12.00% - +12.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £28.72 £40.73
25th Percentile £67.50 £32.80 £50.61
Median hourly rate £70.00 £39.60 £67.07
Median % change year-on-year +76.77% -40.96% +7.31%
75th Percentile £72.50 - £83.54
90th Percentile - - £93.41
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £39.60 -
% change year-on-year +76.77% - -

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,062 7,631 11,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.25% 13.36% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,850 5,224 7,927
10th Percentile £282 £280 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £742 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £480 £450
% change year-on-year +0.83% +6.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 380 234 311
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.41 £12.02
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.71 £17.00
Median hourly rate £21.06 £35.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.84% +12.90% +47.62%
75th Percentile £45.00 £62.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £77.50 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.27 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -47.80% +55.56% +7.14%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -7 57 £600 +9.09% 49
London +20 34 £600 +4.35% 20
Work from Home +81 31 £600 +6.67% 25
UK excluding London +18 22 £560 +12.00% 29
South East +3 10 £550 +10.00% 9
North of England +21 8 £560 +142.60% 6
Yorkshire +22 5 £340 -11.30% 3
North West +17 3 £580 +154.95% 2
East of England +13 3 £560 +24.44% 3
Midlands +31 1 £675 +22.73% 8
West Midlands +18 1 £675 +22.73% 4
South West +17 1 £875 -

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 7 (11.11%) Confluence
2 2 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.59%) IBM Notes
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (14.29%) Dynamics GP
2 8 (12.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (6.35%) SAP BPC
4 3 (4.76%) SAP GRC
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (1.59%) Relativity
5 1 (1.59%) SAP ERP
5 1 (1.59%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.87%) Azure
2 9 (14.29%) GCP
2 9 (14.29%) SaaS
3 7 (11.11%) AWS
4 6 (9.52%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (9.52%) IaaS
4 6 (9.52%) Nutanix
4 6 (9.52%) PaaS
4 6 (9.52%) Rubrik
5 4 (6.35%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.17%) PowerApps
6 2 (3.17%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.59%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.59%) OCI
7 1 (1.59%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.59%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.70%) DNS
1 8 (12.70%) Firewall
2 6 (9.52%) DHCP
2 6 (9.52%) Kerberos
2 6 (9.52%) NAS
2 6 (9.52%) SAN
2 6 (9.52%) TCP/IP
2 6 (9.52%) VLAN
3 5 (7.94%) Network Security
4 2 (3.17%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (3.17%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (3.17%) Internet
4 2 (3.17%) NX-OS
4 2 (3.17%) VPN
4 2 (3.17%) WAN
4 2 (3.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.35%) Power BI
1 4 (6.35%) SAP HANA
2 3 (4.76%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.17%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Git
1 7 (11.11%) JIRA
2 6 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 6 (9.52%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.59%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.59%) GoCD
3 1 (1.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (52.38%) Finance
2 21 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.94%) Banking
4 4 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (6.35%) Legal
5 3 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.59%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Law
7 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (33.33%) Consultant
2 9 (14.29%) Great Plains Consultant
2 9 (14.29%) Microsoft Consultant
3 8 (12.70%) Analyst
4 6 (9.52%) Lead
5 5 (7.94%) Compliance Analyst
5 5 (7.94%) Project Manager
5 5 (7.94%) SOX Consultant
5 5 (7.94%) SOX Project Manager
6 4 (6.35%) SAP Consultant
6 4 (6.35%) Security Consultant
6 4 (6.35%) Senior
7 3 (4.76%) Architect
7 3 (4.76%) Cloud Consultant
7 3 (4.76%) GCP Consultant
7 3 (4.76%) Oracle Consultant
7 3 (4.76%) Senior Consultant
7 3 (4.76%) Transformation Consultant
8 2 (3.17%) Finance Manager
8 2 (3.17%) SAP GRC Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.11%) LDAP
2 2 (3.17%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.59%) Jest
3 1 (1.59%) Node.js
3 1 (1.59%) React
3 1 (1.59%) SAML
3 1 (1.59%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.11%) Clustering
1 7 (11.11%) Replication
2 3 (4.76%) Life Science
3 2 (3.17%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.70%) Windows
2 6 (9.52%) Linux
2 6 (9.52%) Oracle Linux
2 6 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (9.52%) Solaris
2 6 (9.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (19.05%) Use Case
2 11 (17.46%) Risk Management
2 11 (17.46%) User Acceptance Testing
3 10 (15.87%) Disaster Recovery
4 9 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (14.29%) Test Scripting
5 8 (12.70%) Analytics
5 8 (12.70%) Project Management
6 7 (11.11%) Agile
6 7 (11.11%) Data Security
6 7 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
7 6 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (9.52%) Deployment Automation
7 6 (9.52%) DevOps
7 6 (9.52%) High Availability
7 6 (9.52%) Information Security
7 6 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (9.52%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.63%) SQL
2 7 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 7 (11.11%) Python
3 6 (9.52%) Bash
4 2 (3.17%) ABAP
5 1 (1.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (14.29%) Degree
2 5 (7.94%) SC Cleared
2 5 (7.94%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.76%) CISM
3 3 (4.76%) CISSP
4 2 (3.17%) CISA
4 2 (3.17%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.17%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.17%) PMP
5 1 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.59%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.46%) GDPR
2 9 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (11.11%) PCI DSS
4 6 (9.52%) GxP
5 5 (7.94%) GRC
6 4 (6.35%) COBIT
7 3 (4.76%) ITGC
7 3 (4.76%) NCSC
8 2 (3.17%) COSO
8 2 (3.17%) NIST
9 1 (1.59%) GLBA
9 1 (1.59%) ISAE 3402
9 1 (1.59%) ISO 9001
9 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (1.59%) PMO
9 1 (1.59%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 6 (9.52%) Docker
2 6 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (9.52%) Ansible
1 6 (9.52%) EMC NetWorker
1 6 (9.52%) Kubernetes
1 6 (9.52%) Netcool
1 6 (9.52%) Terraform
1 6 (9.52%) Tivoli
1 6 (9.52%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (1.59%) CASB
2 1 (1.59%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.59%) McAfee ePO
2 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 13 (20.63%) Oracle
3 11 (17.46%) SAP
4 9 (14.29%) Cisco
5 7 (11.11%) CyberArk
5 7 (11.11%) HP
5 7 (11.11%) ServiceNow
6 6 (9.52%) Dell
6 6 (9.52%) EMC
6 6 (9.52%) IBM
6 6 (9.52%) Isilon
6 6 (9.52%) Qualys
6 6 (9.52%) Serena
6 6 (9.52%) Splunk
6 6 (9.52%) VMware
7 5 (7.94%) Ariba
8 3 (4.76%) Concur
8 3 (4.76%) Google
8 3 (4.76%) Hyperion
9 2 (3.17%) Palo Alto