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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 515 482 671
Rank change year-on-year -33 +189 -65
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 60 205 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.37% 0.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.00% 2.70% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 114 84
10th Percentile £425 £400 £321
25th Percentile £522 £425 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £700
90th Percentile £750 £713 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £555 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +11.00% -4.76% +28.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - £30.08 £40.73
25th Percentile £67.50 £36.20 £50.61
Median hourly rate £70.00 £39.60 £67.07
Median % change year-on-year +76.77% -40.96% -
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 5,992 7,585 11,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.92% 13.53% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,782 5,156 7,966
10th Percentile £280 £289 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +1.35% +9.05%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £486 £454
% change year-on-year -2.26% +7.17% +6.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 406 244 308
10th Percentile £10.98 £13.29 £12.05
25th Percentile £13.20 £18.65 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.42 £37.50 £28.12
Median % change year-on-year -40.21% +33.38% +33.88%
75th Percentile £47.81 £63.23 £49.44
90th Percentile £69.44 £77.50 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.97 £36.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year -47.67% +64.77% +6.41%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -30 54 £600 +19.94% 52
London +11 33 £600 +4.35% 27
Work from Home +65 32 £600 +9.09% 57
UK excluding London -4 21 £555 +11.00% 27
South East -9 9 £538 +7.50% 13
North of England +16 7 £470 +17.50% 4
Yorkshire +19 5 £340 -45.60% 1
Midlands +21 2 £675 +17.39% 3
North West +17 2 £600 +163.74% 3
West Midlands +13 2 £675 +17.39% 2
East of England +5 2 £560 +24.44% 3
South West +5 1 £875 - 1

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 6 (10.00%) Confluence
2 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.67%) IBM Notes
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (3.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (15.00%) Dynamics GP
2 6 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (6.67%) SAP GRC
4 3 (5.00%) SAP BPC
5 2 (3.33%) SAP ERP
6 1 (1.67%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (1.67%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (1.67%) Relativity
6 1 (1.67%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 8 (13.33%) Azure
1 8 (13.33%) GCP
1 8 (13.33%) SaaS
2 6 (10.00%) AWS
3 5 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (8.33%) IaaS
3 5 (8.33%) Nutanix
3 5 (8.33%) PaaS
3 5 (8.33%) Rubrik
4 3 (5.00%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.33%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.67%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.67%) OCI
6 1 (1.67%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.67%) DNS
1 7 (11.67%) Firewall
2 5 (8.33%) DHCP
2 5 (8.33%) Kerberos
2 5 (8.33%) NAS
2 5 (8.33%) Network Security
2 5 (8.33%) SAN
2 5 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 5 (8.33%) VLAN
3 2 (3.33%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (3.33%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (3.33%) Internet
3 2 (3.33%) NX-OS
3 2 (3.33%) VPN
3 2 (3.33%) WAN
3 2 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.00%) SAP HANA
1 3 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.33%) Power BI
2 2 (3.33%) SAP BW
3 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Git
1 6 (10.00%) JIRA
2 5 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.33%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.67%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.67%) GoCD
3 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (50.00%) Finance
2 23 (38.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.33%) Banking
4 4 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (6.67%) Legal
5 2 (3.33%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.67%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Law
6 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (33.33%) Consultant
2 9 (15.00%) Analyst
2 9 (15.00%) Great Plains Consultant
2 9 (15.00%) Microsoft Consultant
3 6 (10.00%) SOX Consultant
4 5 (8.33%) Compliance Analyst
4 5 (8.33%) Lead
4 5 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 5 (8.33%) Security Consultant
4 5 (8.33%) SOX Project Manager
5 4 (6.67%) SAP Consultant
6 3 (5.00%) Cloud Consultant
6 3 (5.00%) GCP Consultant
6 3 (5.00%) Oracle Consultant
6 3 (5.00%) SAP GRC Consultant
6 3 (5.00%) Senior
6 3 (5.00%) Transformation Consultant
7 2 (3.33%) Finance Manager
7 2 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
7 2 (3.33%) Senior SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.00%) LDAP
2 3 (5.00%) SailPoint
3 2 (3.33%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.67%) Jest
4 1 (1.67%) Node.js
4 1 (1.67%) React
4 1 (1.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) Clustering
1 6 (10.00%) Replication
2 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (1.67%) Life Science
2 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (1.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.67%) Windows
2 5 (8.33%) Linux
2 5 (8.33%) Oracle Linux
2 5 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (8.33%) Solaris
2 5 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (18.33%) Risk Management
2 10 (16.67%) Use Case
2 10 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 9 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 9 (15.00%) Test Scripting
4 8 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (11.67%) Analytics
5 7 (11.67%) Information Security
5 7 (11.67%) Project Management
6 6 (10.00%) Agile
6 6 (10.00%) Data Security
6 6 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
7 5 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (8.33%) DevOps
7 5 (8.33%) High Availability
7 5 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (8.33%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 14 (23.33%) SQL
2 6 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (10.00%) Python
3 5 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (1.67%) ABAP
4 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (15.00%) Degree
2 5 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 5 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.00%) CISM
3 3 (5.00%) CISSP
4 2 (3.33%) CISA
4 2 (3.33%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.33%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.33%) PMP
5 1 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.67%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.33%) GDPR
2 10 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (11.67%) PCI DSS
4 6 (10.00%) GRC
5 4 (6.67%) COBIT
6 3 (5.00%) GxP
6 3 (5.00%) ITGC
6 3 (5.00%) NCSC
7 2 (3.33%) COSO
7 2 (3.33%) NIST
8 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
8 1 (1.67%) GLBA
8 1 (1.67%) ISAE 3402
8 1 (1.67%) ISO 9001
8 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (1.67%) PMO
8 1 (1.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.33%) Docker
2 5 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (8.33%) Ansible
1 5 (8.33%) EMC NetWorker
1 5 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 5 (8.33%) Netcool
1 5 (8.33%) Terraform
1 5 (8.33%) Tivoli
1 5 (8.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (1.67%) CASB
2 1 (1.67%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.67%) McAfee ePO
2 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (18.33%) Oracle
3 9 (15.00%) SAP
4 8 (13.33%) Cisco
5 6 (10.00%) CyberArk
5 6 (10.00%) HP
5 6 (10.00%) ServiceNow
6 5 (8.33%) Ariba
6 5 (8.33%) Dell
6 5 (8.33%) EMC
6 5 (8.33%) IBM
6 5 (8.33%) Isilon
6 5 (8.33%) Qualys
6 5 (8.33%) Serena
6 5 (8.33%) Splunk
6 5 (8.33%) VMware
7 4 (6.67%) Concur
8 3 (5.00%) Google
9 2 (3.33%) Juniper
9 2 (3.33%) Palo Alto