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

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 306 383 560
Rank change year-on-year +77 +177 -120
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 33 80 65
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.33% 0.15%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.62% 2.69% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 55 37
10th Percentile £370 £376 £450
25th Percentile £550 £438 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +21.52%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £700
90th Percentile £790 £729 £780
UK median daily rate £600 £500 £560
% change year-on-year +20.00% -10.71% +10.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £30.08 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £36.20 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £39.60 £100.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.77% -60.40% -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £39.60 £67.07
% change year-on-year +76.77% -40.96% -

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 2,039 2,969 5,827
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 13.86% 12.39% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,424 2,146 4,171
10th Percentile £300 £325 £313
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £520 £512
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +1.66% +7.68%
75th Percentile £621 £630 £613
90th Percentile £750 £743 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -2.38% +0.96% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 70 130
10th Percentile £12.45 £17.50 £11.99
25th Percentile £14.00 £20.91 £19.31
Median hourly rate £23.50 £38.80 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.43% -12.81% +134.21%
75th Percentile £48.75 £59.27 £55.50
90th Percentile £66.00 £70.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £23.05 £37.50 £28.12
% change year-on-year -38.55% +33.38% +33.88%

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 7 June 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 5 (15.15%) Confluence
2 2 (6.06%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.03%) IBM Notes
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (3.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (27.27%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (6.06%) SAP GRC
2 2 (6.06%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.18%) AWS
1 6 (18.18%) SaaS
2 5 (15.15%) Azure
2 5 (15.15%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (15.15%) GCP
2 5 (15.15%) IaaS
2 5 (15.15%) Nutanix
2 5 (15.15%) PaaS
2 5 (15.15%) Rubrik
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.03%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.15%) DHCP
1 5 (15.15%) DNS
1 5 (15.15%) Firewall
1 5 (15.15%) Kerberos
1 5 (15.15%) NAS
1 5 (15.15%) SAN
1 5 (15.15%) TCP/IP
1 5 (15.15%) VLAN
2 2 (6.06%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Git
2 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
2 5 (15.15%) JIRA
2 5 (15.15%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.03%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.03%) GoCD
General
1 20 (60.61%) Finance
2 15 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Banking
4 1 (3.03%) General Ledger
4 1 (3.03%) Law
4 1 (3.03%) Legal
4 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Consultant
2 9 (27.27%) Great Plains Consultant
2 9 (27.27%) Microsoft Consultant
3 4 (12.12%) Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Data Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Lead
4 2 (6.06%) Security Architect
5 1 (3.03%) CISSP Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Compliance Manager
5 1 (3.03%) Finance Manager
5 1 (3.03%) Information Manager
5 1 (3.03%) Information Security Manager
5 1 (3.03%) Report Manager
5 1 (3.03%) Risk Manager
5 1 (3.03%) Security Manager
5 1 (3.03%) Senior
5 1 (3.03%) Senior Security Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) SOX Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) SOX Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) LDAP
2 1 (3.03%) Jest
2 1 (3.03%) Node.js
2 1 (3.03%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Clustering
1 6 (18.18%) Replication
2 2 (6.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Windows
2 5 (15.15%) Linux
2 5 (15.15%) Oracle Linux
2 5 (15.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (15.15%) Solaris
2 5 (15.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (27.27%) Test Scripting
1 9 (27.27%) Use Case
1 9 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
2 7 (21.21%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (18.18%) Information Security
3 6 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
4 5 (15.15%) Agile
4 5 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (15.15%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (15.15%) Cost Optimisation
4 5 (15.15%) Data Security
4 5 (15.15%) Deployment Automation
4 5 (15.15%) DevOps
4 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (15.15%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (15.15%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (15.15%) Security Hardening
4 5 (15.15%) Service Catalogue
4 5 (15.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 5 (15.15%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (39.39%) SQL
2 6 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 6 (18.18%) Python
3 5 (15.15%) Bash
4 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Degree
2 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) CISA
3 1 (3.03%) CISM
3 1 (3.03%) CISSP
3 1 (3.03%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (27.27%) GDPR
2 6 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (9.09%) COBIT
4 2 (6.06%) COSO
4 2 (6.06%) Data Quality
4 2 (6.06%) GRC
4 2 (6.06%) NCSC
4 2 (6.06%) NIST
4 2 (6.06%) PCI DSS
5 1 (3.03%) GLBA
5 1 (3.03%) ISAE 3402
5 1 (3.03%) ISO 9001
5 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (3.03%) ITGC
5 1 (3.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (21.21%) Active Directory
2 5 (15.15%) Docker
2 5 (15.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) Ansible
1 5 (15.15%) EMC NetWorker
1 5 (15.15%) Kubernetes
1 5 (15.15%) Netcool
1 5 (15.15%) Terraform
1 5 (15.15%) Tivoli
1 5 (15.15%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (3.03%) CASB
2 1 (3.03%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (3.03%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 15 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.18%) Cisco
2 6 (18.18%) HP
3 5 (15.15%) CyberArk
3 5 (15.15%) Dell
3 5 (15.15%) EMC
3 5 (15.15%) IBM
3 5 (15.15%) Isilon
3 5 (15.15%) Oracle
3 5 (15.15%) Qualys
3 5 (15.15%) Serena
3 5 (15.15%) ServiceNow
3 5 (15.15%) Splunk
3 5 (15.15%) VMware
4 3 (9.09%) SAP
5 2 (6.06%) Ariba
6 1 (3.03%) Axway
6 1 (3.03%) Lotus
6 1 (3.03%) McAfee
6 1 (3.03%) Trend Micro