SOC 2 Contracts in the UK excluding London

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SOC 2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SOC 2 over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 435 495
Rank change year-on-year +51 +60 -
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 1 21 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.005% 0.089% 0.033%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.033% 0.60% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 10 9
10th Percentile - £443 £537
25th Percentile - - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £450 £725
Median % change year-on-year - -37.93% -
75th Percentile - - £800
90th Percentile - £454 £813
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £600
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

SOC 2 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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,042 3,490 4,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.82% 14.85% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,782 2,350 3,075
10th Percentile £250 £218 £204
25th Percentile £363 £363 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £479 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% +6.44% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £569
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 186 193
10th Percentile £10.95 £12.67 £11.39
25th Percentile £12.63 £18.02 £15.00
Median hourly rate £18.00 £32.94 £21.04
Median % change year-on-year -45.36% +56.57% +0.07%
75th Percentile £45.00 £59.82 £44.69
90th Percentile £68.00 £77.50 £64.19
UK median hourly rate £20.61 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -41.13% +27.27% +30.95%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SOC 2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SOC 2 in the UK excluding London

SOC 2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOC 2 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SOC 2 in the UK excluding London

SOC 2
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOC 2 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South West +16 1 - - 2
SOC 2
UK

SOC 2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Information Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Allocation
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google