SOC 2 Contracts in the East of England

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring SOC 2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SOC 2 over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 - 115
Rank change year-on-year - - +31
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.32% - 0.098%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.05% - 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £379
25th Percentile - - £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £413
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.82%
75th Percentile £638 - £434
90th Percentile £706 - £436
England median daily rate £625 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +13.64% - -12.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East of England

SOC 2 falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 146 160 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.58% 8.36% 14.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 92 187
10th Percentile £310 £251 £185
25th Percentile £431 £363 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +34.15% -8.89% +5.51%
75th Percentile £659 £538 £600
90th Percentile £689 £600 £718
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 29 26
10th Percentile £17.63 £14.16 £12.34
25th Percentile £22.65 £14.48 £13.29
Median hourly rate £33.32 £15.79 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year +111.02% -10.34% -35.96%
75th Percentile £73.44 £25.00 £44.31
90th Percentile £86.70 £38.55 £68.75
England median hourly rate £35.00 £22.34 £41.25
% change year-on-year +56.67% -45.84% +50.00%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing SOC 2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for SOC 2 in the East of England

SOC 2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOC 2 in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for SOC 2 in the East of England

SOC 2
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOC 2 in the East of England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOC 2 in the East of England

SOC 2
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
Bedfordshire - 2 £525 -
Suffolk - 1 £751 -
SOC 2
England

SOC 2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudTrail
2 2 (66.67%) AWS KMS
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) IaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SSL
1 2 (66.67%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
1 2 (66.67%) PKI
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (33.33%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Key Management
2 2 (66.67%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Management
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
2 2 (66.67%) FIPS 140-2
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 2 (66.67%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft