SOC 2 Contracts in England

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 445 540 576
Rank change year-on-year +95 +36 +168
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 50 19 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.051% 0.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.15% 0.38% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 8 48
10th Percentile £250 £494 £450
25th Percentile £416 £519 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £638 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% +2.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £751 £681 £645
90th Percentile £875 £711 £709
UK median daily rate £639 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -1.77% +4.00% +4.17%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 4,333 5,026 6,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.44% 13.46% 13.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,804 3,154 4,385
10th Percentile £275 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +0.95%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £506 £525
% change year-on-year -1.19% -3.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 377 235
10th Percentile £15.13 £11.00 £15.21
25th Percentile £19.86 £13.25 £20.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £24.18 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.34% -43.11% +63.46%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.41 £70.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £23.80 £38.00
% change year-on-year +26.05% -37.37% +40.74%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC 2 in England

SOC 2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SOC 2 in England

SOC 2
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOC 2 in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOC 2 in England

SOC 2
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
London +55 33 £688 +5.77% 331
North of England +16 9 £413 -43.10% 51
Yorkshire - 8 £413 - 14
East of England - 3 £525 - 26
South East - 2 - - 58
North West +5 1 - - 34
SOC 2
UK

SOC 2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.00%) Confluence
2 2 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (4.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 22 (44.00%) AWS
2 19 (38.00%) Azure
3 15 (30.00%) GCP
4 12 (24.00%) SaaS
4 12 (24.00%) Serverless
5 10 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 9 (18.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 8 (16.00%) IaaS
7 8 (16.00%) PaaS
7 8 (16.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (12.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 6 (12.00%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (12.00%) Entra ID
9 5 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (10.00%) AWS CloudTrail
9 5 (10.00%) AWS KMS
9 5 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (10.00%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.00%) Firewall
2 7 (14.00%) SSL
3 5 (10.00%) DNS
3 5 (10.00%) Network Security
3 5 (10.00%) VPN
4 3 (6.00%) SMTP
5 2 (4.00%) Kerberos
5 2 (4.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.00%) X.509
6 1 (2.00%) DMZ
6 1 (2.00%) HTTPS
6 1 (2.00%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.00%) SNMP
6 1 (2.00%) SSH
6 1 (2.00%) Telnet
6 1 (2.00%) VLAN
6 1 (2.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.00%) GitLab
2 4 (8.00%) JIRA
3 2 (4.00%) Git
4 1 (2.00%) CircleCI
General
1 18 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.00%) Finance
3 3 (6.00%) Banking
3 3 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (6.00%) Financial Institution
3 3 (6.00%) Legal
4 2 (4.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (28.00%) Lead
2 10 (20.00%) Architect
3 6 (12.00%) Senior
4 5 (10.00%) Azure Architect
4 5 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
4 5 (10.00%) Security Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Senior Architect
5 4 (8.00%) Analyst
5 4 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Senior Cloud Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Administrator
6 3 (6.00%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Lead DevOps
6 3 (6.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Security Analyst
6 3 (6.00%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (6.00%) Technical Administrator
6 3 (6.00%) Technical Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.00%) ARM Templates
1 4 (8.00%) Azure Blueprints
2 2 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.00%) LDAP
2 2 (4.00%) OAuth
2 2 (4.00%) OAuth2
2 2 (4.00%) OpenID
2 2 (4.00%) SailPoint
2 2 (4.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.00%) Insider Threat
2 6 (12.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (10.00%) PKI
3 5 (10.00%) Reinsurance
3 5 (10.00%) Security Posture
4 4 (8.00%) Cloud Native
4 4 (8.00%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (4.00%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.00%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (4.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.00%) Windows
2 4 (8.00%) Linux
2 4 (8.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 17 (34.00%) Data Protection
3 16 (32.00%) Information Security
4 15 (30.00%) DevOps
5 14 (28.00%) Identity Access Management
6 13 (26.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
7 10 (20.00%) UEBA
8 9 (18.00%) Incident Response
8 9 (18.00%) Zero Trust
9 8 (16.00%) Data Privacy
10 7 (14.00%) Containerisation
10 7 (14.00%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (14.00%) DevSecOps
10 7 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (14.00%) RBAC
10 7 (14.00%) Risk Management
11 6 (12.00%) CI/CD
12 5 (10.00%) Migration
12 5 (10.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.00%) Python
2 11 (22.00%) PowerShell
3 8 (16.00%) Bicep
4 7 (14.00%) Bash
4 7 (14.00%) SQL
5 3 (6.00%) VBA
6 2 (4.00%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (4.00%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (26.00%) CISM
1 13 (26.00%) CISSP
2 8 (16.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (10.00%) AWS Certification
4 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (8.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (6.00%) Azure Certification
5 3 (6.00%) Degree
6 2 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.00%) CISA
7 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.00%) GCIH
7 1 (2.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (2.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (52.00%) GDPR
1 26 (52.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (32.00%) NIST
3 11 (22.00%) HIPAA
4 10 (20.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (8.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (8.00%) GRC
7 3 (6.00%) PCI DSS
8 2 (4.00%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (4.00%) FIPS 140-2
8 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (4.00%) NIST 800
9 1 (2.00%) FedRAMP
9 1 (2.00%) ITGC
9 1 (2.00%) PMO
9 1 (2.00%) QA
9 1 (2.00%) SOC 1
System Software
1 11 (22.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (16.00%) Docker
3 4 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (30.00%) Terraform
2 10 (20.00%) CASB
3 8 (16.00%) Kubernetes
4 5 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 4 (8.00%) Grafana
6 3 (6.00%) Ansible
7 2 (4.00%) Kustomize
7 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (4.00%) Puppet
7 2 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (2.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 27 (54.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.00%) Qualys
3 4 (8.00%) Google
3 4 (8.00%) Tenable
4 2 (4.00%) CyberArk
4 2 (4.00%) Okta
4 2 (4.00%) Splunk
5 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow