SOC 2 Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring SOC 2 skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.64% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South West median daily rate - - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 56 54 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.01% 12.05% 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 12 22
10th Percentile £225 £266 £261
25th Percentile £322 £361 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -10.23% +46.67%
75th Percentile £631 £641 £642
90th Percentile £700 £668 £776
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +5.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 8
10th Percentile - - £58.58
25th Percentile - £28.00 £73.32
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £83.40
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -34.05% +42.94%
75th Percentile - £70.00 -
90th Percentile - - £83.88
South West median hourly rate £33.50 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -52.14% +7.69% +20.37%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC 2 in Gloucestershire

SOC 2
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Cheltenham - 2 - -
SOC 2
South West

SOC 2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) IAM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) LDAP
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (100.00%) OpenID
1 2 (100.00%) SAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 2 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) PingFederate
1 2 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Ping Identity
1 2 (100.00%) Salesforce