SOC 2 Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring SOC 2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 - 36
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.45% - 0.45%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.13% - 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £700
North West median daily rate £420 £310 £700
% change year-on-year +35.48% -55.71% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 32 15 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 14.48% 10.34% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 2 9
10th Percentile £267 £306 £351
25th Percentile £339 £353 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £677 £438 £593
Median % change year-on-year +54.66% -26.21% +7.80%
75th Percentile £770 £528 £720
90th Percentile £870 £579 £725
North West median daily rate £441 £469 £500
% change year-on-year -5.87% -6.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 8
10th Percentile £44.40 £23.16 £12.91
25th Percentile £48.01 £23.43 £18.78
Median hourly rate £52.78 £24.67 £69.58
Median % change year-on-year +113.90% -64.54% +85.55%
75th Percentile £57.67 £25.83 £78.00
90th Percentile £60.61 £26.04 £78.35
North West median hourly rate £56.25 £24.18 £22.73
% change year-on-year +132.63% +6.38% -53.48%

SOC 2
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. 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
Preston - 1 - - 1
SOC 2
North West

SOC 2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST