SOC 2 Contract Job Trends in Leeds

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring SOC 2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.27% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.49% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £523 - -
25th Percentile £536 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 - -
75th Percentile £585 - -
90th Percentile £594 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £564 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 134 67 134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 18.16% 11.07% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 45 94
10th Percentile £350 £313 £241
25th Percentile £400 £359 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £594 £598
90th Percentile £600 £733 £682
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.00 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.57 - £16.11
% change year-on-year - - -10.62%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SOC 2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

SOC 2 job vacancy trend in Leeds

SOC 2
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing SOC 2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing SOC 2

SOC 2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Flash
1 2 (100.00%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Blockchain
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Collection
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Federated Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) KYC
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Rust
1 2 (100.00%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCSK
1 2 (100.00%) CEH
1 2 (100.00%) CISA
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) OSCP
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS