SOC 2 Contracts in Merseyside

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 0.63% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.55% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North West median daily rate - - £450
% change year-on-year - - -37.93%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 22 22 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 13.92% 10.38% 11.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 8 23
10th Percentile £146 - £152
25th Percentile £150 £115 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £162 £413
Median % change year-on-year +33.13% -60.85% -8.33%
75th Percentile £475 £450 £528
90th Percentile £506 £510 £650
North West median daily rate £468 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -6.40% +3.09% +4.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 0
Median hourly rate - £14.50 -
North West median hourly rate £32.00 £12.84 £38.55
% change year-on-year +149.22% -66.69% -6.32%

SOC 2
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 30 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
Liverpool - 1 - - 8
SOC 2
North West

SOC 2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Supply Chain Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Due Diligence
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Wealth Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PMO