SOC 2 Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring SOC 2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.14% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.97% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - -
75th Percentile £442 - -
90th Percentile £445 - -
England median daily rate £500 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -14.89% +2.17% +21.05%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 517 354 371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.91% 16.71% 13.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 216 277
10th Percentile £306 £198 £259
25th Percentile £402 £318 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £454 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.68% -4.47% +5.56%
75th Percentile £562 £541 £585
90th Percentile £650 £620 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 30
10th Percentile £12.63 £12.74 £11.05
25th Percentile £12.94 £14.70 £13.05
Median hourly rate £13.20 £21.00 £16.80
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% +24.98% -8.18%
75th Percentile £19.94 £32.76 £34.88
90th Percentile £21.23 £52.50 £58.75
England median hourly rate £25.33 £31.76 £26.45
% change year-on-year -20.26% +20.08% -8.32%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

SOC 2 job vacancy trend in the Midlands

SOC 2
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SOC 2

SOC 2
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 February 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
East Midlands - 3 £438 -
West Midlands - 2 - - 4
SOC 2
England

SOC 2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (60.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Network Security
1 3 (60.00%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (40.00%) Kerberos
2 2 (40.00%) SSH
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Management Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Migration Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) OAuth
1 5 (100.00%) SAML
2 3 (60.00%) OAuth2
2 3 (60.00%) OpenID
3 2 (40.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) AIX
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Solaris
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 5 (100.00%) Key Management
2 3 (60.00%) Application Security
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Data Security
2 3 (60.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
2 3 (60.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 3 (60.00%) OWASP
2 3 (60.00%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Red Team
2 3 (60.00%) SBOM
2 3 (60.00%) Secrets Management
2 3 (60.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (60.00%) SOAR
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Use Case
2 3 (60.00%) Validation
2 3 (60.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Bicep
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (100.00%) NIST
1 5 (100.00%) PCI DSS
2 3 (60.00%) GDPR
2 3 (60.00%) GRC
2 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) Splunk
2 2 (40.00%) BeyondTrust
2 2 (40.00%) CyberArk