SOC 2 Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring SOC 2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 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 in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.75% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.08% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £466 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 49 31 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 18.42% 17.61% 18.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 13 13
10th Percentile £341 £176 £401
25th Percentile £419 £313 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £350 £473
Median % change year-on-year +33.14% -25.93% -17.11%
75th Percentile £531 £419 £500
90th Percentile £638 £484 £502
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £460 £350 £473
% change year-on-year +31.43% -25.93% -17.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 7
10th Percentile £19.60 - £16.40
25th Percentile £28.94 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £48.00 £16.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +200.00% -17.95% -
75th Percentile £53.25 £16.50 £26.13
90th Percentile £54.30 - £32.70
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £48.00 £16.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year +200.00% -17.95% +39.29%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

SOC 2 job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

SOC 2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 2 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Key Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform