SOC 2 Contracts in the North of England

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 - 204
Rank change year-on-year - - +43
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 5 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.15% - 0.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.05% - 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -37.93%
75th Percentile £448 - -
90th Percentile £502 - -
England median daily rate £625 £625 £615
% change year-on-year - +1.63% -2.57%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 478 720 779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.43% 15.40% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 406 482
10th Percentile £235 £320 £288
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £575 £592 £586
90th Percentile £681 £675 £650
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 85 39
10th Percentile £14.01 - £17.50
25th Percentile £22.14 £10.95 £29.30
Median hourly rate £24.59 £12.84 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +91.47% -67.58% +111.76%
75th Percentile £44.88 £26.66 £49.19
90th Percentile £80.73 £48.75 £69.60
England median hourly rate £35.00 £22.42 £37.50
% change year-on-year +56.11% -40.21% +36.36%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing SOC 2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for SOC 2 in the North of England

SOC 2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOC 2 in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for SOC 2 in the North of England

SOC 2
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 10 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
Yorkshire - 5 £413 - 2
SOC 2
England

SOC 2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Security Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) IT Security Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Attestation
1 3 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (60.00%) Information Security
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (20.00%) Network Design
2 1 (20.00%) Network Management
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Register
2 1 (20.00%) SIEM
2 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (60.00%) VBA
2 1 (20.00%) Go
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CISM
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
1 1 (20.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (40.00%) GDPR
2 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (20.00%) GRC
3 1 (20.00%) NIST
3 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Qualys