SOC 2 Contract Job Trends in Preston

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring SOC 2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 1.18% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Lancashire median daily rate - - £700

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 14 6 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 16.47% 11.76% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 5
10th Percentile £250 - £364
25th Percentile £293 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £678 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £835 - £593
90th Percentile £900 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £677 £438 £593
% change year-on-year +54.66% -26.21% +7.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £42.29 - £39.26
25th Percentile £42.82 - £64.79
Median hourly rate £43.70 £24.76 £73.79
Median % change year-on-year +76.49% -66.45% +96.78%
75th Percentile £44.58 - £78.00
90th Percentile £45.11 - £78.59
Lancashire median hourly rate £52.78 £24.67 £69.58
% change year-on-year +113.90% -64.54% +85.55%

SOC 2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST