SOC 2 Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield 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 93 36 -
Rank change year-on-year -57 - -
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.37% 0.43% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.48% 3.03% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £460 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile £540 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 121 33 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 14.85% 14.10% 20.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 23 50
10th Percentile £355 £154 £298
25th Percentile £406 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £448
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +11.73% -10.50%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £538
90th Percentile £688 £608 £588
South Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £500 £445
% change year-on-year -2.60% +12.35% -10.99%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

SOC 2 job vacancy trend in Sheffield

SOC 2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Run
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (33.33%) Google Workspace
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Reverse Proxy
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) OAuth
2 2 (66.67%) JWT
2 2 (66.67%) Middleware
2 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 2 (66.67%) OAuth2
2 2 (66.67%) OpenID
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) SAML
3 1 (33.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Thinking
1 2 (66.67%) Anomaly Detection
1 2 (66.67%) API Design
1 2 (66.67%) API Development
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Data Ingestion
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
1 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) Observability
1 2 (66.67%) RBAC
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Secrets Management
1 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Go
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) HIPAA
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google
2 2 (66.67%) Okta
2 2 (66.67%) Ping Identity
2 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow