SOC 2 Contracts in the South East

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 - 213
Rank change year-on-year - - +48
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.067% - 0.017%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.40% - 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £625 £575 £563
% change year-on-year +8.70% +2.22% -10.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 506 810 875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.86% 14.61% 15.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 434 557
10th Percentile £200 £232 £200
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £639 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 65 44
10th Percentile £21.00 £10.82 £17.26
25th Percentile £24.66 £15.38 £18.44
Median hourly rate £46.30 £27.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.36% +1.85% +28.57%
75th Percentile £62.24 £48.75 £50.38
90th Percentile £76.19 £65.00 £67.27
England median hourly rate £35.00 £22.34 £39.60
% change year-on-year +56.67% -43.59% +44.00%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC 2 in the South East

SOC 2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOC 2 in the South East.

Daily rate trend for SOC 2 in the South East

SOC 2
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 4 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
Berkshire - 2 - - 2
Thames Valley - 2 - - 4
SOC 2
England

SOC 2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) OneDrive
General
1 2 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Operations Specialist
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft