SOC 2 Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 97 39 -
Rank change year-on-year -58 - -
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.34% 0.37% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.36% 2.50% -
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 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £539 £413 -
% change year-on-year +30.58% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 127 40 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 14.51% 14.93% 18.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 29 54
10th Percentile £324 £135 £311
25th Percentile £404 £143 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £445
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +12.35% -10.99%
75th Percentile £588 £530 £538
90th Percentile £688 £602 £588
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £448
% change year-on-year +11.11% +0.55% -10.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.63
Median hourly rate £12.21 - £12.75
Median % change year-on-year - - -47.96%
75th Percentile - - £12.88
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.50 £32.81 £10.86
% change year-on-year -52.76% +202.12% -55.67%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

SOC 2 job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

SOC 2
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 February 2026. 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
Sheffield -57 3 £500 - 2
SOC 2
Yorkshire

SOC 2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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