SOC 2 Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring SOC 2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 1.14% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.85% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £463 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 26 2 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 29.55% 3.08% 15.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 6
10th Percentile £320 - £306
25th Percentile £393 - £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -25.45% +22.22% -13.88%
75th Percentile £450 - £494
90th Percentile £469 - £500
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £464 £475
% change year-on-year +1.13% -2.37% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile - - £12.19
25th Percentile £19.50 - £14.08
Median hourly rate £20.00 - £15.90
Median % change year-on-year - - -42.18%
75th Percentile £20.50 - £29.38
90th Percentile - - £52.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.14 £28.18 £14.00
% change year-on-year -10.81% +101.29% -48.40%

SOC 2
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Stoke-on-Trent - 1 £463 -
SOC 2
West Midlands

SOC 2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) PowerApps
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 22301
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft