SOC 2 Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Suffolk requiring SOC 2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 21 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 1.27% 1.28% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.09% 10.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £478 - -
25th Percentile £482 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £751 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.09% - -
75th Percentile £521 - -
90th Percentile £523 - -
East of England median daily rate £503 £525 -
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 22 10 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 14.01% 12.82% 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 10 1
10th Percentile £495 £215 -
25th Percentile £501 - £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £225 £700
Median % change year-on-year +161.11% -67.86% +9.03%
75th Percentile £666 £422 £750
90th Percentile £683 £542 -
East of England median daily rate £520 £550 £425
% change year-on-year -5.45% +29.41% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £79.17
East of England median hourly rate £18.50 £33.32 £15.79
% change year-on-year -44.48% +111.02% -9.77%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

SOC 2 job vacancy trend in Suffolk

SOC 2
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

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 Suffolk region over the 6 months to 17 April 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
Ipswich -5 1 £500 -33.42% 2
SOC 2
East of England

SOC 2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 2 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (50.00%) CISM
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) CRISC
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto