SOC 2 Contracts in the UK excluding London

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 394 417
Rank change year-on-year +77 +23 +79
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 13 1 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.005% 0.083%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.62% 0.034% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 10
10th Percentile - - £443
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -37.93%
75th Percentile £528 - -
90th Percentile £602 - £454
UK median daily rate £627 £650 £615
% change year-on-year -3.62% +5.69% +0.41%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,089 2,955 3,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.34% 14.59% 14.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,324 1,743 2,237
10th Percentile £221 £242 £225
25th Percentile £360 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year - -1.04% +6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £509 £525
% change year-on-year -1.77% -3.05% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 311 192
10th Percentile £15.50 £10.95 £13.16
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.75 £18.07
Median hourly rate £36.01 £18.27 £31.89
Median % change year-on-year +97.10% -42.70% +41.71%
75th Percentile £67.50 £45.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £79.61 £68.75 £77.35
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £21.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year +63.39% -39.67% +16.67%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SOC 2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SOC 2 in the UK excluding London

SOC 2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOC 2 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SOC 2 in the UK excluding London

SOC 2
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOC 2 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOC 2 in the UK excluding London

SOC 2
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 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
Yorkshire - 8 £413 - 24
North of England - 8 £413 - 68
East of England - 3 £525 - 43
South East - 2 - - 95
SOC 2
UK

SOC 2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (15.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (38.46%) AWS KMS
3 4 (30.77%) AWS CloudTrail
3 4 (30.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 3 (23.08%) GitHub
4 3 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (23.08%) Serverless
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon Macie
5 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (15.38%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (15.38%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (15.38%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (15.38%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) SSL
2 3 (23.08%) Firewall
2 3 (23.08%) Network Security
3 2 (15.38%) DNS
3 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
3 2 (15.38%) VPN
3 2 (15.38%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (15.38%) DynamoDB
2 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) GitLab
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) Lead
1 3 (23.08%) Lead DevOps
1 3 (23.08%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Operations Specialist
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 2 (15.38%) Security Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) IT Security Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Security Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Algorithms
1 2 (15.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (15.38%) PKI
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (7.69%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Cloud Security
2 4 (30.77%) Data Protection
2 4 (30.77%) DevOps
2 4 (30.77%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (30.77%) RBAC
3 3 (23.08%) Attestation
3 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
3 3 (23.08%) Cost Optimisation
3 3 (23.08%) DevSecOps
3 3 (23.08%) FinOps
3 3 (23.08%) Information Security
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (23.08%) SIEM
3 3 (23.08%) Zero Trust
4 2 (15.38%) Incident Response
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) VBA
3 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) Bicep
4 1 (7.69%) Go
4 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) AWS Certification
2 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) CISM
4 1 (7.69%) CISSP
4 1 (7.69%) Degree
4 1 (7.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (7.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (69.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (61.54%) GDPR
3 6 (46.15%) NIST
4 3 (23.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (15.38%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (15.38%) FIPS 140-2
5 2 (15.38%) NIST 800
6 1 (7.69%) GRC
6 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
2 3 (23.08%) Docker
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Ansible
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
1 4 (30.77%) Terraform
2 3 (23.08%) Prometheus
3 2 (15.38%) Grafana
3 2 (15.38%) Kustomize
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (15.38%) Puppet
4 1 (7.69%) Nessus
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Splunk
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) Qualys