SOC 2 Contracts

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 558 600
Rank change year-on-year +77 +42 +223
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 67 27 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.062% 0.15%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.29% 0.45% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 13 53
10th Percentile £382 £481 £450
25th Percentile £463 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £639 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £822 £700 £666
90th Percentile £950 £730 £724
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £613 £450
% change year-on-year -16.33% +36.11% -40.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,193 5,937 7,740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.30% 13.71% 13.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,326 3,673 5,290
10th Percentile £280 £281 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £612 £623 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% +6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 431 258
10th Percentile £14.78 £11.07 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £13.52 £19.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £24.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -36.42% +39.81%
75th Percentile £62.25 £50.54 £62.50
90th Percentile £82.96 £70.00 £79.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.91 £23.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +21.35% -35.21% +61.36%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SOC 2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SOC 2 in the UK

SOC 2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SOC 2 in the UK

SOC 2
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOC 2 over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOC 2 in the UK

SOC 2
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 July 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
England +86 51 £575 -9.80% 452
London +58 34 £688 +5.77% 314
Work from Home +50 29 £525 - 193
UK excluding London +59 14 £513 -16.33% 156
North of England +11 9 £413 -43.10% 39
Yorkshire - 8 £413 - 12
East of England - 3 £525 - 20
South East - 2 - - 45
North West +8 1 - - 25

SOC 2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (4.48%) Confluence
2 2 (2.99%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (4.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.99%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 27 (40.30%) AWS
2 22 (32.84%) GCP
3 21 (31.34%) Azure
4 13 (19.40%) SaaS
5 12 (17.91%) Serverless
6 10 (14.93%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (14.93%) Microsoft Purview
6 10 (14.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 9 (13.43%) Azure Sentinel
8 8 (11.94%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (11.94%) IaaS
8 8 (11.94%) PaaS
9 7 (10.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (10.45%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (10.45%) Entra ID
10 6 (8.96%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 6 (8.96%) Amazon S3
11 5 (7.46%) AWS KMS
11 5 (7.46%) Azure AKS
11 5 (7.46%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.42%) Firewall
2 7 (10.45%) Network Security
2 7 (10.45%) SSL
3 5 (7.46%) DNS
3 5 (7.46%) VPN
4 3 (4.48%) SMTP
5 2 (2.99%) Kerberos
5 2 (2.99%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.99%) X.509
6 1 (1.49%) DMZ
6 1 (1.49%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.49%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.49%) SNMP
6 1 (1.49%) SSH
6 1 (1.49%) Telnet
6 1 (1.49%) VLAN
6 1 (1.49%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.46%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (5.97%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.99%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.99%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (10.45%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.96%) GitLab
2 6 (8.96%) JIRA
3 2 (2.99%) CircleCI
3 2 (2.99%) Git
4 1 (1.49%) Postman
4 1 (1.49%) Snyk
4 1 (1.49%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (32.84%) Finance
2 20 (29.85%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.94%) Legal
4 3 (4.48%) Banking
4 3 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (4.48%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.99%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.99%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.49%) Billing
6 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.49%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (20.90%) Lead
2 13 (19.40%) Architect
3 7 (10.45%) Consultant
4 6 (8.96%) Analyst
4 6 (8.96%) Cloud Architect
4 6 (8.96%) Security Consultant
4 6 (8.96%) Senior
5 5 (7.46%) Azure Architect
5 5 (7.46%) Information Security Consultant
5 5 (7.46%) Security Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Senior Architect
6 4 (5.97%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Risk Manager
6 4 (5.97%) Security Analyst
6 4 (5.97%) Senior Cloud Architect
7 3 (4.48%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Lead DevOps
7 3 (4.48%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Microsoft 365 Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.97%) ARM Templates
1 4 (5.97%) Azure Blueprints
1 4 (5.97%) OpenID
1 4 (5.97%) SAML
2 3 (4.48%) OAuth
2 3 (4.48%) OAuth2
3 2 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.99%) LDAP
3 2 (2.99%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.49%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.49%) EDI
4 1 (1.49%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.49%) Node.js
4 1 (1.49%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.91%) Security Posture
2 10 (14.93%) Insider Threat
3 9 (13.43%) Cloud Native
4 6 (8.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (7.46%) PKI
5 5 (7.46%) Reinsurance
6 4 (5.97%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (5.97%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (4.48%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (2.99%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.99%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (2.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (2.99%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.99%) YARA
9 1 (1.49%) BYOD
9 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.49%) MISP
9 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.96%) Windows
2 4 (5.97%) Linux
2 4 (5.97%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (40.30%) Cloud Security
2 23 (34.33%) DevOps
3 22 (32.84%) Information Security
4 18 (26.87%) Data Protection
4 18 (26.87%) Incident Response
5 17 (25.37%) Identity Access Management
6 16 (23.88%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (22.39%) Risk Management
7 15 (22.39%) Zero Trust
8 14 (20.90%) Data Loss Prevention
9 12 (17.91%) CI/CD
9 12 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (17.91%) Cybersecurity
9 12 (17.91%) DevSecOps
10 10 (14.93%) UEBA
11 9 (13.43%) Containerisation
11 9 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (13.43%) Vulnerability Management
12 8 (11.94%) Data Privacy
12 8 (11.94%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 18 (26.87%) Python
2 11 (16.42%) PowerShell
3 10 (14.93%) Bash
4 8 (11.94%) Bicep
5 7 (10.45%) SQL
6 3 (4.48%) VBA
7 2 (2.99%) Go
7 2 (2.99%) Java
7 2 (2.99%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (2.99%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.49%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 23 (34.33%) CISM
2 22 (32.84%) CISSP
3 8 (11.94%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (8.96%) SC Cleared
4 6 (8.96%) Security Cleared
5 5 (7.46%) AWS Certification
5 5 (7.46%) CRISC
6 4 (5.97%) GCIH
7 3 (4.48%) Azure Certification
7 3 (4.48%) CISA
7 3 (4.48%) Degree
7 3 (4.48%) GIAC
8 2 (2.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.99%) CCSP
8 2 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.99%) GCIA
8 2 (2.99%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 2 (2.99%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (59.70%) GDPR
1 40 (59.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (38.81%) NIST
3 18 (26.87%) HIPAA
4 14 (20.90%) PCI DSS
5 10 (14.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 8 (11.94%) GRC
7 5 (7.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (5.97%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (4.48%) NIST 800
10 2 (2.99%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (2.99%) FIPS 140-2
10 2 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (2.99%) QA
11 1 (1.49%) FedRAMP
11 1 (1.49%) ITGC
11 1 (1.49%) PMO
11 1 (1.49%) SOC 1
System Software
1 11 (16.42%) Active Directory
2 8 (11.94%) Docker
3 4 (5.97%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.49%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (29.85%) Terraform
2 13 (19.40%) Kubernetes
3 10 (14.93%) CASB
4 5 (7.46%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.97%) Grafana
5 4 (5.97%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (4.48%) Ansible
6 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.99%) Kustomize
7 2 (2.99%) Puppet
8 1 (1.49%) Istio
8 1 (1.49%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (1.49%) linkerd
8 1 (1.49%) Nessus
8 1 (1.49%) QRadar
Vendors
1 29 (43.28%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.94%) Google
3 5 (7.46%) Qualys
3 5 (7.46%) Splunk
4 4 (5.97%) Tenable
5 3 (4.48%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (4.48%) Okta
5 3 (4.48%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.99%) CyberArk
6 2 (2.99%) Zscaler
7 1 (1.49%) HubSpot
7 1 (1.49%) LogRhythm
7 1 (1.49%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.49%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.49%) SAP
7 1 (1.49%) Tanium
7 1 (1.49%) VirusTotal