Hybrid/Remote SOC 1 Contract Job Trends

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 1
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring SOC 1 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 308 -
Rank change year-on-year -60 - -
Contract jobs citing SOC 1 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.015% 0.010% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.072% 0.055% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £675 £734 £650
% change year-on-year -7.98% +12.85% -16.13%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

SOC 1 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,775 1,813 1,748
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 20.35% 17.89% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,883 1,226 1,225
10th Percentile £350 £313 £300
25th Percentile £419 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £622
90th Percentile £688 £700 £744
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £505
% change year-on-year - -0.99% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 45 46
10th Percentile £21.01 £14.78 £12.75
25th Percentile £50.00 £20.25 £15.01
Median hourly rate £70.00 £34.48 £25.84
Median % change year-on-year +103.02% +33.44% -26.17%
75th Percentile £76.00 £67.50 £56.88
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.93 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.53 £26.16
% change year-on-year +45.30% +5.23% -33.78%

SOC 1
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SOC 1 and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

SOC 1 job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

SOC 1
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SOC 1.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SOC 1

SOC 1
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Business Case
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) OWASP
1 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Supplier Management
1 1 (50.00%) System Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Time Management
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (50.00%) ISO 9001
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) Nexpose
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Remedy
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow