SOC 2 Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 337 434
Rank change year-on-year +49 +97 +171
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 16 8 43
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.052% 0.17%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.08% 0.36% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 25
10th Percentile - £449 £500
25th Percentile £406 £481 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -16.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £658 £644 £663
90th Percentile £751 £820 £730
UK median daily rate £688 £525 £563
% change year-on-year +30.95% -6.67% -6.25%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,488 2,240 3,140
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.02% 14.60% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,005 1,532 2,292
10th Percentile £281 £313 £325
25th Percentile £400 £420 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.97% +3.00%
75th Percentile £603 £623 £625
90th Percentile £713 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 79 63
10th Percentile £17.98 £12.75 £18.54
25th Percentile £23.13 £14.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate £39.00 £22.87 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.53% -46.81% -2.16%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.38 £61.88
90th Percentile £87.15 £65.00 £72.35
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.85% -44.53% +33.93%

SOC 2
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SOC 2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SOC 2 trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SOC 2
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SOC 2.

SOC 2 daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SOC 2
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SOC 2 over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

SOC 2 daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SOC 2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (31.25%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (31.25%) Azure
3 5 (31.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (25.00%) GCP
4 4 (25.00%) SaaS
4 4 (25.00%) Serverless
5 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
5 3 (18.75%) Azure AKS
5 3 (18.75%) Azure Event Grid
5 3 (18.75%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (18.75%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
5 3 (18.75%) IaaS
5 3 (18.75%) PaaS
6 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (12.50%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) SSL
2 2 (12.50%) X.509
3 1 (6.25%) Firewall
3 1 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Postman
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Billing
3 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Analyst
1 3 (18.75%) Architect
1 3 (18.75%) Azure Architect
1 3 (18.75%) Cloud Architect
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365 Architect
1 3 (18.75%) Senior
1 3 (18.75%) Senior Architect
1 3 (18.75%) Senior Cloud Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Consultant
2 2 (12.50%) Risk Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Security Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Security Consultant
2 2 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) Compliance Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) IT Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) IT Security Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) IT Security Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) ARM Templates
1 3 (18.75%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (6.25%) EDI
2 1 (6.25%) GraphQL
2 1 (6.25%) Node.js
2 1 (6.25%) OAuth
2 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
2 1 (6.25%) OpenID
2 1 (6.25%) RESTful
2 1 (6.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (18.75%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (18.75%) Reinsurance
2 2 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 2 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
1 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Cloud Security
1 7 (43.75%) Identity Access Management
2 6 (37.50%) Data Protection
2 6 (37.50%) DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) High Availability
3 4 (25.00%) Information Security
3 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (18.75%) Attestation
4 3 (18.75%) Cost Management
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (18.75%) Migration
4 3 (18.75%) Zero Trust
5 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (12.50%) Key Management
5 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 2 (12.50%) RBAC
6 1 (6.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 1 (6.25%) Microservices
6 1 (6.25%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 4 (25.00%) SQL
3 3 (18.75%) Bicep
3 3 (18.75%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) VBA
4 1 (6.25%) Bash
4 1 (6.25%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 2 (12.50%) CISM
1 2 (12.50%) CISSP
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) CISA
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) GCIH
2 1 (6.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (6.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (56.25%) GDPR
2 5 (31.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (25.00%) NIST
3 4 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (12.50%) FIPS 140-2
4 2 (12.50%) HIPAA
4 2 (12.50%) NIST 800
5 1 (6.25%) GRC
5 1 (6.25%) ISO 9001
5 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
5 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (18.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Nessus
2 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Qualys
2 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.25%) HubSpot
3 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.25%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) Tenable