SOC 2 Contracts in Yorkshire

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 87 - 123
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 5 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.49% - 0.17%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.21% - 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £448 - -
90th Percentile £502 - -
England median daily rate £625 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% -16.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 156 223 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.34% 13.20% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 128 170
10th Percentile £210 £276 £300
25th Percentile £313 £377 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -7.18% +18.82%
75th Percentile £553 £585 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £638
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 8
10th Percentile - - £12.59
25th Percentile - £10.86 £13.16
Median hourly rate £22.14 £10.93 £28.86
Median % change year-on-year +102.56% -62.13% +28.74%
75th Percentile £25.14 £14.22 £49.08
90th Percentile £34.24 £27.41 £50.22
England median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC 2 in Yorkshire

SOC 2
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Yorkshire - 4 £413 -
South Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
SOC 2
England

SOC 2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (60.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Security Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) IT Security Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Attestation
1 3 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (60.00%) Information Security
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (20.00%) Network Design
2 1 (20.00%) Network Management
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Register
2 1 (20.00%) SIEM
2 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (60.00%) VBA
2 1 (20.00%) Go
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CISM
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
1 1 (20.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (40.00%) GDPR
2 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (20.00%) GRC
3 1 (20.00%) NIST
3 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Qualys