SOC 2 Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring SOC 2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.32% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.95% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £522 - -
25th Percentile £532 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile £590 - -
England median daily rate £500 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% +30.00%

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 308 130 311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.52% 11.19% 17.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 88 179
10th Percentile £283 £225 £273
25th Percentile £370 £357 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.30% -2.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £553 £575
90th Percentile £625 £691 £600
England median daily rate £500 £500 £545
% change year-on-year - -8.26% +3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile £14.64 - -
25th Percentile £15.25 - £15.32
Median hourly rate £18.73 - £16.11
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.85%
75th Percentile £22.14 - £16.90
90th Percentile £26.37 - -
England median hourly rate £25.63 £29.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -13.12% -16.90% +58.41%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SOC 2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

SOC 2 job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

SOC 2
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SOC 2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SOC 2

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 19 December 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 - 5 £564 - 2
South Yorkshire - 1 £550 -
SOC 2
England

SOC 2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) Google Workspace
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
General
1 2 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Flash
1 2 (33.33%) Smart Contracts
2 1 (16.67%) LDAP
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (33.33%) Blockchain
2 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 3 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
3 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
3 3 (50.00%) SIEM
3 3 (50.00%) Visualisation
4 2 (33.33%) Application Security
4 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 2 (33.33%) Data Collection
4 2 (33.33%) Data Security
4 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 2 (33.33%) Information Security
4 2 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bash
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) Search Processing Language
2 2 (33.33%) Rust
2 2 (33.33%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CCSK
1 2 (33.33%) CEH
1 2 (33.33%) CISA
1 2 (33.33%) CISM
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
1 2 (33.33%) OSCP
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) GDPR
1 3 (50.00%) HIPAA
1 3 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (33.33%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Google