SOC 2 Contracts in the South West

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for SOC 2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SOC 2 over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 159 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.032% 0.12% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.18% 1.04% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £625 £605 £631
% change year-on-year +3.31% -4.16% +5.21%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South West

SOC 2 is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 564 386 426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 17.89% 11.12% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 272 296
10th Percentile £263 £250 £190
25th Percentile £410 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £588
90th Percentile £700 £736 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 44 21
10th Percentile £12.43 £18.09 £47.41
25th Percentile £35.00 £51.34 £52.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £65.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +3.17% +26.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £79.81 £69.83
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.40 £79.04
England median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £29.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +27.12% +40.48%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing SOC 2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for SOC 2 in the South West

SOC 2
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
Wiltshire -2 1 - -
SOC 2
England

SOC 2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Information Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Allocation
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google