SOC 2 Contracts with Work from Home 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 412 603
Rank change year-on-year +82 +191 -105
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 11 45 20
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.075% 0.19% 0.046%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.54% 1.51% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 26 18
10th Percentile £457 £525 £345
25th Percentile £481 £556 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £700 £638 £597
90th Percentile £790 £725 £783
UK median daily rate £650 £605 £625
% change year-on-year +7.44% -3.20% +4.17%

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 2,036 2,982 5,763
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 13.80% 12.49% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,430 2,167 4,130
10th Percentile £300 £325 £313
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £521 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +1.56% +7.89%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £613
90th Percentile £750 £743 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 71 128
10th Percentile £12.23 £17.50 £12.02
25th Percentile £14.00 £20.94 £19.44
Median hourly rate £24.50 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -21.35% +134.21%
75th Percentile £48.75 £58.38 £56.60
90th Percentile £66.75 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £37.75 £27.73
% change year-on-year -36.95% +36.13% +32.05%

SOC 2
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SOC 2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SOC 2 trend for jobs with a WFH option

SOC 2
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing SOC 2 over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

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 4 (36.36%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) GCP
2 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (36.36%) Twilio
3 2 (18.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) CTI
1 4 (36.36%) VoIP
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
1 4 (36.36%) Retail
1 4 (36.36%) Telecoms
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
1 4 (36.36%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) GCP DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Compliance Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Information Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Information Assurance Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Information Security Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Security Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Security Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Security Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) SOC Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Middleware
1 4 (36.36%) Web Services
2 2 (18.18%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) IVR
1 4 (36.36%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Analytics
3 4 (36.36%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (36.36%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (36.36%) Computer Science
3 4 (36.36%) Conversational UI
3 4 (36.36%) CRM
3 4 (36.36%) Customer Experience
3 4 (36.36%) Data Privacy
3 4 (36.36%) Knowledge Transfer
3 4 (36.36%) Load Balancing
3 4 (36.36%) Performance Optimisation
3 4 (36.36%) Performance Testing
3 4 (36.36%) WFM
4 2 (18.18%) Conversational AI
4 2 (18.18%) Information Security
5 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
5 1 (9.09%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (36.36%) AWS Certification
2 4 (36.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Azure Certification
2 4 (36.36%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 4 (36.36%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) GDPR
2 5 (45.45%) HIPAA
2 5 (45.45%) PCI DSS
3 4 (36.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (18.18%) GRC
4 2 (18.18%) ISO 9001
5 1 (9.09%) NIST
5 1 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Google
2 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
3 4 (36.36%) Avaya
3 4 (36.36%) Cisco
3 4 (36.36%) Genesys