SOC 2 Contracts in the City of London

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 164 190
Rank change year-on-year +38 +26 -
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.092% 0.056% 0.047%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.54% 0.43% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £543 -
25th Percentile - £561 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £631 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +14.77% -
75th Percentile - £711 £575
90th Percentile - £734 -
Central London median daily rate - £631 £550
% change year-on-year - +14.77% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of London

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 City of London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 373 469 662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.12% 13.24% 15.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 341 433
10th Percentile £363 £400 £351
25th Percentile £463 £500 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% +8.17%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £650
90th Percentile £750 £838 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £556
% change year-on-year -8.33% +7.87% +6.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £16.78 - £19.13
25th Percentile £17.96 - £23.06
Median hourly rate £20.61 - £43.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +152.17%
75th Percentile £22.65 - £61.94
90th Percentile £23.46 - £62.28
Central London median hourly rate £23.40 £25.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -6.40% -39.76% +140.58%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC 2 in the City of London

SOC 2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOC 2 in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for SOC 2 in the City of London

SOC 2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) CTI
1 2 (100.00%) VoIP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Retail
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) IVR
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) WFM
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational AI
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) HIPAA
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Avaya
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Genesys
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft