SOC 2 Contracts in Central London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 134 177
Rank change year-on-year +7 +43 -
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 4 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.20% 0.084% 0.053%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.08% 0.48% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £543
25th Percentile - - £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £751 - £631
75th Percentile £794 - £711
90th Percentile £820 - £734
London median daily rate £725 £650 £625
% change year-on-year +11.54% +4.00% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 369 413 517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.99% 17.31% 13.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 281 384
10th Percentile £357 £363 £375
25th Percentile £435 £463 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £650 £713
90th Percentile £812 £775 £824
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 1
10th Percentile £22.45 £17.96 -
25th Percentile £22.75 £20.44 -
Median hourly rate £34.48 £23.40 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.35% -6.40% -26.47%
75th Percentile £45.62 £25.92 -
90th Percentile £69.55 £35.16 -
London median hourly rate £34.50 £23.80 £32.96
% change year-on-year +44.96% -27.79% -4.66%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC 2 in Central London

SOC 2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOC 2 in Central London.

Daily rate trend for SOC 2 in Central London

SOC 2
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
City of London +5 4 £751 - 4
SOC 2
London

SOC 2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
1 3 (75.00%) IaaS
1 3 (75.00%) PaaS
1 3 (75.00%) SaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Datadog
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Cloud Architect
3 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (50.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (25.00%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bicep
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) GDPR
2 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Google