SOC 2 Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 122 162
Rank change year-on-year +10 +40 +30
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 4 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.23% 0.092% 0.057%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.35% 0.54% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £600 - £543
25th Percentile £657 - £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £751 - £631
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.77%
75th Percentile - - £711
90th Percentile - - £734
Central London median daily rate £751 - £631
% change year-on-year - - +14.77%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 297 371 459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.00% 17.15% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 269 333
10th Percentile £375 £369 £380
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.64% -8.33% +6.67%
75th Percentile £713 £650 £725
90th Percentile £824 £755 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.61 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.77% - -
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £23.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% -6.40% -39.76%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOC 2 in the City of London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
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%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) Datadog
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (50.00%) Reinsurance
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (50.00%) Cost Management
3 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bicep
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow