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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 120 159
Rank change year-on-year +1 +39 -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing SOC 2 5 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.28% 0.097% 0.063%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.43% 0.59% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £825 - £543
25th Percentile £844 - £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 - £606
75th Percentile £931 - £636
90th Percentile £935 - £644
Central London median daily rate £900 - £606

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 350 337 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.37% 16.27% 15.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 214 362
10th Percentile £328 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% -4.17% +3.45%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £700
90th Percentile £825 £751 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £551 £600
% change year-on-year -2.00% -8.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £23.83 £16.60 -
25th Percentile £26.57 £17.50 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £20.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% - -
75th Percentile £56.75 £22.50 -
90th Percentile £75.95 £23.40 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £23.40 -
% change year-on-year +45.30% - -

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
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SOC 2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SOC 2

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 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) SaaS
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (40.00%) IaaS
3 2 (40.00%) PaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Run
4 1 (20.00%) Datadog
4 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (20.00%) Google Gemini
4 1 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (20.00%) Pulumi
4 1 (20.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Financial Institution
2 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Chief Technology Officer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Faiss
1 1 (20.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (20.00%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) Data Privacy
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Observability
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (40.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (40.00%) Zachman Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (20.00%) Semantic Search
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bicep
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (80.00%) GDPR
3 1 (20.00%) EU AI Act
3 1 (20.00%) NIST
3 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) OpenAI