SOC 2 Contracts in London

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 388 446
Rank change year-on-year +67 +58 +130
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 33 12 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.069% 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.56% 0.50% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 3 36
10th Percentile £418 £545 £463
25th Percentile £534 £575 £596
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £791 £688 £678
90th Percentile £898 £695 £740
England median daily rate £575 £638 £625
% change year-on-year -9.80% +2.00% -0.99%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,119 2,405 3,401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 16.43% 13.76% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,402 1,679 2,507
10th Percentile £325 £350 £359
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £762 £800 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 61 35
10th Percentile £22.68 £12.50 £19.16
25th Percentile £25.15 £18.00 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £23.80 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.96% -8.46% -39.53%
75th Percentile £50.31 £43.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £65.50 £57.50 £81.50
England median hourly rate £32.25 £24.18 £41.77
% change year-on-year +33.37% -42.11% +54.70%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC 2 in London

SOC 2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SOC 2 in London

SOC 2
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOC 2 in London over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOC 2 in London

SOC 2
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +7 5 £751 - 40
East London - 2 £585 - 11
West London - 1 £425 - 5
SOC 2
England

SOC 2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (6.06%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 14 (42.42%) Azure
2 13 (39.39%) AWS
3 11 (33.33%) GCP
4 10 (30.30%) Microsoft Purview
5 9 (27.27%) Serverless
6 8 (24.24%) SaaS
7 7 (21.21%) Azure Sentinel
7 7 (21.21%) IaaS
7 7 (21.21%) PaaS
8 5 (15.15%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (15.15%) Entra ID
9 4 (12.12%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (12.12%) Amazon S3
9 4 (12.12%) Azure AKS
9 4 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (12.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (9.09%) Azure Event Grid
10 3 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.21%) Firewall
2 3 (9.09%) Network Security
2 3 (9.09%) SSL
2 3 (9.09%) VPN
3 2 (6.06%) Kerberos
4 1 (3.03%) DMZ
4 1 (3.03%) HTTPS
4 1 (3.03%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.03%) SNMP
4 1 (3.03%) SSH
4 1 (3.03%) Telnet
4 1 (3.03%) VLAN
4 1 (3.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) GitLab
1 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.03%) CircleCI
2 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 8 (24.24%) Finance
3 3 (9.09%) Banking
3 3 (9.09%) Financial Institution
3 3 (9.09%) Legal
4 2 (6.06%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Lead
2 9 (27.27%) Architect
3 5 (15.15%) Senior
4 4 (12.12%) Azure Architect
4 4 (12.12%) Cloud Architect
4 4 (12.12%) Senior Architect
5 3 (9.09%) Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (9.09%) Security Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Security Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Architect
6 2 (6.06%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365 Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Enterprise Architect
7 1 (3.03%) Compliance Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Information Manager
7 1 (3.03%) Risk Manager
7 1 (3.03%) Testing Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) ARM Templates
1 3 (9.09%) Azure Blueprints
2 2 (6.06%) LDAP
2 2 (6.06%) OAuth
2 2 (6.06%) OAuth2
2 2 (6.06%) OpenID
2 2 (6.06%) SailPoint
2 2 (6.06%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (30.30%) Insider Threat
2 5 (15.15%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (12.12%) Cloud Native
3 4 (12.12%) Reinsurance
4 3 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (9.09%) PKI
4 3 (9.09%) Security Posture
5 2 (6.06%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
6 1 (3.03%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Linux
1 3 (9.09%) Windows
1 3 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (42.42%) Cloud Security
1 14 (42.42%) Data Protection
2 11 (33.33%) DevOps
2 11 (33.33%) Information Security
3 10 (30.30%) Data Loss Prevention
3 10 (30.30%) Identity Access Management
3 10 (30.30%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (30.30%) UEBA
4 8 (24.24%) Data Privacy
5 6 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (18.18%) Incident Response
5 6 (18.18%) Zero Trust
6 5 (15.15%) Containerisation
6 5 (15.15%) Risk Management
6 5 (15.15%) Security Management
7 4 (12.12%) Agile
7 4 (12.12%) DevSecOps
7 4 (12.12%) Migration
7 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (12.12%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (30.30%) Python
2 7 (21.21%) Bicep
2 7 (21.21%) PowerShell
3 6 (18.18%) Bash
3 6 (18.18%) SQL
4 2 (6.06%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (3.03%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (36.36%) CISM
1 12 (36.36%) CISSP
2 8 (24.24%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.06%) CISA
4 2 (6.06%) Degree
5 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.03%) GCIH
5 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (54.55%) GDPR
2 13 (39.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (33.33%) HIPAA
4 10 (30.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 9 (27.27%) NIST
6 3 (9.09%) PCI DSS
7 2 (6.06%) GRC
7 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (6.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (3.03%) FedRAMP
8 1 (3.03%) ITGC
8 1 (3.03%) QA
8 1 (3.03%) SOC 1
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) Active Directory
1 5 (15.15%) Docker
2 3 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.03%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (33.33%) Terraform
2 10 (30.30%) CASB
3 5 (15.15%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.06%) Grafana
4 2 (6.06%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.06%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (57.58%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) Google
2 4 (12.12%) Qualys
2 4 (12.12%) Tenable
3 2 (6.06%) CyberArk
3 2 (6.06%) Okta
4 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow