SOC 2 Contract Job Trends in London

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring SOC 2 skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 374 412
Rank change year-on-year +36 +38 +179
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 33 14 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.25% 0.086% 0.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.43% 0.63% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 2 36
10th Percentile £308 £619 £583
25th Percentile £444 £620 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £644 £625
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% +3.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £869 £670 £700
90th Percentile £1,135 £673 £740
England median daily rate £539 £631 £625
% change year-on-year -14.65% +1.00% -3.85%

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 2,307 2,221 3,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.28% 13.71% 14.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,525 1,431 2,336
10th Percentile £325 £336 £357
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £684 £700
90th Percentile £750 £800 £798
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 42 37
10th Percentile - £18.13 £16.75
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.80 £21.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £29.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.06% -14.83% +41.19%
75th Percentile £43.98 £49.69 £53.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £71.88 £72.50
England median hourly rate £32.00 £30.56 £35.50
% change year-on-year +4.71% -13.92% +54.35%

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
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

SOC 2
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOC 2 in London over the 6 months to 14 September 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 14 September 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 6 £863 - 12
East London - 2 £585 -
West London - 2 £425 -
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 20 (60.61%) Azure
2 15 (45.45%) GCP
3 13 (39.39%) AWS
4 11 (33.33%) SaaS
5 7 (21.21%) Entra ID
5 7 (21.21%) IaaS
5 7 (21.21%) PaaS
6 6 (18.18%) Serverless
7 4 (12.12%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 4 (12.12%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (12.12%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (12.12%) OpenShift
8 3 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (9.09%) Amazon S3
8 3 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (6.06%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (24.24%) Firewall
2 4 (12.12%) Network Security
2 4 (12.12%) SSL
2 4 (12.12%) VPN
3 2 (6.06%) Kerberos
4 1 (3.03%) BGP
4 1 (3.03%) DMZ
4 1 (3.03%) DNS
4 1 (3.03%) HTTPS
4 1 (3.03%) OSPF
4 1 (3.03%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.03%) SNMP
4 1 (3.03%) SSH
4 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.03%) Telnet
4 1 (3.03%) VLAN
4 1 (3.03%) WAN
4 1 (3.03%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) GitLab
1 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.03%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (36.36%) Finance
2 11 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 7 (21.21%) Banking
4 6 (18.18%) Financial Institution
5 4 (12.12%) Investment Banking
6 2 (6.06%) Legal
7 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Architect
2 6 (18.18%) Enterprise Architect
3 5 (15.15%) Senior
3 5 (15.15%) Senior Architect
3 5 (15.15%) Senior Enterprise Architect
4 4 (12.12%) Lead
4 4 (12.12%) Security Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Administrator
6 2 (6.06%) Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Network Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Security Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Tester
7 1 (3.03%) Consultant
7 1 (3.03%) Information Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (3.03%) IT Consultant
7 1 (3.03%) Manual Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) SAML
2 4 (12.12%) OAuth
2 4 (12.12%) OpenID
3 2 (6.06%) LDAP
3 2 (6.06%) OAuth2
3 2 (6.06%) SailPoint
4 1 (3.03%) Faiss
4 1 (3.03%) FastAPI
4 1 (3.03%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Cloud Native
1 4 (12.12%) Enterprise Cloud
1 4 (12.12%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (12.12%) Insider Threat
2 3 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 3 (9.09%) PKI
2 3 (9.09%) Security Posture
3 2 (6.06%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (3.03%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) VMS
2 1 (3.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) Cloud Security
2 13 (39.39%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (30.30%) Identity Access Management
4 9 (27.27%) Containerisation
5 8 (24.24%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (21.21%) Data Loss Prevention
6 7 (21.21%) Zero Trust
7 6 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (18.18%) Data Privacy
7 6 (18.18%) Data Protection
7 6 (18.18%) DevOps
7 6 (18.18%) Incident Response
7 6 (18.18%) TOGAF
7 6 (18.18%) Zachman Framework
8 5 (15.15%) DevSecOps
8 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (15.15%) RBAC
9 4 (12.12%) CI/CD
9 4 (12.12%) Task Automation
9 4 (12.12%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 11 (33.33%) Python
2 7 (21.21%) Bash
2 7 (21.21%) Bicep
3 5 (15.15%) PowerShell
4 4 (12.12%) SQL
5 2 (6.06%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) Azure Certification
2 5 (15.15%) CISM
2 5 (15.15%) CISSP
3 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (9.09%) MCP
5 1 (3.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (3.03%) CCSP
5 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (63.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (45.45%) GDPR
2 15 (45.45%) NIST
3 4 (12.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 4 (12.12%) HIPAA
4 3 (9.09%) EU AI Act
5 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (6.06%) PCI DSS
6 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (3.03%) GRC
6 1 (3.03%) ITGC
6 1 (3.03%) QA
6 1 (3.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (3.03%) SOC 1
System Software
1 8 (24.24%) Docker
2 5 (15.15%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.03%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (36.36%) Terraform
2 8 (24.24%) Kubernetes
3 5 (15.15%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (12.12%) CASB
5 2 (6.06%) Grafana
5 2 (6.06%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.03%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (21.21%) Google
3 4 (12.12%) Qualys
3 4 (12.12%) Tenable
4 3 (9.09%) Okta
5 2 (6.06%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (6.06%) CyberArk
5 2 (6.06%) Zscaler
6 1 (3.03%) OpenAI
6 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.03%) Splunk
6 1 (3.03%) Tanium