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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 341 384
Rank change year-on-year -22 +43 +117
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 29 17 10
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.19% 0.13% 0.054%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.99% 0.87% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 7 8
10th Percentile £413 £481 £503
25th Percentile £469 £594 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £751 £575
Median % change year-on-year -30.09% +30.61% -4.96%
75th Percentile £638 £813 £633
90th Percentile £730 £980 £700
England median daily rate £500 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -14.89% +2.17% +15.00%

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 2,920 1,964 2,502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.76% 14.55% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,939 1,221 1,814
10th Percentile £350 £308 £363
25th Percentile £419 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £668 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 27 60
10th Percentile £18.07 £19.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.56 £23.23 £18.69
Median hourly rate £26.11 £39.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.05% +41.84% -21.44%
75th Percentile £35.00 £80.80 £41.50
90th Percentile £80.09 £94.25 £61.75
England median hourly rate £25.64 £31.76 £26.66
% change year-on-year -19.29% +19.13% -23.83%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SOC 2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

SOC 2 job vacancy trend 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 22 February 2026.

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 22 February 2026. 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 -6 2 £725 -3.46% 8
West London - 1 £425 - 3
SOC 2
England

SOC 2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 16 (55.17%) Azure
2 8 (27.59%) Entra ID
3 6 (20.69%) AWS
3 6 (20.69%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (13.79%) GCP
4 4 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (10.34%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (10.34%) SaaS
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.45%) dbt
7 1 (3.45%) IaaS
7 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.45%) PaaS
7 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) BGP
2 1 (3.45%) DNS
2 1 (3.45%) Network Security
2 1 (3.45%) OSPF
2 1 (3.45%) SSL
2 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.45%) VPN
2 1 (3.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
1 1 (3.45%) Data Vault
1 1 (3.45%) Looker
1 1 (3.45%) Power BI
1 1 (3.45%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (3.45%) Tableau
General
1 11 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Finance
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.45%) Legal
4 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Security Engineer
1 6 (20.69%) Senior
2 5 (17.24%) Security Specialist
3 3 (10.34%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Azure Security Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 3 (10.34%) Senior Security Specialist
4 2 (6.90%) Administrator
4 2 (6.90%) Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Compliance Officer
4 2 (6.90%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Risk Officer
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Security Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Tester
5 1 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Information Security Specialist
5 1 (3.45%) Information Specialist
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) SAML
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Graph
2 4 (13.79%) OAuth
2 4 (13.79%) OpenID
3 2 (6.90%) GraphQL
3 2 (6.90%) RESTful
4 1 (3.45%) Kafka
4 1 (3.45%) Model Context Protocol
4 1 (3.45%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.45%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Security Posture
2 4 (13.79%) Onboarding
3 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.90%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.45%) CMDB
5 1 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (3.45%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) VMS
2 1 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) Risk Management
2 10 (34.48%) Cloud Security
2 10 (34.48%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (24.14%) Risk Analysis
4 6 (20.69%) Agile
4 6 (20.69%) Information Security
4 6 (20.69%) Zero Trust
5 5 (17.24%) AI
5 5 (17.24%) Data Loss Prevention
5 5 (17.24%) DevOps
5 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (17.24%) LLM
5 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (13.79%) Business Continuity
6 4 (13.79%) CI/CD
6 4 (13.79%) Data Protection
6 4 (13.79%) Decision-Making
6 4 (13.79%) GAP Analysis
6 4 (13.79%) Roadmaps
6 4 (13.79%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.34%) Python
2 3 (10.34%) SQL
3 2 (6.90%) Bicep
4 1 (3.45%) Bash
4 1 (3.45%) Go
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) CISSP
2 7 (24.14%) CISM
2 7 (24.14%) Degree
3 6 (20.69%) CRISC
4 5 (17.24%) Azure Certification
5 4 (13.79%) CISA
5 4 (13.79%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (10.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (10.34%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 3 (10.34%) Master's Degree
7 1 (3.45%) CCSP
7 1 (3.45%) CGEIT
7 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (3.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
7 1 (3.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (72.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (44.83%) GDPR
2 13 (44.83%) NIST
3 8 (27.59%) PCI DSS
4 6 (20.69%) GRC
5 4 (13.79%) NIST 800
6 3 (10.34%) HIPAA
7 2 (6.90%) COBIT
7 2 (6.90%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (6.90%) FedRAMP
7 2 (6.90%) ISO 31000
7 2 (6.90%) PMO
7 2 (6.90%) SLA
8 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
8 1 (3.45%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (10.34%) Terraform
3 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (6.90%) Optimizely
3 2 (6.90%) Qualys
3 2 (6.90%) Splunk
3 2 (6.90%) Tenable
4 1 (3.45%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.45%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) Informatica
4 1 (3.45%) Rapid7
4 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.45%) Talend
4 1 (3.45%) Zscaler