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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 356 367
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 +152
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 22 11 19
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.15% 0.077% 0.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.84% 0.56% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 3 14
10th Percentile £398 £620 £473
25th Percentile £472 £622 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £638 £613
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +4.08% -5.77%
75th Percentile £719 £897 £700
90th Percentile £959 £1,041 £735
England median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +20.00%

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 2,610 1,965 2,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.21% 13.78% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,747 1,192 1,821
10th Percentile £348 £300 £363
25th Percentile £416 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year - -7.89% +3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £546
% change year-on-year - -8.47% +4.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 30 48
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.81 £18.75
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.65 £24.79
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +22.81%
75th Percentile £38.75 £78.40 £52.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £95.25 £64.65
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.21 £33.00
% change year-on-year -16.75% -8.45% +36.08%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 - 4 £900 - 7
West London - 1 £425 - 1
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 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 18 (81.82%) Azure
2 7 (31.82%) Entra ID
2 7 (31.82%) GCP
3 6 (27.27%) SaaS
4 5 (22.73%) AWS
5 4 (18.18%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (13.64%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (13.64%) IaaS
6 3 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (13.64%) PaaS
7 2 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (9.09%) OpenShift
8 1 (4.55%) Cloud Run
8 1 (4.55%) dbt
8 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
8 1 (4.55%) Pulumi
8 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) Firewall
2 1 (4.55%) BGP
2 1 (4.55%) DNS
2 1 (4.55%) Network Security
2 1 (4.55%) OSPF
2 1 (4.55%) SSL
2 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.55%) VPN
2 1 (4.55%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Data Vault
1 1 (4.55%) Looker
1 1 (4.55%) Pinecone
1 1 (4.55%) Power BI
1 1 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Finance
3 4 (18.18%) Banking
4 3 (13.64%) Financial Institution
5 2 (9.09%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Security Engineer
1 5 (22.73%) Senior
2 4 (18.18%) Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Enterprise Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Enterprise Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Administrator
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Security Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Security Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Tester
5 1 (4.55%) Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Snowflake Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) SAML
2 4 (18.18%) OAuth
2 4 (18.18%) OpenID
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (9.09%) GraphQL
4 2 (9.09%) RESTful
5 1 (4.55%) Faiss
5 1 (4.55%) FastAPI
5 1 (4.55%) Kafka
5 1 (4.55%) LangChain
5 1 (4.55%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
1 3 (13.64%) Onboarding
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (9.09%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.55%) AI Agents
3 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) VMS
2 1 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Cloud Security
2 7 (31.82%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (22.73%) Containerisation
4 5 (22.73%) Data Loss Prevention
4 5 (22.73%) Risk Management
4 5 (22.73%) Zero Trust
5 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 4 (18.18%) Data Privacy
5 4 (18.18%) DevOps
5 4 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (13.64%) Data Governance
6 3 (13.64%) DevSecOps
6 3 (13.64%) Incident Response
6 3 (13.64%) LLM
6 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (13.64%) RBAC
6 3 (13.64%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
6 3 (13.64%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 3 (13.64%) Bicep
2 3 (13.64%) Python
2 3 (13.64%) SQL
3 1 (4.55%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Azure Certification
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (13.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (13.64%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (13.64%) CISM
3 3 (13.64%) CISSP
3 3 (13.64%) Degree
3 3 (13.64%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (68.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (54.55%) GDPR
3 6 (27.27%) NIST
4 3 (13.64%) EU AI Act
4 3 (13.64%) HIPAA
5 2 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (9.09%) FedRAMP
6 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
6 1 (4.55%) GRC
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 4 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Single Sign-On
1 5 (22.73%) Terraform
2 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.55%) Ansible
4 1 (4.55%) Grafana
4 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) Google
3 3 (13.64%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (9.09%) Optimizely
5 1 (4.55%) Informatica
5 1 (4.55%) OpenAI
5 1 (4.55%) Rapid7
5 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.55%) Splunk
5 1 (4.55%) Talend
5 1 (4.55%) Zscaler