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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 343 377
Rank change year-on-year -76 +34 +19
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 46 32 16
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.23% 0.24% 0.099%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.17% 1.36% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 26 2
10th Percentile £425 £338 £619
25th Percentile £491 £453 £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £538 £644
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% -16.50% +3.00%
75th Percentile £716 £822 £670
90th Percentile £725 £1,044 £673
England median daily rate £575 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +15.00% -16.67% -4.00%

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 3,933 2,355 2,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.45% 17.71% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,662 1,564 1,346
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
25th Percentile £431 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £725 £750 £800
England median daily rate £513 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 56 38
10th Percentile £15.39 £22.75 £18.13
25th Percentile £21.33 £25.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £28.00 £34.00 £32.35
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +5.12% +5.62%
75th Percentile £41.44 £44.75 £51.31
90th Percentile £59.15 £67.50 £80.09
England median hourly rate £32.40 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -0.32% -7.14% -2.78%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -30 3 - - 12
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 2 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Chatbot
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 29 (63.04%) Azure
2 20 (43.48%) AWS
3 18 (39.13%) Entra ID
3 18 (39.13%) GCP
4 12 (26.09%) Azure Sentinel
5 8 (17.39%) OCI
5 8 (17.39%) Snowflake
6 6 (13.04%) Datadog
7 5 (10.87%) SaaS
8 4 (8.70%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (8.70%) GitHub
8 4 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (8.70%) Rubrik
9 3 (6.52%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (6.52%) Power Platform
10 2 (4.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (4.35%) AWS Control Tower
10 2 (4.35%) AWS KMS
10 2 (4.35%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.52%) DNS
2 2 (4.35%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (4.35%) DHCP
2 2 (4.35%) Internet
2 2 (4.35%) X.509
3 1 (2.17%) Firewall
3 1 (2.17%) Network Security
3 1 (2.17%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.52%) Power BI
2 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.35%) Tableau
3 1 (2.17%) Chroma
3 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.17%) Pinecone
3 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.17%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Snyk
2 3 (6.52%) Git
3 2 (4.35%) Postman
4 1 (2.17%) Claude Code
4 1 (2.17%) JIRA
General
1 13 (28.26%) Finance
2 9 (19.57%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.87%) Legal
4 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.35%) Banking
5 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.35%) Local Government
5 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (17.39%) Architect
2 5 (10.87%) Lead
2 5 (10.87%) Security Engineer
2 5 (10.87%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
3 4 (8.70%) Security Manager
3 4 (8.70%) Senior
4 3 (6.52%) Analyst
4 3 (6.52%) Consultant
4 3 (6.52%) Project Manager
4 3 (6.52%) Security Project Manager
5 2 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (4.35%) Information Security Consultant
5 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Programme Manager
5 2 (4.35%) Security Analyst
5 2 (4.35%) Security Consultant
5 2 (4.35%) Senior Security Architect
5 2 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.35%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (26.09%) Terraform
2 6 (13.04%) SailPoint
3 4 (8.70%) REST
4 2 (4.35%) Azure Blueprints
4 2 (4.35%) GraphQL
4 2 (4.35%) OAuth
4 2 (4.35%) OAuth2
4 2 (4.35%) OpenID
4 2 (4.35%) SAML
4 2 (4.35%) YAML
5 1 (2.17%) Django
5 1 (2.17%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.17%) Flask
5 1 (2.17%) JSON
5 1 (2.17%) LangChain
5 1 (2.17%) LDAP
5 1 (2.17%) LlamaIndex
5 1 (2.17%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (2.17%) pgvector
5 1 (2.17%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Security Posture
2 7 (15.22%) Cloud Native
3 5 (10.87%) Management Information System
3 5 (10.87%) Onboarding
4 4 (8.70%) Operational Technology
4 4 (8.70%) PKI
5 3 (6.52%) AI Agents
6 2 (4.35%) Algorithms
6 2 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (4.35%) CMDB
6 2 (4.35%) Life Science
6 2 (4.35%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (2.17%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.17%) Insider Threat
7 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
7 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.04%) Windows
2 5 (10.87%) Linux
2 5 (10.87%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (6.52%) Ubuntu
4 2 (4.35%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (2.17%) CentOS
5 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (34.78%) CI/CD
1 16 (34.78%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (32.61%) AI
2 15 (32.61%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (28.26%) Runbook
4 12 (26.09%) Zero Trust
5 11 (23.91%) Risk Management
5 11 (23.91%) Vulnerability Management
6 10 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (19.57%) Cloud Security
7 9 (19.57%) Information Security
7 9 (19.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 8 (17.39%) Application Security
8 8 (17.39%) DevOps
8 8 (17.39%) Patch Management
8 8 (17.39%) Roadmaps
9 7 (15.22%) Secrets Management
9 7 (15.22%) Security Operations
9 7 (15.22%) Threat Intelligence
10 6 (13.04%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 19 (41.30%) Python
2 14 (30.43%) PowerShell
3 8 (17.39%) SQL
4 4 (8.70%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.52%) Bash
5 3 (6.52%) Bicep
6 1 (2.17%) BeanShell
6 1 (2.17%) Java
6 1 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 11 (23.91%) CISSP
2 9 (19.57%) CISM
3 5 (10.87%) AWS Certification
4 4 (8.70%) PMI Certification
4 4 (8.70%) PMP
5 3 (6.52%) Azure Certification
5 3 (6.52%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Degree
6 2 (4.35%) ISSAP
6 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (4.35%) SC Cleared
6 2 (4.35%) Security Cleared
6 2 (4.35%) SSCP
7 1 (2.17%) CISA
7 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.17%) CRISC
7 1 (2.17%) GCIH
7 1 (2.17%) GIAC
7 1 (2.17%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (71.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (47.83%) NIST
3 15 (32.61%) GDPR
4 6 (13.04%) GRC
5 5 (10.87%) HIPAA
6 4 (8.70%) SOC 1
7 3 (6.52%) ISO 22301
7 3 (6.52%) PCI DSS
7 3 (6.52%) QA
8 2 (4.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (4.35%) NIST 800
9 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.87%) Docker
3 2 (4.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (6.52%) Ansible
1 3 (6.52%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.35%) Nexpose
2 2 (4.35%) Puppet
2 2 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.17%) QRadar
Vendors
1 19 (41.30%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.87%) CrowdStrike
2 5 (10.87%) CyberArk
3 4 (8.70%) Splunk
4 3 (6.52%) Google
4 3 (6.52%) Okta
4 3 (6.52%) OpenAI
5 2 (4.35%) Databricks
5 2 (4.35%) Qualys
5 2 (4.35%) Rapid7
5 2 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.35%) Tenable
5 2 (4.35%) TOWER Software
6 1 (2.17%) Oracle
6 1 (2.17%) Ping Identity