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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 366 397
Rank change year-on-year +32 +31 +183
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 33 16 39
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.25% 0.100% 0.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.38% 0.74% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 2 33
10th Percentile £338 £619 £525
25th Percentile £453 £620 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £644 £625
Median % change year-on-year -16.50% +3.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £822 £670 £700
90th Percentile £1,044 £673 £746
England median daily rate £500 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -16.67% -4.00% -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 2,392 2,162 2,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.88% 13.45% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,593 1,343 2,179
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.08% +0.89%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £700
90th Percentile £754 £800 £798
England median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 37 37
10th Percentile £22.75 £18.13 £17.64
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.80 £21.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £33.07 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.81% +1.75% +47.03%
75th Percentile £44.75 £51.75 £45.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £80.53 £62.85
England median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% +52.41%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +11 6 £863 - 6
East London - 2 £585 - 1
West London - 2 £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 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 25 (75.76%) Azure
2 14 (42.42%) GCP
3 13 (39.39%) AWS
4 9 (27.27%) Entra ID
4 9 (27.27%) SaaS
5 6 (18.18%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (18.18%) IaaS
5 6 (18.18%) PaaS
6 5 (15.15%) Serverless
7 4 (12.12%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 4 (12.12%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (9.09%) OpenShift
9 2 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
9 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (6.06%) GitHub
9 2 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (24.24%) Firewall
2 4 (12.12%) Network Security
3 3 (9.09%) SSL
3 3 (9.09%) VPN
4 2 (6.06%) Kerberos
5 1 (3.03%) BGP
5 1 (3.03%) DMZ
5 1 (3.03%) DNS
5 1 (3.03%) HTTPS
5 1 (3.03%) OSPF
5 1 (3.03%) SD-WAN
5 1 (3.03%) SNMP
5 1 (3.03%) SSH
5 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.03%) Telnet
5 1 (3.03%) VLAN
5 1 (3.03%) WAN
5 1 (3.03%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Data Vault
1 1 (3.03%) Looker
1 1 (3.03%) Pinecone
1 1 (3.03%) Power BI
1 1 (3.03%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) GitLab
1 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.03%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (33.33%) Finance
2 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
3 6 (18.18%) Banking
4 5 (15.15%) Financial Institution
5 3 (9.09%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Architect
2 5 (15.15%) Enterprise Architect
2 5 (15.15%) Security Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Senior
3 4 (12.12%) Senior Architect
3 4 (12.12%) Senior Enterprise Architect
4 3 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Administrator
5 2 (6.06%) Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Network Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Tester
6 1 (3.03%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Chief Technology Officer
6 1 (3.03%) Consultant
6 1 (3.03%) IT Consultant
6 1 (3.03%) Senior Security Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.21%) SAML
2 6 (18.18%) OAuth
2 6 (18.18%) OpenID
3 3 (9.09%) OAuth2
4 2 (6.06%) GraphQL
4 2 (6.06%) LDAP
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (6.06%) RESTful
4 2 (6.06%) SailPoint
5 1 (3.03%) Faiss
5 1 (3.03%) FastAPI
5 1 (3.03%) Kafka
5 1 (3.03%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.12%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (9.09%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 3 (9.09%) PKI
4 2 (6.06%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (6.06%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.03%) AI Agents
5 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.03%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) VMS
2 1 (3.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) Cloud Security
2 12 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
4 8 (24.24%) Containerisation
4 8 (24.24%) DevOps
4 8 (24.24%) Zero Trust
5 7 (21.21%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (18.18%) AI
6 6 (18.18%) DevSecOps
7 5 (15.15%) CI/CD
7 5 (15.15%) Data Loss Prevention
7 5 (15.15%) RBAC
7 5 (15.15%) TOGAF
7 5 (15.15%) Zachman Framework
8 4 (12.12%) Data Privacy
8 4 (12.12%) Incident Response
8 4 (12.12%) Machine Learning
8 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (12.12%) Risk Management
8 4 (12.12%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 11 (33.33%) Python
2 7 (21.21%) PowerShell
3 6 (18.18%) Bash
3 6 (18.18%) Bicep
4 5 (15.15%) SQL
5 2 (6.06%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) Azure Certification
2 3 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (9.09%) CISM
2 3 (9.09%) CISSP
2 3 (9.09%) MCP
2 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (6.06%) Degree
4 1 (3.03%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (69.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (45.45%) GDPR
3 14 (42.42%) NIST
4 3 (9.09%) EU AI Act
4 3 (9.09%) HIPAA
5 2 (6.06%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (6.06%) PCI DSS
6 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
6 1 (3.03%) FedRAMP
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 7 (21.21%) Active Directory
1 7 (21.21%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (33.33%) Terraform
2 7 (21.21%) Kubernetes
2 7 (21.21%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (6.06%) Grafana
3 2 (6.06%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.03%) Ansible
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.18%) Google
3 3 (9.09%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (9.09%) Okta
3 3 (9.09%) Qualys
3 3 (9.09%) Tenable
4 2 (6.06%) CyberArk
4 2 (6.06%) Optimizely
4 2 (6.06%) Zscaler
5 1 (3.03%) Informatica
5 1 (3.03%) OpenAI
5 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.03%) Splunk
5 1 (3.03%) Talend
5 1 (3.03%) Tanium