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 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 341 380
Rank change year-on-year -72 +39 +37
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 37 32 14
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.18% 0.24% 0.087%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.96% 1.39% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 22 3
10th Percentile £425 £414 £544
25th Percentile £463 £456 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £688 £638
Median % change year-on-year -18.91% +7.84% +2.00%
75th Percentile £638 £913 £666
90th Percentile £699 £1,145 £671
England median daily rate £600 £525 £638
% change year-on-year +14.29% -17.65% +2.00%

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 3,839 2,298 2,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.97% 17.07% 13.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,587 1,532 1,466
10th Percentile £350 £325 £338
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £686
90th Percentile £738 £756 £800
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 51 39
10th Percentile £20.13 - £18.13
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.15 £22.90
Median hourly rate £28.55 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year -16.03% +22.13% +1.24%
75th Percentile £40.00 £43.98 £49.38
90th Percentile £58.00 £55.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £27.50
% change year-on-year +14.00% +15.05% -21.43%

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 30 August 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 30 August 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 -19 3 - - 5
East London +2 1 £550 -5.98%
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 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 22 (59.46%) Azure
2 17 (45.95%) AWS
3 11 (29.73%) Entra ID
4 10 (27.03%) GCP
5 7 (18.92%) OCI
5 7 (18.92%) SaaS
6 6 (16.22%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (13.51%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (10.81%) GitHub
8 4 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (8.11%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (8.11%) Rubrik
10 2 (5.41%) AWS Control Tower
10 2 (5.41%) AWS KMS
10 2 (5.41%) Azure AKS
10 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (2.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (2.70%) OneDrive
11 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) DNS
2 2 (5.41%) DHCP
2 2 (5.41%) Internet
2 2 (5.41%) X.509
3 1 (2.70%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (2.70%) Firewall
3 1 (2.70%) Network Security
3 1 (2.70%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Burp Suite
1 1 (2.70%) Git
1 1 (2.70%) GitLab
1 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.70%) JIRA
General
1 11 (29.73%) Finance
2 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Legal
4 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Banking
5 2 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.70%) Local Government
6 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (18.92%) Architect
2 4 (10.81%) Analyst
2 4 (10.81%) Security Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Consultant
3 3 (8.11%) Lead
3 3 (8.11%) Project Manager
3 3 (8.11%) Security Manager
3 3 (8.11%) Senior
4 2 (5.41%) Information Security Consultant
4 2 (5.41%) Information Security Officer
4 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Programme Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Security Analyst
4 2 (5.41%) Security Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Security Consultant
4 2 (5.41%) Security Officer
4 2 (5.41%) Security Project Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Senior Security Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.22%) Terraform
2 5 (13.51%) SailPoint
3 2 (5.41%) Azure Blueprints
3 2 (5.41%) OAuth
3 2 (5.41%) OAuth2
3 2 (5.41%) OpenID
3 2 (5.41%) REST
3 2 (5.41%) SAML
4 1 (2.70%) Django
4 1 (2.70%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.70%) Flask
4 1 (2.70%) JSON
4 1 (2.70%) LDAP
4 1 (2.70%) Playwright
4 1 (2.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Onboarding
1 6 (16.22%) Security Posture
2 5 (13.51%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.51%) Management Information System
3 3 (8.11%) PKI
4 2 (5.41%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.41%) CMDB
4 2 (5.41%) Operational Technology
4 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (2.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.22%) Windows
2 5 (13.51%) Linux
2 5 (13.51%) Windows Server
3 3 (8.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (8.11%) Ubuntu
4 2 (5.41%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (2.70%) CentOS
5 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (40.54%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (32.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (29.73%) Risk Management
4 10 (27.03%) Information Security
4 10 (27.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (27.03%) Zero Trust
5 9 (24.32%) CI/CD
6 8 (21.62%) Roadmaps
6 8 (21.62%) Security Operations
7 7 (18.92%) Incident Response
7 7 (18.92%) RBAC
7 7 (18.92%) Remediation Plan
8 6 (16.22%) Cloud Security
8 6 (16.22%) DevOps
8 6 (16.22%) DevSecOps
8 6 (16.22%) Key Management
8 6 (16.22%) Migration
8 6 (16.22%) Runbook
8 6 (16.22%) Secrets Management
8 6 (16.22%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.03%) Python
2 9 (24.32%) PowerShell
3 4 (10.81%) Bash
4 3 (8.11%) Bicep
5 1 (2.70%) BeanShell
5 1 (2.70%) Java
5 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.70%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (2.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) CISSP
2 6 (16.22%) CISM
3 4 (10.81%) AWS Certification
4 3 (8.11%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Certification
5 2 (5.41%) Degree
5 2 (5.41%) ISSAP
5 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (5.41%) PMI Certification
5 2 (5.41%) PMP
5 2 (5.41%) SSCP
6 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) CISA
6 1 (2.70%) CRISC
6 1 (2.70%) GCIH
6 1 (2.70%) GIAC
6 1 (2.70%) GSEC
6 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (86.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (51.35%) NIST
3 13 (35.14%) GDPR
4 8 (21.62%) GRC
5 5 (13.51%) SOC 1
6 4 (10.81%) HIPAA
6 4 (10.81%) PCI DSS
7 3 (8.11%) ISO 22301
7 3 (8.11%) QA
8 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (5.41%) NIST 800
9 1 (2.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
9 1 (2.70%) ISO 9001
9 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 7 (18.92%) Active Directory
2 5 (13.51%) Docker
3 2 (5.41%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Ansible
1 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.41%) Nexpose
2 2 (5.41%) Puppet
3 1 (2.70%) HP Fortify
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.70%) QRadar
3 1 (2.70%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 11 (29.73%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.81%) CrowdStrike
2 4 (10.81%) CyberArk
2 4 (10.81%) Splunk
3 3 (8.11%) Google
3 3 (8.11%) Okta
3 3 (8.11%) Qualys
3 3 (8.11%) Rapid7
3 3 (8.11%) ServiceNow
3 3 (8.11%) Tenable
4 2 (5.41%) TOWER Software
5 1 (2.70%) Checkmarx
5 1 (2.70%) Databricks
5 1 (2.70%) OneTrust
5 1 (2.70%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle
5 1 (2.70%) Ping Identity
5 1 (2.70%) Remedy
5 1 (2.70%) Veracode