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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 328 387
Rank change year-on-year -44 +59 +107
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 26 21 8
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.16% 0.16% 0.044%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.84% 1.08% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 10 7
10th Percentile £463 £432 £495
25th Percentile £486 £578 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £701 £575
Median % change year-on-year -25.05% +21.83% +8.24%
75th Percentile £638 £844 £588
90th Percentile £650 £901 £633
England median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +12.82%

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 3,095 1,947 2,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.89% 15.12% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,059 1,284 1,753
10th Percentile £350 £311 £363
25th Percentile £424 £400 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £786
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -4.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 27 60
10th Percentile £18.07 £19.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.72 £23.23 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.11 £39.04 £25.81
Median % change year-on-year -33.12% +51.26% -41.15%
75th Percentile £57.13 £78.40 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.68 £93.75 £57.93
England median hourly rate £25.94 £32.66 £24.97
% change year-on-year -20.56% +30.78% -38.35%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 -8 1 £650 -13.45% 5
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 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 12 (46.15%) Azure
2 5 (19.23%) AWS
2 5 (19.23%) Azure Sentinel
2 5 (19.23%) Entra ID
3 4 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
3 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (11.54%) GCP
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (3.85%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.85%) dbt
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.85%) SaaS
5 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
1 1 (3.85%) Data Vault
1 1 (3.85%) Looker
1 1 (3.85%) Power BI
1 1 (3.85%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Burp Suite
1 1 (3.85%) GitLab
1 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Finance
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Legal
3 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Security Engineer
1 6 (23.08%) Security Specialist
1 6 (23.08%) Senior
2 4 (15.38%) Analyst
2 4 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Azure Security Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 3 (11.54%) Senior Security Specialist
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Compliance Officer
4 2 (7.69%) Risk Officer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Security Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Auditor
5 1 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Implementation Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Implementation Project Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Information Specialist
5 1 (3.85%) Product Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Product Specialist
5 1 (3.85%) Project Implementation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (7.69%) GraphQL
2 2 (7.69%) OAuth
2 2 (7.69%) OpenID
2 2 (7.69%) RESTful
2 2 (7.69%) SAML
3 1 (3.85%) Kafka
3 1 (3.85%) OAuth2
3 1 (3.85%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Security Posture
2 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.54%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (3.85%) CMDB
4 1 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.85%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 9 (34.62%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (26.92%) Cloud Security
3 7 (26.92%) Information Security
3 7 (26.92%) Risk Analysis
4 6 (23.08%) Agile
4 6 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 6 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (19.23%) Data Protection
5 5 (19.23%) DevOps
5 5 (19.23%) Incident Response
5 5 (19.23%) Vulnerability Management
6 4 (15.38%) AI
6 4 (15.38%) Analytics
6 4 (15.38%) Business Continuity
6 4 (15.38%) Data Loss Prevention
6 4 (15.38%) Decision-Making
6 4 (15.38%) GAP Analysis
6 4 (15.38%) LLM
6 4 (15.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) PowerShell
2 3 (11.54%) Python
3 2 (7.69%) SQL
4 1 (3.85%) Bash
4 1 (3.85%) Bicep
4 1 (3.85%) Go
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) CISSP
2 7 (26.92%) CISM
2 7 (26.92%) Degree
3 6 (23.08%) CRISC
4 4 (15.38%) CISA
4 4 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (15.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 3 (11.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (11.54%) Azure Certification
5 3 (11.54%) Master's Degree
6 2 (7.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (3.85%) CCSP
7 1 (3.85%) CGEIT
7 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (3.85%) PMI Certification
7 1 (3.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (76.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (46.15%) GDPR
3 11 (42.31%) NIST
4 9 (34.62%) PCI DSS
5 8 (30.77%) GRC
6 4 (15.38%) NIST 800
7 3 (11.54%) HIPAA
8 2 (7.69%) COBIT
8 2 (7.69%) FedRAMP
8 2 (7.69%) ISO 31000
8 2 (7.69%) PMO
8 2 (7.69%) SLA
9 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (7.69%) Terraform
2 1 (3.85%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) CrowdStrike
2 3 (11.54%) Qualys
2 3 (11.54%) Tenable
3 2 (7.69%) Optimizely
3 2 (7.69%) Rapid7
4 1 (3.85%) Checkmarx
4 1 (3.85%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.85%) Informatica
4 1 (3.85%) Splunk
4 1 (3.85%) Talend
4 1 (3.85%) Veracode