SOC 2 Contracts in London

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring SOC 2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SOC 2 over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 391 463
Rank change year-on-year +67 +72 +107
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 29 4 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.23% 0.022% 0.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.46% 0.16% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 29
10th Percentile £477 £533 £455
25th Percentile £616 £544 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +26.09% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £844 £644 £638
90th Percentile £1,033 £678 £690
England median daily rate £625 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +13.64% - -12.00%

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 1,992 2,489 3,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.83% 13.97% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,311 1,765 2,530
10th Percentile £313 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £788
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 64 35
10th Percentile £19.44 £13.09 £20.10
25th Percentile £22.27 £18.04 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.75 £24.34 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.77% -8.15% -40.45%
75th Percentile £57.50 £43.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.37 £53.68 £81.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £22.34 £41.25
% change year-on-year +56.67% -45.84% +50.00%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing SOC 2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for SOC 2 in London

SOC 2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOC 2 in London.

Daily rate trend for SOC 2 in London

SOC 2
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOC 2 in London over the 6 months to 2 May 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 2 May 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 - 4 £751 - 1
SOC 2
England

SOC 2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (13.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) Microsoft Purview
2 9 (31.03%) AWS
3 7 (24.14%) Azure
4 6 (20.69%) Serverless
5 5 (17.24%) GCP
5 5 (17.24%) SaaS
6 4 (13.79%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (13.79%) Amazon S3
6 4 (13.79%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (13.79%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (13.79%) IaaS
6 4 (13.79%) PaaS
6 4 (13.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (10.34%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (10.34%) Azure AKS
7 3 (10.34%) Azure Event Grid
7 3 (10.34%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (10.34%) Entra ID
7 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) Firewall
1 4 (13.79%) Network Security
2 3 (10.34%) SSL
2 3 (10.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) JIRA
2 2 (6.90%) GitLab
2 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.45%) CircleCI
General
1 12 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Finance
4 3 (10.34%) Legal
5 2 (6.90%) Banking
5 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Lead
2 7 (24.14%) Analyst
3 5 (17.24%) Architect
4 4 (13.79%) Business Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Cloud Architect
4 4 (13.79%) Senior
5 3 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Azure Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Security Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Cloud Architect
6 2 (6.90%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365 Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Security Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (3.45%) Compliance Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) ARM Templates
1 3 (10.34%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 10 (34.48%) Insider Threat
2 3 (10.34%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (10.34%) Reinsurance
2 3 (10.34%) Security Posture
3 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.90%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Linux
1 3 (10.34%) Windows
1 3 (10.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) Data Protection
2 13 (44.83%) Cloud Security
3 11 (37.93%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (37.93%) Information Security
4 10 (34.48%) Data Loss Prevention
4 10 (34.48%) UEBA
5 9 (31.03%) Incident Response
6 8 (27.59%) Data Privacy
7 7 (24.14%) DevOps
7 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (20.69%) Agile
8 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (20.69%) Risk Assessment
9 5 (17.24%) Identity Access Management
9 5 (17.24%) Risk Management
9 5 (17.24%) Security Management
10 4 (13.79%) BPMN
10 4 (13.79%) Business Analysis
10 4 (13.79%) Task Automation
10 4 (13.79%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) Python
2 4 (13.79%) Bash
2 4 (13.79%) Bicep
2 4 (13.79%) SQL
3 3 (10.34%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (55.17%) CISSP
2 12 (41.38%) CISM
3 8 (27.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (20.69%) CISA
4 6 (20.69%) Degree
5 4 (13.79%) CBAP
5 4 (13.79%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
7 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
8 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (3.45%) GCIH
8 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (62.07%) GDPR
2 11 (37.93%) HIPAA
3 10 (34.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 10 (34.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (31.03%) NIST
5 2 (6.90%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (6.90%) PCI DSS
5 2 (6.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (3.45%) FedRAMP
6 1 (3.45%) GRC
6 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Active Directory
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
1 3 (10.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (34.48%) CASB
2 6 (20.69%) Terraform
3 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.90%) Grafana
4 2 (6.90%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (48.28%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) Qualys
2 3 (10.34%) Tenable
3 2 (6.90%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (3.45%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.45%) Thycotic