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 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 317 393
Rank change year-on-year -73 +76 +60
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 32 31 7
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.17% 0.25% 0.040%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.95% 1.57% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 18 2
10th Percentile £425 £436 £543
25th Percentile £475 £568 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £688 £613
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +12.24% -2.00%
75th Percentile £638 £769 £656
90th Percentile £652 £943 £683
England median daily rate £577 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +0.30% -8.00% +3.31%

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 3,383 1,976 2,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.19% 16.17% 13.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,261 1,306 1,718
10th Percentile £350 £320 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £529 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.61% -3.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 27 66
10th Percentile £19.35 £20.75 £13.49
25th Percentile £23.25 £22.51 £18.03
Median hourly rate £28.00 £34.50 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +42.68% -7.00%
75th Percentile £48.21 £52.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £70.75 £73.36 £55.63
England median hourly rate £33.98 £34.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -1.51% +43.75% -43.53%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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
East London -6 1 £550 -5.98%
Central London -20 1 £650 -13.45% 9
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 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (40.63%) Azure
2 8 (25.00%) AWS
3 7 (21.88%) Azure Sentinel
3 7 (21.88%) Entra ID
4 4 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
4 4 (12.50%) GCP
4 4 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (12.50%) SaaS
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Control Tower
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (6.25%) GitHub
5 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.13%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.13%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) DHCP
1 2 (6.25%) DNS
1 2 (6.25%) Internet
2 1 (3.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Burp Suite
1 1 (3.13%) GitLab
1 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 13 (40.63%) Finance
2 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Legal
4 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Banking
5 2 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (18.75%) Analyst
1 6 (18.75%) Security Specialist
1 6 (18.75%) Senior
2 4 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Project Manager
3 3 (9.38%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 3 (9.38%) Senior Security Specialist
4 2 (6.25%) Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Compliance Officer
4 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Security Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) IT Manager
4 2 (6.25%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Risk Officer
4 2 (6.25%) Security Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Technical Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) Azure Blueprints
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (3.13%) Playwright
2 1 (3.13%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Security Posture
2 5 (15.63%) Management Information System
3 4 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 4 (12.50%) Onboarding
4 3 (9.38%) CMDB
5 1 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (3.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.13%) NHS
5 1 (3.13%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Windows
2 4 (12.50%) Linux
2 4 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.25%) Alpine Linux
3 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (6.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (46.88%) Risk Management
3 13 (40.63%) Information Security
4 9 (28.13%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (28.13%) Vulnerability Management
5 8 (25.00%) Cloud Security
6 7 (21.88%) Roadmaps
7 6 (18.75%) Agile
7 6 (18.75%) Data Protection
7 6 (18.75%) Incident Response
7 6 (18.75%) Risk Analysis
7 6 (18.75%) Security Operations
8 5 (15.63%) AI
8 5 (15.63%) CI/CD
8 5 (15.63%) DevOps
8 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (15.63%) Regulatory Compliance
8 5 (15.63%) Risk Assessment
8 5 (15.63%) Runbook
8 5 (15.63%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) PowerShell
2 6 (18.75%) Python
3 3 (9.38%) Bash
3 3 (9.38%) Bicep
4 1 (3.13%) Go
4 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (37.50%) CISSP
2 8 (25.00%) CISM
3 6 (18.75%) CRISC
3 6 (18.75%) Degree
4 5 (15.63%) CISA
5 4 (12.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 3 (9.38%) Master's Degree
6 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (6.25%) AWS Certification
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Certification
7 2 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (6.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 2 (6.25%) ISSAP
7 2 (6.25%) PMI Certification
7 2 (6.25%) PMP
7 2 (6.25%) SSCP
8 1 (3.13%) CGEIT
8 1 (3.13%) GIAC
8 1 (3.13%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (81.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (53.13%) NIST
3 10 (31.25%) GDPR
3 10 (31.25%) GRC
4 9 (28.13%) PCI DSS
5 6 (18.75%) NIST 800
6 5 (15.63%) SOC 1
7 2 (6.25%) COBIT
7 2 (6.25%) HIPAA
7 2 (6.25%) ISO 31000
7 2 (6.25%) PMO
7 2 (6.25%) QA
7 2 (6.25%) SLA
8 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
8 1 (3.13%) ISO 9001
8 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.25%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Terraform
2 2 (6.25%) Ansible
2 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.25%) Nexpose
2 2 (6.25%) Puppet
3 1 (3.13%) HP Fortify
3 1 (3.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.63%) Qualys
2 5 (15.63%) Tenable
3 3 (9.38%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (9.38%) Rapid7
3 3 (9.38%) Splunk
4 2 (6.25%) Google
4 2 (6.25%) Okta
4 2 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.25%) TOWER Software
5 1 (3.13%) Checkmarx
5 1 (3.13%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.13%) OneTrust
5 1 (3.13%) Remedy
5 1 (3.13%) Veracode