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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 341 370
Rank change year-on-year -62 +29 +55
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 39 27 14
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.19% 0.20% 0.087%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.02% 1.16% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 16 3
10th Percentile £425 £433 £544
25th Percentile £463 £551 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £688 £638
Median % change year-on-year -21.45% +7.84% +2.00%
75th Percentile £638 £847 £666
90th Percentile £685 £1,019 £671
England median daily rate £600 £555 £638
% change year-on-year +8.11% -12.94% +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 3,809 2,319 2,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.86% 17.10% 13.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,576 1,557 1,508
10th Percentile £350 £314 £349
25th Percentile £430 £413 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £652 £682
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
England median daily rate £507 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.45% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 45 43
10th Percentile £18.35 - £16.99
25th Percentile £24.81 £25.15 £21.13
Median hourly rate £34.06 £34.48 £26.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% +29.24% -2.98%
75th Percentile £44.75 £44.75 £46.25
90th Percentile £66.71 £54.50 £59.00
England median hourly rate £38.72 £31.64 £27.50
% change year-on-year +22.38% +15.05% -22.54%

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 16 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 16 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 -13 2 - - 6
East London -1 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 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 22 (56.41%) Azure
2 15 (38.46%) AWS
3 11 (28.21%) GCP
4 10 (25.64%) Entra ID
5 8 (20.51%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (15.38%) OCI
6 6 (15.38%) SaaS
7 5 (12.82%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (5.13%) AWS Control Tower
9 2 (5.13%) AWS KMS
9 2 (5.13%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (5.13%) GitHub
9 2 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (5.13%) Rubrik
10 1 (2.56%) Azure AKS
10 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (2.56%) OneDrive
10 1 (2.56%) Sentry
10 1 (2.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) DHCP
1 2 (5.13%) DNS
1 2 (5.13%) Internet
1 2 (5.13%) X.509
2 1 (2.56%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (2.56%) Network Security
2 1 (2.56%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Burp Suite
1 1 (2.56%) Git
1 1 (2.56%) GitLab
1 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 13 (33.33%) Finance
2 8 (20.51%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.38%) Legal
4 2 (5.13%) Banking
4 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (15.38%) Analyst
1 6 (15.38%) Architect
2 5 (12.82%) Security Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Consultant
3 4 (10.26%) Project Manager
3 4 (10.26%) Senior
4 3 (7.69%) Security Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Security Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Incident Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Information Security Consultant
5 2 (5.13%) Information Security Officer
5 2 (5.13%) IT Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Programme Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Security Consultant
5 2 (5.13%) Security Officer
5 2 (5.13%) Security Project Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Senior Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Senior Enterprise Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Senior Security Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) SailPoint
2 2 (5.13%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (2.56%) Django
3 1 (2.56%) FastAPI
3 1 (2.56%) Flask
3 1 (2.56%) JSON
3 1 (2.56%) LDAP
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (2.56%) OAuth
3 1 (2.56%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.56%) OpenID
3 1 (2.56%) Playwright
3 1 (2.56%) REST
3 1 (2.56%) SAML
3 1 (2.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Onboarding
1 7 (17.95%) Security Posture
2 6 (15.38%) Management Information System
3 5 (12.82%) Cloud Native
4 3 (7.69%) CMDB
5 2 (5.13%) Algorithms
5 2 (5.13%) Operational Technology
5 2 (5.13%) PKI
6 1 (2.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (2.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.38%) Windows
2 5 (12.82%) Linux
2 5 (12.82%) Windows Server
3 3 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (7.69%) Ubuntu
4 2 (5.13%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (2.56%) CentOS
5 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (43.59%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (30.77%) Information Security
3 12 (30.77%) Risk Management
4 10 (25.64%) Zero Trust
5 8 (20.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (20.51%) Security Operations
6 7 (17.95%) CI/CD
6 7 (17.95%) Cloud Security
6 7 (17.95%) Incident Response
6 7 (17.95%) Remediation Plan
6 7 (17.95%) Roadmaps
6 7 (17.95%) Runbook
7 6 (15.38%) Key Management
7 6 (15.38%) Migration
7 6 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
8 5 (12.82%) DevOps
8 5 (12.82%) DevSecOps
8 5 (12.82%) Due Diligence
8 5 (12.82%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 7 (17.95%) Python
3 3 (7.69%) Bash
4 2 (5.13%) Bicep
5 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) CISSP
2 7 (17.95%) CISM
3 3 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 3 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
3 3 (7.69%) Degree
3 3 (7.69%) PMI Certification
3 3 (7.69%) PMP
4 2 (5.13%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.13%) CRISC
4 2 (5.13%) ISSAP
4 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (5.13%) SSCP
5 1 (2.56%) CCSP
5 1 (2.56%) CGEIT
5 1 (2.56%) CISA
5 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.56%) GCIH
5 1 (2.56%) GIAC
5 1 (2.56%) GSEC
5 1 (2.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (84.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (53.85%) NIST
3 14 (35.90%) GDPR
4 10 (25.64%) GRC
5 5 (12.82%) PCI DSS
5 5 (12.82%) SOC 1
6 4 (10.26%) HIPAA
7 3 (7.69%) ISO 22301
7 3 (7.69%) QA
8 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (5.13%) NIST 800
9 1 (2.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
9 1 (2.56%) ISO 9001
9 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 5 (12.82%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.69%) Docker
3 2 (5.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) Terraform
2 3 (7.69%) Ansible
3 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.13%) Nexpose
3 2 (5.13%) Puppet
4 1 (2.56%) HP Fortify
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.56%) QRadar
4 1 (2.56%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 10 (25.64%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.82%) CrowdStrike
2 5 (12.82%) Qualys
2 5 (12.82%) Splunk
2 5 (12.82%) Tenable
3 4 (10.26%) CyberArk
4 3 (7.69%) Google
4 3 (7.69%) Okta
4 3 (7.69%) Rapid7
4 3 (7.69%) ServiceNow
5 2 (5.13%) TOWER Software
6 1 (2.56%) Checkmarx
6 1 (2.56%) Databricks
6 1 (2.56%) OneTrust
6 1 (2.56%) Ping Identity
6 1 (2.56%) Remedy
6 1 (2.56%) Veracode