SOC 2 Contract Job Trends in West London

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring SOC 2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West London 0.35% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.92% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £525 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% -4.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 52 29 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 18.44% 14.08% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 24 38
10th Percentile £352 £182 £219
25th Percentile £398 £213 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £375 £438
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -14.29% -5.89%
75th Percentile £614 £500 £550
90th Percentile £625 £623 £586
London median daily rate £525 £525 £563
% change year-on-year - -6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £28.52 £16.66 £17.40
25th Percentile £30.43 £18.77 £18.22
Median hourly rate £32.75 £22.27 £19.58
Median % change year-on-year +47.04% +13.77% -68.68%
75th Percentile £35.00 - £20.93
90th Percentile - - £21.75
London median hourly rate £26.57 £37.90 £32.50
% change year-on-year -29.89% +16.62% -7.14%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SOC 2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West London.

SOC 2 job vacancy trend in West London

SOC 2
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing SOC 2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing SOC 2

SOC 2
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 22 January 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
Richmond upon Thames - 1 £425 -
SOC 2
London

SOC 2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft