SOC 2 Contracts in London

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for SOC 2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SOC 2 over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 390 446 569
Rank change year-on-year +56 +123 -107
Contract jobs citing SOC 2 5 34 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.029% 0.13% 0.099%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.20% 1.00% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 28 32
10th Percentile £543 £463 -
25th Percentile £569 £564 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £645 £681
90th Percentile £683 £750 £771
England median daily rate £625 £605 £631
% change year-on-year +3.31% -4.16% +5.21%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

SOC 2 is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,473 3,398 4,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.15% 13.15% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,744 2,458 3,485
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £650
90th Percentile £800 £798 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 37 84
10th Percentile £12.70 £20.55 £20.27
25th Percentile £17.85 £21.24 £26.00
Median hourly rate £24.18 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% -21.35% +122.50%
75th Percentile £47.50 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £57.13 £81.00 £68.38
England median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £29.12
% change year-on-year -40.00% +28.78% +38.67%

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 17 May 2024.

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 May 2024. 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 +52 2 - - 3
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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
1 2 (40.00%) Twilio
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) CTI
1 2 (40.00%) VoIP
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Chief Information Security Officer
2 1 (20.00%) Chief Security Officer
2 1 (20.00%) Information Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Information Assurance Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security Officer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Security Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Middleware
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) IVR
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Analytics
1 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (40.00%) Conversational UI
1 2 (40.00%) CRM
1 2 (40.00%) Customer Experience
1 2 (40.00%) Data Privacy
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Information Security
1 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (40.00%) WFM
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) GDPR
1 3 (60.00%) HIPAA
2 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Avaya
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Genesys
2 2 (40.00%) Google