System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SOC 2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SOC 2 over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 812 871 1029
Rank change year-on-year +59 +158 -148
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 83 81 211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.082% 0.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.61% 0.44% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 75 45 80
10th Percentile £43,000 £42,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £62,500 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +15.38% -5.80%
75th Percentile £76,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £93,500 £129,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +18.18%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 13,561 18,525 27,926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.44% 18.81% 17.05%
Number of salaries quoted 9,147 8,607 13,266
10th Percentile £26,750 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,602
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.04% +0.22%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC 2 in the UK

SOC 2
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SOC 2.

Salary trend for SOC 2 in the UK

SOC 2
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOC 2 over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SOC 2 in the UK

SOC 2
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOC 2 within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +97 77 £57,500 -24.59% 40
Work from Home +75 46 £55,000 -21.43% 20
UK excluding London +16 41 £57,500 +4.55% 21
London +114 40 £55,000 -27.87% 30
North of England +48 14 £72,500 -29.27% 2
North West +8 12 £72,500 -29.27% 2
South West - 9 £59,500 - 2
Midlands -5 7 £57,500 +76.92% 2
South East -6 5 £47,500 -39.68% 14
East Midlands - 5 £57,500 -
Scotland - 5 £50,000 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £49,750 -
East of England +7 1 £57,500 -
West Midlands +6 1 £77,500 +138.46% 2

SOC 2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 25 (30.12%) AWS
1 25 (30.12%) Azure
2 18 (21.69%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (18.07%) SaaS
4 12 (14.46%) Google Workspace
5 4 (4.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (4.82%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.82%) Serverless
6 3 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.61%) Amazon ELB
6 3 (3.61%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (3.61%) AWS CloudTrail
6 3 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.61%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.61%) IaaS
6 3 (3.61%) PaaS
6 3 (3.61%) Route 53
6 3 (3.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (3.61%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 46 (55.42%) Firewall
2 15 (18.07%) Intrusion Detection
3 14 (16.87%) DNS
4 12 (14.46%) Wireless
5 11 (13.25%) Broadband
5 11 (13.25%) NAS
6 5 (6.02%) Network Security
7 3 (3.61%) VPN
8 1 (1.20%) LAN
8 1 (1.20%) SAN
8 1 (1.20%) WAN
8 1 (1.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.41%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.20%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.61%) GitLab
2 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.20%) JIRA
General
1 22 (26.51%) Social Skills
2 20 (24.10%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (16.87%) Finance
4 11 (13.25%) Games
5 7 (8.43%) Legal
6 5 (6.02%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.82%) Law
8 2 (2.41%) Banking
8 2 (2.41%) Mandarin Language
8 2 (2.41%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.41%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.20%) Advertising
9 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (15.66%) Analyst
1 13 (15.66%) Consultant
2 12 (14.46%) Security Analyst
2 12 (14.46%) Security Engineer
3 11 (13.25%) IT Consultant
4 7 (8.43%) Compliance Manager
4 7 (8.43%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 7 (8.43%) IT Engineer
4 7 (8.43%) Security Manager
5 6 (7.23%) Compliance Analyst
5 6 (7.23%) Information Analyst
5 6 (7.23%) Information Security Analyst
5 6 (7.23%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 6 (7.23%) Security Compliance Analyst
6 5 (6.02%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 5 (6.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (6.02%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) Risk Manager
7 4 (4.82%) Technical Manager
8 3 (3.61%) IT Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.61%) AWS SAM
1 3 (3.61%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (3.61%) OAuth
1 3 (3.61%) OpenID
1 3 (3.61%) SAML
2 1 (1.20%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.20%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.48%) Security Posture
2 12 (14.46%) Onboarding
3 11 (13.25%) Video Conferencing
4 9 (10.84%) Cyber Threat
5 7 (8.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 6 (7.23%) Data Centre
6 6 (7.23%) Public Cloud
7 5 (6.02%) Clustering
7 5 (6.02%) Enterprise Storage
7 5 (6.02%) Management Information System
7 5 (6.02%) Private Cloud
7 5 (6.02%) Security Operations Centre
8 4 (4.82%) Cyberattack
9 3 (3.61%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (2.41%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (2.41%) Life Science
10 2 (2.41%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (1.20%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 19 (22.89%) Windows
2 12 (14.46%) Mac OS
2 12 (14.46%) Windows Server
3 6 (7.23%) Linux
4 1 (1.20%) Android
4 1 (1.20%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.20%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (57.83%) Cybersecurity
2 31 (37.35%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (36.14%) Information Security
4 28 (33.73%) SIEM
5 21 (25.30%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 19 (22.89%) Data Protection
6 19 (22.89%) Penetration Testing
6 19 (22.89%) Security Operations
7 16 (19.28%) Identity Access Management
8 14 (16.87%) Identity Management
8 14 (16.87%) IT Audit
9 13 (15.66%) Business Continuity
9 13 (15.66%) Computer Science
9 13 (15.66%) Vulnerability Management
10 12 (14.46%) Data Security
11 11 (13.25%) Application Security
11 11 (13.25%) Asset Management
11 11 (13.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 11 (13.25%) Mobile Device Management
12 10 (12.05%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (14.46%) Bash
2 5 (6.02%) Python
3 3 (3.61%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.20%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (20.48%) CISSP
2 11 (13.25%) Degree
3 8 (9.64%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (8.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 7 (8.43%) CCSP
4 7 (8.43%) CISA
5 5 (6.02%) AWS Certification
5 5 (6.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (6.02%) CompTIA CySA+
5 5 (6.02%) CompTIA Security+
5 5 (6.02%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (3.61%) CISM
7 2 (2.41%) CCA
7 2 (2.41%) CRISC
7 2 (2.41%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.41%) Security Cleared
8 1 (1.20%) GIAC
8 1 (1.20%) ISACA
8 1 (1.20%) PCI QSA
8 1 (1.20%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (84.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (31.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 19 (22.89%) NIST
4 12 (14.46%) GDPR
5 11 (13.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 11 (13.25%) PCI DSS
6 10 (12.05%) GRC
7 8 (9.64%) SOC 1
8 5 (6.02%) HIPAA
8 5 (6.02%) ISO 9001
9 3 (3.61%) ITGC
9 3 (3.61%) NCSC
9 3 (3.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (2.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (1.20%) COBIT
11 1 (1.20%) ISO 31000
11 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (1.20%) NIST 800
11 1 (1.20%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (19.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (15.66%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.82%) Docker
4 1 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (13.25%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (7.23%) Nessus
3 5 (6.02%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.82%) Terraform
5 2 (2.41%) QRadar
6 1 (1.20%) CASB
6 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.20%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 30 (36.14%) Microsoft
2 16 (19.28%) VMware
3 13 (15.66%) Google
4 11 (13.25%) Apple
5 6 (7.23%) Cisco
6 2 (2.41%) IBM
6 2 (2.41%) Qualys
6 2 (2.41%) Splunk
7 1 (1.20%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.20%) Kenna
7 1 (1.20%) OneTrust
7 1 (1.20%) Oracle
7 1 (1.20%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.20%) Tripwire
7 1 (1.20%) Zscaler