SOC 2 Jobs in Scotland

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 273 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 9 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.13% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.11% - -
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £40,750 - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - -
75th Percentile £53,750 - -
90th Percentile £57,000 - -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £69,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -20.29% +6.15% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

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 advertised in Scotland with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 808 731 993
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 12.03% 15.53% 17.36%
Number of salaries quoted 345 207 463
10th Percentile £22,450 £31,441 £25,625
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £35,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% +5.50%
75th Percentile £61,250 £71,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £72,433 £88,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC 2 in Scotland

SOC 2
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for SOC 2 in Scotland

SOC 2
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOC 2 in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SOC 2 in Scotland

SOC 2
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOC 2 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Edinburgh - 5 £50,000 -
Glasgow - 4 £50,000 - 1
SOC 2
UK

SOC 2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
1 4 (44.44%) Google Workspace
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
1 3 (33.33%) LAN
1 3 (33.33%) VPN
1 3 (33.33%) WAN
1 3 (33.33%) Wireless
1 3 (33.33%) WLAN
2 2 (22.22%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Security Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) IT Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) IT Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Information Security Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Information Security Risk Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Risk Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (33.33%) Onboarding
3 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
4 1 (11.11%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
1 4 (44.44%) Mac OS
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Android
2 2 (22.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (77.78%) SIEM
2 5 (55.56%) Information Security
2 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (44.44%) Analytics
3 4 (44.44%) Application Security
3 4 (44.44%) Data Protection
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) DevSecOps
3 4 (44.44%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (44.44%) Incident Management
3 4 (44.44%) Internal Audit
3 4 (44.44%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 4 (44.44%) Security Operations
3 4 (44.44%) SOAR
3 4 (44.44%) Use Case
3 4 (44.44%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (33.33%) ITSM
5 2 (22.22%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (88.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (22.22%) NCSC
2 2 (22.22%) NIST
3 1 (11.11%) GDPR
3 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
3 1 (11.11%) SOC 3
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Google
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Atlassian