System and Organization Controls (SOC) 1
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SOC 1 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SOC 1 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 883 962 1174
Rank change year-on-year +79 +212 -288
Permanent jobs citing SOC 1 13 8 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.008% 0.038%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.096% 0.040% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 13 8 25
10th Percentile - £64,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £57,250 £67,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £92,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +42.31% -18.75%
75th Percentile £110,000 £115,625 -
90th Percentile £115,000 £155,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,500 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

SOC 1 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 13,490 20,156 25,732
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.76% 19.26% 16.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,233 9,268 13,209
10th Percentile £27,000 £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 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -

SOC 1
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SOC 1 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SOC 1 in the UK

SOC 1
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SOC 1.

Salary trend for SOC 1 in the UK

SOC 1
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOC 1 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SOC 1 in the UK

SOC 1
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOC 1 within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +118 13 £100,000 +8.11% 3
London +132 8 £105,000 +13.51% 3
Work from Home +94 7 £110,000 +22.22% 1
UK excluding London - 5 £59,500 -
South West - 5 £59,500 -

SOC 1
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:

Business Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Aladdin
1 6 (46.15%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
1 5 (38.46%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Relational Database
General
1 8 (61.54%) Finance
2 7 (53.85%) Front Office
2 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 4 (30.77%) Applications Support
2 4 (30.77%) Lead
3 3 (23.08%) Support Manager
4 2 (15.38%) Applications Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Applications Support Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Auditor
5 1 (7.69%) IT Auditor
5 1 (7.69%) IT Manager
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Hedge funds
2 5 (38.46%) Clustering
2 5 (38.46%) Private Cloud
2 5 (38.46%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Client/Server
3 1 (7.69%) Derivative
3 1 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) ITIL
1 7 (53.85%) Line Management
1 7 (53.85%) Portfolio Management
1 7 (53.85%) Problem Management
2 6 (46.15%) Investment Management
2 6 (46.15%) IT Strategy
2 6 (46.15%) Technology Strategy
2 6 (46.15%) Use Case
3 5 (38.46%) Capacity Management
3 5 (38.46%) Computer Science
3 5 (38.46%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (38.46%) Data Security
3 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (38.46%) Project Delivery
3 5 (38.46%) Security Hardening
3 5 (38.46%) Server Management
3 5 (38.46%) Server Monitoring
3 5 (38.46%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (15.38%) Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (46.15%) SOC 2
2 1 (7.69%) ITGC
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Charles River
2 5 (38.46%) Cisco
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 5 (38.46%) VMware