SOC 2 Job Trends in Cardiff

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring SOC 2 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 0.10% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.32% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - -
75th Percentile £63,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median annual salary £62,500 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cardiff

SOC 2 falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 76 26 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 7.70% 9.70% 7.95%
Number of salaries quoted 52 14 38
10th Percentile £35,000 - -
25th Percentile £49,375 £37,170 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £53,500 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.50% +17.58% -9.22%
75th Percentile £74,813 £61,250 £54,000
90th Percentile £93,625 £72,231 £63,550
South Wales median annual salary £54,085 £55,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +19.57% +2.22%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SOC 2 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

SOC 2 job vacancy trend in Cardiff

SOC 2
Salary Trend in Cardiff

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing SOC 2.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing SOC 2

SOC 2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Flyway
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DBA
1 1 (100.00%) Senior SQL DBA
1 1 (100.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft