SOC 2 Job Trends in Dorset

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring SOC 2 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Dorset 0.30% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.70% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
South West median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% +34.45% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 54 33 133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 7.98% 14.93% 12.52%
Number of salaries quoted 41 14 66
10th Percentile - £30,875 £23,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £38,125 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £54,987 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.80% +22.19% -5.76%
75th Percentile £53,750 £61,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £64,730 £63,750
South West median annual salary £54,150 £57,194 £52,396
% change year-on-year -5.32% +9.16% +0.92%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

SOC 2 job vacancy trend in Dorset

SOC 2
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOC 2 within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 21 April 2026. 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
Dorchester - 2 - -
SOC 2
South West

SOC 2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cyberattack
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Innovative Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) ISMS
1 2 (100.00%) Key Management
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 2 (100.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware