SOC 2 Job Trends in the East of England

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring SOC 2 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 177 144
Rank change year-on-year +23 -33 +87
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 2 5 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.048% 0.14% 0.041%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.59% 0.96% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £26,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £28,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +250.88% -52.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile - £30,250 £62,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £65,000 £87,500 £66,250
% change year-on-year -25.71% +32.08% -15.87%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 340 519 309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 8.09% 14.69% 12.81%
Number of salaries quoted 243 173 212
10th Percentile £30,370 £28,056 £24,775
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £29,568
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £58,125 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,720 £80,000 £77,250
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £58,920
% change year-on-year -3.33% +1.83% +2.47%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

SOC 2 job vacancy trend in the East of England

SOC 2
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SOC 2.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SOC 2

SOC 2
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOC 2 within the East of England region over the 6 months to 15 January 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
Hertfordshire - 2 £100,000 - 4
SOC 2
England

SOC 2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DynamoDB
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Principal Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) Nuxt
1 2 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) API Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI