SOC 2 Jobs in England

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring SOC 2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SOC 2 over the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 581 738 880
Rank change year-on-year +157 +142 +124
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 72 83 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.099% 0.076%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.95% 0.70% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 51 69 37
10th Percentile £53,750 £43,750 £41,700
25th Percentile £61,250 £47,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% -17.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £96,250 £76,250 £102,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £133,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £55,000 £69,000
% change year-on-year +45.45% -20.29% +6.15%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7,554 11,795 18,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.58% 14.03% 19.82%
Number of salaries quoted 4,111 8,392 8,489
10th Percentile £30,580 £27,300 £32,200
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC 2 in England

SOC 2
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for SOC 2 in England

SOC 2
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOC 2 in England over the 6 months to 21 April 2025.

Salary histogram for SOC 2 in England

SOC 2
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 21 April 2025. 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
London +85 38 £91,250 +65.91% 131
South East +125 16 £60,000 +26.32% 20
North of England +81 11 £72,500 - 6
North West +13 6 £77,500 +6.90% 2
North East - 5 £57,500 - 2
Midlands +65 3 £57,500 - 8
South West +113 2 £80,000 +34.45% 4
West Midlands +39 2 £58,750 -24.19% 6
East of England +61 1 £62,500 +6.38% 4
East Midlands +60 1 £57,500 - 2
SOC 2
UK

SOC 2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 46 (63.89%) Azure
2 19 (26.39%) AWS
3 17 (23.61%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
5 11 (15.28%) SaaS
6 9 (12.50%) GCP
7 8 (11.11%) GitHub
8 5 (6.94%) Azure Key Vault
8 5 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (6.94%) Serverless
9 4 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (4.17%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 3 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (4.17%) Miro
10 3 (4.17%) Power Platform
10 3 (4.17%) Snowflake
10 3 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.89%) Firewall
2 8 (11.11%) VPN
3 5 (6.94%) Network Security
4 2 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.39%) NAS
5 1 (1.39%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.39%) SAN
5 1 (1.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.94%) Data Lake
1 5 (6.94%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.17%) Big Data
3 3 (4.17%) Parquet
3 3 (4.17%) Power BI
3 3 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.39%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.56%) JIRA
3 1 (1.39%) Git
General
1 38 (52.78%) Social Skills
2 23 (31.94%) Finance
3 13 (18.06%) Legal
4 7 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.33%) Law
6 3 (4.17%) Banking
6 3 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.17%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.78%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.39%) Russian Language
Job Titles
1 13 (18.06%) Architect
2 9 (12.50%) Security Manager
3 8 (11.11%) Security Architect
4 7 (9.72%) Analyst
4 7 (9.72%) Senior
5 6 (8.33%) Security Analyst
6 5 (6.94%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Cloud Architect
6 5 (6.94%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Risk Manager
6 5 (6.94%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.56%) Administrator
7 4 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 4 (5.56%) Lead
7 4 (5.56%) Security Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Data Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Information Manager
8 3 (4.17%) IT Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.67%) ARM Templates
2 6 (8.33%) RESTful
3 5 (6.94%) .NET
4 4 (5.56%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.56%) Node.js
5 3 (4.17%) JSON
6 2 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.78%) Kafka
7 1 (1.39%) CSS
7 1 (1.39%) HTML
7 1 (1.39%) HTML5
7 1 (1.39%) ModSecurity
7 1 (1.39%) Next.js
7 1 (1.39%) React
7 1 (1.39%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (23.61%) Management Information System
2 12 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 8 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (8.33%) Security Posture
5 4 (5.56%) Wiki
6 3 (4.17%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (4.17%) Hedge funds
6 3 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (4.17%) Machine to Machine
7 2 (2.78%) Cyberattack
7 2 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.78%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.39%) Biopharmaceutical
8 1 (1.39%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (1.39%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.39%) Life Science
8 1 (1.39%) PKI
8 1 (1.39%) Replication
8 1 (1.39%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.50%) Linux
2 8 (11.11%) Windows
2 8 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (43.06%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (41.67%) Agile
3 28 (38.89%) Information Security
4 24 (33.33%) DevOps
5 22 (30.56%) CI/CD
5 22 (30.56%) Mentoring
6 21 (29.17%) Cloud Security
6 21 (29.17%) Risk Management
7 17 (23.61%) Analytics
7 17 (23.61%) Creative Thinking
7 17 (23.61%) SDLC
8 16 (22.22%) Containerisation
8 16 (22.22%) Microservices
9 15 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (19.44%) OWASP
10 14 (19.44%) Regulatory Compliance
10 14 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
11 13 (18.06%) Cybersecurity
11 13 (18.06%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 16 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 10 (13.89%) SQL
3 7 (9.72%) Python
4 6 (8.33%) R
5 5 (6.94%) C#
6 4 (5.56%) Bash
6 4 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.78%) Java
8 1 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.39%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 25 (34.72%) CISSP
2 21 (29.17%) CISM
3 18 (25.00%) Degree
4 15 (20.83%) Azure Certification
5 12 (16.67%) CRISC
6 5 (6.94%) AWS Certification
7 4 (5.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (5.56%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (4.17%) CCSP
8 3 (4.17%) CEH
8 3 (4.17%) CISA
8 3 (4.17%) ISSAP
8 3 (4.17%) SnowPro
9 2 (2.78%) GIAC
9 2 (2.78%) SANS
10 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.39%) OSCP
10 1 (1.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (72.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (41.67%) GDPR
3 24 (33.33%) NIST
4 16 (22.22%) HIPAA
5 9 (12.50%) PCI DSS
6 5 (6.94%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (5.56%) NCSC
8 2 (2.78%) COBIT
8 2 (2.78%) ISO 22301
8 2 (2.78%) ISO 9001
8 2 (2.78%) ITGC
8 2 (2.78%) SOC 1
9 1 (1.39%) GLP
9 1 (1.39%) GMP
9 1 (1.39%) GRC
9 1 (1.39%) GxP
9 1 (1.39%) ISO 14001
9 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (1.39%) QA
System Software
1 15 (20.83%) Docker
2 12 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (4.17%) vSphere
4 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.39%) NFS
Systems Management
1 24 (33.33%) Terraform
2 19 (26.39%) Kubernetes
3 10 (13.89%) Ansible
4 4 (5.56%) Graylog
4 4 (5.56%) Nagios
4 4 (5.56%) Opsgenie
5 3 (4.17%) Progress Chef
5 3 (4.17%) Puppet
6 2 (2.78%) Grafana
6 2 (2.78%) Nessus
6 2 (2.78%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.39%) cPanel
7 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.72%) Google
3 6 (8.33%) Palo Alto
4 4 (5.56%) Cisco
4 4 (5.56%) IBM
5 3 (4.17%) Alibaba
5 3 (4.17%) NetApp
5 3 (4.17%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.78%) FireEye
6 2 (2.78%) Splunk
7 1 (1.39%) Juniper
7 1 (1.39%) Qualys
7 1 (1.39%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.39%) Tenable
7 1 (1.39%) Veeam
7 1 (1.39%) VMware