SOC 2 Jobs in England

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SOC 2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SOC 2 over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 755 849 1023
Rank change year-on-year +94 +174 -214
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 84 69 132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.098% 0.077% 0.099%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.70% 0.40% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 74 35 70
10th Percentile £42,875 £41,550 £48,625
25th Percentile £47,500 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,188 £98,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £99,250 £138,000 £100,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £69,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -20.29% +6.15% -1.89%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

SOC 2 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 advertised in England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 11,950 17,308 22,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.91% 19.26% 16.63%
Number of salaries quoted 8,383 8,006 11,760
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% -
75th Percentile £70,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £93,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +3.77%

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 11 May 2024.

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 11 May 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
London +135 45 £55,000 -20.29% 19
North of England +48 14 £72,500 -29.27% 3
North West +12 12 £72,500 -29.27% 2
South West - 10 £59,500 - 2
Midlands -2 7 £57,500 +76.92% 1
South East -9 5 £47,500 -47.22% 2
East Midlands - 5 £57,500 -
East of England +20 2 £58,750 -
Yorkshire - 2 £49,750 - 1
West Midlands +9 1 £77,500 +138.46% 1
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 30 (35.71%) AWS
2 20 (23.81%) Azure
3 15 (17.86%) SaaS
4 14 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (13.10%) Google Workspace
6 4 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (4.76%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.76%) Serverless
7 3 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.57%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (3.57%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (3.57%) Amazon MSK
7 3 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (3.57%) AWS CloudTrail
7 3 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.57%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.57%) IaaS
7 3 (3.57%) PaaS
7 3 (3.57%) Route 53
7 3 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 50 (59.52%) Firewall
2 18 (21.43%) Intrusion Detection
3 14 (16.67%) DNS
4 11 (13.10%) Broadband
4 11 (13.10%) NAS
4 11 (13.10%) Wireless
5 4 (4.76%) Network Security
6 2 (2.38%) VPN
7 1 (1.19%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.38%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.19%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.57%) GitLab
General
1 22 (26.19%) Social Skills
2 20 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (14.29%) Finance
4 11 (13.10%) Games
5 9 (10.71%) Legal
6 6 (7.14%) Law
7 5 (5.95%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.38%) Banking
8 2 (2.38%) Mandarin Language
8 2 (2.38%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.38%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.19%) Advertising
9 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (21.43%) Analyst
2 17 (20.24%) Security Analyst
3 13 (15.48%) Consultant
4 11 (13.10%) IT Consultant
5 10 (11.90%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 10 (11.90%) Security Manager
6 7 (8.33%) Security Engineer
7 6 (7.14%) Compliance Analyst
7 6 (7.14%) Compliance Manager
7 6 (7.14%) Information Analyst
7 6 (7.14%) Information Security Analyst
7 6 (7.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 6 (7.14%) IT Manager
7 6 (7.14%) Security Compliance Analyst
8 5 (5.95%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 5 (5.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.95%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 5 (5.95%) IT Engineer
8 5 (5.95%) IT Security Manager
9 4 (4.76%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.57%) AWS SAM
1 3 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (3.57%) OAuth
1 3 (3.57%) OpenID
1 3 (3.57%) SAML
2 1 (1.19%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (21.43%) Security Posture
2 14 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
3 11 (13.10%) Onboarding
3 11 (13.10%) Video Conferencing
4 6 (7.14%) Data Centre
4 6 (7.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 6 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
5 5 (5.95%) Clustering
5 5 (5.95%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (5.95%) Private Cloud
5 5 (5.95%) Public Cloud
6 4 (4.76%) Cyberattack
7 3 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (3.57%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.38%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (2.38%) Life Science
8 2 (2.38%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (1.19%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.19%) Operational Technology
9 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (20.24%) Windows
2 12 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 11 (13.10%) Mac OS
4 4 (4.76%) Linux
5 1 (1.19%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (63.10%) Cybersecurity
2 32 (38.10%) Information Security
3 27 (32.14%) SIEM
4 25 (29.76%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
6 20 (23.81%) Security Operations
7 19 (22.62%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 17 (20.24%) Data Protection
9 16 (19.05%) Computer Science
10 14 (16.67%) Identity Management
10 14 (16.67%) IT Audit
11 13 (15.48%) Application Security
12 12 (14.29%) Business Continuity
12 12 (14.29%) Data Security
12 12 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
13 11 (13.10%) Asset Management
13 11 (13.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 11 (13.10%) Mobile Device Management
14 10 (11.90%) Security Monitoring
14 10 (11.90%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (14.29%) Bash
2 5 (5.95%) Python
3 2 (2.38%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.19%) Java
Qualifications
1 22 (26.19%) CISSP
2 13 (15.48%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (14.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 12 (14.29%) CCSP
4 10 (11.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 10 (11.90%) CompTIA CySA+
4 10 (11.90%) CompTIA Security+
4 10 (11.90%) Network+ Certification
5 9 (10.71%) Degree
6 7 (8.33%) CISA
7 5 (5.95%) AWS Certification
8 3 (3.57%) CISM
8 3 (3.57%) Security Cleared
9 2 (2.38%) CCA
9 2 (2.38%) CRISC
9 2 (2.38%) SC Cleared
10 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.19%) ISACA
10 1 (1.19%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.19%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (79.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (30.95%) Cyber Essentials
3 24 (28.57%) NIST
4 12 (14.29%) GDPR
4 12 (14.29%) GRC
5 11 (13.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 11 (13.10%) PCI DSS
6 8 (9.52%) SOC 1
7 4 (4.76%) HIPAA
7 4 (4.76%) ISO 9001
8 3 (3.57%) ITGC
8 3 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (2.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (1.19%) COBIT
10 1 (1.19%) ISO 31000
10 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (1.19%) NCSC
10 1 (1.19%) NIST 800
10 1 (1.19%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (15.48%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (13.10%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (8.33%) Nessus
3 4 (4.76%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.57%) Terraform
5 2 (2.38%) QRadar
6 1 (1.19%) CASB
6 1 (1.19%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 27 (32.14%) Microsoft
2 16 (19.05%) VMware
3 12 (14.29%) Google
4 11 (13.10%) Apple
5 6 (7.14%) Cisco
6 2 (2.38%) IBM
6 2 (2.38%) Splunk
7 1 (1.19%) Kenna
7 1 (1.19%) OneTrust
7 1 (1.19%) Oracle
7 1 (1.19%) Qualys
7 1 (1.19%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.19%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.19%) Tripwire