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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 711 772 1020
Rank change year-on-year +61 +248 -90
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 88 62 170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.087% 0.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.84% 0.57% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 79 44 89
10th Percentile £43,500 £47,400 £49,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £64,688 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +19.23% -5.45%
75th Percentile £88,125 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £130,125 £92,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -19.35% +19.23% -5.80%

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 10,499 10,896 25,519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.40% 15.33% 17.36%
Number of salaries quoted 6,647 7,032 12,574
10th Percentile £27,400 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% +2.33%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +91 47 £80,000 - 9
North of England +16 14 £72,500 +25.00% 1
North West -1 12 £72,500 -29.27% 1
South West - 10 £59,500 -
South East 0 7 £47,500 -36.67%
Midlands -16 7 £57,500 +76.92% 1
East Midlands - 5 £57,500 - 1
Yorkshire +58 2 £49,750 -14.22%
West Midlands -5 1 £77,500 +138.46%
East of England - 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 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 34 (38.64%) Azure
2 25 (28.41%) AWS
3 19 (21.59%) SaaS
4 12 (13.64%) Google Workspace
4 12 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (10.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 8 (9.09%) GCP
7 7 (7.95%) Serverless
8 6 (6.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (6.82%) Amazon ECR
8 6 (6.82%) Amazon ELB
8 6 (6.82%) Amazon Kinesis
8 6 (6.82%) Amazon MSK
8 6 (6.82%) Amazon S3
8 6 (6.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (6.82%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (6.82%) Route 53
9 5 (5.68%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 35 (39.77%) Firewall
2 12 (13.64%) DNS
3 10 (11.36%) Network Security
4 9 (10.23%) Broadband
4 9 (10.23%) Intrusion Detection
4 9 (10.23%) NAS
4 9 (10.23%) Wireless
5 5 (5.68%) VPN
6 3 (3.41%) BGP
6 3 (3.41%) TCP/IP
6 3 (3.41%) VLAN
7 1 (1.14%) Internet
7 1 (1.14%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (1.14%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.82%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.41%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.27%) MySQL
4 1 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (6.82%) GitLab
2 4 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 27 (30.68%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.59%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (21.59%) Finance
3 9 (10.23%) Games
4 6 (6.82%) Law
5 5 (5.68%) Banking
5 5 (5.68%) Legal
5 5 (5.68%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.55%) Financial Institution
6 4 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.55%) Retail
7 3 (3.41%) Back Office
8 2 (2.27%) Mandarin Language
8 2 (2.27%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.14%) Advertising
9 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (15.91%) Security Engineer
2 12 (13.64%) Consultant
3 11 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (10.23%) IT Consultant
5 8 (9.09%) Analyst
5 8 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (7.95%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (7.95%) Security Analyst
7 6 (6.82%) Architect
7 6 (6.82%) AWS DevOps
7 6 (6.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Azure Security Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Information Analyst
7 6 (6.82%) Information Security Analyst
7 6 (6.82%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 6 (6.82%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.64%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (6.82%) AWS SAM
3 4 (4.55%) ARM Templates
3 4 (4.55%) OAuth
3 4 (4.55%) OpenID
3 4 (4.55%) SAML
4 3 (3.41%) RESTful
5 1 (1.14%) ModSecurity
5 1 (1.14%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.18%) Security Posture
2 10 (11.36%) Data Centre
3 9 (10.23%) Cloud Native
3 9 (10.23%) Onboarding
3 9 (10.23%) Video Conferencing
4 7 (7.95%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (7.95%) Public Cloud
5 6 (6.82%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (5.68%) Clustering
6 5 (5.68%) Cyberattack
6 5 (5.68%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (5.68%) Management Information System
6 5 (5.68%) Private Cloud
6 5 (5.68%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (3.41%) Blog
8 3 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (1.14%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 20 (22.73%) Windows
2 12 (13.64%) Linux
3 11 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 9 (10.23%) Mac OS
5 4 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.14%) Mac OS X
6 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (48.86%) Cybersecurity
2 32 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (28.41%) Information Security
4 22 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 21 (23.86%) Penetration Testing
5 21 (23.86%) SIEM
6 18 (20.45%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (18.18%) Fintech
7 16 (18.18%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 14 (15.91%) Computer Science
8 14 (15.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 13 (14.77%) CI/CD
9 13 (14.77%) Cloud Security
9 13 (14.77%) Identity Management
9 13 (14.77%) Incident Response
10 12 (13.64%) DevOps
10 12 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
10 12 (13.64%) Identity Access Management
10 12 (13.64%) IT Audit
11 11 (12.50%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.50%) Python
2 10 (11.36%) Bash
3 6 (6.82%) PowerShell
4 4 (4.55%) Java
5 3 (3.41%) Go
Qualifications
1 20 (22.73%) CISSP
2 14 (15.91%) Degree
3 11 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 11 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (11.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 9 (10.23%) CCSP
6 8 (9.09%) CISA
7 6 (6.82%) CISM
8 4 (4.55%) Azure Certification
8 4 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (4.55%) CRISC
9 2 (2.27%) CCA
9 2 (2.27%) Master's Degree
9 2 (2.27%) SC Cleared
9 2 (2.27%) Security Cleared
10 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (1.14%) CSSLP
10 1 (1.14%) ISACA
10 1 (1.14%) OSCP
10 1 (1.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (81.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (30.68%) NIST
3 24 (27.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 18 (20.45%) GDPR
5 16 (18.18%) PCI DSS
6 11 (12.50%) GRC
7 10 (11.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 8 (9.09%) SOC 1
9 6 (6.82%) HIPAA
10 5 (5.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (4.55%) ISO 9001
12 3 (3.41%) ITGC
13 2 (2.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (2.27%) NCSC
13 2 (2.27%) NIST 800
14 1 (1.14%) COBIT
14 1 (1.14%) ISO 22301
14 1 (1.14%) ISO 31000
14 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 1 (1.14%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (15.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (13.64%) Docker
3 11 (12.50%) Active Directory
4 4 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.14%) NFS
Systems Management
1 12 (13.64%) Kubernetes
1 12 (13.64%) Single Sign-On
1 12 (13.64%) Terraform
2 4 (4.55%) Nessus
3 2 (2.27%) QRadar
4 1 (1.14%) CASB
4 1 (1.14%) cPanel
4 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 24 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.91%) VMware
3 13 (14.77%) Google
4 9 (10.23%) Apple
5 8 (9.09%) Splunk
6 7 (7.95%) Cisco
7 2 (2.27%) IBM
7 2 (2.27%) Qualys
8 1 (1.14%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (1.14%) Kenna
8 1 (1.14%) Meraki
8 1 (1.14%) OneTrust
8 1 (1.14%) Oracle
8 1 (1.14%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.14%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.14%) Tripwire
8 1 (1.14%) Zscaler