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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 595 748 861
Rank change year-on-year +153 +113 +141
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 78 84 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.098% 0.077%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.95% 0.70% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 57 74 35
10th Percentile £53,750 £42,875 £41,550
25th Percentile £62,500 £47,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% -17.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £97,500 £77,188 £98,750
90th Percentile £109,500 £99,250 £138,000
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 8,188 11,964 17,339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.93% 13.93% 19.28%
Number of salaries quoted 4,379 8,399 8,026
10th Percentile £30,580 £27,000 £32,000
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 £73,375 £70,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £93,750
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 11 May 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 11 May 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 +106 41 £92,500 +68.18% 93
South East +115 19 £68,750 +44.74% 31
North of England +60 11 £72,500 - 9
North West -4 6 £77,500 +6.90% 3
North East - 5 £57,500 - 2
Midlands +62 4 £56,250 -2.17% 3
West Midlands +62 3 £55,000 -29.03% 1
South West +99 2 £80,000 +34.45% 5
East Midlands +40 1 £57,500 - 2
East of England +39 1 £62,500 +6.38% 7
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 (2.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 46 (58.97%) Azure
2 18 (23.08%) AWS
3 17 (21.79%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
5 10 (12.82%) GCP
5 10 (12.82%) SaaS
6 8 (10.26%) GitHub
7 6 (7.69%) Serverless
8 5 (6.41%) Azure Key Vault
8 5 (6.41%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (3.85%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 3 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (3.85%) Entra ID
10 3 (3.85%) Miro
10 3 (3.85%) Power Platform
10 3 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.82%) Firewall
2 8 (10.26%) VPN
3 5 (6.41%) Network Security
4 2 (2.56%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.28%) NAS
5 1 (1.28%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.28%) SAN
5 1 (1.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.41%) Data Lake
1 5 (6.41%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.13%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (5.13%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.85%) Parquet
3 3 (3.85%) Power BI
3 3 (3.85%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.56%) Big Data
5 1 (1.28%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.13%) JIRA
3 1 (1.28%) Git
General
1 46 (58.97%) Social Skills
2 25 (32.05%) Finance
3 14 (17.95%) Legal
4 10 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.97%) Banking
6 6 (7.69%) Law
7 3 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.85%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.85%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.28%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (20.51%) Architect
2 9 (11.54%) Security Manager
3 8 (10.26%) Analyst
3 8 (10.26%) Security Architect
4 6 (7.69%) Lead
4 6 (7.69%) Risk Manager
4 6 (7.69%) Security Analyst
5 5 (6.41%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (6.41%) Cloud Architect
5 5 (6.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (6.41%) Lead Architect
5 5 (6.41%) Security Engineer
5 5 (6.41%) Senior
5 5 (6.41%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (6.41%) Technical Architect
5 5 (6.41%) Technical Leader
6 4 (5.13%) Administrator
6 4 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (5.13%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 4 (5.13%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.38%) ARM Templates
2 6 (7.69%) RESTful
3 5 (6.41%) .NET
4 4 (5.13%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.13%) Node.js
5 3 (3.85%) JSON
5 3 (3.85%) Kafka
6 2 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.28%) CSS
7 1 (1.28%) HTML
7 1 (1.28%) HTML5
7 1 (1.28%) ModSecurity
7 1 (1.28%) Next.js
7 1 (1.28%) React
7 1 (1.28%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 20 (25.64%) Management Information System
2 12 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (12.82%) Security Posture
4 9 (11.54%) Cloud Native
5 6 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (5.13%) Taxonomies
6 4 (5.13%) Wiki
7 3 (3.85%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (3.85%) Hedge funds
7 3 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (3.85%) Machine to Machine
8 2 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.28%) Cyberattack
9 1 (1.28%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.28%) Life Science
9 1 (1.28%) PKI
9 1 (1.28%) Replication
9 1 (1.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (1.28%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.54%) Linux
2 8 (10.26%) Windows
2 8 (10.26%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (43.59%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (42.31%) Information Security
3 32 (41.03%) Agile
4 28 (35.90%) Risk Management
5 25 (32.05%) Mentoring
6 24 (30.77%) DevOps
7 23 (29.49%) CI/CD
8 20 (25.64%) Cloud Security
9 19 (24.36%) Risk Assessment
10 18 (23.08%) Creative Thinking
10 18 (23.08%) SDLC
11 17 (21.79%) Containerisation
11 17 (21.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (21.79%) Microservices
11 17 (21.79%) Regulatory Compliance
12 16 (20.51%) Cybersecurity
12 16 (20.51%) OWASP
12 16 (20.51%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (19.23%) Analytics
13 15 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 16 (20.51%) PowerShell
2 10 (12.82%) SQL
3 7 (8.97%) Python
4 6 (7.69%) R
5 5 (6.41%) C#
6 4 (5.13%) Bash
6 4 (5.13%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.85%) Java
8 1 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.28%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 27 (34.62%) CISSP
2 24 (30.77%) CISM
2 24 (30.77%) Degree
3 17 (21.79%) CRISC
4 15 (19.23%) Azure Certification
5 7 (8.97%) AWS Certification
6 5 (6.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (6.41%) CEH
7 4 (5.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (5.13%) Master's Degree
7 4 (5.13%) Security Cleared
7 4 (5.13%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (3.85%) CCSP
8 3 (3.85%) ISSAP
8 3 (3.85%) SnowPro
9 2 (2.56%) CISA
9 2 (2.56%) GIAC
9 2 (2.56%) OSCP
9 2 (2.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (76.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (43.59%) GDPR
3 27 (34.62%) NIST
4 19 (24.36%) HIPAA
5 9 (11.54%) PCI DSS
6 7 (8.97%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (8.97%) GRC
7 5 (6.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (5.13%) NCSC
8 4 (5.13%) NIST 800
8 4 (5.13%) SOC 1
9 2 (2.56%) COBIT
9 2 (2.56%) ISO 22301
9 2 (2.56%) ISO 9001
10 1 (1.28%) GLP
10 1 (1.28%) GMP
10 1 (1.28%) GxP
10 1 (1.28%) ISO 14001
10 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (1.28%) QA
System Software
1 16 (20.51%) Docker
2 12 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (3.85%) vSphere
4 2 (2.56%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.28%) NFS
Systems Management
1 24 (30.77%) Terraform
2 20 (25.64%) Kubernetes
3 10 (12.82%) Ansible
4 4 (5.13%) Graylog
4 4 (5.13%) Nagios
4 4 (5.13%) Opsgenie
4 4 (5.13%) RSA Archer
5 3 (3.85%) Grafana
5 3 (3.85%) Progress Chef
5 3 (3.85%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.85%) Puppet
6 2 (2.56%) Nessus
7 1 (1.28%) cPanel
7 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (24.36%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.97%) Google
3 6 (7.69%) Palo Alto
4 4 (5.13%) Cisco
4 4 (5.13%) IBM
4 4 (5.13%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.85%) Alibaba
5 3 (3.85%) NetApp
6 2 (2.56%) FireEye
6 2 (2.56%) OneTrust
6 2 (2.56%) Splunk
7 1 (1.28%) Juniper
7 1 (1.28%) Qualys
7 1 (1.28%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.28%) Tenable
7 1 (1.28%) Veeam
7 1 (1.28%) VMware