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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 753 860 996
Rank change year-on-year +107 +136 -185
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 87 67 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.073% 0.096%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.73% 0.37% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 74 33 71
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,400 £47,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,188 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £99,250 £140,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £69,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -20.29% +6.15% -

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 11,857 17,891 21,767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.90% 19.36% 16.43%
Number of salaries quoted 8,364 8,254 11,795
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 £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%

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 3 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 3 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 +134 47 £55,000 -19.12% 25
North of England +60 14 £72,500 -29.27% 3
North West +14 12 £72,500 -29.27% 2
South West - 11 £59,500 - 2
Midlands +18 7 £57,500 +76.92% 1
South East -6 5 £47,500 -47.22% 3
East Midlands - 5 £57,500 -
East of England +16 2 £58,750 -
Yorkshire - 2 £49,750 - 1
West Midlands +15 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 (1.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 34 (39.08%) AWS
2 19 (21.84%) Azure
3 15 (17.24%) SaaS
4 13 (14.94%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (12.64%) Google Workspace
6 4 (4.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (4.60%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.60%) Serverless
7 3 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.45%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (3.45%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (3.45%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (3.45%) Amazon MSK
7 3 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (3.45%) AWS CloudTrail
7 3 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.45%) IaaS
7 3 (3.45%) PaaS
7 3 (3.45%) Route 53
7 3 (3.45%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 54 (62.07%) Firewall
2 21 (24.14%) Intrusion Detection
3 14 (16.09%) DNS
4 11 (12.64%) Broadband
4 11 (12.64%) NAS
4 11 (12.64%) Wireless
5 4 (4.60%) Network Security
6 2 (2.30%) VPN
7 1 (1.15%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.30%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.15%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.45%) GitLab
General
1 21 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 20 (22.99%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (13.79%) Finance
4 11 (12.64%) Games
5 9 (10.34%) Legal
6 7 (8.05%) Law
7 4 (4.60%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.30%) Banking
8 2 (2.30%) Mandarin Language
8 2 (2.30%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.30%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.15%) Advertising
9 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (24.14%) Analyst
1 21 (24.14%) Security Analyst
2 14 (16.09%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 13 (14.94%) Consultant
4 11 (12.64%) IT Consultant
4 11 (12.64%) Security Manager
5 7 (8.05%) IT Manager
5 7 (8.05%) Security Engineer
6 6 (6.90%) Compliance Analyst
6 6 (6.90%) Compliance Manager
6 6 (6.90%) Information Analyst
6 6 (6.90%) Information Security Analyst
6 6 (6.90%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 6 (6.90%) IT Security Manager
6 6 (6.90%) Security Compliance Analyst
7 5 (5.75%) CISSP Analyst
7 5 (5.75%) IT Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Monitoring Analyst
7 5 (5.75%) Security Monitoring Analyst
7 5 (5.75%) SIEM Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.45%) AWS SAM
1 3 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.30%) OAuth
2 2 (2.30%) OpenID
2 2 (2.30%) SAML
3 1 (1.15%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.84%) Security Posture
2 18 (20.69%) Cyber Threat
3 11 (12.64%) Onboarding
3 11 (12.64%) Video Conferencing
4 9 (10.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 6 (6.90%) Data Centre
5 6 (6.90%) Security Operations Centre
6 5 (5.75%) Clustering
6 5 (5.75%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (5.75%) Private Cloud
6 5 (5.75%) Public Cloud
7 4 (4.60%) Cyberattack
8 3 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (3.45%) Management Information System
9 2 (2.30%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (2.30%) Life Science
9 2 (2.30%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (1.15%) Mobile App
10 1 (1.15%) Operational Technology
10 1 (1.15%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 17 (19.54%) Windows
2 12 (13.79%) Windows Server
3 11 (12.64%) Mac OS
4 4 (4.60%) Linux
5 1 (1.15%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 36 (41.38%) Information Security
3 31 (35.63%) SIEM
4 28 (32.18%) Penetration Testing
5 25 (28.74%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (27.59%) Security Operations
7 19 (21.84%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 18 (20.69%) Computer Science
9 17 (19.54%) Application Security
9 17 (19.54%) Data Protection
10 14 (16.09%) Runbook
10 14 (16.09%) Security Monitoring
10 14 (16.09%) Use Case
11 13 (14.94%) Identity Management
11 13 (14.94%) IT Audit
12 12 (13.79%) Business Continuity
12 12 (13.79%) Data Security
13 11 (12.64%) Asset Management
13 11 (12.64%) Identity Access Management
13 11 (12.64%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (13.79%) Bash
2 5 (5.75%) Python
3 2 (2.30%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.15%) Java
Qualifications
1 26 (29.89%) CISSP
2 17 (19.54%) Cisco Certification
3 16 (18.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 16 (18.39%) CCSP
4 14 (16.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 14 (16.09%) CompTIA CySA+
4 14 (16.09%) CompTIA Security+
4 14 (16.09%) Network+ Certification
5 9 (10.34%) Degree
6 7 (8.05%) CISA
7 5 (5.75%) AWS Certification
8 3 (3.45%) CISM
8 3 (3.45%) Security Cleared
9 2 (2.30%) CCA
9 2 (2.30%) CRISC
9 2 (2.30%) SC Cleared
10 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.15%) ISACA
10 1 (1.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (75.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (32.18%) NIST
3 26 (29.89%) Cyber Essentials
4 13 (14.94%) GRC
5 12 (13.79%) GDPR
6 11 (12.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 11 (12.64%) PCI DSS
7 7 (8.05%) SOC 1
8 4 (4.60%) HIPAA
8 4 (4.60%) ISO 9001
9 3 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (2.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (2.30%) ITGC
11 1 (1.15%) COBIT
11 1 (1.15%) ISO 31000
11 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (1.15%) NCSC
11 1 (1.15%) NIST 800
11 1 (1.15%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (18.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (13.79%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (12.64%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (8.05%) Nessus
3 4 (4.60%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.45%) Terraform
5 2 (2.30%) QRadar
6 1 (1.15%) CASB
Vendors
1 26 (29.89%) Microsoft
2 16 (18.39%) VMware
3 12 (13.79%) Google
4 11 (12.64%) Apple
5 6 (6.90%) Cisco
6 2 (2.30%) IBM
6 2 (2.30%) Splunk
7 1 (1.15%) Kenna
7 1 (1.15%) OneTrust
7 1 (1.15%) Qualys
7 1 (1.15%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.15%) Tripwire