SOC 2 Job Trends in Hertfordshire

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring SOC 2 skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 0.24% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.59% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 - -
East of England median annual salary £100,000 £28,500 -
% change year-on-year +250.88% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 126 323 180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 15.02% 21.53% 22.00%
Number of salaries quoted 108 71 99
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,000 £21,466
25th Percentile £32,500 £34,000 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,085 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.48% -25.00% +18.81%
75th Percentile £54,000 £72,500 £65,625
90th Percentile £64,875 £80,000 £73,750
East of England median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -15.00% -17.36% +21.00%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC 2 in Hertfordshire

SOC 2
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing SOC 2.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing SOC 2

SOC 2
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOC 2 within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 30 September 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
Hemel Hempstead - 2 £100,000 -
SOC 2
East of England

SOC 2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DynamoDB
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Principal Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) Nuxt
1 2 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) API Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI