SOC 2 Job Trends in Leeds

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring SOC 2 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 - 117
Rank change year-on-year - - +56
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 3 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 0.17% - 0.053%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.64% - 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58,750 - £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -50.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 - £48,750
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 - £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -50.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 183 141 265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 10.48% 16.89% 14.13%
Number of salaries quoted 82 85 174
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,125 £43,000 £42,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +6.98% -2.06%
75th Percentile £66,098 £71,250 £66,522
90th Percentile £83,625 £85,850 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -2.73%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SOC 2 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

SOC 2 job vacancy trend in Leeds

SOC 2
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing SOC 2.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing SOC 2

SOC 2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Security Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Business Strategy
1 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Objectives and Key Results
1 2 (66.67%) Offensive Security
1 2 (66.67%) Presales
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Security Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) GitOps
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (66.67%) GRC
2 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
2 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Argo
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft