SOC 2 Job Trends in London

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
England > London

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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 342 475
Rank change year-on-year +17 +133 +79
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 81 47 39
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.38% 0.39% 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.88% 2.26% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 46 39 37
10th Percentile £56,750 £70,000 £47,100
25th Percentile £69,375 £80,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +63.64% -29.03%
75th Percentile £120,000 £101,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £107,500 £100,000
England median annual salary £76,250 £85,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.29% +47.83% -25.81%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,810 2,081 3,400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.25% 17.20% 14.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,876 1,259 2,453
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,875 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,250 £113,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

SOC 2 job vacancy trend in London

SOC 2
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing SOC 2.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing SOC 2

SOC 2
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOC 2 in London over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for SOC 2 in London

SOC 2
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOC 2 within the London region over the 6 months to 7 June 2026. 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
Central London +12 11 £60,000 -25.00% 9
SOC 2
England

SOC 2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 44 (54.32%) AWS
2 30 (37.04%) SaaS
3 29 (35.80%) Azure
3 29 (35.80%) GCP
4 23 (28.40%) GitHub
4 23 (28.40%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (20.99%) Datadog
5 17 (20.99%) Entra ID
6 10 (12.35%) Azure Key Vault
7 9 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (11.11%) Azure AKS
7 9 (11.11%) Serverless
8 8 (9.88%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (9.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 8 (9.88%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (8.64%) Azure Sentinel
9 7 (8.64%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (4.94%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (3.70%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (22.22%) Network Security
2 15 (18.52%) Firewall
2 15 (18.52%) VPN
3 8 (9.88%) WAN
4 5 (6.17%) BGP
5 4 (4.94%) TCP/IP
6 3 (3.70%) DNS
6 3 (3.70%) VLAN
7 2 (2.47%) DHCP
7 2 (2.47%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.23%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (14.81%) GitLab
1 12 (14.81%) Jenkins
1 12 (14.81%) TeamCity
2 9 (11.11%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.23%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.23%) Git
3 1 (1.23%) JIRA
General
1 41 (50.62%) Finance
2 37 (45.68%) Banking
3 32 (39.51%) Retail
4 29 (35.80%) Social Skills
5 22 (27.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (24.69%) Back Office
7 18 (22.22%) Financial Institution
8 17 (20.99%) Law
9 10 (12.35%) Legal
10 3 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (2.47%) Investment Banking
12 1 (1.23%) French Language
12 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (32.10%) Cloud Engineer
2 17 (20.99%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (19.75%) AWS Engineer
3 16 (19.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (16.05%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (14.81%) Automation Engineer
5 12 (14.81%) Cloud Automation Engineer
5 12 (14.81%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 12 (14.81%) Security Engineer
5 12 (14.81%) Senior
6 11 (13.58%) Analyst
7 9 (11.11%) Security Analyst
8 8 (9.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 8 (9.88%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (9.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 7 (8.64%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (8.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 7 (8.64%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
10 6 (7.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (7.41%) Senior Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.35%) OAuth
2 9 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (11.11%) SAML
3 8 (9.88%) ADO
3 8 (9.88%) eBPF
3 8 (9.88%) Kafka
3 8 (9.88%) YAML
4 3 (3.70%) OpenID
4 3 (3.70%) RESTful
5 2 (2.47%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.47%) SailPoint
6 1 (1.23%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.23%) NestJS
6 1 (1.23%) Next.js
6 1 (1.23%) React
6 1 (1.23%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 27 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 14 (17.28%) PKI
3 12 (14.81%) Management Information System
4 10 (12.35%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (11.11%) Blog
6 8 (9.88%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (7.41%) Data Centre
7 6 (7.41%) Onboarding
8 4 (4.94%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (4.94%) Security Posture
9 3 (3.70%) Freedom of Information
9 3 (3.70%) Freedom of Information Act
9 3 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (2.47%) Cyber Security Posture
10 2 (2.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (1.23%) IoT
11 1 (1.23%) Learning Management System
11 1 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 1 (1.23%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.88%) VMS
2 5 (6.17%) Windows
3 4 (4.94%) Linux
4 2 (2.47%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (46.91%) Infrastructure as Code
2 37 (45.68%) CI/CD
3 28 (34.57%) Zero Trust
4 23 (28.40%) Incident Response
5 22 (27.16%) Information Security
6 21 (25.93%) Cloud Security
6 21 (25.93%) Microservices
7 20 (24.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (24.69%) DevOps
7 20 (24.69%) RBAC
7 20 (24.69%) Software Engineering
8 18 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
8 18 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 18 (22.22%) Observability
8 18 (22.22%) Risk Management
9 17 (20.99%) Infrastructure Management
10 16 (19.75%) Disaster Recovery
10 16 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (19.75%) Security Architecture
11 15 (18.52%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 25 (30.86%) Python
2 19 (23.46%) Go
3 17 (20.99%) SQL
4 15 (18.52%) Bash
5 12 (14.81%) Java
6 10 (12.35%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (7.41%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.47%) Bicep
9 1 (1.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (24.69%) CISSP
2 16 (19.75%) CISA
3 15 (18.52%) AWS Certification
4 14 (17.28%) CompTIA Security+
5 13 (16.05%) CRISC
6 11 (13.58%) CISM
7 6 (7.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 6 (7.41%) CCSP
7 6 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (6.17%) CompTIA CySA+
9 4 (4.94%) CEH
9 4 (4.94%) Degree
9 4 (4.94%) GCIA
9 4 (4.94%) GCIH
9 4 (4.94%) ISACA
9 4 (4.94%) OSCP
10 3 (3.70%) GIAC
10 3 (3.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 2 (2.47%) Azure Certification
11 2 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (67.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (39.51%) PCI DSS
3 27 (33.33%) GDPR
4 25 (30.86%) GRC
5 21 (25.93%) NIST
6 9 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (11.11%) SOC 1
7 7 (8.64%) COBIT
8 3 (3.70%) HIPAA
9 2 (2.47%) Accessibility
9 2 (2.47%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (2.47%) ITGC
10 1 (1.23%) GxP
10 1 (1.23%) NCSC
10 1 (1.23%) NIST 800
10 1 (1.23%) PSD2
10 1 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (18.52%) Active Directory
2 10 (12.35%) Docker
3 8 (9.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (55.56%) Terraform
2 24 (29.63%) Kubernetes
3 20 (24.69%) Ansible
4 12 (14.81%) Cilium
5 9 (11.11%) Grafana
5 9 (11.11%) Prometheus
6 5 (6.17%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (4.94%) HP Fortify
8 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (2.47%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (1.23%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 17 (20.99%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.35%) Zscaler
3 8 (9.88%) Palo Alto
4 7 (8.64%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (4.94%) Google
5 4 (4.94%) Tenable
6 3 (3.70%) Intel
6 3 (3.70%) Oracle
6 3 (3.70%) Varonis
7 2 (2.47%) Sage
7 2 (2.47%) SAP
7 2 (2.47%) Splunk
7 2 (2.47%) Xero
8 1 (1.23%) Okta
8 1 (1.23%) OneTrust
8 1 (1.23%) Proofpoint
8 1 (1.23%) Qualys