SOC 2 Jobs in London

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 15 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 478 556
Rank change year-on-year +125 +78 +261
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 45 38 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.35% 0.15% 0.15%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.11% 1.13% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 39 37 31
10th Percentile £70,000 £47,100 £57,500
25th Percentile £80,000 £47,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £55,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +63.64% -29.03% +19.23%
75th Percentile £101,250 £91,250 £86,875
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £127,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £57,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +47.83% -25.81% +19.23%

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 2,129 3,369 5,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.52% 13.59% 16.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,280 2,447 3,350
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £39,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £102,500
England 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 London

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC 2 in London

SOC 2
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SOC 2 in London.

Salary trend for SOC 2 in London

SOC 2
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOC 2 in London over the 6 months to 15 June 2025.

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 15 June 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
East London - 4 £96,250 - 1
Central London +16 1 £87,500 +75.00% 58
SOC 2
England

SOC 2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (4.44%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.44%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 24 (53.33%) Azure
2 12 (26.67%) AWS
3 11 (24.44%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (22.22%) GCP
5 7 (15.56%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (11.11%) SaaS
6 5 (11.11%) Serverless
7 3 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (6.67%) Entra ID
7 3 (6.67%) GitHub
7 3 (6.67%) Miro
7 3 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.44%) Snowflake
9 1 (2.22%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.33%) Firewall
1 6 (13.33%) VPN
2 3 (6.67%) Network Security
3 1 (2.22%) NAS
3 1 (2.22%) SAN
3 1 (2.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) Big Data
1 3 (6.67%) Data Lake
1 3 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.22%) Parquet
2 1 (2.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (15.56%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.67%) JIRA
3 1 (2.22%) Git
General
1 27 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (42.22%) Finance
3 13 (28.89%) Banking
4 6 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.89%) Law
5 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.67%) Investment Banking
7 2 (4.44%) Legal
8 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (26.67%) Architect
2 7 (15.56%) Lead
3 6 (13.33%) Lead Architect
4 5 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Security Specialist
4 5 (11.11%) Senior
4 5 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (11.11%) Technical Architect
4 5 (11.11%) Technical Leader
5 4 (8.89%) Administrator
5 4 (8.89%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (8.89%) Information Security Officer
5 4 (8.89%) Security Architect
5 4 (8.89%) Security Officer
6 3 (6.67%) IT Architect
6 3 (6.67%) IT Director
6 3 (6.67%) IT Security Architect
6 3 (6.67%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (6.67%) Security Manager
6 3 (6.67%) Senior Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.56%) ARM Templates
2 4 (8.89%) RESTful
3 2 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (4.44%) Kafka
4 1 (2.22%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 17 (37.78%) Security Posture
2 9 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 8 (17.78%) Cloud Native
4 7 (15.56%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (15.56%) Taxonomies
5 4 (8.89%) Wiki
6 3 (6.67%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (6.67%) Hedge funds
6 3 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (6.67%) Machine to Machine
7 2 (4.44%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (2.22%) Life Science
8 1 (2.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.56%) Linux
1 7 (15.56%) Windows
1 7 (15.56%) Windows Server
2 3 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (51.11%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (46.67%) Information Security
3 17 (37.78%) CI/CD
4 16 (35.56%) Cloud Security
4 16 (35.56%) DevOps
5 14 (31.11%) Agile
5 14 (31.11%) Cybersecurity
5 14 (31.11%) Incident Management
6 13 (28.89%) Mentoring
7 12 (26.67%) SDLC
8 11 (24.44%) Containerisation
8 11 (24.44%) Microservices
9 10 (22.22%) Risk Management
10 9 (20.00%) Analytics
10 9 (20.00%) Incident Response
10 9 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
11 8 (17.78%) Roadmaps
12 7 (15.56%) Data Analysis
12 7 (15.56%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 11 (24.44%) PowerShell
2 6 (13.33%) Python
3 5 (11.11%) SQL
4 3 (6.67%) Java
5 2 (4.44%) Bash
6 1 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (44.44%) Degree
2 14 (31.11%) CISM
3 12 (26.67%) CISSP
4 9 (20.00%) Azure Certification
5 8 (17.78%) CRISC
6 7 (15.56%) Master's Degree
7 5 (11.11%) AWS Certification
8 4 (8.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (8.89%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (6.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (6.67%) CCSP
9 3 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (6.67%) Security Cleared
10 2 (4.44%) OSCP
11 1 (2.22%) CEH
11 1 (2.22%) CISA
11 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (2.22%) GSEC
11 1 (2.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 1 (2.22%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (73.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (55.56%) GDPR
3 22 (48.89%) NIST
4 13 (28.89%) HIPAA
5 10 (22.22%) GRC
6 7 (15.56%) SOC 1
7 6 (13.33%) NIST 800
8 5 (11.11%) PCI DSS
9 2 (4.44%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (2.22%) AICPA
10 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (2.22%) GxP
10 1 (2.22%) ISAE 3402
10 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 9 (20.00%) Docker
2 7 (15.56%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (26.67%) Terraform
2 9 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (15.56%) Ansible
3 7 (15.56%) RSA Archer
4 4 (8.89%) Graylog
4 4 (8.89%) Nagios
4 4 (8.89%) Opsgenie
5 3 (6.67%) Progress Chef
5 3 (6.67%) Puppet
6 2 (4.44%) Grafana
6 2 (4.44%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.56%) Google
3 4 (8.89%) Cisco
3 4 (8.89%) IBM
3 4 (8.89%) Palo Alto
4 3 (6.67%) Alibaba
4 3 (6.67%) NetApp
4 3 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.22%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.22%) Databricks
5 1 (2.22%) Juniper
5 1 (2.22%) OneTrust
5 1 (2.22%) Qualys
5 1 (2.22%) Tenable