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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 462 568
Rank change year-on-year +112 +106 +220
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 46 39 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.36% 0.16% 0.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.18% 1.15% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 39 36 28
10th Percentile £71,000 £47,000 £56,150
25th Percentile £80,000 £47,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £55,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +63.64% -27.87% +17.31%
75th Percentile £101,250 £88,438 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £128,625
England median annual salary £85,000 £57,500 £76,250
% change year-on-year +47.83% -24.59% +17.31%

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 2,111 3,378 5,247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.52% 14.06% 16.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,255 2,450 3,421
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £39,748
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% +3.33% +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,094 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £112,500 £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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -
Central London +17 2 £80,000 +60.00% 2
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 (4.35%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.35%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 27 (58.70%) Azure
2 12 (26.09%) AWS
2 12 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (21.74%) GCP
4 8 (17.39%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (10.87%) Azure Key Vault
5 5 (10.87%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (10.87%) SaaS
5 5 (10.87%) Serverless
6 3 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (6.52%) Entra ID
6 3 (6.52%) GitHub
6 3 (6.52%) Miro
6 3 (6.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (4.35%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.17%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.04%) Firewall
1 6 (13.04%) VPN
2 3 (6.52%) Network Security
3 1 (2.17%) NAS
3 1 (2.17%) SAN
3 1 (2.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.52%) Big Data
1 3 (6.52%) Data Lake
1 3 (6.52%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.17%) Parquet
2 1 (2.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (17.39%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.52%) JIRA
3 1 (2.17%) Git
General
1 25 (54.35%) Social Skills
2 17 (36.96%) Finance
3 11 (23.91%) Banking
4 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Law
4 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.52%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.17%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Legal
6 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (30.43%) Architect
2 7 (15.22%) Lead
3 6 (13.04%) Lead Architect
3 6 (13.04%) Security Architect
4 5 (10.87%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Security Specialist
4 5 (10.87%) Senior
4 5 (10.87%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (10.87%) Technical Architect
4 5 (10.87%) Technical Leader
5 4 (8.70%) Administrator
5 4 (8.70%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (8.70%) Security Manager
6 3 (6.52%) Integration Architect
6 3 (6.52%) IT Director
6 3 (6.52%) IT Security Architect
6 3 (6.52%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (6.52%) Security Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Senior Linux Administrator
6 3 (6.52%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.39%) ARM Templates
2 4 (8.70%) RESTful
3 2 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (4.35%) Kafka
4 1 (2.17%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 15 (32.61%) Security Posture
2 8 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 8 (17.39%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (15.22%) Taxonomies
4 6 (13.04%) Management Information System
5 4 (8.70%) Wiki
6 3 (6.52%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (6.52%) Hedge funds
6 3 (6.52%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (6.52%) Machine to Machine
7 2 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (2.17%) Life Science
8 1 (2.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.22%) Linux
1 7 (15.22%) Windows
1 7 (15.22%) Windows Server
2 3 (6.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (39.13%) CI/CD
2 18 (39.13%) Information Security
3 17 (36.96%) DevOps
4 14 (30.43%) Agile
4 14 (30.43%) Cloud Security
4 14 (30.43%) Incident Management
5 13 (28.26%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (28.26%) SDLC
6 12 (26.09%) Containerisation
6 12 (26.09%) Mentoring
6 12 (26.09%) Microservices
7 10 (21.74%) Analytics
7 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (19.57%) Risk Management
9 8 (17.39%) Log Analytics
9 8 (17.39%) Risk Assessment
9 8 (17.39%) Roadmaps
9 8 (17.39%) Security Architecture
10 7 (15.22%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.09%) PowerShell
2 8 (17.39%) Python
3 5 (10.87%) SQL
4 4 (8.70%) Bash
5 3 (6.52%) Java
6 1 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (39.13%) Degree
2 11 (23.91%) CISM
3 10 (21.74%) Azure Certification
4 9 (19.57%) CISSP
5 7 (15.22%) CRISC
5 7 (15.22%) Master's Degree
6 5 (10.87%) AWS Certification
7 4 (8.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (8.70%) Security Cleared
7 4 (8.70%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (6.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (6.52%) CCSP
8 3 (6.52%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (4.35%) OSCP
10 1 (2.17%) CEH
10 1 (2.17%) CISA
10 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (2.17%) GSEC
10 1 (2.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 1 (2.17%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (71.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (56.52%) GDPR
3 22 (47.83%) NIST
4 16 (34.78%) HIPAA
5 10 (21.74%) GRC
6 7 (15.22%) SOC 1
7 6 (13.04%) NIST 800
8 5 (10.87%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (6.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (6.52%) NCSC
9 3 (6.52%) PCI DSS
10 1 (2.17%) AICPA
10 1 (2.17%) GxP
10 1 (2.17%) ISAE 3402
10 1 (2.17%) ISO 22301
10 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 10 (21.74%) Docker
2 8 (17.39%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (6.52%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (6.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (32.61%) Terraform
2 10 (21.74%) Kubernetes
3 9 (19.57%) Ansible
4 7 (15.22%) RSA Archer
5 4 (8.70%) Graylog
5 4 (8.70%) Nagios
5 4 (8.70%) Opsgenie
6 3 (6.52%) Progress Chef
6 3 (6.52%) Puppet
7 2 (4.35%) Grafana
7 2 (4.35%) Nessus
7 2 (4.35%) Prometheus
8 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (28.26%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.22%) Google
3 6 (13.04%) Palo Alto
4 4 (8.70%) Cisco
4 4 (8.70%) IBM
5 3 (6.52%) Alibaba
5 3 (6.52%) NetApp
5 3 (6.52%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.35%) FireEye
6 2 (4.35%) Splunk
7 1 (2.17%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.17%) Databricks
7 1 (2.17%) Juniper
7 1 (2.17%) OneTrust
7 1 (2.17%) Qualys
7 1 (2.17%) Tenable