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

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 464 574
Rank change year-on-year +121 +110 +206
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 43 40 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.34% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.06% 1.20% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 36 36 26
10th Percentile £72,500 £47,000 £55,250
25th Percentile £81,875 £47,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £91,250 £55,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +65.91% -24.14% +11.54%
75th Percentile £107,500 £82,500 £92,188
90th Percentile £131,250 £100,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £57,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +47.83% -20.69% +11.54%

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 2,092 3,337 5,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.44% 14.13% 16.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,249 2,446 3,544
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £39,748
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £114,000 £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 22 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 22 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 - 2
Central London +29 2 £80,000 +60.00% 9
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 (4.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (65.12%) Azure
2 12 (27.91%) AWS
2 12 (27.91%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (18.60%) Azure Monitor
3 8 (18.60%) GCP
4 5 (11.63%) Azure Key Vault
4 5 (11.63%) SaaS
4 5 (11.63%) Serverless
5 4 (9.30%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (6.98%) Entra ID
6 3 (6.98%) GitHub
6 3 (6.98%) Miro
6 3 (6.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.95%) Firewall
1 6 (13.95%) VPN
2 3 (6.98%) Network Security
3 1 (2.33%) NAS
3 1 (2.33%) SAN
3 1 (2.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) Data Lake
1 3 (6.98%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.65%) Big Data
3 1 (2.33%) Parquet
3 1 (2.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (18.60%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.98%) JIRA
3 1 (2.33%) Git
General
1 23 (53.49%) Social Skills
2 18 (41.86%) Finance
3 10 (23.26%) Banking
4 4 (9.30%) Law
5 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.98%) Investment Banking
5 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (30.23%) Architect
2 6 (13.95%) Security Architect
2 6 (13.95%) Security Manager
3 5 (11.63%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Lead
3 5 (11.63%) Lead Architect
3 5 (11.63%) Security Specialist
3 5 (11.63%) Senior
3 5 (11.63%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (9.30%) Administrator
4 4 (9.30%) Cloud Architect
4 4 (9.30%) Technical Architect
4 4 (9.30%) Technical Leader
5 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) IT Architect
5 3 (6.98%) IT Director
5 3 (6.98%) IT Security Architect
5 3 (6.98%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Linux Administrator
5 3 (6.98%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.60%) ARM Templates
2 4 (9.30%) RESTful
3 2 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (4.65%) Kafka
4 1 (2.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 13 (30.23%) Security Posture
2 8 (18.60%) Cloud Native
2 8 (18.60%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (16.28%) Taxonomies
4 5 (11.63%) Management Information System
5 4 (9.30%) Wiki
6 3 (6.98%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (6.98%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (6.98%) Hedge funds
6 3 (6.98%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (6.98%) Machine to Machine
7 2 (4.65%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (2.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.28%) Linux
1 7 (16.28%) Windows
1 7 (16.28%) Windows Server
2 3 (6.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (51.16%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (39.53%) CI/CD
2 17 (39.53%) Information Security
3 16 (37.21%) DevOps
4 15 (34.88%) Cloud Security
5 14 (32.56%) Cybersecurity
5 14 (32.56%) Incident Management
6 13 (30.23%) Agile
6 13 (30.23%) SDLC
7 12 (27.91%) Containerisation
7 12 (27.91%) Microservices
8 11 (25.58%) Mentoring
9 10 (23.26%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (20.93%) Analytics
10 9 (20.93%) Risk Management
10 9 (20.93%) Vulnerability Management
11 8 (18.60%) Log Analytics
11 8 (18.60%) Risk Assessment
11 8 (18.60%) Roadmaps
11 8 (18.60%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 11 (25.58%) PowerShell
2 6 (13.95%) Python
3 4 (9.30%) SQL
4 3 (6.98%) Bash
5 2 (4.65%) Java
6 1 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 16 (37.21%) Degree
2 11 (25.58%) CISM
3 10 (23.26%) Azure Certification
4 9 (20.93%) CISSP
5 7 (16.28%) CRISC
5 7 (16.28%) Master's Degree
6 5 (11.63%) AWS Certification
7 4 (9.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (9.30%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (6.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (6.98%) CCSP
8 3 (6.98%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (6.98%) Security Cleared
9 1 (2.33%) CEH
9 1 (2.33%) CISA
9 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (2.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (2.33%) ISSAP
9 1 (2.33%) OSCP
9 1 (2.33%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (72.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (53.49%) GDPR
3 22 (51.16%) NIST
4 14 (32.56%) HIPAA
5 8 (18.60%) GRC
6 7 (16.28%) SOC 1
7 6 (13.95%) NIST 800
8 5 (11.63%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (6.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (6.98%) NCSC
10 2 (4.65%) PCI DSS
11 1 (2.33%) ISAE 3402
11 1 (2.33%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 10 (23.26%) Docker
2 8 (18.60%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (6.98%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (6.98%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (34.88%) Terraform
2 10 (23.26%) Kubernetes
3 9 (20.93%) Ansible
4 7 (16.28%) RSA Archer
5 4 (9.30%) Graylog
5 4 (9.30%) Nagios
5 4 (9.30%) Opsgenie
6 3 (6.98%) Progress Chef
6 3 (6.98%) Puppet
7 2 (4.65%) Grafana
7 2 (4.65%) Nessus
7 2 (4.65%) Prometheus
8 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (30.23%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.95%) Google
2 6 (13.95%) Palo Alto
3 4 (9.30%) Cisco
3 4 (9.30%) IBM
4 3 (6.98%) Alibaba
4 3 (6.98%) NetApp
4 3 (6.98%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.65%) FireEye
5 2 (4.65%) Splunk
6 1 (2.33%) Juniper
6 1 (2.33%) OneTrust
6 1 (2.33%) Qualys
6 1 (2.33%) Tenable