SOC 2 Job Trends in the Midlands

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring SOC 2 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 228 314
Rank change year-on-year -22 +86 -9
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 5 4 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.038% 0.079% 0.060%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.40% 0.44% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 6
10th Percentile - £51,625 -
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,188 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -2.17% +76.92%
75th Percentile £75,313 £62,813 £58,750
90th Percentile £114,125 £65,625 £70,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +43.48% -17.86%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,239 913 1,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.49% 17.95% 14.80%
Number of salaries quoted 697 569 1,275
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,822 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +2.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £64,750 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
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 the Midlands

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

SOC 2 job vacancy trend in the Midlands

SOC 2
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SOC 2.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SOC 2

SOC 2
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOC 2 in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for SOC 2 in the Midlands

SOC 2
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOC 2 within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
West Midlands -36 4 £52,500 -4.55% 2
SOC 2
England

SOC 2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Automotive
3 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Information Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Information Security Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Chief Technology Officer
2 1 (20.00%) Compliance Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Release Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Security Compliance Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (60.00%) Due Diligence
1 3 (60.00%) Information Security
1 3 (60.00%) Internal Audit
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) ERP
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) OWASP
3 1 (20.00%) Release Management
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) GDPR
2 4 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (60.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (60.00%) HIPAA
3 3 (60.00%) NIST
3 3 (60.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce