SOC 2 Jobs in Scotland

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 163 282 211
Rank change year-on-year +119 -71 -
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 3 6 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.099% 0.088% 0.023%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.58% 0.76% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile £54,250 £46,250 -
25th Percentile £56,875 £46,563 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £51,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -31.67% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 -
90th Percentile - £58,750 -
UK median annual salary £82,500 £57,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +43.48% -23.33% +15.38%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 513 792 651
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 16.91% 11.60% 14.79%
Number of salaries quoted 104 334 205
10th Percentile £38,843 £22,250 £31,378
25th Percentile £52,000 £33,750 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% +22.22%
75th Percentile £71,250 £60,938 £72,500
90th Percentile £89,033 £71,703 £88,750
UK 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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC 2 in Scotland

SOC 2
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for SOC 2 in Scotland

SOC 2
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOC 2 within the Scotland 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
Glasgow +155 3 £62,500 +19.05% 4
SOC 2
UK

SOC 2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (33.33%) Sentry
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) IT Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) IT Security Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Application Security
1 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
1 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Malware Detection/Protection
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
1 2 (66.67%) SOAR
1 2 (66.67%) Use Case
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) NCSC
2 2 (66.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform