SOC 2 Job Trends in Scotland

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring SOC 2 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 136 190
Rank change year-on-year -4 +54 +22
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 1 12 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.036% 0.47% 0.29%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.25% 3.22% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 9
10th Percentile - £69,475 £38,750
25th Percentile - £69,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +57.89% -44.12%
75th Percentile - £80,000 £53,750
90th Percentile - - £57,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £82,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -21.21% +32.00% -25.37%

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 397 373 396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 14.37% 14.55% 12.58%
Number of salaries quoted 104 109 200
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,700 £32,000
25th Percentile £34,625 £42,500 £42,267
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £75,900 £79,648 £72,433
90th Percentile £89,625 £110,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £58,500 £60,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year -2.50% +3.51% +0.81%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

SOC 2 job vacancy trend in Scotland

SOC 2
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing SOC 2.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing SOC 2

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 14 January 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
Edinburgh -12 1 £70,000 - 3
SOC 2
UK

SOC 2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (100.00%) SaaS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Internal Audit
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow