SOC 2 Job Trends in South Wales

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring SOC 2 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.12% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.06% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - -
Wales median annual salary £85,000 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 94 98 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 11.10% 11.75% 15.49%
Number of salaries quoted 59 58 61
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,816
25th Percentile £37,375 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £45,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -9.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £67,500 £54,000 £61,445
90th Percentile £74,253 £71,250 £82,500
Wales median annual salary £53,000 £49,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +8.16% +8.89% -6.25%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

SOC 2 job vacancy trend in South Wales

SOC 2
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing SOC 2.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing SOC 2

SOC 2
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOC 2 within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 28 November 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
Gwent - 1 £85,000 - 1
SOC 2
Wales

SOC 2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Head of IT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Media
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Tech Ops
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST