SOC 2 Job Trends in the UK excluding London

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SOC 2 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 514 628
Rank change year-on-year -64 +114 -21
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 59 43 49
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.077% 0.12% 0.082%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.80% 0.88% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 36 25 38
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £40,250
25th Percentile £52,188 £53,750 £51,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £65,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% +11.11% -4.88%
75th Percentile £73,750 £90,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £91,500 £76,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £85,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year -14.71% +23.64% -11.29%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7,362 4,876 7,576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.66% 14.17% 12.67%
Number of salaries quoted 4,693 2,627 4,478
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,438
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

SOC 2 job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SOC 2
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SOC 2.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SOC 2

SOC 2
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOC 2 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for SOC 2 in the UK excluding London

SOC 2
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 August 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
South East -22 27 £69,000 -10.97% 16
North of England -40 14 £72,500 +26.09% 10
North West -1 10 £72,500 - 7
Midlands -30 7 £60,000 +9.09% 5
East of England -23 5 £90,000 +44.00% 3
Scotland +16 4 £60,000 -4.00% 5
West Midlands -31 4 £52,500 -4.55% 3
Yorkshire - 4 £65,000 - 1
South West -64 2 - - 1
East Midlands - 2 £60,000 - 2
SOC 2
UK

SOC 2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.08%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.39%) ArcGIS
2 2 (3.39%) IIS
3 1 (1.69%) Confluence
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 24 (40.68%) AWS
2 19 (32.20%) SaaS
3 12 (20.34%) Azure
4 7 (11.86%) GCP
5 4 (6.78%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (6.78%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (5.08%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (5.08%) Amazon S3
6 3 (5.08%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (5.08%) GitHub
6 3 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (5.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (5.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (3.39%) IaaS
7 2 (3.39%) Mimecast
7 2 (3.39%) PaaS
7 2 (3.39%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.86%) Firewall
2 4 (6.78%) DNS
2 4 (6.78%) Network Security
3 3 (5.08%) DHCP
4 2 (3.39%) VPN
5 1 (1.69%) DKIM
5 1 (1.69%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.39%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (3.39%) GIS
2 2 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.39%) QGIS
2 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.39%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 4 (6.78%) GitLab
2 2 (3.39%) Git
2 2 (3.39%) Storybook
3 1 (1.69%) JIRA
General
1 21 (35.59%) Social Skills
2 16 (27.12%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (13.56%) Manufacturing
4 5 (8.47%) Finance
4 5 (8.47%) Legal
5 3 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.08%) Retail
6 2 (3.39%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.39%) Banking
6 2 (3.39%) Law
6 2 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 15 (25.42%) Security Manager
2 12 (20.34%) Analyst
3 11 (18.64%) Security Analyst
4 7 (11.86%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 6 (10.17%) Security Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Compliance Manager
6 5 (8.47%) Information Analyst
6 5 (8.47%) Information Manager
6 5 (8.47%) Information Security Analyst
6 5 (8.47%) Information Security Compliance Manager
6 5 (8.47%) Information Security Manager
6 5 (8.47%) Security Compliance Manager
7 4 (6.78%) Developer
7 4 (6.78%) IT Manager
8 3 (5.08%) Cloud Security Analyst
8 3 (5.08%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Data Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) IT Operations Manager
8 3 (5.08%) IT Security Manager
8 3 (5.08%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.08%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (3.39%) CSS
2 2 (3.39%) Hugging Face
2 2 (3.39%) JSON
2 2 (3.39%) Kafka
2 2 (3.39%) LangChain
2 2 (3.39%) Next.js
2 2 (3.39%) Ray
2 2 (3.39%) React
2 2 (3.39%) REST
2 2 (3.39%) RESTful
2 2 (3.39%) Tailwind CSS
2 2 (3.39%) Vitest
2 2 (3.39%) vLLM
2 2 (3.39%) XML
2 2 (3.39%) YAML
3 1 (1.69%) OpenID
3 1 (1.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.56%) Security Posture
2 7 (11.86%) Cloud Native
2 7 (11.86%) Onboarding
2 7 (11.86%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (10.17%) Life Science
3 6 (10.17%) Renewable Energy
4 4 (6.78%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (6.78%) Cloud Security Posture
4 4 (6.78%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (6.78%) Management Information System
5 3 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (5.08%) Driving Licence
5 3 (5.08%) Private Cloud
5 3 (5.08%) Public Cloud
5 3 (5.08%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.39%) Cyberattack
6 2 (3.39%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.69%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.17%) Windows
2 5 (8.47%) Linux
3 3 (5.08%) Mac OS
4 2 (3.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (45.76%) Cybersecurity
2 25 (42.37%) Information Security
3 21 (35.59%) Cloud Security
4 17 (28.81%) Incident Response
5 15 (25.42%) CI/CD
6 14 (23.73%) DevOps
6 14 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (20.34%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (16.95%) AI
8 10 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (16.95%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (16.95%) Identity Access Management
8 10 (16.95%) Risk Management
9 9 (15.25%) Due Diligence
9 9 (15.25%) Platform Engineering
9 9 (15.25%) SDLC
9 9 (15.25%) Vulnerability Management
10 8 (13.56%) Fintech
10 8 (13.56%) Security Operations
11 7 (11.86%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.34%) Python
2 11 (18.64%) Bash
3 9 (15.25%) PowerShell
4 8 (13.56%) SQL
5 3 (5.08%) Java
6 2 (3.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (20.34%) Degree
2 8 (13.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (10.17%) CISM
4 4 (6.78%) AWS Certification
5 3 (5.08%) CISSP
5 3 (5.08%) CompTIA CySA+
5 3 (5.08%) CREST Certified
5 3 (5.08%) SC Cleared
5 3 (5.08%) Security Cleared
5 3 (5.08%) SSCP
6 2 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.39%) CEH
6 2 (3.39%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (3.39%) GCIH
6 2 (3.39%) SANS
7 1 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.69%) CISA
7 1 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.69%) CRISC
7 1 (1.69%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (71.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (44.07%) GDPR
3 18 (30.51%) PCI DSS
4 13 (22.03%) NIST
5 9 (15.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (15.25%) HIPAA
6 8 (13.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 8 (13.56%) GRC
7 3 (5.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (5.08%) NCSC
7 3 (5.08%) QA
7 3 (5.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (3.39%) Accessibility
8 2 (3.39%) Data Quality
9 1 (1.69%) GxP
9 1 (1.69%) ISO 31000
9 1 (1.69%) NIST 800
9 1 (1.69%) SOC 3
System Software
1 10 (16.95%) Docker
2 6 (10.17%) Active Directory
3 5 (8.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.08%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (25.42%) Terraform
2 13 (22.03%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.47%) Ansible
4 4 (6.78%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (5.08%) Argo
5 3 (5.08%) Grafana
5 3 (5.08%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (5.08%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.39%) Nessus
7 1 (1.69%) CASB
Vendors
1 7 (11.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.47%) CrowdStrike
2 5 (8.47%) Google
2 5 (8.47%) VMware
3 3 (5.08%) Meraki
4 2 (3.39%) Palo Alto
4 2 (3.39%) Splunk
5 1 (1.69%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.69%) Okta