SOC 2 Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 527 729 720
Rank change year-on-year +202 -9 +107
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 50 42 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.056% 0.060%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.77% 0.43% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 32 38 15
10th Percentile £51,375 £40,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £46,250 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.09% -11.54% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £67,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,750 £116,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £55,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +45.45% -26.67% +15.38%

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 6,527 9,734 11,623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.57% 13.05% 20.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3,072 6,357 4,480
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,169 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,625 £32,500 £38,129
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +4.90%
75th Percentile £70,600 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £79,750
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SOC 2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SOC 2 in the UK excluding London

SOC 2
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SOC 2 in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SOC 2 in the UK excluding London

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 30 May 2025.

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 30 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
South East +107 25 £76,250 +60.53% 180
North of England +49 11 £72,500 - 126
North West +3 6 £77,500 +6.90% 61
North East - 5 £57,500 - 14
Midlands +83 4 £56,250 -2.17% 105
Scotland +116 3 £62,500 +25.00% 26
South West +99 3 £80,000 +34.45% 65
West Midlands +60 3 £55,000 -29.03% 56
Channel Islands - 3 £80,000 - 1
East of England +47 1 £62,500 +8.70% 91
East Midlands +42 1 £57,500 - 42
SOC 2
UK

SOC 2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 17 (34.00%) Azure
2 6 (12.00%) AWS
2 6 (12.00%) GitHub
3 5 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (8.00%) SaaS
5 3 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (6.00%) GCP
5 3 (6.00%) Serverless
6 2 (4.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 2 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.00%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.00%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (2.00%) Cloudflare
7 1 (2.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) Firewall
2 2 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (4.00%) Network Security
2 2 (4.00%) VPN
3 1 (2.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (8.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.00%) Parquet
2 2 (4.00%) Power BI
3 1 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.00%) Git
2 1 (2.00%) GitLab
2 1 (2.00%) JIRA
General
1 34 (68.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (40.00%) Legal
3 14 (28.00%) Finance
4 10 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Marketing
6 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.00%) Law
7 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (20.00%) Risk Manager
2 8 (16.00%) Analyst
3 6 (12.00%) Architect
3 6 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (12.00%) Security Analyst
4 5 (10.00%) Security Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) AWS Architect
5 4 (8.00%) Consultant
5 4 (8.00%) Lead
5 4 (8.00%) Software Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Technical Architect
5 4 (8.00%) Technical Leader
6 3 (6.00%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
6 3 (6.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Lead Architect
7 2 (4.00%) AWS Security Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) IT Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) IT Security Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) .NET
2 4 (8.00%) AngularJS
2 4 (8.00%) ARM Templates
2 4 (8.00%) Node.js
3 3 (6.00%) Kafka
4 2 (4.00%) JSON
4 2 (4.00%) RESTful
5 1 (2.00%) AWS CDK
5 1 (2.00%) CSS
5 1 (2.00%) HTML
5 1 (2.00%) HTML5
5 1 (2.00%) ModSecurity
5 1 (2.00%) Next.js
5 1 (2.00%) React
5 1 (2.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 24 (48.00%) Management Information System
2 6 (12.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.00%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.00%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (2.00%) Cyberattack
5 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.00%) Life Science
5 1 (2.00%) PKI
5 1 (2.00%) Replication
5 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.00%) Windows
2 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (56.00%) Risk Management
2 24 (48.00%) Agile
3 23 (46.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 23 (46.00%) Information Security
4 22 (44.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 21 (42.00%) Mentoring
6 19 (38.00%) OWASP
6 19 (38.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (36.00%) Creative Thinking
7 18 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (36.00%) Risk Assessment
8 17 (34.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 16 (32.00%) Coaching
9 16 (32.00%) Contingency Planning
9 16 (32.00%) Contract Management
9 16 (32.00%) Due Diligence
9 16 (32.00%) Quantitative Risk Management
10 10 (20.00%) DevOps
11 8 (16.00%) CI/CD
11 8 (16.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.00%) R
1 6 (12.00%) SQL
2 5 (10.00%) C#
2 5 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (8.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (4.00%) Bash
4 2 (4.00%) Java
4 2 (4.00%) Python
5 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 20 (40.00%) CISSP
2 18 (36.00%) CISM
3 16 (32.00%) CRISC
4 12 (24.00%) Degree
5 4 (8.00%) Azure Certification
5 4 (8.00%) CEH
5 4 (8.00%) Security Cleared
6 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
7 2 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.00%) GIAC
7 2 (4.00%) ISSAP
7 2 (4.00%) SANS
7 2 (4.00%) SnowPro
8 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (82.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (32.00%) GDPR
3 8 (16.00%) HIPAA
3 8 (16.00%) NIST
3 8 (16.00%) PCI DSS
4 3 (6.00%) NCSC
5 2 (4.00%) COBIT
5 2 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (4.00%) GRC
5 2 (4.00%) ISO 9001
6 1 (2.00%) GLP
6 1 (2.00%) GMP
6 1 (2.00%) GxP
6 1 (2.00%) ISO 14001
6 1 (2.00%) ISO 22301
6 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (12.00%) Docker
2 4 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 12 (24.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (20.00%) Terraform
3 2 (4.00%) Grafana
4 1 (2.00%) Ansible
4 1 (2.00%) cPanel
4 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.00%) OneTrust
2 1 (2.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow