System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 747 819 1035
Rank change year-on-year +72 +216 -77
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 95 68 240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.084% 0.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.80% 0.56% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 85 50 92
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £62,500 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +19.23% -5.80%
75th Percentile £86,250 £94,375 £82,188
90th Percentile £100,000 £127,875 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £58,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.86% -7.20% +13.64%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 11,872 12,180 30,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.14% 15.09% 17.68%
Number of salaries quoted 7,420 7,777 14,031
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,897 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,139 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +0.28% +5.26%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC 2 in the UK

SOC 2
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SOC 2 in the UK

SOC 2
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOC 2 over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for SOC 2 in the UK

SOC 2
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
England +61 88 £62,500 -19.35% 13
London +91 47 £80,000 - 9
Work from Home +62 47 £62,500 -19.35% 11
UK excluding London -12 45 £57,500 -0.86% 7
North of England +16 14 £72,500 +25.00% 1
North West -1 12 £72,500 -29.27% 1
South West - 10 £59,500 -
South East 0 7 £47,500 -36.67%
Midlands -16 7 £57,500 +76.92% 1
Scotland -38 6 £62,500 - 2
East Midlands - 5 £57,500 - 1
Yorkshire +58 2 £49,750 -14.22%
West Midlands -5 1 £77,500 +138.46%
East of England - 1 £57,500 - 2

SOC 2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 35 (36.84%) Azure
2 25 (26.32%) AWS
3 19 (20.00%) SaaS
4 14 (14.74%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (13.68%) Google Workspace
6 9 (9.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 8 (8.42%) GCP
8 7 (7.37%) Serverless
9 6 (6.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (6.32%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (6.32%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (6.32%) Amazon ELB
9 6 (6.32%) Amazon Kinesis
9 6 (6.32%) Amazon MSK
9 6 (6.32%) Amazon S3
9 6 (6.32%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (6.32%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (6.32%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (6.32%) Route 53
10 5 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 36 (37.89%) Firewall
2 12 (12.63%) DNS
3 10 (10.53%) Network Security
3 10 (10.53%) Wireless
4 9 (9.47%) Broadband
4 9 (9.47%) Intrusion Detection
4 9 (9.47%) NAS
5 6 (6.32%) VPN
6 3 (3.16%) BGP
6 3 (3.16%) TCP/IP
6 3 (3.16%) VLAN
7 1 (1.05%) Internet
7 1 (1.05%) LAN
7 1 (1.05%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (1.05%) SAN
7 1 (1.05%) WAN
7 1 (1.05%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.32%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.16%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.11%) MySQL
4 1 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (6.32%) GitLab
2 4 (4.21%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.05%) JIRA
General
1 27 (28.42%) Social Skills
2 22 (23.16%) Finance
3 19 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.47%) Games
5 6 (6.32%) Law
6 5 (5.26%) Banking
6 5 (5.26%) Legal
6 5 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.21%) Financial Institution
7 4 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.21%) Retail
8 3 (3.16%) Back Office
9 2 (2.11%) Mandarin Language
9 2 (2.11%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.05%) Advertising
10 1 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.05%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (18.95%) Security Engineer
2 12 (12.63%) Consultant
3 11 (11.58%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (9.47%) IT Consultant
5 8 (8.42%) Analyst
5 8 (8.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (7.37%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (7.37%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 7 (7.37%) IT Engineer
6 7 (7.37%) Security Analyst
7 6 (6.32%) AWS DevOps
7 6 (6.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.32%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (6.32%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 6 (6.32%) Azure Security Engineer
7 6 (6.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 6 (6.32%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.32%) Information Security Analyst
7 6 (6.32%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (6.32%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.63%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (6.32%) AWS SAM
3 4 (4.21%) ARM Templates
3 4 (4.21%) OAuth
3 4 (4.21%) OpenID
3 4 (4.21%) SAML
4 3 (3.16%) RESTful
5 1 (1.05%) ModSecurity
5 1 (1.05%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.84%) Security Posture
2 10 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 10 (10.53%) Onboarding
3 9 (9.47%) Management Information System
3 9 (9.47%) Video Conferencing
4 8 (8.42%) Public Cloud
5 7 (7.37%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (6.32%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (5.26%) Clustering
7 5 (5.26%) Cyberattack
7 5 (5.26%) Enterprise Storage
7 5 (5.26%) Private Cloud
7 5 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
8 4 (4.21%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (4.21%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (3.16%) Blog
9 3 (3.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (22.11%) Windows
2 13 (13.68%) Linux
3 11 (11.58%) Windows Server
4 10 (10.53%) Mac OS
5 4 (4.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.05%) Android
6 1 (1.05%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.05%) Mac OS X
6 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (49.47%) Cybersecurity
2 36 (37.89%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (30.53%) Information Security
4 26 (27.37%) SIEM
5 24 (25.26%) Data Protection
6 21 (22.11%) Penetration Testing
7 19 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 18 (18.95%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (16.84%) Fintech
9 16 (16.84%) Identity Access Management
10 15 (15.79%) Computer Science
11 14 (14.74%) Analytics
11 14 (14.74%) Incident Response
11 14 (14.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 14 (14.74%) Risk Management
12 13 (13.68%) CI/CD
12 13 (13.68%) Cloud Security
12 13 (13.68%) Disaster Recovery
12 13 (13.68%) Identity Management
13 12 (12.63%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 11 (11.58%) Python
2 10 (10.53%) Bash
3 6 (6.32%) PowerShell
4 4 (4.21%) Java
5 3 (3.16%) Go
Qualifications
1 21 (22.11%) CISSP
2 16 (16.84%) Degree
3 11 (11.58%) AWS Certification
3 11 (11.58%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (10.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 9 (9.47%) CCSP
5 9 (9.47%) CISA
6 7 (7.37%) CISM
7 5 (5.26%) Azure Certification
8 4 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (4.21%) CRISC
9 2 (2.11%) CCA
9 2 (2.11%) Master's Degree
9 2 (2.11%) SC Cleared
9 2 (2.11%) Security Cleared
10 1 (1.05%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (1.05%) CSSLP
10 1 (1.05%) PCI QSA
10 1 (1.05%) SANS
10 1 (1.05%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (83.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (33.68%) NIST
3 24 (25.26%) Cyber Essentials
4 19 (20.00%) GDPR
5 16 (16.84%) PCI DSS
6 11 (11.58%) GRC
7 10 (10.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 8 (8.42%) SOC 1
9 6 (6.32%) HIPAA
9 6 (6.32%) NCSC
10 5 (5.26%) ISO 9001
10 5 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (3.16%) ITGC
11 3 (3.16%) NIST 800
12 2 (2.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (1.05%) FedRAMP
13 1 (1.05%) ISO 22301
13 1 (1.05%) ISO 31000
13 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 1 (1.05%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (14.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (12.63%) Docker
3 11 (11.58%) Active Directory
4 4 (4.21%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.05%) NFS
Systems Management
1 12 (12.63%) Kubernetes
1 12 (12.63%) Single Sign-On
1 12 (12.63%) Terraform
2 4 (4.21%) Nessus
3 2 (2.11%) QRadar
4 1 (1.05%) CASB
4 1 (1.05%) cPanel
4 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.05%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 26 (27.37%) Microsoft
2 14 (14.74%) Google
2 14 (14.74%) VMware
3 9 (9.47%) Apple
4 8 (8.42%) Splunk
5 7 (7.37%) Cisco
6 2 (2.11%) IBM
6 2 (2.11%) Qualys
7 1 (1.05%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.05%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.05%) Kenna
7 1 (1.05%) Meraki
7 1 (1.05%) OneTrust
7 1 (1.05%) Oracle
7 1 (1.05%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.05%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.05%) Tripwire
7 1 (1.05%) Zscaler