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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 619 810 875
Rank change year-on-year +191 +65 +172
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 92 84 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.084% 0.082%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.02% 0.62% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 68 76 45
10th Percentile £53,750 £43,125 £42,000
25th Percentile £67,188 £47,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £55,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -26.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £96,250 £76,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £93,125 £129,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +26.09% +4.55% -15.38%

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 8,996 13,573 18,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.48% 13.56% 18.84%
Number of salaries quoted 4,495 9,177 8,635
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,900 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,455 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +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 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SOC 2 in the UK

SOC 2
Top 15 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 23 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
England +175 82 £82,500 +43.48% 754
UK excluding London +196 48 £72,500 +26.09% 700
London +109 41 £90,000 +63.64% 158
Work from Home +113 30 £80,000 +45.45% 371
South East +112 22 £68,750 +44.74% 199
North of England +39 11 £72,500 - 150
North West -6 6 £77,500 +6.90% 70
North East - 5 £57,500 - 20
Scotland +120 4 £62,500 +25.00% 35
Midlands +69 4 £56,250 -2.17% 123
South West +99 3 £80,000 +34.45% 74
West Midlands +70 3 £55,000 -29.03% 66
Channel Islands - 3 £80,000 - 7
East of England +38 1 £62,500 +8.70% 105
East Midlands +32 1 £57,500 - 49

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 2 (2.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.17%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 43 (46.74%) Azure
2 17 (18.48%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (17.39%) AWS
4 12 (13.04%) Azure Monitor
5 11 (11.96%) GCP
6 9 (9.78%) GitHub
7 8 (8.70%) Serverless
8 7 (7.61%) SaaS
9 6 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (5.43%) Azure Key Vault
10 5 (5.43%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (5.43%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (3.26%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (3.26%) Azure Cognitive Services
12 3 (3.26%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (3.26%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (3.26%) Entra ID
12 3 (3.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.87%) Firewall
2 8 (8.70%) VPN
3 5 (5.43%) Network Security
4 2 (2.17%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.09%) NAS
5 1 (1.09%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.09%) SAN
5 1 (1.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.43%) Data Lake
1 5 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (4.35%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.26%) Parquet
3 3 (3.26%) Power BI
3 3 (3.26%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.17%) Big Data
5 1 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (14.13%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.35%) JIRA
3 2 (2.17%) Git
4 1 (1.09%) GitLab
General
1 57 (61.96%) Social Skills
2 30 (32.61%) Finance
3 20 (21.74%) Legal
4 13 (14.13%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (10.87%) Banking
6 6 (6.52%) Law
7 4 (4.35%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.26%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.26%) Marketing
9 2 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.09%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (21.74%) Architect
2 10 (10.87%) Lead
3 9 (9.78%) Lead Architect
3 9 (9.78%) Risk Manager
3 9 (9.78%) Technical Architect
3 9 (9.78%) Technical Leader
4 8 (8.70%) Analyst
4 8 (8.70%) Security Architect
5 7 (7.61%) Security Engineer
6 6 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (6.52%) Security Analyst
7 5 (5.43%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) Cloud Architect
7 5 (5.43%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) Integration Architect
7 5 (5.43%) Security Manager
7 5 (5.43%) Security Specialist
7 5 (5.43%) Senior
7 5 (5.43%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.35%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.04%) ARM Templates
2 6 (6.52%) RESTful
3 5 (5.43%) .NET
3 5 (5.43%) Kafka
4 4 (4.35%) AngularJS
4 4 (4.35%) Node.js
5 3 (3.26%) JSON
6 2 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.09%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.09%) CSS
7 1 (1.09%) HTML
7 1 (1.09%) HTML5
7 1 (1.09%) ModSecurity
7 1 (1.09%) Next.js
7 1 (1.09%) React
7 1 (1.09%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 26 (28.26%) Management Information System
2 14 (15.22%) Security Posture
3 12 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (10.87%) Cloud Native
5 7 (7.61%) Taxonomies
6 4 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (4.35%) Wiki
7 3 (3.26%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (3.26%) Hedge funds
7 3 (3.26%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (3.26%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (3.26%) Machine to Machine
8 2 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (1.09%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (1.09%) Life Science
9 1 (1.09%) PKI
9 1 (1.09%) Replication
9 1 (1.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.78%) Linux
2 8 (8.70%) Windows
2 8 (8.70%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (43.48%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (40.22%) Information Security
2 37 (40.22%) Risk Management
3 36 (39.13%) Agile
4 33 (35.87%) Mentoring
5 26 (28.26%) DevOps
6 25 (27.17%) CI/CD
6 25 (27.17%) Risk Assessment
7 24 (26.09%) Regulatory Compliance
8 23 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (22.83%) Creative Thinking
10 20 (21.74%) OWASP
11 19 (20.65%) Containerisation
11 19 (20.65%) Stakeholder Management
12 18 (19.57%) Cloud Security
12 18 (19.57%) Due Diligence
12 18 (19.57%) Microservices
12 18 (19.57%) SDLC
13 17 (18.48%) Cybersecurity
13 17 (18.48%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (17.39%) PowerShell
2 10 (10.87%) SQL
3 8 (8.70%) Python
4 6 (6.52%) R
5 5 (5.43%) Bash
5 5 (5.43%) C#
6 4 (4.35%) Java
6 4 (4.35%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 27 (29.35%) CISM
1 27 (29.35%) CISSP
2 26 (28.26%) Degree
3 22 (23.91%) CRISC
4 14 (15.22%) Azure Certification
5 8 (8.70%) Security Cleared
6 7 (7.61%) AWS Certification
6 7 (7.61%) Master's Degree
7 6 (6.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (5.43%) CEH
9 4 (4.35%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (3.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (3.26%) CCSP
10 3 (3.26%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (3.26%) ISSAP
10 3 (3.26%) SnowPro
11 2 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (2.17%) GIAC
11 2 (2.17%) SANS
12 1 (1.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (77.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 40 (43.48%) GDPR
3 28 (30.43%) NIST
4 23 (25.00%) HIPAA
5 10 (10.87%) GRC
5 10 (10.87%) PCI DSS
6 7 (7.61%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (7.61%) SOC 1
7 6 (6.52%) NCSC
7 6 (6.52%) NIST 800
8 5 (5.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (2.17%) COBIT
9 2 (2.17%) ISO 22301
9 2 (2.17%) ISO 9001
10 1 (1.09%) GLP
10 1 (1.09%) GMP
10 1 (1.09%) GxP
10 1 (1.09%) ISO 14001
10 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (1.09%) QA
System Software
1 16 (17.39%) Docker
2 12 (13.04%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.26%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (3.26%) vSphere
4 2 (2.17%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.09%) NFS
Systems Management
1 25 (27.17%) Terraform
2 22 (23.91%) Kubernetes
3 10 (10.87%) Ansible
4 7 (7.61%) RSA Archer
5 4 (4.35%) Grafana
5 4 (4.35%) Graylog
5 4 (4.35%) Nagios
5 4 (4.35%) Opsgenie
6 3 (3.26%) Progress Chef
6 3 (3.26%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.26%) Puppet
7 2 (2.17%) Nessus
8 1 (1.09%) cPanel
8 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.52%) Google
2 6 (6.52%) Palo Alto
3 4 (4.35%) Cisco
3 4 (4.35%) IBM
3 4 (4.35%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.26%) Alibaba
4 3 (3.26%) NetApp
5 2 (2.17%) FireEye
5 2 (2.17%) OneTrust
5 2 (2.17%) Splunk
6 1 (1.09%) Juniper
6 1 (1.09%) Qualys
6 1 (1.09%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.09%) Tenable