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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 595 789 914
Rank change year-on-year +194 +125 +123
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 89 96 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.098% 0.070%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.01% 0.71% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 68 82 38
10th Percentile £52,500 £43,750 £41,775
25th Percentile £60,938 £47,500 £54,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £55,000 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -20.29% +6.15%
75th Percentile £96,250 £76,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £96,625 £127,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% +4.55% +4.76%

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 8,850 13,541 19,961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.97% 13.77% 19.19%
Number of salaries quoted 4,598 9,268 9,195
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £73,750 £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% +5.04%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +177 74 £80,000 +39.13% 93
UK excluding London +203 43 £68,750 +19.57% 41
London +95 39 £92,500 +68.18% 61
Work from Home +155 24 £65,000 +18.18% 66
South East +124 16 £60,000 +26.32% 12
North of England +82 11 £72,500 - 6
Scotland +125 6 £68,000 +36.00% 4
North West +27 6 £77,500 +6.90% 2
North East - 5 £57,500 - 2
Midlands +58 4 £56,250 -2.17% 7
West Midlands +53 3 £55,000 -29.03% 5
Channel Islands - 3 £80,000 -
South West +106 2 £80,000 +34.45% 6
East of England +57 1 £62,500 +6.38% 3
East Midlands +45 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 2 (2.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 47 (52.81%) Azure
2 21 (23.60%) AWS
3 17 (19.10%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (13.48%) Azure Monitor
5 11 (12.36%) SaaS
6 9 (10.11%) GCP
6 9 (10.11%) GitHub
7 6 (6.74%) Serverless
8 5 (5.62%) Azure Key Vault
8 5 (5.62%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (5.62%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (4.49%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (3.37%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 3 (3.37%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (3.37%) Miro
10 3 (3.37%) Power Platform
10 3 (3.37%) Snowflake
10 3 (3.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.24%) Firewall
2 8 (8.99%) VPN
3 5 (5.62%) Network Security
4 2 (2.25%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.12%) NAS
5 1 (1.12%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.12%) SAN
5 1 (1.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.62%) Data Lake
1 5 (5.62%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.49%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (4.49%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.37%) Big Data
3 3 (3.37%) Parquet
3 3 (3.37%) Power BI
3 3 (3.37%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.12%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (14.61%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.49%) JIRA
3 2 (2.25%) Git
4 1 (1.12%) GitLab
General
1 46 (51.69%) Social Skills
2 29 (32.58%) Finance
3 18 (20.22%) Legal
4 12 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.74%) Law
6 3 (3.37%) Banking
6 3 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.37%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.37%) Marketing
7 2 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.25%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.12%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Russian Language
Job Titles
1 17 (19.10%) Architect
2 11 (12.36%) Security Manager
3 10 (11.24%) Lead
4 9 (10.11%) Senior
5 8 (8.99%) Security Architect
6 7 (7.87%) Analyst
6 7 (7.87%) Lead Architect
6 7 (7.87%) Security Engineer
6 7 (7.87%) Technical Leader
7 6 (6.74%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Security Analyst
7 6 (6.74%) Technical Architect
8 5 (5.62%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (5.62%) Consultant
8 5 (5.62%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Risk Manager
8 5 (5.62%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.49%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Information Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.48%) ARM Templates
2 6 (6.74%) RESTful
3 5 (5.62%) .NET
4 4 (4.49%) AngularJS
4 4 (4.49%) Node.js
5 3 (3.37%) JSON
5 3 (3.37%) Kafka
6 2 (2.25%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.12%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.12%) CSS
7 1 (1.12%) HTML
7 1 (1.12%) HTML5
7 1 (1.12%) ModSecurity
7 1 (1.12%) Next.js
7 1 (1.12%) React
7 1 (1.12%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.47%) Management Information System
2 12 (13.48%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (8.99%) Cloud Native
3 8 (8.99%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (7.87%) Security Posture
5 4 (4.49%) Wiki
6 3 (3.37%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (3.37%) Hedge funds
6 3 (3.37%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (3.37%) Machine to Machine
6 3 (3.37%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (2.25%) Cyberattack
7 2 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (2.25%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.12%) Life Science
8 1 (1.12%) PKI
8 1 (1.12%) Replication
8 1 (1.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (1.12%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.11%) Linux
2 8 (8.99%) Windows
2 8 (8.99%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (40.45%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (37.08%) Agile
3 32 (35.96%) Information Security
4 29 (32.58%) Mentoring
5 27 (30.34%) Risk Management
6 25 (28.09%) DevOps
7 23 (25.84%) CI/CD
8 21 (23.60%) Cloud Security
9 19 (21.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (20.22%) Regulatory Compliance
10 18 (20.22%) SDLC
11 17 (19.10%) Analytics
11 17 (19.10%) Containerisation
11 17 (19.10%) Creative Thinking
11 17 (19.10%) Cybersecurity
11 17 (19.10%) Roadmaps
12 16 (17.98%) Microservices
13 15 (16.85%) Infrastructure as Code
13 15 (16.85%) OWASP
13 15 (16.85%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (17.98%) PowerShell
2 10 (11.24%) SQL
3 8 (8.99%) Python
4 6 (6.74%) R
5 5 (5.62%) Bash
5 5 (5.62%) C#
6 4 (4.49%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.25%) Java
8 1 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.12%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 31 (34.83%) CISSP
2 24 (26.97%) CISM
3 19 (21.35%) Degree
4 15 (16.85%) Azure Certification
5 12 (13.48%) CRISC
6 6 (6.74%) AWS Certification
7 5 (5.62%) CEH
7 5 (5.62%) Security Cleared
8 4 (4.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (4.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.49%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (4.49%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (3.37%) CCSP
9 3 (3.37%) ISSAP
9 3 (3.37%) SnowPro
10 2 (2.25%) CISA
10 2 (2.25%) GIAC
10 2 (2.25%) OSCP
10 2 (2.25%) SANS
11 1 (1.12%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (74.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 39 (43.82%) GDPR
3 27 (30.34%) NIST
4 20 (22.47%) HIPAA
5 9 (10.11%) PCI DSS
6 7 (7.87%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (6.74%) NCSC
8 5 (5.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (4.49%) ISO 9001
10 2 (2.25%) COBIT
10 2 (2.25%) GRC
10 2 (2.25%) ISO 22301
10 2 (2.25%) ITGC
10 2 (2.25%) SOC 1
11 1 (1.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (1.12%) GxP
11 1 (1.12%) ISO 14001
11 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (1.12%) QA
System Software
1 15 (16.85%) Docker
2 12 (13.48%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.37%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (3.37%) vSphere
4 2 (2.25%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.12%) NFS
Systems Management
1 25 (28.09%) Terraform
2 20 (22.47%) Kubernetes
3 10 (11.24%) Ansible
4 4 (4.49%) Graylog
4 4 (4.49%) Nagios
4 4 (4.49%) Opsgenie
5 3 (3.37%) Grafana
5 3 (3.37%) Progress Chef
5 3 (3.37%) Puppet
6 2 (2.25%) Nessus
6 2 (2.25%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.12%) cPanel
7 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (23.60%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.87%) Google
3 6 (6.74%) Palo Alto
4 4 (4.49%) Cisco
4 4 (4.49%) IBM
5 3 (3.37%) Alibaba
5 3 (3.37%) NetApp
5 3 (3.37%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.25%) FireEye
6 2 (2.25%) Splunk
7 1 (1.12%) Juniper
7 1 (1.12%) OneTrust
7 1 (1.12%) Qualys
7 1 (1.12%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.12%) Tenable
7 1 (1.12%) Veeam
7 1 (1.12%) VMware