System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SOC 2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SOC 2 over the 6 months to 4 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 684 987 995
Rank change year-on-year +303 +8 -278
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 57 89 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.072% 0.080%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.73% 0.40% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 43 66 97
10th Percentile £50,100 £53,125 £43,050
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +15.38% -12.93%
75th Percentile £78,125 £96,563 £88,750
90th Percentile £95,250 £120,000 £110,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,000 £65,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year -10.77% +10.64% +2.17%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

SOC 2 is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7,856 22,053 20,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.76% 17.79% 15.61%
Number of salaries quoted 5,764 11,814 12,559
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,968 £42,500 £40,317
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +2.42%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -3.06%

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 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for SOC 2 in the UK

SOC 2
Top 13 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 4 December 2023. 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 +305 48 £75,000 +0.67% 45
London +244 34 £75,000 -3.85% 27
Work from Home +221 23 £75,000 +15.38% 19
UK excluding London +246 21 £58,000 -10.77% 23
Scotland +59 6 £47,500 -44.12% 3
North of England +153 5 £62,500 -2.72% 5
Yorkshire +96 5 £62,500 -8.76% 2
South West +81 4 £58,750 -9.62% 1
South East +163 2 £85,000 -2.86% 6
Wales - 2 - -
Midlands +123 1 £55,000 +14.58% 1
East of England +121 1 £60,000 +5.26% 7
East Midlands - 1 £55,000 -

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:

Cloud Services
1 19 (33.33%) AWS
2 13 (22.81%) Azure
3 6 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (7.02%) Google Workspace
5 3 (5.26%) AWS CloudTrail
5 3 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (5.26%) SaaS
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (3.51%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.75%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.75%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.75%) PaaS
7 1 (1.75%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 23 (40.35%) Firewall
2 10 (17.54%) Intrusion Detection
3 7 (12.28%) VPN
4 3 (5.26%) LAN
4 3 (5.26%) WAN
4 3 (5.26%) Wireless
4 3 (5.26%) WLAN
5 2 (3.51%) Network Security
6 1 (1.75%) DHCP
6 1 (1.75%) DNS
6 1 (1.75%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.26%) JIRA
2 1 (1.75%) GitLab
2 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (15.79%) Finance
1 9 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.02%) Tech for Good
3 3 (5.26%) Law
3 3 (5.26%) Legal
3 3 (5.26%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.51%) Banking
4 2 (3.51%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.75%) Games
5 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (31.58%) Analyst
2 16 (28.07%) Security Analyst
3 15 (26.32%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 7 (12.28%) Architect
4 7 (12.28%) Lead
4 7 (12.28%) Security Architect
5 6 (10.53%) Head of Security
5 6 (10.53%) Security Manager
6 5 (8.77%) CISSP Analyst
6 5 (8.77%) Consultant
6 5 (8.77%) Information Manager
6 5 (8.77%) Information Security Manager
6 5 (8.77%) Monitoring Analyst
6 5 (8.77%) Security Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) Security Monitoring Analyst
6 5 (8.77%) Senior
6 5 (8.77%) SIEM Analyst
7 4 (7.02%) IT Architect
7 4 (7.02%) IT Manager
7 4 (7.02%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.75%) CSS
1 1 (1.75%) HTML
1 1 (1.75%) OAuth
1 1 (1.75%) OpenID
1 1 (1.75%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.81%) Cyber Threat
2 8 (14.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 5 (8.77%) Security Posture
4 4 (7.02%) Management Information System
5 3 (5.26%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.51%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.51%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.75%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.75%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.75%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.75%) PKI
7 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.75%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.79%) Windows
2 5 (8.77%) Linux
3 4 (7.02%) Mac OS
3 4 (7.02%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.75%) Android
4 1 (1.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (63.16%) Cybersecurity
2 28 (49.12%) Information Security
3 21 (36.84%) SIEM
4 18 (31.58%) Application Security
4 18 (31.58%) Penetration Testing
5 17 (29.82%) Security Operations
6 13 (22.81%) Runbook
6 13 (22.81%) Security Monitoring
6 13 (22.81%) Use Case
7 10 (17.54%) Cloud Security
8 9 (15.79%) Computer Science
9 8 (14.04%) Data Protection
9 8 (14.04%) DDoS Mitigation
9 8 (14.04%) DevOps
9 8 (14.04%) OWASP
9 8 (14.04%) Security Management
10 7 (12.28%) Fintech
11 6 (10.53%) Risk Management
11 6 (10.53%) Security Testing
11 6 (10.53%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.75%) Java
1 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
1 1 (1.75%) Python
1 1 (1.75%) Ruby
1 1 (1.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (31.58%) CISSP
2 15 (26.32%) CompTIA Security+
2 15 (26.32%) Network+ Certification
3 14 (24.56%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (22.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 13 (22.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 13 (22.81%) CCSP
4 13 (22.81%) CompTIA CySA+
5 4 (7.02%) Azure Certification
5 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (5.26%) CISM
7 2 (3.51%) Degree
7 2 (3.51%) GCIH
7 2 (3.51%) GIAC
8 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.75%) CCNP
8 1 (1.75%) CGEIT
8 1 (1.75%) CISA
8 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (50.88%) NIST
3 13 (22.81%) PCI DSS
4 8 (14.04%) GDPR
5 5 (8.77%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (8.77%) SOC 1
6 4 (7.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (7.02%) GRC
7 2 (3.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (1.75%) COBIT
8 1 (1.75%) HIPAA
8 1 (1.75%) ISO 22301
8 1 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (1.75%) SOC 3
System Software
1 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.75%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.51%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.51%) Terraform
2 1 (1.75%) Nessus
2 1 (1.75%) SCCM
2 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.02%) Google
3 3 (5.26%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.51%) Carbon Black
4 2 (3.51%) Darktrace
4 2 (3.51%) VMware
5 1 (1.75%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.75%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.75%) Okta
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle