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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 811 900 1039
Rank change year-on-year +89 +139 -182
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 91 72 190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.092% 0.071% 0.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.67% 0.38% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 80 37 78
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,700 £47,125
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £76,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,750 £134,500 £96,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £45,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +27.78% -25.00% +9.09%

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 13,602 19,143 26,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.72% 18.89% 16.91%
Number of salaries quoted 9,263 8,888 13,070
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,650
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.93% +0.32%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +116 85 £57,500 -17.86% 42
Work from Home +94 48 £55,000 -21.43% 27
London +114 45 £55,000 -21.43% 30
UK excluding London +15 44 £57,500 +27.78% 9
North of England +63 14 £72,500 -29.27% 3
North West +21 12 £72,500 -29.27% 2
South West - 11 £59,500 - 2
Midlands -6 7 £57,500 +76.92% 1
South East -14 5 £47,500 -47.22% 3
East Midlands - 5 £57,500 -
Scotland - 5 £50,000 -
East of England +20 2 £58,750 -
Yorkshire - 2 £49,750 - 1
West Midlands +10 1 £77,500 +138.46% 1

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 32 (35.16%) AWS
2 24 (26.37%) Azure
3 18 (19.78%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (16.48%) SaaS
5 12 (13.19%) Google Workspace
6 4 (4.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (4.40%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.40%) Serverless
7 3 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.30%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (3.30%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (3.30%) Amazon MSK
7 3 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (3.30%) AWS CloudTrail
7 3 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.30%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.30%) PaaS
7 3 (3.30%) Route 53
7 3 (3.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (3.30%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 53 (58.24%) Firewall
2 20 (21.98%) Intrusion Detection
3 14 (15.38%) DNS
4 12 (13.19%) Wireless
5 11 (12.09%) Broadband
5 11 (12.09%) NAS
6 6 (6.59%) Network Security
7 3 (3.30%) VPN
8 1 (1.10%) LAN
8 1 (1.10%) SAN
8 1 (1.10%) WAN
8 1 (1.10%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.20%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.10%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.30%) GitLab
2 1 (1.10%) JIRA
General
1 22 (24.18%) Social Skills
2 20 (21.98%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (16.48%) Finance
4 11 (12.09%) Games
5 9 (9.89%) Legal
6 6 (6.59%) Law
7 4 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.20%) Banking
8 2 (2.20%) Mandarin Language
8 2 (2.20%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.20%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.10%) Advertising
9 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (21.98%) Analyst
2 19 (20.88%) Security Analyst
3 13 (14.29%) Consultant
4 12 (13.19%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 11 (12.09%) IT Consultant
5 11 (12.09%) Security Engineer
6 10 (10.99%) Security Manager
7 7 (7.69%) Compliance Manager
7 7 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) IT Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Compliance Analyst
8 6 (6.59%) Information Analyst
8 6 (6.59%) Information Security Analyst
8 6 (6.59%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 6 (6.59%) IT Manager
8 6 (6.59%) Security Compliance Analyst
9 5 (5.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) IT Security Manager
10 4 (4.40%) Security Monitoring Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.30%) AWS SAM
1 3 (3.30%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (3.30%) OAuth
1 3 (3.30%) OpenID
1 3 (3.30%) SAML
2 1 (1.10%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (19.78%) Security Posture
2 16 (17.58%) Cyber Threat
3 12 (13.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 12 (13.19%) Onboarding
4 11 (12.09%) Video Conferencing
5 6 (6.59%) Data Centre
5 6 (6.59%) Public Cloud
5 6 (6.59%) Security Operations Centre
6 5 (5.49%) Clustering
6 5 (5.49%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (5.49%) Management Information System
6 5 (5.49%) Private Cloud
7 4 (4.40%) Cyberattack
8 3 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (2.20%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.20%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (2.20%) Life Science
9 2 (2.20%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (1.10%) Mobile App
10 1 (1.10%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 18 (19.78%) Windows
2 12 (13.19%) Mac OS
2 12 (13.19%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.49%) Linux
4 1 (1.10%) Android
4 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.10%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (64.84%) Cybersecurity
2 38 (41.76%) Information Security
3 34 (37.36%) SIEM
4 30 (32.97%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
5 26 (28.57%) Security Operations
6 21 (23.08%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 19 (20.88%) Application Security
7 19 (20.88%) Data Protection
8 18 (19.78%) Computer Science
9 16 (17.58%) Identity Access Management
9 16 (17.58%) Use Case
10 14 (15.38%) Identity Management
10 14 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
11 13 (14.29%) Business Continuity
11 13 (14.29%) IT Audit
12 12 (13.19%) Data Security
12 12 (13.19%) Runbook
12 12 (13.19%) Security Monitoring
13 11 (12.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (13.19%) Bash
2 5 (5.49%) Python
3 2 (2.20%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.10%) Java
Qualifications
1 24 (26.37%) CISSP
2 15 (16.48%) Cisco Certification
3 14 (15.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 14 (15.38%) CCSP
4 12 (13.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 12 (13.19%) CompTIA CySA+
4 12 (13.19%) CompTIA Security+
4 12 (13.19%) Network+ Certification
5 11 (12.09%) Degree
6 7 (7.69%) CISA
7 5 (5.49%) AWS Certification
8 3 (3.30%) CISM
8 3 (3.30%) Security Cleared
9 2 (2.20%) CCA
9 2 (2.20%) CRISC
9 2 (2.20%) SC Cleared
10 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.10%) ISACA
10 1 (1.10%) PCI QSA
10 1 (1.10%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (79.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (30.77%) NIST
3 26 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials
4 12 (13.19%) GDPR
4 12 (13.19%) GRC
5 11 (12.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 11 (12.09%) PCI DSS
6 7 (7.69%) SOC 1
7 5 (5.49%) ISO 9001
8 4 (4.40%) HIPAA
9 3 (3.30%) NCSC
9 3 (3.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (2.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (2.20%) ITGC
11 1 (1.10%) COBIT
11 1 (1.10%) ISO 31000
11 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (1.10%) NIST 800
11 1 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (17.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (12.09%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (7.69%) Nessus
3 4 (4.40%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.30%) Terraform
5 2 (2.20%) QRadar
6 1 (1.10%) CASB
6 1 (1.10%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 31 (34.07%) Microsoft
2 16 (17.58%) VMware
3 13 (14.29%) Google
4 11 (12.09%) Apple
5 6 (6.59%) Cisco
6 2 (2.20%) IBM
6 2 (2.20%) Splunk
7 1 (1.10%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.10%) Kenna
7 1 (1.10%) OneTrust
7 1 (1.10%) Oracle
7 1 (1.10%) Qualys
7 1 (1.10%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.10%) Tripwire