SOC 2 Job Trends in Wales

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring SOC 2 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 - 89
Rank change year-on-year - - +40
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.095% - 0.24%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.94% - 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £87,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -25.71% +25.00% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 106 151 129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 10.04% 12.70% 15.18%
Number of salaries quoted 66 87 97
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £26,150
25th Percentile £38,563 £41,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £49,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.16% +8.89% -6.25%
75th Percentile £67,500 £53,625 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,900 £71,250 £75,725
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SOC 2 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

SOC 2 job vacancy trend in Wales

SOC 2
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing SOC 2.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing SOC 2

SOC 2
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOC 2 within the Wales region over the 6 months to 28 November 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
South Wales - 1 £85,000 - 2
SOC 2
UK

SOC 2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Head of IT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Media
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Tech Ops
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST