SOC 2 Jobs in Scotland

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 5 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.075% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.62% - -
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - -
75th Percentile £53,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -21.43% +7.69% -2.99%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

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 advertised in Scotland with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 808 706 1,000
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 12.09% 15.25% 17.01%
Number of salaries quoted 339 208 436
10th Percentile £22,250 £31,250 £25,813
25th Percentile £33,769 £39,688 £36,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,691 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +19.31% +5.50%
75th Percentile £61,250 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,596 £88,750 £71,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +3.77%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing SOC 2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for SOC 2 in Scotland

SOC 2
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SOC 2 in Scotland.

Salary trend for SOC 2 in Scotland

SOC 2
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOC 2 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 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
Glasgow - 4 £50,000 -
Edinburgh - 1 £50,000 -
SOC 2
UK

SOC 2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Wireless
2 1 (20.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) IT Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (100.00%) SIEM
2 4 (80.00%) Analytics
2 4 (80.00%) Application Security
2 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) DevSecOps
2 4 (80.00%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (80.00%) Incident Management
2 4 (80.00%) Information Security
2 4 (80.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
2 4 (80.00%) Security Operations
2 4 (80.00%) SOAR
2 4 (80.00%) Use Case
2 4 (80.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (40.00%) Anomaly Detection
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (40.00%) NCSC
2 2 (40.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (20.00%) Google