SOC 2 Jobs in the UK excluding London

System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 725 703 809
Rank change year-on-year -22 +106 -121
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 43 33 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.057% 0.058% 0.050%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.44% 0.29% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 39 15 17
10th Percentile £41,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,625 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - +18.18%
75th Percentile £67,500 £93,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £77,250 £116,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -23.33% +15.38% -2.99%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 9,782 11,254 12,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.88% 19.90% 17.27%
Number of salaries quoted 6,364 4,460 7,033
10th Percentile £25,000 £28,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,220 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.17% +1.05%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £62,827
90th Percentile £76,250 £79,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%

SOC 2
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SOC 2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SOC 2 in the UK excluding London

SOC 2
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SOC 2 in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SOC 2 in the UK excluding London

SOC 2
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOC 2 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SOC 2 in the UK excluding London

SOC 2
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
North of England +42 14 £72,500 -29.27% 2
North West +3 12 £72,500 -29.27% 2
South West - 9 £59,500 - 1
Midlands -9 7 £57,500 +76.92% 3
South East -21 6 £47,500 -39.68% 3
Scotland -60 6 £51,250 -31.67%
East Midlands - 5 £57,500 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £49,750 -
West Midlands -16 1 £77,500 +138.46% 2
East of England - 1 £57,500 -
SOC 2
UK

SOC 2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (44.19%) Azure
2 14 (32.56%) SaaS
3 9 (20.93%) AWS
4 5 (11.63%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.98%) AWS CloudTrail
5 3 (6.98%) IaaS
5 3 (6.98%) PaaS
5 3 (6.98%) WhatsApp
6 2 (4.65%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (4.65%) AWS Control Tower
6 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.33%) GCP
7 1 (2.33%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 21 (48.84%) Firewall
2 8 (18.60%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (11.63%) Network Security
4 3 (6.98%) VPN
5 1 (2.33%) LAN
5 1 (2.33%) SAN
5 1 (2.33%) WAN
5 1 (2.33%) Wireless
5 1 (2.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (2.33%) JIRA
General
1 8 (18.60%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.28%) Finance
3 6 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Legal
5 2 (4.65%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.33%) Advertising
6 1 (2.33%) Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Law
6 1 (2.33%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (23.26%) Security Engineer
2 7 (16.28%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) Compliance Manager
3 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 6 (13.95%) IT Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Risk Manager
5 4 (9.30%) Security Manager
5 4 (9.30%) Technical Manager
6 3 (6.98%) Information Officer
6 3 (6.98%) Information Security Officer
6 3 (6.98%) IT Manager
6 3 (6.98%) Security Officer
7 2 (4.65%) Administrator
7 2 (4.65%) Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Operations Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Security Compliance Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) Security Compliance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) OAuth
1 2 (4.65%) OpenID
1 2 (4.65%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (27.91%) Security Posture
2 6 (13.95%) Data Centre
2 6 (13.95%) Management Information System
2 6 (13.95%) Public Cloud
3 5 (11.63%) Clustering
3 5 (11.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 5 (11.63%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (11.63%) Private Cloud
3 5 (11.63%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (9.30%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (9.30%) Cyberattack
5 2 (4.65%) Life Science
5 2 (4.65%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.33%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.28%) Windows
2 1 (2.33%) Android
2 1 (2.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.33%) Linux
2 1 (2.33%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (55.81%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (41.86%) Information Security
3 17 (39.53%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (37.21%) SIEM
5 14 (32.56%) Identity Access Management
6 13 (30.23%) Security Operations
7 11 (25.58%) Data Security
7 11 (25.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (25.58%) Vulnerability Management
7 11 (25.58%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 8 (18.60%) ITIL
9 7 (16.28%) DevSecOps
9 7 (16.28%) Risk Management
9 7 (16.28%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (13.95%) Analytics
10 6 (13.95%) Application Security
10 6 (13.95%) Compliance Management
10 6 (13.95%) Mentoring
10 6 (13.95%) Secure Coding
10 6 (13.95%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (20.93%) CISSP
1 9 (20.93%) Degree
2 6 (13.95%) CISA
3 2 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.33%) CCA
4 1 (2.33%) CCNP
4 1 (2.33%) CCSP
4 1 (2.33%) CISM
4 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.33%) CRISC
4 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (95.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (25.58%) Cyber Essentials
3 10 (23.26%) PCI DSS
4 9 (20.93%) NIST
5 8 (18.60%) GDPR
6 7 (16.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (13.95%) GRC
8 5 (11.63%) SOC 1
9 4 (9.30%) ISO 9001
9 4 (9.30%) NCSC
10 3 (6.98%) HIPAA
10 3 (6.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (2.33%) COBIT
11 1 (2.33%) ISO 31000
11 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (2.33%) NIST 800
11 1 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (11.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (13.95%) Nessus
2 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (37.21%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.63%) Cisco
2 5 (11.63%) VMware
3 2 (4.65%) Google
4 1 (2.33%) Atlassian