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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 808 907 1008
Rank change year-on-year +99 +101 -142
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 90 73 193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.091% 0.072% 0.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.66% 0.38% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 80 38 78
10th Percentile £43,625 £41,775 £47,125
25th Percentile £47,500 £54,125 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £69,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.29% +6.15% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,750 £132,750 £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 13,619 19,077 26,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.73% 18.89% 16.94%
Number of salaries quoted 9,260 8,866 13,140
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% +3.77%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,346
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -

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 10 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 10 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 +113 84 £57,500 -17.86% 31
Work from Home +86 48 £55,000 -18.52% 20
London +123 45 £55,000 -20.29% 20
UK excluding London +1 43 £57,500 +27.78% 8
North of England +57 14 £72,500 -29.27% 3
North West +10 12 £72,500 -29.27% 2
South West - 10 £59,500 - 2
Midlands -11 7 £57,500 +76.92% 1
South East -5 5 £47,500 -47.22% 2
East Midlands - 5 £57,500 -
Scotland - 5 £50,000 -
East of England +18 2 £58,750 -
Yorkshire - 2 £49,750 - 1
West Midlands -2 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 (1.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 30 (33.33%) AWS
2 24 (26.67%) Azure
3 18 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (16.67%) SaaS
5 12 (13.33%) Google Workspace
6 4 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (4.44%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.44%) Serverless
7 3 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.33%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (3.33%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (3.33%) Amazon MSK
7 3 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (3.33%) AWS CloudTrail
7 3 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.33%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.33%) PaaS
7 3 (3.33%) Route 53
7 3 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (3.33%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 51 (56.67%) Firewall
2 18 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 14 (15.56%) DNS
4 12 (13.33%) Wireless
5 11 (12.22%) Broadband
5 11 (12.22%) NAS
6 6 (6.67%) Network Security
7 3 (3.33%) VPN
8 1 (1.11%) LAN
8 1 (1.11%) SAN
8 1 (1.11%) WAN
8 1 (1.11%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.22%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.33%) GitLab
2 1 (1.11%) JIRA
General
1 22 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 20 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (17.78%) Finance
4 11 (12.22%) Games
5 9 (10.00%) Legal
6 6 (6.67%) Law
7 5 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.22%) Banking
8 2 (2.22%) Mandarin Language
8 2 (2.22%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.22%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.11%) Advertising
9 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (20.00%) Analyst
2 17 (18.89%) Security Analyst
3 13 (14.44%) Consultant
4 11 (12.22%) IT Consultant
4 11 (12.22%) Security Engineer
5 10 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 10 (11.11%) Security Manager
6 7 (7.78%) Compliance Manager
6 7 (7.78%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) IT Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Compliance Analyst
7 6 (6.67%) Information Analyst
7 6 (6.67%) Information Security Analyst
7 6 (6.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 6 (6.67%) IT Manager
7 6 (6.67%) Security Compliance Analyst
8 5 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) IT Security Manager
9 4 (4.44%) Information Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.33%) AWS SAM
1 3 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (3.33%) OAuth
1 3 (3.33%) OpenID
1 3 (3.33%) SAML
2 1 (1.11%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 14 (15.56%) Cyber Threat
3 12 (13.33%) Onboarding
4 11 (12.22%) Video Conferencing
5 10 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 6 (6.67%) Data Centre
6 6 (6.67%) Public Cloud
6 6 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
7 5 (5.56%) Clustering
7 5 (5.56%) Enterprise Storage
7 5 (5.56%) Management Information System
7 5 (5.56%) Private Cloud
8 4 (4.44%) Cyberattack
9 3 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (2.22%) Cloud Native
10 2 (2.22%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (2.22%) Life Science
10 2 (2.22%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (1.11%) Mobile App
11 1 (1.11%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 18 (20.00%) Windows
2 12 (13.33%) Mac OS
2 12 (13.33%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.56%) Linux
4 1 (1.11%) Android
4 1 (1.11%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.11%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (63.33%) Cybersecurity
2 36 (40.00%) Information Security
3 32 (35.56%) SIEM
4 30 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (26.67%) Penetration Testing
5 24 (26.67%) Security Operations
6 21 (23.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 19 (21.11%) Data Protection
8 17 (18.89%) Application Security
9 16 (17.78%) Computer Science
9 16 (17.78%) Identity Access Management
10 14 (15.56%) Identity Management
10 14 (15.56%) IT Audit
10 14 (15.56%) Use Case
10 14 (15.56%) Vulnerability Management
11 13 (14.44%) Business Continuity
12 12 (13.33%) Data Security
13 11 (12.22%) Asset Management
13 11 (12.22%) Mobile Device Management
13 11 (12.22%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (13.33%) Bash
2 5 (5.56%) Python
3 2 (2.22%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 22 (24.44%) CISSP
2 13 (14.44%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (13.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 12 (13.33%) CCSP
4 11 (12.22%) Degree
5 10 (11.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 10 (11.11%) CompTIA CySA+
5 10 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
5 10 (11.11%) Network+ Certification
6 7 (7.78%) CISA
7 5 (5.56%) AWS Certification
8 3 (3.33%) CISM
8 3 (3.33%) Security Cleared
9 2 (2.22%) CCA
9 2 (2.22%) CRISC
9 2 (2.22%) SC Cleared
10 1 (1.11%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.11%) ISACA
10 1 (1.11%) PCI QSA
10 1 (1.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (81.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (28.89%) Cyber Essentials
2 26 (28.89%) NIST
3 12 (13.33%) GDPR
3 12 (13.33%) GRC
4 11 (12.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 11 (12.22%) PCI DSS
5 8 (8.89%) SOC 1
6 5 (5.56%) ISO 9001
7 4 (4.44%) HIPAA
8 3 (3.33%) ITGC
8 3 (3.33%) NCSC
8 3 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (2.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (1.11%) COBIT
10 1 (1.11%) ISO 31000
10 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (1.11%) NIST 800
10 1 (1.11%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (17.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (14.44%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (12.22%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (7.78%) Nessus
3 4 (4.44%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.33%) Terraform
5 2 (2.22%) QRadar
6 1 (1.11%) CASB
6 1 (1.11%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 31 (34.44%) Microsoft
2 16 (17.78%) VMware
3 13 (14.44%) Google
4 11 (12.22%) Apple
5 6 (6.67%) Cisco
6 2 (2.22%) IBM
6 2 (2.22%) Splunk
7 1 (1.11%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.11%) Kenna
7 1 (1.11%) OneTrust
7 1 (1.11%) Oracle
7 1 (1.11%) Qualys
7 1 (1.11%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.11%) Tripwire