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 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 267 207 -
Rank change year-on-year -60 - -
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 6 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.088% 0.023% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.77% 0.16% -
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £46,250 - -
25th Percentile £46,563 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £75,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -31.67% - -
75th Percentile £53,750 - -
90th Percentile £58,750 - -
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
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 782 641 1,009
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.44% 14.73% 16.59%
Number of salaries quoted 334 203 426
10th Percentile £22,250 £31,250 £25,625
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,563 £37,519
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £45,607
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +20.60% +7.12%
75th Percentile £60,938 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,703 £88,750 £72,500
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 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
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram 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 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
Glasgow -108 5 £52,500 -30.00%
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 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) Wireless
2 1 (16.67%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Security Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) IT Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) IT Security Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Administrator
4 1 (16.67%) JIRA Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (50.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
1 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (100.00%) SIEM
2 5 (83.33%) Analytics
2 5 (83.33%) Application Security
2 5 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (83.33%) DevSecOps
2 5 (83.33%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (83.33%) Incident Management
2 5 (83.33%) Information Security
2 5 (83.33%) Malware Detection/Protection
2 5 (83.33%) SOAR
2 5 (83.33%) Use Case
2 5 (83.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Security Operations
4 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 2 (33.33%) Anomaly Detection
6 1 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
6 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (50.00%) NCSC
2 3 (50.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Atlassian
2 1 (16.67%) Google