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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 806 898 1038
Rank change year-on-year +92 +140 -174
Permanent jobs citing SOC 2 84 79 206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.084% 0.080% 0.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.62% 0.42% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 75 43 80
10th Percentile £43,000 £42,000 £47,375
25th Percentile £47,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +7.69% -2.99%
75th Percentile £76,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £90,250 £126,000 £92,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +18.18%

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 13,596 18,747 27,353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.61% 18.90% 17.02%
Number of salaries quoted 9,193 8,688 13,219
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 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,626
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.98% +0.27%

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 18 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 18 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 +92 78 £57,500 -20.69% 31
Work from Home +88 46 £55,000 -21.43% 22
London +110 41 £55,000 -24.14% 20
UK excluding London -23 41 £57,500 +4.55% 14
North of England +61 14 £72,500 -29.27% 2
North West +12 12 £72,500 -29.27% 2
South West - 9 £59,500 - 2
Midlands -5 7 £57,500 +76.92% 1
South East -14 5 £47,500 -39.68% 9
East Midlands - 5 £57,500 -
Scotland - 5 £50,000 -
Yorkshire - 2 £49,750 -
West Midlands +10 1 £77,500 +138.46% 1
East of England +3 1 £57,500 -

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 27 (32.14%) AWS
2 24 (28.57%) Azure
3 18 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (17.86%) SaaS
5 12 (14.29%) Google Workspace
6 4 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (4.76%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.76%) Serverless
7 3 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.57%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (3.57%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (3.57%) AWS CloudTrail
7 3 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.57%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.57%) IaaS
7 3 (3.57%) PaaS
7 3 (3.57%) Route 53
7 3 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (3.57%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 48 (57.14%) Firewall
2 16 (19.05%) Intrusion Detection
3 14 (16.67%) DNS
4 12 (14.29%) Wireless
5 11 (13.10%) Broadband
5 11 (13.10%) NAS
6 5 (5.95%) Network Security
7 3 (3.57%) VPN
8 1 (1.19%) LAN
8 1 (1.19%) SAN
8 1 (1.19%) WAN
8 1 (1.19%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.38%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.19%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.57%) GitLab
2 1 (1.19%) JIRA
General
1 21 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (16.67%) Finance
4 11 (13.10%) Games
5 7 (8.33%) Legal
6 5 (5.95%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.76%) Law
8 2 (2.38%) Banking
8 2 (2.38%) Mandarin Language
8 2 (2.38%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.38%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.19%) Advertising
9 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (17.86%) Analyst
2 14 (16.67%) Security Analyst
3 13 (15.48%) Consultant
4 12 (14.29%) Security Engineer
5 11 (13.10%) IT Consultant
6 7 (8.33%) Compliance Manager
6 7 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 7 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 7 (8.33%) IT Engineer
6 7 (8.33%) Security Manager
7 6 (7.14%) Compliance Analyst
7 6 (7.14%) Information Analyst
7 6 (7.14%) Information Security Analyst
7 6 (7.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 6 (7.14%) Security Compliance Analyst
8 5 (5.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.95%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
9 4 (4.76%) Risk Manager
9 4 (4.76%) Technical Manager
10 3 (3.57%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.57%) AWS SAM
1 3 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (3.57%) OAuth
1 3 (3.57%) OpenID
1 3 (3.57%) SAML
2 1 (1.19%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.24%) Security Posture
2 12 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 11 (13.10%) Cyber Threat
3 11 (13.10%) Video Conferencing
4 8 (9.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 6 (7.14%) Data Centre
5 6 (7.14%) Public Cloud
6 5 (5.95%) Clustering
6 5 (5.95%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (5.95%) Management Information System
6 5 (5.95%) Private Cloud
6 5 (5.95%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (4.76%) Cyberattack
8 3 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (2.38%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (2.38%) Life Science
9 2 (2.38%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (1.19%) Cloud Native
10 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (1.19%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 18 (21.43%) Windows
2 12 (14.29%) Mac OS
2 12 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.95%) Linux
4 1 (1.19%) Android
4 1 (1.19%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.19%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (59.52%) Cybersecurity
2 31 (36.90%) Information Security
3 30 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (35.71%) SIEM
4 21 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
4 21 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 21 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 19 (22.62%) Data Protection
6 16 (19.05%) Identity Access Management
7 14 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 14 (16.67%) Identity Management
7 14 (16.67%) IT Audit
8 13 (15.48%) Application Security
8 13 (15.48%) Business Continuity
8 13 (15.48%) Vulnerability Management
9 12 (14.29%) Data Security
10 11 (13.10%) Asset Management
10 11 (13.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 11 (13.10%) Mobile Device Management
10 11 (13.10%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 12 (14.29%) Bash
2 5 (5.95%) Python
3 2 (2.38%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.19%) Java
Qualifications
1 19 (22.62%) CISSP
2 11 (13.10%) Degree
3 10 (11.90%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (10.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 9 (10.71%) CCSP
5 7 (8.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 7 (8.33%) CISA
5 7 (8.33%) CompTIA CySA+
5 7 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
5 7 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
6 5 (5.95%) AWS Certification
7 3 (3.57%) CISM
8 2 (2.38%) CCA
8 2 (2.38%) CRISC
8 2 (2.38%) SC Cleared
8 2 (2.38%) Security Cleared
9 1 (1.19%) CCNP
9 1 (1.19%) GIAC
9 1 (1.19%) ISACA
9 1 (1.19%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (83.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (30.95%) Cyber Essentials
3 21 (25.00%) NIST
4 11 (13.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 11 (13.10%) GDPR
4 11 (13.10%) PCI DSS
5 10 (11.90%) GRC
6 8 (9.52%) SOC 1
7 5 (5.95%) ISO 9001
8 4 (4.76%) HIPAA
9 3 (3.57%) ITGC
9 3 (3.57%) NCSC
9 3 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (2.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (1.19%) COBIT
11 1 (1.19%) ISO 31000
11 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (1.19%) NIST 800
11 1 (1.19%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (15.48%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (13.10%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (7.14%) Nessus
3 4 (4.76%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.57%) Terraform
5 2 (2.38%) QRadar
6 1 (1.19%) CASB
6 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.19%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 30 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 16 (19.05%) VMware
3 13 (15.48%) Google
4 11 (13.10%) Apple
5 6 (7.14%) Cisco
6 2 (2.38%) IBM
6 2 (2.38%) Qualys
6 2 (2.38%) Splunk
7 1 (1.19%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.19%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.19%) Kenna
7 1 (1.19%) OneTrust
7 1 (1.19%) Oracle
7 1 (1.19%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.19%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.19%) Tripwire
7 1 (1.19%) Zscaler