Job market reports · Skill · October 2026
soc 2
260 live US technical postings name soc 2 in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.
Which roles ask for it
Share of the 260 postings naming soc 2 that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1Security Engineer46.2%
- 2Software Engineer25%
- 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer23.8%
- 4Data Engineer1.5%
- 5Full-Stack Engineer1.2%
What postings asking for it pay
Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.
Where those jobs are
Metro share of the postings naming this skill.
- 1San Francisco, CA20%
- 2Remote18.8%
- 3New York, NY11.9%
- 4Silicon Valley, CA6.2%
- 5Boston, MA5.4%
- 6Seattle, WA2.7%
- 7Austin, TX1.5%
- 8Chicago, IL1.2%
How we counted
967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.