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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

soc 2

244 live US technical postings name soc 2 in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 244 postings naming soc 2 that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Security Engineer44.3%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer25.8%
  3. 3Software Engineer23%
  4. 4AI Engineer2%
  5. 5Data Engineer2%
  6. 6Full-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.

Disclosed pay where soc 2 is named
n = 109
10th
$155k
25th
$175k
Median
$205k
75th
$237k
90th
$262k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA20.9%
  2. 2Remote17.2%
  3. 3New York, NY11.1%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA7%
  5. 5Boston, MA5.3%
  6. 6Chicago, IL2%
  7. 7Seattle, WA2%
  8. 8Austin, TX1.6%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.