Security Posture Contracts in Birmingham

Security Posture
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 65 74
Rank change year-on-year +17 +9 -
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.38% 0.26% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.38% 0.85% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £522 - -
25th Percentile £535 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.74% - -
75th Percentile £587 £488 -
90th Percentile £596 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £625 £616 £600
% change year-on-year +1.42% +2.71% -

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

Security Posture falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 145 234 317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 27.78% 30.27% 35.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 155 206
10th Percentile £160 £260 £263
25th Percentile £349 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £601 £575 £648
90th Percentile £675 £718 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 8
10th Percentile £30.05 £18.88 £14.10
25th Percentile £30.11 £22.33 £17.44
Median hourly rate £30.45 £26.00 £22.35
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% +16.32% +26.29%
75th Percentile £30.68 £40.81 £64.69
90th Percentile - £54.80 £98.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.18 £22.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year +25.24% -6.25% +51.32%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Security Posture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Security Posture in Birmingham

Security Posture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Posture in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Security Posture in Birmingham

Security Posture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security Advisor
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Advisor
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Due Diligence
2 1 (50.00%) Forensic Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Key Management
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) CEH
2 1 (50.00%) CISA
2 1 (50.00%) CISM
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) OCP
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle