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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 64 71
Rank change year-on-year +16 +7 -
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 8 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.42% 0.29% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.15% 1.04% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £445 - -
25th Percentile £483 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £750
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -36.67% -
75th Percentile £538 £488 -
90th Percentile £577 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £775 £600 £750
% change year-on-year +29.17% -20.00% +30.43%

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 193 192 296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 34.34% 28.11% 34.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 121 171
10th Percentile £195 £230 £263
25th Percentile £315 £381 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £675 £630
90th Percentile £600 £750 £713
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £538 £513
% change year-on-year -9.34% +4.93% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 11
10th Percentile - £19.70 £24.00
25th Percentile - £30.25 £26.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £40.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.41% +35.00% +69.49%
75th Percentile - £53.13 £42.40
90th Percentile £41.49 £56.25 £97.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.91 £33.93 £27.50
% change year-on-year -0.06% +23.38% +44.74%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Posture in Birmingham over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 6 (75.00%) AWS
1 6 (75.00%) GCP
2 5 (62.50%) Akamai
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) Firewall
2 5 (62.50%) Wireshark
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security
General
1 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (12.50%) Architect
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Information Security Advisor
1 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Architect
1 1 (12.50%) Security Advisor
1 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
1 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) OAuth
1 1 (12.50%) OpenID
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (12.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) DevSecOps
1 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (62.50%) Application Security
2 5 (62.50%) Ethical Hacking
2 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
3 4 (50.00%) Security Testing
4 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Deployment
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (37.50%) OWASP
5 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
5 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
5 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Reverse Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) SIEM
5 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) CEH
2 1 (12.50%) CISA
2 1 (12.50%) CISM
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) OCP
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) NIST
2 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (12.50%) GDPR
3 1 (12.50%) HIPAA
3 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (12.50%) NCSC
3 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) F5
1 5 (62.50%) Splunk
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle