Security Posture Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Security Posture
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in contract job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.52% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.61% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £575 - -

All Generic Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 124 92 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 32.04% 36.65% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 62 78
10th Percentile £167 £195 £178
25th Percentile £265 £371 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £452 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.74% -7.28% +13.04%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £563
90th Percentile £675 £649 £675
East of England median daily rate £470 £514 £475
% change year-on-year -8.52% +8.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 17
10th Percentile £16.34 £17.24 £25.00
25th Percentile £21.51 £18.22 £35.50
Median hourly rate £31.47 £23.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.80% -58.18% +39.93%
75th Percentile £34.91 £60.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £48.75 £61.00 £66.25
East of England median hourly rate £22.50 £66.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -65.91% +20.00% -15.38%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Posture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Security Posture job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Security Posture
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Security Posture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Security Posture

Security Posture
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Posture within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 17 April 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge - 1 £575 - 1
Security Posture
East of England

Security Posture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) AWS KMS
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) SOAR
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CCSP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) HIPAA
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft