Security Posture Contracts in the City of London

Security Posture
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 109 162
Rank change year-on-year -3 +53 +29
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 11 18 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.63% 0.82% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.80% 2.67% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 12
10th Percentile £388 £481 £401
25th Percentile £438 £541 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +5.26% +20.00%
75th Percentile £669 £656 £678
90th Percentile £769 £681 £901
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -4.17% +5.26% +20.00%

All Generic Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 610 674 1,297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.74% 30.75% 35.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 460 881
10th Percentile £363 £274 £350
25th Percentile £475 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £596 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £750
90th Percentile £800 £850 £856
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £613
% change year-on-year - -6.12% +6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 13
10th Percentile £23.80 £12.75 £17.33
25th Percentile £26.50 £14.38 -
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -27.84%
75th Percentile £65.50 £27.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £86.20 £36.60 -
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £23.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.39% -34.29% -27.84%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Security Posture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Posture in the City of London

Security Posture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Posture in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Security Posture in the City of London

Security Posture
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Posture in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Posture in the City of London

Security Posture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) OCI
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (9.09%) Datadog
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Network Security
2 2 (18.18%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) SD-WAN
2 2 (18.18%) WAN
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Security Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) IT Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) IT Risk Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Operational Security Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Operations Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Report Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Risk Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Security Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Security Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Security Operations Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) OAuth
1 2 (18.18%) OpenID
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (18.18%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (9.09%) PKI
2 1 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (45.45%) Incident Response
3 4 (36.36%) Cloud Security
3 4 (36.36%) Project Management
3 4 (36.36%) SIEM
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Key Management
4 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Security Operations
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (18.18%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (18.18%) PRINCE2
5 2 (18.18%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
5 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (18.18%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Java
1 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) OCP
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (9.09%) CEH
3 1 (9.09%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (27.27%) NIST
2 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (18.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (9.09%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) CASB
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
2 1 (9.09%) Splunk