Security Posture Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Security Posture
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 77 -
Rank change year-on-year -16 - -
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 14 10 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.93% 0.78% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.75% 2.72% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 0
10th Percentile £435 £500 -
25th Percentile £525 £533 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.07% - -
75th Percentile £602 £713 -
90th Percentile £740 £785 -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £643
% change year-on-year -12.50% -6.61% +7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £28.12 - -
25th Percentile £29.02 - -
Median hourly rate £32.11 - -
75th Percentile £51.14 - -
90th Percentile £80.46 - -
England median hourly rate £33.50 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -48.46% - -

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 510 367 625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 33.82% 28.67% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 169 341
10th Percentile £190 £246 £188
25th Percentile £363 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £625 £588 £569
90th Percentile £713 £696 £675
England median daily rate £520 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -4.15% -1.36% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 44 83
10th Percentile £12.97 £26.25 £22.00
25th Percentile £15.53 £35.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £61.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.33% -6.15% +59.59%
75th Percentile £67.50 £75.00 -
90th Percentile £79.00 £95.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £46.18 £44.50
% change year-on-year -40.45% +3.78% +50.85%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Security Posture job vacancy trend in the East of England

Security Posture
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Security Posture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Security Posture

Security Posture
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Posture in the East of England over the 6 months to 15 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Posture in the East of England

Security Posture
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Security Posture.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Security Posture

Security Posture
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Posture in the East of England over the 6 months to 15 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Posture in the East of England

Security Posture
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 15 November 2025. 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
Hertfordshire -13 7 £553 -27.48% 6
Cambridgeshire -3 3 £850 +21.43% 4
Suffolk +8 2 £525 -21.05%
Bedfordshire -13 1 - -
Essex - 1 £338 -
Security Posture
England

Security Posture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) 802.11
2 2 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (14.29%) SD-WAN
2 2 (14.29%) VPN
2 2 (14.29%) WAN
2 2 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (7.14%) Modbus
3 1 (7.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (7.14%) Burp Suite
2 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Analyst
1 4 (28.57%) Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) Security Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Compliance Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Information Security Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Risk Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Risk Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Threat Intelligence Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) 802.1X
2 1 (7.14%) JWT
2 1 (7.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 3 (21.43%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (21.43%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (7.14%) Operational Technology
2 1 (7.14%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Security Operations
2 7 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 6 (42.86%) Information Security
3 6 (42.86%) Threat Modelling
4 5 (35.71%) Vulnerability Management
5 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (28.57%) Decision-Making
5 4 (28.57%) SIEM
6 3 (21.43%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security
6 3 (21.43%) Cyber Intelligence
6 3 (21.43%) Cyber Threat Analysis
6 3 (21.43%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 3 (21.43%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 3 (21.43%) OSINT
6 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
6 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (21.43%) Threat Analysis
6 3 (21.43%) Threat Detection
6 3 (21.43%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) Bicep
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) CISSP
2 4 (28.57%) CISM
2 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (21.43%) OSCP
3 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
4 2 (14.29%) CCIE
4 2 (14.29%) CEH
4 2 (14.29%) CRISC
5 1 (7.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
5 1 (7.14%) CCNP
5 1 (7.14%) CCSP
5 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
5 1 (7.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (71.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (71.43%) NIST
2 7 (50.00%) GDPR
3 6 (42.86%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (42.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (21.43%) GRC
4 3 (21.43%) PCI DSS
5 2 (14.29%) COBIT
6 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Ansible
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) FortiGate
3 1 (7.14%) Istio
3 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Cisco
1 2 (14.29%) Computacenter
1 2 (14.29%) Meraki
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 2 (14.29%) Palo Alto
2 1 (7.14%) Clearswift
2 1 (7.14%) Cribl.io
2 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
2 1 (7.14%) Qualys
2 1 (7.14%) Tenable
2 1 (7.14%) Zscaler