Security Posture Contracts in England

Security Posture
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in contract job vacancies in England. 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 297 354 521
Rank change year-on-year +57 +167 +139
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 192 190 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.79% 0.51% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.31% 1.66% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 142 88
10th Percentile £413 £413 £399
25th Percentile £475 £425 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £700 £684 £675
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -11.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.88 - -
Median hourly rate £28.75 - -
75th Percentile £30.63 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £28.75 - -

All Generic Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,317 11,465 17,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.15% 30.83% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 7,505 11,795
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 827 591
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%
75th Percentile £64.63 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Posture in England

Security Posture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Security Posture in England

Security Posture
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Posture in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Posture in England

Security Posture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Posture in England.

Hourly rate trend for Security Posture in England

Security Posture
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +47 107 £614 +2.33% 132
South East +56 22 £584 -28.40% 51
Midlands +25 20 £625 +1.63% 15
North of England +24 18 £555 -5.93% 25
West Midlands +16 15 £625 +1.42% 12
North West +19 13 £593 +0.42% 16
South West +13 11 £656 +54.41% 15
East Midlands +12 5 £500 +25.00% 3
Yorkshire +9 3 £625 - 9
North East - 2 £534 -
Security Posture
UK

Security Posture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.08%) Confluence
2 1 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.52%) nginx
2 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 74 (38.54%) Azure
2 33 (17.19%) AWS
3 27 (14.06%) Azure Sentinel
4 20 (10.42%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 16 (8.33%) GCP
6 9 (4.69%) Power Platform
6 9 (4.69%) SaaS
7 8 (4.17%) Azure AKS
8 6 (3.13%) OCI
9 4 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (2.08%) GitHub
9 4 (2.08%) IaaS
9 4 (2.08%) PaaS
10 3 (1.56%) Akamai
10 3 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.56%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 41 (21.35%) Network Security
2 31 (16.15%) Firewall
3 12 (6.25%) VPN
4 8 (4.17%) SD-WAN
4 8 (4.17%) TCP/IP
4 8 (4.17%) WAN
5 5 (2.60%) DHCP
5 5 (2.60%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (2.08%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (2.08%) DNS
6 4 (2.08%) LAN
6 4 (2.08%) SMTP
7 3 (1.56%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (1.56%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (1.56%) HTTP
7 3 (1.56%) MPLS
7 3 (1.56%) SSL
8 2 (1.04%) BGP
8 2 (1.04%) VLAN
8 2 (1.04%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.69%) Power BI
2 7 (3.65%) Tableau
3 4 (2.08%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.04%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.52%) DB2
5 1 (0.52%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (2.60%) JIRA
2 3 (1.56%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (1.04%) GitLab
4 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.52%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.52%) Gradle
4 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.52%) Maven
4 1 (0.52%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.52%) Snyk
4 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 67 (34.90%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.23%) Finance
3 28 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.85%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.25%) Legal
6 9 (4.69%) Banking
7 8 (4.17%) Financial Institution
7 8 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.56%) Law
10 3 (1.56%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.56%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.04%) French Language
11 2 (1.04%) Front Office
11 2 (1.04%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.52%) Automotive
12 1 (0.52%) Electronics
12 1 (0.52%) Marketing
12 1 (0.52%) Police
Job Titles
1 38 (19.79%) Architect
2 34 (17.71%) Security Architect
3 29 (15.10%) Analyst
4 27 (14.06%) Security Engineer
5 18 (9.38%) Lead
6 16 (8.33%) Consultant
7 11 (5.73%) Security Analyst
7 11 (5.73%) Senior
8 9 (4.69%) SOC Analyst
9 8 (4.17%) Security Manager
10 7 (3.65%) Administrator
10 7 (3.65%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 6 (3.13%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 6 (3.13%) Head of Security
11 6 (3.13%) Network Engineer
11 6 (3.13%) Security Consultant
12 5 (2.60%) Information Security Engineer
12 5 (2.60%) IT Security Engineer
12 5 (2.60%) Report Analyst
12 5 (2.60%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.69%) SAML
2 7 (3.65%) OAuth
2 7 (3.65%) OpenID
3 6 (3.13%) LDAP
3 6 (3.13%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (3.13%) SailPoint
4 2 (1.04%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.04%) REST
5 1 (0.52%) .NET
5 1 (0.52%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.52%) JSON
5 1 (0.52%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.52%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.46%) Management Information System
2 11 (5.73%) Security Operations Centre
3 8 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (4.17%) Operational Technology
4 7 (3.65%) Cloud Security Posture
4 7 (3.65%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.13%) Cyber Security Posture
5 6 (3.13%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.60%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.08%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (2.08%) Cyberattack
7 4 (2.08%) PKI
8 3 (1.56%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.56%) Insider Threat
9 2 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.04%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.04%) SCADA
10 1 (0.52%) NHS
10 1 (0.52%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 26 (13.54%) Windows
2 16 (8.33%) Linux
3 8 (4.17%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.56%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.52%) Solaris
5 1 (0.52%) Unix
5 1 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (38.02%) Cybersecurity
2 61 (31.77%) Cloud Security
3 59 (30.73%) Incident Response
4 50 (26.04%) SIEM
5 48 (25.00%) Risk Management
6 47 (24.48%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (24.48%) Vulnerability Management
7 42 (21.88%) Security Operations
8 34 (17.71%) Information Security
9 27 (14.06%) Migration
9 27 (14.06%) Security Architecture
10 26 (13.54%) Identity Access Management
11 21 (10.94%) Application Security
11 21 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (10.94%) Project Management
11 21 (10.94%) Threat Intelligence
12 19 (9.90%) Computer Science
12 19 (9.90%) DevSecOps
12 19 (9.90%) Risk Assessment
13 18 (9.38%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 23 (11.98%) Python
2 17 (8.85%) PowerShell
3 12 (6.25%) SQL
4 11 (5.73%) Java
5 2 (1.04%) Bash
5 2 (1.04%) C
5 2 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.52%) BeanShell
6 1 (0.52%) Ruby
6 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (19.79%) CISSP
1 38 (19.79%) Security Cleared
2 30 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 25 (13.02%) Degree
4 22 (11.46%) CISM
5 14 (7.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (6.77%) CEH
6 13 (6.77%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (5.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 8 (4.17%) GCIH
9 7 (3.65%) CCSP
9 7 (3.65%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (3.65%) CRISC
10 6 (3.13%) CISA
10 6 (3.13%) OCP
10 6 (3.13%) Oracle Certification
11 5 (2.60%) Azure Certification
12 4 (2.08%) AWS Certification
12 4 (2.08%) DV Cleared
12 4 (2.08%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (27.60%) NIST
2 47 (24.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (10.42%) GDPR
4 12 (6.25%) PCI DSS
5 10 (5.21%) SLA
6 8 (4.17%) HIPAA
6 8 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (3.65%) GRC
7 7 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (1.56%) PMO
9 3 (1.56%) SOC 2
10 2 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (1.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (1.04%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (1.04%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.52%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (9.38%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.08%) Docker
3 2 (1.04%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.52%) IAG
4 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.69%) Terraform
3 7 (3.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (3.65%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (2.60%) SCCM
5 4 (2.08%) CASB
5 4 (2.08%) QRadar
6 3 (1.56%) AirWatch
6 3 (1.56%) Cisco Prime
6 3 (1.56%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (1.56%) McAfee ePO
6 3 (1.56%) Nessus
7 2 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.04%) Norton AntiVirus
7 2 (1.04%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 1 (0.52%) Ansible
8 1 (0.52%) Argo
8 1 (0.52%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.52%) Istio
8 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 63 (32.81%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.38%) Splunk
3 13 (6.77%) Qualys
4 11 (5.73%) Cisco
4 11 (5.73%) Oracle
4 11 (5.73%) Palo Alto
5 6 (3.13%) CyberArk
5 6 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.13%) SolarWinds
6 4 (2.08%) Aruba
6 4 (2.08%) Google
7 3 (1.56%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.56%) McAfee
7 3 (1.56%) Meraki
7 3 (1.56%) Rapid7
7 3 (1.56%) SAP
7 3 (1.56%) Tenable
8 2 (1.04%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (1.04%) Dell KACE
8 2 (1.04%) Ubiquiti