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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 357 520
Rank change year-on-year +57 +163 +139
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 185 187 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.78% 0.51% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.27% 1.67% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 135 90
10th Percentile £425 £413 £400
25th Percentile £508 £425 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £725 £688 £688
90th Percentile £825 £775 £751
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.88 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £28.75 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -55.77% - -
75th Percentile £30.63 £67.50 -
90th Percentile £31.76 - -
UK median hourly rate £28.75 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -55.77% - -

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 8,152 11,176 16,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.20% 30.76% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,327 7,323 11,208
10th Percentile £300 £270 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -3.51% +3.64%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 821 571
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.97 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £34.21 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% +52.15% -15.15%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £63.00
90th Percentile £82.30 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.29 £32.12 £22.08
% change year-on-year -2.58% +45.45% -19.71%

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 23 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 23 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 +54 101 £641 +16.55% 174
Midlands +31 22 £625 +38.89% 139
South East +59 21 £567 -30.43% 201
North of England +18 18 £555 -14.62% 147
West Midlands +24 17 £631 +26.25% 82
North West +8 13 £593 -8.85% 68
South West +6 10 £781 +83.82% 84
East Midlands +13 5 £500 +25.00% 50
Yorkshire +16 3 £625 - 63
East of England +31 2 - - 97
North East - 2 £534 - 16
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 (2.16%) Confluence
2 1 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.54%) nginx
2 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 68 (36.76%) Azure
2 31 (16.76%) AWS
3 22 (11.89%) Azure Sentinel
4 16 (8.65%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (7.57%) Entra ID
5 14 (7.57%) GCP
6 9 (4.86%) Power Platform
7 8 (4.32%) SaaS
8 6 (3.24%) OCI
9 5 (2.70%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.16%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.16%) IaaS
10 4 (2.16%) PaaS
11 3 (1.62%) Akamai
11 3 (1.62%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (1.62%) GitHub
12 2 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.08%) Azure Stack
12 2 (1.08%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 35 (18.92%) Network Security
2 32 (17.30%) Firewall
3 12 (6.49%) VPN
4 6 (3.24%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (3.24%) SD-WAN
4 6 (3.24%) TCP/IP
4 6 (3.24%) WAN
5 4 (2.16%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (2.16%) DNS
5 4 (2.16%) LAN
5 4 (2.16%) MPLS
6 3 (1.62%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (1.62%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (1.62%) DHCP
7 2 (1.08%) BGP
7 2 (1.08%) SMTP
7 2 (1.08%) VLAN
7 2 (1.08%) Wireless
8 1 (0.54%) EIGRP
8 1 (0.54%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.86%) Power BI
2 6 (3.24%) Tableau
3 4 (2.16%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.08%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.54%) DB2
5 1 (0.54%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.54%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (2.70%) JIRA
2 3 (1.62%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (1.08%) GitLab
4 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.54%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.54%) Gradle
4 1 (0.54%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.54%) Maven
4 1 (0.54%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.54%) Snyk
4 1 (0.54%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 66 (35.68%) Social Skills
2 32 (17.30%) Finance
3 27 (14.59%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.73%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.95%) Legal
6 9 (4.86%) Banking
6 9 (4.86%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (4.32%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.78%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.62%) Law
10 3 (1.62%) Marketing
10 3 (1.62%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.08%) French Language
11 2 (1.08%) Front Office
11 2 (1.08%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.54%) Automotive
12 1 (0.54%) Electronics
12 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (21.08%) Architect
2 35 (18.92%) Security Architect
3 26 (14.05%) Analyst
4 25 (13.51%) Security Engineer
5 19 (10.27%) Consultant
6 18 (9.73%) Lead
7 12 (6.49%) Security Analyst
8 11 (5.95%) Senior
9 9 (4.86%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 9 (4.86%) Security Consultant
9 9 (4.86%) Security Manager
10 7 (3.78%) Head of Security
10 7 (3.78%) SOC Analyst
11 6 (3.24%) Network Engineer
12 5 (2.70%) Administrator
12 5 (2.70%) Information Security Engineer
12 5 (2.70%) IT Architect
12 5 (2.70%) IT Security Architect
12 5 (2.70%) Report Analyst
12 5 (2.70%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.78%) OAuth
1 7 (3.78%) OpenID
1 7 (3.78%) SAML
2 6 (3.24%) LDAP
2 6 (3.24%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (3.24%) SailPoint
3 2 (1.08%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.54%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.54%) JSON
4 1 (0.54%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.54%) REST
4 1 (0.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.05%) Management Information System
2 14 (7.57%) Security Operations Centre
3 9 (4.86%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (3.78%) Cyber Security Posture
4 7 (3.78%) Operational Technology
4 7 (3.78%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.24%) Cloud Security Posture
6 5 (2.70%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.16%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (2.16%) PKI
8 3 (1.62%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.62%) Insider Threat
8 3 (1.62%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.08%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.08%) SCADA
10 1 (0.54%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.54%) NHS
10 1 (0.54%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.19%) Windows
2 13 (7.03%) Linux
3 4 (2.16%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.54%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.54%) Solaris
4 1 (0.54%) Unix
4 1 (0.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (42.16%) Cybersecurity
2 61 (32.97%) Incident Response
3 56 (30.27%) Cloud Security
4 51 (27.57%) Vulnerability Management
5 49 (26.49%) Risk Management
5 49 (26.49%) SIEM
6 46 (24.86%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (24.86%) Security Operations
7 32 (17.30%) Information Security
8 26 (14.05%) Security Architecture
9 25 (13.51%) Identity Access Management
10 23 (12.43%) Threat Intelligence
11 22 (11.89%) Migration
11 22 (11.89%) Penetration Testing
12 20 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (10.81%) Security Monitoring
13 19 (10.27%) Computer Science
14 18 (9.73%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 18 (9.73%) Project Management
14 18 (9.73%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 23 (12.43%) Python
2 12 (6.49%) PowerShell
2 12 (6.49%) SQL
3 11 (5.95%) Java
4 3 (1.62%) Bash
5 2 (1.08%) C
5 2 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.54%) BeanShell
6 1 (0.54%) Ruby
6 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (20.00%) CISSP
1 37 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 30 (16.22%) SC Cleared
3 26 (14.05%) Degree
4 21 (11.35%) CISM
5 14 (7.57%) CEH
5 14 (7.57%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (7.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (5.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 8 (4.32%) CompTIA Security+
7 8 (4.32%) GCIH
8 7 (3.78%) CCSP
8 7 (3.78%) CRISC
9 6 (3.24%) CISA
9 6 (3.24%) OCP
9 6 (3.24%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (2.16%) DV Cleared
10 4 (2.16%) GIAC
10 4 (2.16%) OSCP
10 4 (2.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (31.35%) NIST
2 51 (27.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (12.97%) GDPR
4 16 (8.65%) PCI DSS
5 10 (5.41%) HIPAA
5 10 (5.41%) SLA
6 8 (4.32%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (4.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (3.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 6 (3.24%) GRC
9 3 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.62%) PMO
9 3 (1.62%) SOC 2
10 2 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (1.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (1.08%) COBIT
10 2 (1.08%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (1.08%) NCSC
10 2 (1.08%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.54%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 17 (9.19%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.62%) Docker
3 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (4.86%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (3.78%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (3.24%) Terraform
4 4 (2.16%) CASB
4 4 (2.16%) QRadar
5 3 (1.62%) AirWatch
5 3 (1.62%) Cisco Prime
5 3 (1.62%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (1.62%) Nessus
5 3 (1.62%) SCCM
6 1 (0.54%) Ansible
6 1 (0.54%) Argo
6 1 (0.54%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.54%) Grafana
6 1 (0.54%) Istio
6 1 (0.54%) Network Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (0.54%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.54%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.54%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 64 (34.59%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.19%) Splunk
3 12 (6.49%) Oracle
4 11 (5.95%) Cisco
4 11 (5.95%) Palo Alto
5 9 (4.86%) Qualys
6 7 (3.78%) ServiceNow
7 6 (3.24%) CyberArk
7 6 (3.24%) SolarWinds
8 4 (2.16%) Aruba
8 4 (2.16%) Google
9 3 (1.62%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.62%) Meraki
9 3 (1.62%) Rapid7
9 3 (1.62%) SAP
9 3 (1.62%) Tenable
10 2 (1.08%) Dell KACE
10 2 (1.08%) IBM
10 2 (1.08%) Ubiquiti
10 2 (1.08%) Zscaler