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 advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Posture over the 6 months to 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 505 675
Rank change year-on-year +137 +170 -93
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 184 131 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.49% 0.28% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.62% 0.82% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 91 78
10th Percentile £413 £400 £382
25th Percentile £475 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £675
90th Percentile £791 £763 £804
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -52.94%

All Generic Skills
England

Security Posture is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,352 15,901 24,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.41% 33.67% 33.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,352 11,081 17,275
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £415 £450 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +3.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 840 559 605
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.35 £10.63 £17.42
Median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +3.92%
75th Percentile £62.81 £62.73 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £22.26 £26.98
% change year-on-year +59.51% -17.51% +5.80%

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 7 June 2024.

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 7 June 2024. 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 +117 103 £550 -8.33% 45
South West +39 31 £600 - 10
North of England +27 23 £595 -5.56% 14
North West +29 20 £590 -4.65% 10
South East +20 15 £800 +39.13% 13
Midlands +18 9 £450 -40.00% 9
West Midlands +11 6 £500 -33.33% 4
Yorkshire +13 3 £600 -20.00% 4
East Midlands +10 3 £400 -23.81% 5
East of England +7 1 £500 +130.95% 5
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 9 (4.89%) Confluence
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (2.72%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 46 (25.00%) Azure
2 31 (16.85%) AWS
3 15 (8.15%) GCP
4 13 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (4.89%) Entra ID
6 8 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
6 8 (4.35%) SaaS
7 7 (3.80%) PaaS
8 6 (3.26%) OpenShift
9 4 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.17%) AWS CloudTrail
9 4 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (2.17%) IaaS
10 3 (1.63%) GitHub
11 2 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.09%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.09%) Google App Engine
11 2 (1.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (0.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 1 (0.54%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 32 (17.39%) Firewall
2 22 (11.96%) Network Security
3 8 (4.35%) DNS
3 8 (4.35%) VPN
4 6 (3.26%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (3.26%) Cisco ISE
5 5 (2.72%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.63%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (1.63%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.09%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (1.09%) SSL
7 2 (1.09%) WAN
7 2 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.54%) DHCP
8 1 (0.54%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.17%) Big Data
1 4 (2.17%) BigQuery
2 3 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.63%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.54%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.54%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (7.61%) JIRA
2 6 (3.26%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.09%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.09%) Git
3 2 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.54%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.54%) GitLab
4 1 (0.54%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (0.54%) MSI
General
1 44 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 42 (22.83%) Finance
3 31 (16.85%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (13.59%) Banking
5 10 (5.43%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (4.89%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.35%) Legal
8 6 (3.26%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.63%) Marketing
12 2 (1.09%) Automotive
12 2 (1.09%) Law
13 1 (0.54%) French Language
13 1 (0.54%) Military
13 1 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (24.46%) Architect
2 30 (16.30%) Security Engineer
3 28 (15.22%) Security Architect
4 27 (14.67%) Consultant
5 24 (13.04%) Analyst
6 18 (9.78%) Security Consultant
7 12 (6.52%) Security Analyst
8 10 (5.43%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 8 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Architect
9 8 (4.35%) SOC Analyst
10 7 (3.80%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 7 (3.80%) Security Manager
10 7 (3.80%) SOC Engineer
11 6 (3.26%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (3.26%) Information Analyst
11 6 (3.26%) Information Security Analyst
12 5 (2.72%) Information Manager
12 5 (2.72%) Information Security Manager
12 5 (2.72%) Senior
12 5 (2.72%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.26%) ModSecurity
2 4 (2.17%) .NET
2 4 (2.17%) .NET Framework
3 2 (1.09%) Google JAX
3 2 (1.09%) OAuth
3 2 (1.09%) OpenID
3 2 (1.09%) PyTorch
3 2 (1.09%) SAML
3 2 (1.09%) scikit-learn
3 2 (1.09%) SPML
3 2 (1.09%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.54%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.54%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.96%) Cyber Threat
2 16 (8.70%) Public Cloud
3 15 (8.15%) Management Information System
4 13 (7.07%) PKI
5 8 (4.35%) Operational Technology
5 8 (4.35%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (3.80%) Cloud Security Posture
7 6 (3.26%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.26%) Cyberattack
7 6 (3.26%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.72%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (2.17%) Cyber Security Posture
9 4 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.17%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.63%) Industry 4.0
10 3 (1.63%) IoT
11 2 (1.09%) Algorithms
11 2 (1.09%) Cyber Defence
11 2 (1.09%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.15%) Windows
2 14 (7.61%) Linux
3 4 (2.17%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.63%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.09%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (47.28%) Cybersecurity
2 38 (20.65%) Incident Response
3 36 (19.57%) SIEM
4 35 (19.02%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (16.85%) Information Security
6 30 (16.30%) Security Operations
7 29 (15.76%) Security Architecture
8 28 (15.22%) Vulnerability Management
9 26 (14.13%) Penetration Testing
10 25 (13.59%) Cloud Security
10 25 (13.59%) Threat Detection
11 21 (11.41%) Risk Management
12 20 (10.87%) CI/CD
12 20 (10.87%) Computer Science
12 20 (10.87%) Threat Intelligence
13 19 (10.33%) Agile
13 19 (10.33%) Identity Access Management
14 18 (9.78%) DevSecOps
14 18 (9.78%) Threat Modelling
14 18 (9.78%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 24 (13.04%) Python
2 14 (7.61%) Kusto Query Language
3 10 (5.43%) PowerShell
4 8 (4.35%) Java
4 8 (4.35%) Search Processing Language
5 6 (3.26%) SQL
6 4 (2.17%) C
6 4 (2.17%) C++
7 3 (1.63%) Ruby
8 2 (1.09%) Perl
8 2 (1.09%) R
8 2 (1.09%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.54%) Bash
9 1 (0.54%) Go
9 1 (0.54%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (20.11%) Security Cleared
2 36 (19.57%) CISSP
3 32 (17.39%) SC Cleared
4 25 (13.59%) Degree
5 24 (13.04%) CISM
6 12 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (5.98%) DV Cleared
8 10 (5.43%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (5.43%) CompTIA Security+
9 8 (4.35%) CEH
10 7 (3.80%) CCNP
10 7 (3.80%) CISA
11 5 (2.72%) GIAC
12 4 (2.17%) AWS Certification
12 4 (2.17%) CREST Certified
12 4 (2.17%) Master's Degree
13 3 (1.63%) CCSP
13 3 (1.63%) OSCP
14 2 (1.09%) CRISC
14 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (23.37%) NIST
2 25 (13.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (9.24%) GDPR
4 10 (5.43%) NCSC
5 8 (4.35%) PCI DSS
6 7 (3.80%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (3.26%) GRC
7 6 (3.26%) NIST 800
8 4 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (2.17%) SLA
9 2 (1.09%) Accessibility
9 2 (1.09%) COBIT
9 2 (1.09%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.54%) COSO
10 1 (0.54%) ISA99
10 1 (0.54%) QA
10 1 (0.54%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (3.80%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.26%) Docker
3 6 (3.26%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.09%) Firmware
5 1 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (5.98%) Terraform
2 9 (4.89%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.89%) Nessus
3 6 (3.26%) Ansible
3 6 (3.26%) OPNET
4 4 (2.17%) PowerCLI
4 4 (2.17%) QRadar
4 4 (2.17%) SCCM
4 4 (2.17%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 2 (1.09%) CASB
6 1 (0.54%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.54%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.54%) Nmap
6 1 (0.54%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 71 (38.59%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.70%) Cisco
3 14 (7.61%) Google
4 13 (7.07%) Splunk
5 12 (6.52%) Qualys
5 12 (6.52%) VMware
6 11 (5.98%) Atlassian
6 11 (5.98%) Palo Alto
7 9 (4.89%) Rapid7
8 6 (3.26%) Juniper
9 5 (2.72%) CA
9 5 (2.72%) ScienceLogic
10 4 (2.17%) F5
10 4 (2.17%) Ping Identity
10 4 (2.17%) Salesforce
10 4 (2.17%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.63%) Fortinet
12 2 (1.09%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (1.09%) Checkmarx
12 2 (1.09%) Veracode