Security Posture Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

Security Posture
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in contract job vacancies in Ipswich. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 14 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 3.57% 3.85% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 13.33% 7.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £505 £576 -
25th Percentile £513 £593 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £665 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% - -
75th Percentile £538 £718 -
90th Percentile £545 £722 -
Suffolk median daily rate £525 £665 -
% change year-on-year -21.05% - -

All Generic Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 15 28 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 26.79% 53.85% 20.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 7
10th Percentile £469 £339 £215
25th Percentile £538 £380 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £450 £288
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% +56.52% -58.93%
75th Percentile £741 £671 £475
90th Percentile £750 £728 £505
Suffolk median daily rate £500 £375 £288
% change year-on-year +33.33% +30.43% -58.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.00 - £40.75
Median hourly rate £21.00 - £41.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +159.38%
75th Percentile £23.00 - £42.25
90th Percentile - - -
Suffolk median hourly rate £21.00 - £11.25
% change year-on-year - - -29.69%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

Security Posture job vacancy trend in Ipswich

Security Posture
Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing Security Posture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing Security Posture

Security Posture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Modbus
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Application Security Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Security Risk Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Application Security
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) CEH
2 1 (50.00%) CISM
2 1 (50.00%) CRISC
2 1 (50.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (50.00%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) Qualys
1 1 (50.00%) Tenable