Security Posture Contracts in London

Security Posture
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in contract job vacancies in London. 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 246 293 417
Rank change year-on-year +47 +124 +118
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 107 98 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.85% 0.55% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.37% 1.66% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 67 52
10th Percentile £406 £425 £423
25th Percentile £475 £494 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £614 £600 £569
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +5.49% -5.21%
75th Percentile £775 £700 £675
90th Percentile £850 £785 £734
England median daily rate £600 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,516 5,909 9,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.99% 33.14% 35.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,054 4,182 6,966
10th Percentile £325 £301 £375
25th Percentile £451 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £838
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 160 109
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £18.93
25th Percentile £22.60 £18.93 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%
75th Percentile £50.31 £47.81 £64.50
90th Percentile £80.05 £66.78 £83.15
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Posture in London

Security Posture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Posture in London

Security Posture
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Posture in London

Security Posture
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London -1 13 £575 -4.17% 5
South London - 2 - -
West London +12 1 £525 +16.67% 1
East London - 1 £750 -
North London - 1 £463 -
Security Posture
England

Security Posture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (1.87%) Confluence
2 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 38 (35.51%) Azure
2 13 (12.15%) Azure Sentinel
3 12 (11.21%) AWS
4 5 (4.67%) GCP
4 5 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (4.67%) OCI
5 4 (3.74%) Azure AKS
5 4 (3.74%) Entra ID
5 4 (3.74%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.74%) SaaS
6 3 (2.80%) GitHub
7 2 (1.87%) Akamai
7 2 (1.87%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.87%) Datadog
7 2 (1.87%) IaaS
7 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (1.87%) PaaS
8 1 (0.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 26 (24.30%) Network Security
2 21 (19.63%) Firewall
3 8 (7.48%) VPN
4 5 (4.67%) SD-WAN
4 5 (4.67%) TCP/IP
4 5 (4.67%) WAN
5 4 (3.74%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (3.74%) DHCP
5 4 (3.74%) SMTP
6 3 (2.80%) HTTP
7 2 (1.87%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (1.87%) DNS
7 2 (1.87%) LAN
7 2 (1.87%) MPLS
8 1 (0.93%) BGP
8 1 (0.93%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.93%) EIGRP
8 1 (0.93%) OSPF
8 1 (0.93%) SNMP
8 1 (0.93%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.61%) Tableau
2 4 (3.74%) Power BI
3 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (3.74%) JIRA
2 2 (1.87%) GitLab
3 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.93%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.93%) Gradle
3 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.93%) Maven
3 1 (0.93%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 43 (40.19%) Social Skills
2 23 (21.50%) Finance
3 12 (11.21%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.48%) Banking
5 7 (6.54%) Financial Institution
5 7 (6.54%) Legal
6 6 (5.61%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.87%) French Language
8 2 (1.87%) Front Office
8 2 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.87%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.87%) Law
8 2 (1.87%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.87%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.93%) Police
Job Titles
1 22 (20.56%) Architect
2 19 (17.76%) Analyst
2 19 (17.76%) Security Architect
2 19 (17.76%) Security Engineer
3 9 (8.41%) Lead
4 8 (7.48%) Security Analyst
5 7 (6.54%) Senior
6 6 (5.61%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 6 (5.61%) Security Manager
7 5 (4.67%) Consultant
7 5 (4.67%) IT Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) IT Security Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) Network Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) Report Analyst
7 5 (4.67%) Systems Engineer
8 4 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (3.74%) Head of Security
8 4 (3.74%) Information Security Engineer
8 4 (3.74%) Information Systems Engineer
8 4 (3.74%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.67%) OAuth
1 5 (4.67%) OpenID
1 5 (4.67%) Oracle Fusion
1 5 (4.67%) SailPoint
1 5 (4.67%) SAML
2 2 (1.87%) REST
3 1 (0.93%) .NET
3 1 (0.93%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.93%) LDAP
3 1 (0.93%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.93%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.08%) Management Information System
2 7 (6.54%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (3.74%) Cloud Security Posture
3 4 (3.74%) Cyber Security Posture
4 3 (2.80%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (2.80%) Cyberattack
4 3 (2.80%) Insider Threat
4 3 (2.80%) Operational Technology
4 3 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.87%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.87%) PKI
6 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.93%) NHS
6 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.93%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.21%) Windows
2 8 (7.48%) Linux
3 3 (2.80%) Mac OS X
3 3 (2.80%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.93%) Solaris
4 1 (0.93%) Unix
4 1 (0.93%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (41.12%) Cybersecurity
2 36 (33.64%) Incident Response
3 33 (30.84%) Cloud Security
4 32 (29.91%) Risk Management
5 26 (24.30%) Security Operations
5 26 (24.30%) SIEM
6 21 (19.63%) Vulnerability Management
7 20 (18.69%) Information Security
8 15 (14.02%) Identity Access Management
8 15 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (14.02%) Security Architecture
9 14 (13.08%) Project Management
10 13 (12.15%) Penetration Testing
10 13 (12.15%) Risk Assessment
11 12 (11.21%) Computer Science
11 12 (11.21%) Data Loss Prevention
12 11 (10.28%) DevOps
12 11 (10.28%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
13 10 (9.35%) Analytics
13 10 (9.35%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 14 (13.08%) Python
2 10 (9.35%) Java
3 7 (6.54%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.61%) SQL
5 2 (1.87%) Bash
5 2 (1.87%) C
6 1 (0.93%) BeanShell
6 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (19.63%) Security Cleared
2 19 (17.76%) CISSP
3 17 (15.89%) SC Cleared
4 15 (14.02%) Degree
5 10 (9.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (8.41%) CISM
7 8 (7.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 8 (7.48%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (5.61%) CCSP
8 6 (5.61%) GCIH
9 5 (4.67%) OCP
9 5 (4.67%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (3.74%) AWS Certification
10 4 (3.74%) CEH
11 3 (2.80%) Azure Certification
11 3 (2.80%) CRISC
11 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (1.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (1.87%) CREST Certified
12 2 (1.87%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (33.64%) NIST
2 35 (32.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (13.08%) GDPR
4 10 (9.35%) SLA
5 7 (6.54%) GRC
5 7 (6.54%) HIPAA
6 6 (5.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 6 (5.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (4.67%) PCI DSS
8 3 (2.80%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (2.80%) SOC 2
9 2 (1.87%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (1.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (1.87%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.93%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (3.74%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.93%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.93%) IAG
2 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.93%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.93%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (3.74%) Kubernetes
1 4 (3.74%) Terraform
2 3 (2.80%) CASB
3 2 (1.87%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (1.87%) QRadar
3 2 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.93%) Ansible
4 1 (0.93%) Grafana
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.93%) Nessus
4 1 (0.93%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.93%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 30 (28.04%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.28%) Splunk
3 9 (8.41%) Palo Alto
4 8 (7.48%) Cisco
5 7 (6.54%) Qualys
6 5 (4.67%) Oracle
7 4 (3.74%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.87%) Aruba
8 2 (1.87%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (1.87%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.87%) Google
8 2 (1.87%) Meraki
8 2 (1.87%) SAP
9 1 (0.93%) Databricks
9 1 (0.93%) Exabeam
9 1 (0.93%) Sonatype
9 1 (0.93%) Ubiquiti
9 1 (0.93%) Veracode
9 1 (0.93%) VMware
9 1 (0.93%) Zscaler