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

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 241 292 411
Rank change year-on-year +51 +119 +129
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 100 104 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.83% 0.60% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.28% 1.79% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 73 51
10th Percentile £413 £425 £420
25th Percentile £508 £475 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £775 £700 £681
90th Percentile £849 £724 £700
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 4,380 5,824 9,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.14% 33.34% 36.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,943 4,116 6,683
10th Percentile £333 £313 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £743
90th Percentile £838 £850 £838
England median daily rate £530 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -3.64% -3.51% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 150 106
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.49 £18.47
25th Percentile £22.57 £19.40 £21.24
Median hourly rate £30.90 £27.42 £34.81
Median % change year-on-year +12.70% -21.23% -19.98%
75th Percentile £47.06 £50.63 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.25 £86.65
England median hourly rate £33.91 £35.50 £22.21
% change year-on-year -4.48% +59.87% -16.21%

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 29 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 29 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 -5 9 £583 +1.39% 5
South London - 3 £650 -
East London +19 1 £750 +38.89% 1
West London +12 1 £525 +16.67% 2
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 (2.00%) Confluence
2 1 (1.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 36 (36.00%) Azure
2 13 (13.00%) AWS
3 11 (11.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (5.00%) GCP
4 5 (5.00%) OCI
5 4 (4.00%) Entra ID
5 4 (4.00%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.00%) SaaS
6 3 (3.00%) Azure AKS
6 3 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (2.00%) Akamai
7 2 (2.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (2.00%) Azure Stack
7 2 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.00%) Datadog
7 2 (2.00%) GitHub
7 2 (2.00%) IaaS
7 2 (2.00%) PaaS
8 1 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 24 (24.00%) Network Security
2 22 (22.00%) Firewall
3 8 (8.00%) VPN
4 4 (4.00%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (3.00%) MPLS
5 3 (3.00%) SD-WAN
5 3 (3.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.00%) WAN
6 2 (2.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (2.00%) DHCP
6 2 (2.00%) DNS
6 2 (2.00%) LAN
6 2 (2.00%) SMTP
7 1 (1.00%) BGP
7 1 (1.00%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (1.00%) EIGRP
7 1 (1.00%) HTTP
7 1 (1.00%) OSPF
7 1 (1.00%) SNMP
7 1 (1.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.00%) Power BI
1 4 (4.00%) Tableau
2 1 (1.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.00%) GitLab
1 2 (2.00%) JIRA
2 1 (1.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.00%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.00%) Gradle
2 1 (1.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.00%) Maven
2 1 (1.00%) Metasploit
2 1 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 42 (42.00%) Social Skills
2 21 (21.00%) Finance
3 12 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.00%) Legal
5 7 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.00%) Banking
5 7 (7.00%) Financial Institution
5 7 (7.00%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.00%) French Language
6 2 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.00%) Law
6 2 (2.00%) Marketing
6 2 (2.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 25 (25.00%) Architect
2 21 (21.00%) Security Architect
3 17 (17.00%) Analyst
4 16 (16.00%) Security Engineer
5 9 (9.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 9 (9.00%) Lead
5 9 (9.00%) Security Analyst
6 7 (7.00%) Security Manager
7 6 (6.00%) Senior
8 5 (5.00%) Consultant
8 5 (5.00%) Network Engineer
8 5 (5.00%) Report Analyst
8 5 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Information Security Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) IT Architect
9 4 (4.00%) IT Security Architect
9 4 (4.00%) IT Security Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Operational Security Manager
9 4 (4.00%) Operations Manager
9 4 (4.00%) Security Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.00%) OAuth
1 5 (5.00%) OpenID
1 5 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 5 (5.00%) SailPoint
1 5 (5.00%) SAML
2 1 (1.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.00%) LDAP
2 1 (1.00%) REST
2 1 (1.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (4.00%) Cyber Security Posture
4 3 (3.00%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (3.00%) Insider Threat
4 3 (3.00%) Operational Technology
4 3 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.00%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.00%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.00%) PKI
6 1 (1.00%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.00%) NHS
6 1 (1.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.00%) Windows
2 5 (5.00%) Linux
3 4 (4.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.00%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.00%) Solaris
4 1 (1.00%) Unix
4 1 (1.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (45.00%) Cybersecurity
2 34 (34.00%) Incident Response
3 32 (32.00%) Cloud Security
3 32 (32.00%) Risk Management
4 25 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 25 (25.00%) SIEM
4 25 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 18 (18.00%) Information Security
6 17 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (17.00%) Security Architecture
7 16 (16.00%) Penetration Testing
8 15 (15.00%) Identity Access Management
9 13 (13.00%) Risk Assessment
10 12 (12.00%) Computer Science
10 12 (12.00%) Data Loss Prevention
10 12 (12.00%) Project Management
11 11 (11.00%) Analytics
11 11 (11.00%) Security Monitoring
11 11 (11.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
12 10 (10.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 15 (15.00%) Python
2 10 (10.00%) Java
3 6 (6.00%) PowerShell
3 6 (6.00%) SQL
4 4 (4.00%) Bash
5 2 (2.00%) C
6 1 (1.00%) BeanShell
6 1 (1.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (22.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.00%) CISSP
2 18 (18.00%) SC Cleared
3 15 (15.00%) Degree
4 10 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (8.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 8 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (8.00%) CISM
6 6 (6.00%) CCSP
6 6 (6.00%) CEH
6 6 (6.00%) GCIH
7 5 (5.00%) OCP
7 5 (5.00%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (4.00%) AWS Certification
9 3 (3.00%) Azure Certification
9 3 (3.00%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (3.00%) CRISC
9 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (3.00%) PMP
10 2 (2.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (39.00%) NIST
2 37 (37.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (16.00%) GDPR
4 10 (10.00%) SLA
5 9 (9.00%) HIPAA
6 7 (7.00%) PCI DSS
7 6 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 6 (6.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (4.00%) GRC
9 3 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (3.00%) SOC 2
10 2 (2.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (2.00%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (1.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 6 (6.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (3.00%) CASB
1 3 (3.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (3.00%) Terraform
2 2 (2.00%) Cisco Prime
2 2 (2.00%) QRadar
2 2 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.00%) Ansible
3 1 (1.00%) Grafana
3 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.00%) Nessus
3 1 (1.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 34 (34.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.00%) Splunk
3 8 (8.00%) Palo Alto
4 7 (7.00%) Cisco
4 7 (7.00%) Oracle
5 5 (5.00%) Qualys
6 4 (4.00%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.00%) SolarWinds
7 3 (3.00%) Google
7 3 (3.00%) SAP
8 2 (2.00%) Aruba
8 2 (2.00%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.00%) Meraki
8 2 (2.00%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.00%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.00%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.00%) Dell KACE
9 1 (1.00%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.00%) Remedy
9 1 (1.00%) Sophos