Security Posture Contracts in the Midlands

Security Posture
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 118 134
Rank change year-on-year +11 +16 +75
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 34 14 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.35% 0.53% 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.89% 1.78% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 12 13
10th Percentile £422 - £423
25th Percentile £475 £400 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £750
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -26.67% +30.43%
75th Percentile £800 £635 -
90th Percentile £860 - £800
England median daily rate £575 £583 £613
% change year-on-year -1.29% -4.90% -2.00%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 873 785 956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 34.68% 29.59% 31.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 555 502 631
10th Percentile £247 £270 £263
25th Percentile £363 £365 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £575 £626 £600
90th Percentile £648 £738 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 25 32
10th Percentile £13.81 £15.11 £19.10
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.63 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.08 £30.88 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.79% +12.27% +54.06%
75th Percentile £40.46 £50.00 £34.22
90th Percentile £50.00 £57.75 £90.88
England median hourly rate £30.75 £47.50 £41.27
% change year-on-year -35.26% +15.10% +58.73%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Posture in the Midlands

Security Posture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Security Posture in the Midlands

Security Posture
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Posture in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Posture in the Midlands

Security Posture
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
West Midlands +5 25 £689 +14.83% 9
East Midlands +7 9 £500 +25.00% 6
Security Posture
England

Security Posture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (2.94%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 14 (41.18%) Azure
2 13 (38.24%) AWS
3 12 (35.29%) GCP
4 5 (14.71%) Akamai
4 5 (14.71%) Entra ID
5 3 (8.82%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (8.82%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.94%) GitHub
7 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.94%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (38.24%) Firewall
2 10 (29.41%) Network Security
3 6 (17.65%) Wireshark
4 5 (14.71%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.94%) BGP
5 1 (2.94%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (2.94%) DMVPN
5 1 (2.94%) EIGRP
5 1 (2.94%) IPsec
5 1 (2.94%) OSPF
5 1 (2.94%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (2.94%) Unified Communications
5 1 (2.94%) VLAN
5 1 (2.94%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (2.94%) Git
1 1 (2.94%) GitLab
1 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 15 (44.12%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Legal
3 1 (2.94%) Military
3 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) Architect
2 10 (29.41%) Security Architect
3 5 (14.71%) Analyst
3 5 (14.71%) Consultant
4 4 (11.76%) Security Analyst
4 4 (11.76%) Security Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) IT Architect
5 3 (8.82%) IT Security Architect
5 3 (8.82%) Network Security Architect
5 3 (8.82%) Security Solutions Architect
5 3 (8.82%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Information Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Information Security Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Operations Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Security Operations Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) SIEM Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Architect
7 1 (2.94%) Information Security Advisor
7 1 (2.94%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.94%) OAuth
2 1 (2.94%) OpenID
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.94%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Operational Technology
2 5 (14.71%) SCADA
3 3 (8.82%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (32.35%) Application Security
2 11 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (32.35%) Threat Modelling
3 10 (29.41%) Incident Response
4 9 (26.47%) SIEM
5 8 (23.53%) Cloud Security
5 8 (23.53%) OWASP
6 6 (17.65%) Design Patterns
6 6 (17.65%) DevSecOps
6 6 (17.65%) Security Architecture
6 6 (17.65%) Test Automation
7 5 (14.71%) Ethical Hacking
7 5 (14.71%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 5 (14.71%) Security Monitoring
7 5 (14.71%) Security Operations
7 5 (14.71%) Threat Intelligence
8 4 (11.76%) CI/CD
8 4 (11.76%) Information Security
8 4 (11.76%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.65%) Python
2 5 (14.71%) PowerShell
3 3 (8.82%) Bash
3 3 (8.82%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (2.94%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.59%) DV Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) CEH
3 3 (8.82%) CISM
3 3 (8.82%) CISSP
3 3 (8.82%) Degree
3 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.94%) CCIE
5 1 (2.94%) CCIE Security
5 1 (2.94%) CCNP
5 1 (2.94%) CCSE
5 1 (2.94%) CCSM
5 1 (2.94%) CISA
5 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.94%) OCP
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (26.47%) NIST
2 4 (11.76%) GDPR
2 4 (11.76%) SLA
3 3 (8.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (8.82%) PMO
4 2 (5.88%) GRC
4 2 (5.88%) PCI DSS
4 2 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (2.94%) Def Stans
5 1 (2.94%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (2.94%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) CSIRT
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.88%) AirWatch
3 2 (5.88%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.88%) SCCM
3 2 (5.88%) Terraform
4 1 (2.94%) Ansible
4 1 (2.94%) Grafana
4 1 (2.94%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 8 (23.53%) Splunk
3 6 (17.65%) F5
4 2 (5.88%) Cisco
4 2 (5.88%) Proofpoint
5 1 (2.94%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.94%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.94%) Juniper
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle
5 1 (2.94%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.94%) Qualys
5 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.94%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.94%) VMware
5 1 (2.94%) Zscaler