Security Posture Contracts in the North of England

Security Posture
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Posture over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 178 199 242
Rank change year-on-year +21 +43 -57
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 11 17 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.23% 0.29% 0.042%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.84% 0.95% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 3
10th Percentile - £466 -
25th Percentile £425 £613 £145
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £670 £150
Median % change year-on-year -11.94% +346.67% -77.96%
75th Percentile £988 £674 £360
90th Percentile - £712 £483
England median daily rate £563 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -11.11%

All Generic Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,307 1,796 2,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 27.30% 30.76% 33.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 802 1,218 1,815
10th Percentile £250 £279 £200
25th Percentile £400 £406 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.24% +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £583 £619 £575
90th Percentile £652 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 92 109
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.00 £10.63 £12.89
Median hourly rate £15.14 £20.00 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -24.31% +6.95% +4.47%
75th Percentile £26.62 £41.92 £26.50
90th Percentile £47.98 £65.98 £43.81
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% -15.09% +0.88%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Posture in the North of England

Security Posture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Posture in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Security Posture in the North of England

Security Posture
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Posture in the North of England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Posture in the North of England

Security Posture
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
North West +15 9 £590 -9.75% 5
Yorkshire +19 2 - - 1
Security Posture
England

Security Posture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (18.18%) IaaS
3 2 (18.18%) PaaS
3 2 (18.18%) SaaS
4 1 (9.09%) AWS
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) DHCP
2 1 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) Network Security
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Architect
1 3 (27.27%) Consultant
1 3 (27.27%) Security Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 1 (9.09%) IAM Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Information Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Security Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Security Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) SOC Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Technologist
3 1 (9.09%) Threat Hunter
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cyberattack
2 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (18.18%) Insider Threat
2 2 (18.18%) Operational Technology
3 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (36.36%) Incident Response
3 3 (27.27%) Analytics
3 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
3 3 (27.27%) Information Security
3 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
3 3 (27.27%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Security Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Advanced Persistent Threat
4 2 (18.18%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Ethical Hacking
4 2 (18.18%) Identity Management
4 2 (18.18%) Minimum Viable Product
4 2 (18.18%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 2 (18.18%) Security Architecture
4 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) CISSP
1 3 (27.27%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (18.18%) CISM
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (36.36%) NIST
3 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
4 1 (9.09%) GDPR
4 1 (9.09%) HIPAA
4 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (9.09%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Rapid7
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (9.09%) Darktrace
3 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds
3 1 (9.09%) Sophos
3 1 (9.09%) VMware