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 in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 162 199
Rank change year-on-year +18 +37 +38
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 18 15 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.55% 0.33% 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.76% 1.23% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 8
10th Percentile £497 £425 £450
25th Percentile £519 £575 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £650 £628
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% +3.59% +67.33%
75th Percentile £645 £788 £694
90th Percentile £697 £988 £733
England median daily rate £600 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.88 - -
Median hourly rate £28.75 - -
75th Percentile £30.63 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £28.75 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -55.77% - -

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,022 1,224 1,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 31.22% 26.52% 30.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 743 1,122
10th Percentile £213 £267 £288
25th Percentile £365 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £503
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.49% +5.79%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £609
90th Percentile £650 £656 £688
England median daily rate £535 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -2.73% -3.51% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 157 82
10th Percentile £20.49 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £29.27 £16.00 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year +82.94% -5.04% -9.89%
75th Percentile £56.32 £34.21 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £47.21 £66.62
England median hourly rate £33.00 £34.21 £22.49
% change year-on-year -3.54% +52.15% -15.15%

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 23 May 2025.

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 23 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
North West +8 13 £593 -8.85% 70
Yorkshire +16 3 £625 - 62
North East - 2 £534 - 16
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:

Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (22.22%) SaaS
3 3 (16.67%) Azure
4 2 (11.11%) AWS
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (11.11%) IaaS
4 2 (11.11%) PaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.56%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (5.56%) DHCP
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) LAN
2 1 (5.56%) MPLS
2 1 (5.56%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.56%) VLAN
2 1 (5.56%) VPN
2 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) DB2
1 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
1 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.56%) Power BI
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.56%) Tableau
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 7 (38.89%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (27.78%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Automotive
4 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.56%) Law
4 1 (5.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Administrator
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
2 3 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Project Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Security Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Project Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Database Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Head of Information
4 1 (5.56%) Network Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) JSON
1 1 (5.56%) LDAP
1 1 (5.56%) OAuth
1 1 (5.56%) OAuth2
1 1 (5.56%) OpenID
1 1 (5.56%) SailPoint
1 1 (5.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
1 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (5.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (38.89%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 5 (27.78%) Budget Management
4 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (27.78%) Migration
4 5 (27.78%) Performance Metrics
4 5 (27.78%) Process Improvement
5 4 (22.22%) Information Security
5 4 (22.22%) Threat Modelling
6 3 (16.67%) Security Operations
7 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
7 2 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
7 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
7 2 (11.11%) RBAC
7 2 (11.11%) Remediation Plan
7 2 (11.11%) Risk Management
7 2 (11.11%) Security Management
7 2 (11.11%) SIEM
7 2 (11.11%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Python
1 1 (5.56%) Ruby
1 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (11.11%) CISM
2 2 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (11.11%) CRISC
3 1 (5.56%) CCNA
3 1 (5.56%) CISSP
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) NIST
2 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.56%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) NCSC
3 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
2 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Splunk
3 2 (11.11%) Aruba
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco
4 1 (5.56%) Cloudera
4 1 (5.56%) CyberArk
4 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.56%) IBM
4 1 (5.56%) Imperva
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.56%) Ping Identity
4 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds