Security Posture Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Security Posture
South East > Surrey

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in contract job vacancies in Surrey. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 55 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 0.56% 0.74% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.44% 2.42% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £424 £405 -
25th Percentile £441 £411 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £570 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.47% - -
75th Percentile £541 £761 -
90th Percentile £561 £802 -
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £725
% change year-on-year +5.26% -34.48% +22.88%

All Generic Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 82 165 266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 23.03% 30.61% 34.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 113 223
10th Percentile £204 £207 £208
25th Percentile £204 £350 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.84% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £500 £575 £638
90th Percentile £604 £663 £750
South East median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 12
10th Percentile £29.91 £11.71 £23.54
25th Percentile £32.77 £12.10 £32.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £54.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +4.86% +196.29%
75th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.72
90th Percentile - £78.50 £82.91
South East median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £55.00
% change year-on-year -42.37% +4.27% +135.14%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Posture in Surrey

Security Posture
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Security Posture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Security Posture

Security Posture
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Posture in Surrey over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Posture in Surrey

Security Posture
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Guildford - 1 £425 - 2
Woking - 1 £550 -
Security Posture
South East

Security Posture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Akamai
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Nutanix
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) 802.1X
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) BCP
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Dell KACE
1 1 (50.00%) Meraki
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (50.00%) Ubiquiti