Security Posture Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Security Posture
Somerset > Taunton

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in contract job vacancies in Taunton. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 7.41% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 13.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Somerset median daily rate £350 - -

All Generic Skills
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 15 0 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 55.56% - 23.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 7
10th Percentile £485 - £579
25th Percentile £550 - £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.33%
75th Percentile £715 - £710
90th Percentile £719 - £739
Somerset median daily rate £375 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -31.82% +2.23% +26.59%

Security Posture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Security Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Key Management
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (100.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft