Security Posture Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Posture
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 307 385
Rank change year-on-year +48 +78 +86
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 80 92 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.44% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.88% 1.50% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 73 51
10th Percentile £435 - £363
25th Percentile £498 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +0.96% -13.33%
75th Percentile £638 £635 £653
90th Percentile £695 £825 £715
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -11.15%
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 - - -
UK median hourly rate £28.75 - -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,246 6,122 7,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.19% 29.50% 32.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,608 3,666 5,259
10th Percentile £210 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £376 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £618
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 724 436
10th Percentile £16.81 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.28 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.42 £28.13 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.72% +27.84% +9.64%
75th Percentile £64.64 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.28 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +7.58% +33.42% -18.24%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Posture in the UK excluding London

Security Posture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Posture in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Security Posture in the UK excluding London

Security Posture
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Posture in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Posture in the UK excluding London

Security Posture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Posture in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Posture in the UK excluding London

Security Posture
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East +56 22 £584 -28.40% 59
Midlands +22 20 £625 +1.63% 16
North of England +28 18 £555 -5.93% 25
West Midlands +17 15 £625 +1.42% 12
North West +16 13 £593 +0.42% 16
Scotland +18 12 £475 -17.39% 9
South West +10 11 £656 +54.41% 16
East Midlands +16 5 £500 +25.00% 4
Yorkshire +8 3 £625 - 9
North East - 2 £534 -
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 5
Security Posture
UK

Security Posture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (1.25%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (1.25%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 32 (40.00%) Azure
2 18 (22.50%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (17.50%) AWS
4 11 (13.75%) Entra ID
5 10 (12.50%) Power Platform
6 9 (11.25%) Azure Sentinel
6 9 (11.25%) GCP
7 6 (7.50%) SaaS
8 4 (5.00%) IaaS
8 4 (5.00%) PaaS
9 2 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.25%) Akamai
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (1.25%) Nutanix
10 1 (1.25%) OCI
10 1 (1.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.25%) Network Security
2 12 (15.00%) Firewall
3 5 (6.25%) VPN
4 4 (5.00%) SD-WAN
4 4 (5.00%) WAN
5 3 (3.75%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (3.75%) LAN
5 3 (3.75%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.50%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (2.50%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (2.50%) DNS
6 2 (2.50%) MPLS
7 1 (1.25%) BGP
7 1 (1.25%) DHCP
7 1 (1.25%) DKIM
7 1 (1.25%) NGFW
7 1 (1.25%) SSL
7 1 (1.25%) VLAN
7 1 (1.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.75%) Power BI
2 4 (5.00%) Oracle Database
3 3 (3.75%) Tableau
4 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.25%) DB2
4 1 (1.25%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (1.25%) JIRA
General
1 28 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 24 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (15.00%) Finance
4 8 (10.00%) Legal
5 7 (8.75%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (8.75%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.50%) Law
9 1 (1.25%) Automotive
9 1 (1.25%) Banking
9 1 (1.25%) Electronics
9 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.25%) Marketing
9 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (18.75%) Architect
2 14 (17.50%) Security Architect
3 10 (12.50%) Analyst
4 9 (11.25%) Lead
5 8 (10.00%) Consultant
6 7 (8.75%) Administrator
6 7 (8.75%) Security Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) Security Specialist
8 5 (6.25%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
8 5 (6.25%) Security Manager
8 5 (6.25%) SOC Analyst
9 4 (5.00%) Information Manager
9 4 (5.00%) Information Security Manager
9 4 (5.00%) Security Analyst
9 4 (5.00%) Senior
10 3 (3.75%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 3 (3.75%) Information Assurance Specialist
10 3 (3.75%) Information Security Specialist
10 3 (3.75%) Information Specialist
10 3 (3.75%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.25%) LDAP
2 3 (3.75%) SAML
3 2 (2.50%) OAuth
3 2 (2.50%) OpenID
4 1 (1.25%) .NET
4 1 (1.25%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.25%) JSON
4 1 (1.25%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.25%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.75%) Cyber Threat
2 8 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 6 (7.50%) PKI
4 5 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 5 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 5 (6.25%) Operational Technology
4 5 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.75%) Cyber Security Posture
5 3 (3.75%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (2.50%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (2.50%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.50%) SCADA
7 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.25%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.25%) PMI
7 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.75%) Windows
2 8 (10.00%) Linux
3 7 (8.75%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (43.75%) Cybersecurity
2 32 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (30.00%) Cloud Security
4 21 (26.25%) Incident Response
5 19 (23.75%) Information Security
5 19 (23.75%) SIEM
6 18 (22.50%) Threat Modelling
6 18 (22.50%) Vulnerability Management
7 17 (21.25%) Risk Management
8 15 (18.75%) Migration
8 15 (18.75%) Security Operations
9 14 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (17.50%) Threat Intelligence
10 13 (16.25%) Identity Access Management
11 11 (13.75%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 11 (13.75%) Security Architecture
12 10 (12.50%) Zero Trust
13 8 (10.00%) Application Security
13 8 (10.00%) Mentoring
13 8 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 8 (10.00%) SQL
2 7 (8.75%) Python
3 1 (1.25%) C#
3 1 (1.25%) Java
3 1 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (1.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (22.50%) CISSP
2 15 (18.75%) CISM
3 14 (17.50%) Security Cleared
4 12 (15.00%) Degree
5 10 (12.50%) SC Cleared
6 8 (10.00%) CEH
6 8 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
7 7 (8.75%) CRISC
8 6 (7.50%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (6.25%) CISA
10 4 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (5.00%) DV Cleared
10 4 (5.00%) Master's Degree
11 3 (3.75%) CCNA
11 3 (3.75%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 2 (2.50%) CCSP
12 2 (2.50%) SSCP
13 1 (1.25%) CCNP
13 1 (1.25%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (21.25%) NIST
2 14 (17.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (10.00%) GDPR
4 6 (7.50%) PCI DSS
5 4 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (3.75%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (3.75%) HIPAA
6 3 (3.75%) PMO
7 2 (2.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (2.50%) GRC
8 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
8 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (1.25%) NCSC
8 1 (1.25%) NIST 800
System Software
1 15 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.50%) Docker
2 2 (2.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (11.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (8.75%) SCCM
3 5 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (5.00%) Kubernetes
4 4 (5.00%) Terraform
5 3 (3.75%) AirWatch
5 3 (3.75%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (3.75%) McAfee ePO
6 2 (2.50%) CASB
6 2 (2.50%) Cisco Prime
6 2 (2.50%) Norton AntiVirus
6 2 (2.50%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.50%) QRadar
6 2 (2.50%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
7 1 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.25%) Ansible
7 1 (1.25%) Argo
7 1 (1.25%) Istio
7 1 (1.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 31 (38.75%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.75%) CyberArk
2 7 (8.75%) Splunk
3 6 (7.50%) Oracle
4 5 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.00%) Cisco
6 3 (3.75%) Aruba
6 3 (3.75%) McAfee
6 3 (3.75%) Palo Alto
6 3 (3.75%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.50%) Forcepoint
7 2 (2.50%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.50%) Google
7 2 (2.50%) Proofpoint
7 2 (2.50%) Symantec
8 1 (1.25%) AlienVault
8 1 (1.25%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.25%) IBM
8 1 (1.25%) Imperva
8 1 (1.25%) SAP