Security Posture Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Security Posture
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 106 108
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 +60
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 25 9 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.36% 0.47% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.58% 1.66% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 6 10
10th Percentile £453 £600 £673
25th Percentile £483 £609 £722
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £635 £750
Median % change year-on-year -11.42% -15.33% +30.43%
75th Percentile £797 - -
90th Percentile £800 - £813
England median daily rate £550 £600 £675
% change year-on-year -8.33% -11.11% +12.50%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 699 543 718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 37.91% 28.55% 34.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 327 432
10th Percentile £243 £196 £291
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £511
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.58% +2.25%
75th Percentile £592 £645 £606
90th Percentile £663 £743 £725
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 16 36
10th Percentile - £19.40 £18.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.45 £22.46
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.21 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.85% +17.12% +41.03%
75th Percentile £50.00 £51.31 £67.50
90th Percentile - £58.00 £68.13
England median hourly rate £30.50 £57.35 £45.11
% change year-on-year -46.82% +27.15% +76.26%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Posture in the West Midlands

Security Posture
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Security Posture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Security Posture

Security Posture
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Posture in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Posture in the West Midlands

Security Posture
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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
Birmingham +13 12 £488 - 6
Warwickshire -2 8 £800 +33.33% 3
Herefordshire +3 3 £485 -23.62%
Worcestershire - 1 £588 -
Coventry - 1 - -
Security Posture
England

Security Posture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (4.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 16 (64.00%) AWS
2 15 (60.00%) GCP
3 9 (36.00%) Azure
4 8 (32.00%) Akamai
5 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (52.00%) Firewall
2 11 (44.00%) Network Security
3 9 (36.00%) Wireshark
4 1 (4.00%) BGP
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (4.00%) DMVPN
4 1 (4.00%) EIGRP
4 1 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (4.00%) IPsec
4 1 (4.00%) OSPF
4 1 (4.00%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (4.00%) Unified Communications
4 1 (4.00%) VLAN
4 1 (4.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (4.00%) Git
1 1 (4.00%) GitLab
1 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Legal
3 1 (4.00%) Military
3 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Architect
1 7 (28.00%) Security Architect
2 3 (12.00%) IT Architect
2 3 (12.00%) IT Security Architect
2 3 (12.00%) Network Security Architect
2 3 (12.00%) Security Solutions Architect
2 3 (12.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.00%) Consultant
3 2 (8.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) SIEM Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Author
4 1 (4.00%) Information Security Advisor
4 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (4.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Security Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) Security Technical Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) Technical Author
4 1 (4.00%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) Technical Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.00%) OAuth
2 1 (4.00%) OpenID
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Operational Technology
2 5 (20.00%) SCADA
3 1 (4.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Application Security
2 12 (48.00%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (44.00%) OWASP
4 9 (36.00%) DevSecOps
4 9 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (36.00%) Test Automation
5 8 (32.00%) Cloud Security
5 8 (32.00%) Ethical Hacking
5 8 (32.00%) Threat Modelling
6 6 (24.00%) Design Patterns
6 6 (24.00%) Security Architecture
6 6 (24.00%) Security Testing
7 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 5 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 5 (20.00%) SIEM
8 4 (16.00%) Continuous Deployment
8 4 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (16.00%) Incident Response
8 4 (16.00%) Reverse Engineering
9 3 (12.00%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) Python
2 1 (4.00%) Bash
2 1 (4.00%) Java
2 1 (4.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) Degree
4 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.00%) CCIE
5 1 (4.00%) CCIE Security
5 1 (4.00%) CCNP
5 1 (4.00%) CCSE
5 1 (4.00%) CCSM
5 1 (4.00%) CEH
5 1 (4.00%) CISA
5 1 (4.00%) CISM
5 1 (4.00%) CISSP
5 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.00%) HNC
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.00%) OCP
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (40.00%) NIST
2 4 (16.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (8.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (8.00%) GDPR
3 2 (8.00%) NCSC
3 2 (8.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (8.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (8.00%) SLA
4 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (4.00%) Def Stans
4 1 (4.00%) HIPAA
4 1 (4.00%) ISO 22301
4 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) CSIRT
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) Grafana
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Network Intrusion Detection System
2 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (44.00%) Splunk
2 9 (36.00%) F5
3 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (12.00%) Cisco
5 1 (4.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.00%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (4.00%) Juniper
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle
5 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.00%) Qualys
5 1 (4.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.00%) VMware
5 1 (4.00%) Zscaler