Security Posture Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Security Posture
South West > Wiltshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in contract job vacancies in Wiltshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 53 67
Rank change year-on-year -10 +14 +24
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 2 1 25
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 0.25% 0.22% 2.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.21% 0.75% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 17
10th Percentile - - £440
25th Percentile £613 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £600
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - £630
South West median daily rate £525 £781 £550
% change year-on-year -32.80% +42.05% -8.33%

All Generic Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 165 133 450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 20.63% 29.69% 46.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 97 343
10th Percentile £325 £340 £463
25th Percentile £425 £485 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £654
90th Percentile £725 £688 £700
South West median daily rate £500 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -4.31% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 12
10th Percentile £18.08 £18.58 -
25th Percentile £19.31 £18.69 £14.54
Median hourly rate £20.00 £18.87 £15.52
Median % change year-on-year +5.99% +21.59% -74.13%
75th Percentile £27.50 - £20.50
90th Percentile £41.00 - £30.25
South West median hourly rate £57.35 £31.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +85.00% -38.00% +410.20%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Posture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Security Posture job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Security Posture
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

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

Security Posture
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 3 June 2026. 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
Swindon - 1 - -
Security Posture
South West

Security Posture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Snyk
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Delivery Lead
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Application Security
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Kanban
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Checkmarx
1 1 (50.00%) Veracode