Security Posture Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Security Posture
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 216 277 394
Rank change year-on-year +61 +117 +163
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 88 68 83
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.89% 0.44% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.69% 1.54% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 56 57
10th Percentile £370 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £472 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £595 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.25% +8.18% -12.00%
75th Percentile £645 £638 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £720
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -11.15%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Security Posture
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Security Posture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Security Posture trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Security Posture
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Security Posture.

Security Posture daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Security Posture
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Security Posture over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Security Posture daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Security Posture
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Security Posture.

Security Posture hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Security Posture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (1.14%) Confluence
1 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 38 (43.18%) Azure
2 16 (18.18%) AWS
3 12 (13.64%) Azure Sentinel
4 10 (11.36%) Power Platform
5 9 (10.23%) Azure AKS
6 7 (7.95%) Entra ID
6 7 (7.95%) GCP
7 5 (5.68%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (5.68%) SaaS
8 4 (4.55%) IaaS
8 4 (4.55%) PaaS
9 3 (3.41%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (3.41%) GitHub
9 3 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (2.27%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.27%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 29 (32.95%) Network Security
2 17 (19.32%) Firewall
3 11 (12.50%) VPN
4 7 (7.95%) LAN
5 5 (5.68%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (5.68%) SD-WAN
5 5 (5.68%) TCP/IP
5 5 (5.68%) WAN
6 4 (4.55%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (4.55%) DHCP
6 4 (4.55%) MPLS
6 4 (4.55%) SMTP
6 4 (4.55%) SSL
7 3 (3.41%) DNS
7 3 (3.41%) HTTP
7 3 (3.41%) SNMP
8 2 (2.27%) BGP
8 2 (2.27%) TACACS
8 2 (2.27%) Wireless
8 2 (2.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.23%) Power BI
2 5 (5.68%) Tableau
3 4 (4.55%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (1.14%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.14%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.14%) JIRA
2 1 (1.14%) Metasploit
2 1 (1.14%) Snyk
2 1 (1.14%) SonarQube
General
1 33 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 23 (26.14%) Finance
3 14 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
4 8 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.95%) Legal
6 6 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.55%) Law
8 3 (3.41%) Banking
8 3 (3.41%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.27%) French Language
9 2 (2.27%) German Language
10 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.14%) Police
Job Titles
1 16 (18.18%) Analyst
2 14 (15.91%) Architect
3 12 (13.64%) Security Architect
4 7 (7.95%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 7 (7.95%) Lead
5 6 (6.82%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 6 (6.82%) Network Engineer
5 6 (6.82%) Security Analyst
5 6 (6.82%) Security Manager
6 5 (5.68%) Head of Security
6 5 (5.68%) Report Analyst
6 5 (5.68%) Security Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Consultant
7 4 (4.55%) Operational Security Manager
7 4 (4.55%) Operations Manager
7 4 (4.55%) Security Operations Manager
7 4 (4.55%) SOC Analyst
8 3 (3.41%) Head of Information
8 3 (3.41%) Head of Information Security
8 3 (3.41%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.95%) LDAP
1 7 (7.95%) SAML
2 3 (3.41%) OAuth
2 3 (3.41%) OpenID
3 2 (2.27%) 802.1X
3 2 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.14%) .NET
4 1 (1.14%) ADO
4 1 (1.14%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 7 (7.95%) Cyber Threat
2 7 (7.95%) Operational Technology
2 7 (7.95%) Security Operations Centre
2 7 (7.95%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.68%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.68%) PKI
4 4 (4.55%) Cyber Security Posture
4 4 (4.55%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.41%) Cyberattack
6 2 (2.27%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.27%) SCADA
7 1 (1.14%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.14%) Insider Threat
7 1 (1.14%) Life Science
7 1 (1.14%) MISP
7 1 (1.14%) Online Gambling
7 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.36%) Linux
1 10 (11.36%) Windows
2 3 (3.41%) Mac OS X
3 2 (2.27%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.14%) Unix
4 1 (1.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
2 24 (27.27%) Incident Response
3 22 (25.00%) SIEM
4 21 (23.86%) Security Operations
5 20 (22.73%) Cloud Security
5 20 (22.73%) Vulnerability Management
6 18 (20.45%) Information Security
7 17 (19.32%) Application Security
7 17 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (18.18%) Risk Management
9 14 (15.91%) DevSecOps
9 14 (15.91%) Identity Access Management
10 10 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (11.36%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 10 (11.36%) Migration
10 10 (11.36%) Penetration Testing
10 10 (11.36%) Static Application Security Testing
10 10 (11.36%) Threat Intelligence
10 10 (11.36%) Threat Modelling
11 9 (10.23%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.50%) Python
2 10 (11.36%) SQL
3 5 (5.68%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.27%) Java
5 1 (1.14%) Bash
5 1 (1.14%) C
5 1 (1.14%) C#
5 1 (1.14%) Korn
Qualifications
1 19 (21.59%) CISSP
2 12 (13.64%) CISM
3 11 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 9 (10.23%) CEH
4 9 (10.23%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (10.23%) Degree
4 9 (10.23%) SC Cleared
5 7 (7.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 5 (5.68%) Azure Certification
6 5 (5.68%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (5.68%) GCIH
7 4 (4.55%) AWS Certification
7 4 (4.55%) CCSP
7 4 (4.55%) GIAC
7 4 (4.55%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (3.41%) CCNA
8 3 (3.41%) CCNP
8 3 (3.41%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 3 (3.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (27.27%) NIST
2 21 (23.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (11.36%) GDPR
4 9 (10.23%) PCI DSS
5 6 (6.82%) SLA
6 4 (4.55%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (3.41%) HIPAA
8 2 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (1.14%) NCSC
9 1 (1.14%) NIST 800
System Software
1 12 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.27%) Docker
3 1 (1.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.14%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (6.82%) Kubernetes
1 6 (6.82%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (5.68%) Terraform
3 4 (4.55%) Cisco Prime
4 3 (3.41%) QRadar
5 2 (2.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (2.27%) Nessus
6 1 (1.14%) Ansible
6 1 (1.14%) CASB
6 1 (1.14%) CSIRT
6 1 (1.14%) Grafana
6 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.14%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.14%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (23.86%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.50%) Qualys
3 9 (10.23%) Cisco
3 9 (10.23%) Splunk
4 8 (9.09%) Palo Alto
5 6 (6.82%) CyberArk
5 6 (6.82%) Oracle
6 4 (4.55%) Aruba
6 4 (4.55%) Fortinet
6 4 (4.55%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.55%) SolarWinds
7 3 (3.41%) Rapid7
8 2 (2.27%) BeyondTrust
8 2 (2.27%) Google
8 2 (2.27%) Tenable
9 1 (1.14%) IBM
9 1 (1.14%) Thales
9 1 (1.14%) Thycotic
9 1 (1.14%) Veracode
9 1 (1.14%) VMware