Security Posture Jobs in Birmingham

Security Posture
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in permanent job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 140 124
Rank change year-on-year +38 -16 +62
Permanent jobs citing Security Posture 6 7 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.43% 0.25% 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.32% 0.77% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 5
10th Percentile £41,358 £36,250 £47,000
25th Percentile £47,813 £36,263 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £42,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.90% -23.64% +1.38%
75th Percentile £80,313 £72,563 £57,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £96,250 £79,625
West Midlands median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% -31.15%

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

Security Posture falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 456 914 663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 32.50% 32.95% 34.86%
Number of salaries quoted 230 710 461
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,135 £36,750
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,813 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,173 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.31% -8.05% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,375 £88,750 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.21% -2.73% +15.79%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Security Posture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Security Posture in Birmingham

Security Posture
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Posture in Birmingham.

Salary trend for Security Posture in Birmingham

Security Posture
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Posture in Birmingham over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Posture in Birmingham

Security Posture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Practitioner
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Security Officer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Officer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Security Posture
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) IoT
2 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 2 (33.33%) Information Security
3 2 (33.33%) Information Security Management
3 2 (33.33%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 2 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 2 (33.33%) Security Management
3 2 (33.33%) SIEM
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (16.67%) ITSM
4 1 (16.67%) Network Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 1 (16.67%) Service Management
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CASP
1 2 (33.33%) CISM
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
1 2 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (33.33%) GDPR
2 2 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft