Security Posture Jobs in Bristol

Security Posture
South West > Bristol

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in permanent job vacancies in Bristol. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 157 162
Rank change year-on-year +54 +5 +14
Permanent jobs citing Security Posture 7 8 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 0.56% 0.26% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.01% 0.81% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -17.97%
75th Percentile £58,125 £52,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £63,750 £72,750 -
South West median annual salary £51,058 £45,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +13.46% -40.00% +36.36%

All Generic Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 348 984 1,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 27.71% 31.61% 39.79%
Number of salaries quoted 214 738 627
10th Percentile £30,900 £36,250 £36,700
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,306 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -0.41% +0.42%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £95,000
South West median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £54,590
% change year-on-year +3.00% -8.41% +3.98%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Posture in Bristol

Security Posture
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for Security Posture in Bristol

Security Posture
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Posture in Bristol over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Posture in Bristol

Security Posture
Job Locations in Bristol

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Posture within the Bristol region over the 6 months to 11 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Avonmouth - 1 £65,000 -
Security Posture
South West

Security Posture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 (42.86%) SaaS
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
2 2 (28.57%) IaaS
2 2 (28.57%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DHCP
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Information Manager
1 4 (57.14%) Information Security Manager
1 4 (57.14%) Security Manager
2 2 (28.57%) IT Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) IT Security Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Information Security
2 6 (85.71%) Risk Management
3 4 (57.14%) Information Security Governance
4 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (42.86%) OWASP
4 3 (42.86%) SIEM
5 2 (28.57%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (28.57%) Email Filtering
5 2 (28.57%) IT Strategy
5 2 (28.57%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (28.57%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 2 (28.57%) Network Design
5 2 (28.57%) Patch Management
5 2 (28.57%) Risk Analysis
5 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
5 2 (28.57%) Security Operations
5 2 (28.57%) Web Filtering
6 1 (14.29%) Cyber Assurance
6 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
6 1 (14.29%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (57.14%) GRC
2 4 (57.14%) NIST
3 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft