Security Posture Jobs in England

Security Posture
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 525 558
Rank change year-on-year +125 +33 +209
Permanent jobs citing Security Posture 320 324 392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.66% 0.38% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.82% 1.08% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 247 257 191
10th Percentile £41,848 £37,750 £43,000
25th Percentile £49,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.83%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £100,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £73,685 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.63% +11.54% -7.14%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 17,611 29,869 39,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 36.07% 34.77% 43.99%
Number of salaries quoted 8,937 20,885 21,231
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,483
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Posture in England

Security Posture
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Security Posture in England

Security Posture
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Posture in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Posture in England

Security Posture
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Posture within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +93 132 £85,000 +6.25% 146
South East +112 67 £55,000 +22.22% 65
North of England +76 66 £56,750 -5.42% 31
North West +7 47 £74,870 +24.78% 17
South West +110 19 £51,058 +13.46% 20
Yorkshire +79 15 £50,000 -2.44% 13
Midlands +55 13 £57,500 +9.52% 29
East of England +46 13 £48,750 - 7
West Midlands +51 11 £67,500 +22.73% 22
North East +46 4 £41,468 -10.34% 1
East Midlands +37 2 £53,750 +2.38% 7
Security Posture
UK

Security Posture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (2.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.63%) IBM Domino
2 2 (0.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 130 (40.63%) Azure
2 79 (24.69%) AWS
3 43 (13.44%) GCP
4 30 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
5 27 (8.44%) Azure Sentinel
6 25 (7.81%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (7.19%) Entra ID
8 19 (5.94%) PaaS
9 17 (5.31%) SaaS
10 11 (3.44%) Microsoft Purview
11 8 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (2.19%) Azure AKS
13 5 (1.56%) IaaS
14 4 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (1.25%) Amazon S3
14 4 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (1.25%) Serverless
14 4 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 3 (0.94%) Azure Key Vault
15 3 (0.94%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 100 (31.25%) Firewall
2 59 (18.44%) Network Security
3 27 (8.44%) VPN
4 22 (6.88%) Intrusion Detection
5 18 (5.63%) DNS
6 11 (3.44%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.19%) DHCP
7 7 (2.19%) VLAN
7 7 (2.19%) WAN
8 6 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.56%) SD-WAN
10 4 (1.25%) HTTP
11 2 (0.63%) DKIM
11 2 (0.63%) DMARC
11 2 (0.63%) LAN
11 2 (0.63%) SMTP
11 2 (0.63%) Wireless
12 1 (0.31%) Asterisk PBX
12 1 (0.31%) DMVPN
12 1 (0.31%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (0.63%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.31%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (0.94%) JIRA
2 2 (0.63%) Burp Suite
2 2 (0.63%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.31%) Postman
3 1 (0.31%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.31%) SoapUI
General
1 102 (31.88%) Social Skills
2 79 (24.69%) Finance
3 58 (18.13%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (10.94%) Legal
5 26 (8.13%) Retail
6 25 (7.81%) Law
7 16 (5.00%) Banking
8 12 (3.75%) Aerospace
8 12 (3.75%) Electronics
9 10 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (2.50%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.56%) Front Office
13 4 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.94%) Marketing
14 3 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.94%) Public Sector
14 3 (0.94%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 89 (27.81%) Security Engineer
2 64 (20.00%) Analyst
3 44 (13.75%) Security Analyst
4 40 (12.50%) Senior
5 35 (10.94%) Security Manager
6 32 (10.00%) Lead
7 31 (9.69%) Cloud Engineer
8 27 (8.44%) Architect
9 26 (8.13%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 26 (8.13%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 22 (6.88%) Security Architect
11 20 (6.25%) Information Manager
11 20 (6.25%) Information Security Manager
12 19 (5.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 17 (5.31%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 15 (4.69%) AWS Engineer
15 14 (4.38%) Information Analyst
15 14 (4.38%) Information Security Analyst
16 12 (3.75%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
17 11 (3.44%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.69%) YAML
2 9 (2.81%) Azure Blueprints
3 3 (0.94%) RESTful
4 2 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.63%) JSON
5 1 (0.31%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.31%) EDI
5 1 (0.31%) HTML
5 1 (0.31%) JWT
5 1 (0.31%) OAuth
5 1 (0.31%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.31%) REST
5 1 (0.31%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 84 (26.25%) Management Information System
2 41 (12.81%) Cloud Security Posture
3 30 (9.38%) Cyber Threat
4 29 (9.06%) Cyber Security Posture
4 29 (9.06%) Security Operations Centre
5 26 (8.13%) Cloud Native
6 17 (5.31%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (4.38%) Social Media
7 14 (4.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 11 (3.44%) Public Cloud
9 8 (2.50%) Operational Technology
9 8 (2.50%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.88%) PKI
11 4 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.25%) Taxonomies
11 4 (1.25%) Video Conferencing
12 3 (0.94%) Cyberattack
12 3 (0.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 3 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (14.06%) Windows
2 26 (8.13%) Linux
3 19 (5.94%) Windows Server
4 14 (4.38%) Windows Vista
5 9 (2.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.81%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (1.88%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.94%) VMS
7 3 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.31%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 141 (44.06%) Information Security
3 127 (39.69%) Vulnerability Management
4 122 (38.13%) Incident Response
5 108 (33.75%) Cloud Security
5 108 (33.75%) Risk Management
6 94 (29.38%) SIEM
7 88 (27.50%) Security Operations
8 72 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
9 71 (22.19%) DevOps
10 62 (19.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 55 (17.19%) CI/CD
12 54 (16.88%) DevSecOps
13 50 (15.63%) Computer Science
14 49 (15.31%) Mentoring
15 47 (14.69%) Data Loss Prevention
15 47 (14.69%) Incident Management
16 43 (13.44%) Identity Access Management
17 39 (12.19%) Data Protection
18 38 (11.88%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 50 (15.63%) PowerShell
2 32 (10.00%) Python
3 22 (6.88%) Bash
4 15 (4.69%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (1.25%) SQL
5 4 (1.25%) TypeScript
6 3 (0.94%) Search Processing Language
7 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.31%) R
8 1 (0.31%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 90 (28.13%) Degree
2 71 (22.19%) CISSP
3 52 (16.25%) CISM
4 44 (13.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (11.25%) CEH
6 35 (10.94%) Cisco Certification
7 34 (10.63%) Master's Degree
8 30 (9.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 29 (9.06%) CISA
10 27 (8.44%) Security Cleared
11 25 (7.81%) AWS Certification
12 24 (7.50%) SC Cleared
13 22 (6.88%) CompTIA Security+
14 15 (4.69%) CCSP
15 14 (4.38%) DBS Check
16 13 (4.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 12 (3.75%) GCIH
18 11 (3.44%) CRISC
19 10 (3.13%) OSCP
20 9 (2.81%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (43.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 128 (40.00%) NIST
3 79 (24.69%) GDPR
4 38 (11.88%) PCI DSS
5 28 (8.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 23 (7.19%) GRC
7 17 (5.31%) NCSC
8 16 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 12 (3.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (3.13%) SOC 2
11 8 (2.50%) HIPAA
11 8 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 5 (1.56%) NIST 800
13 4 (1.25%) Def Stans
13 4 (1.25%) SOC 1
14 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 23 (7.19%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.38%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (3.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.50%) Docker
5 5 (1.56%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.31%) Snort
7 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (8.13%) Terraform
2 23 (7.19%) Kubernetes
3 22 (6.88%) CASB
4 14 (4.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.88%) Ansible
6 5 (1.56%) CSIRT
6 5 (1.56%) QRadar
7 4 (1.25%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.25%) RSA Archer
7 4 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.25%) ZENworks
8 3 (0.94%) Istio
8 3 (0.94%) linkerd
8 3 (0.94%) Nessus
8 3 (0.94%) NetBackup
8 3 (0.94%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.94%) Puppet
9 2 (0.63%) Host Intrusion Detection System
9 2 (0.63%) SCCM
10 1 (0.31%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 97 (30.31%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.63%) Google
3 17 (5.31%) VMware
4 15 (4.69%) Splunk
5 7 (2.19%) Cisco
5 7 (2.19%) Citrix
6 6 (1.88%) Tenable
7 5 (1.56%) Fortinet
7 5 (1.56%) Palo Alto
7 5 (1.56%) Tanium
8 4 (1.25%) CheckPoint
8 4 (1.25%) LogRhythm
8 4 (1.25%) Meraki
8 4 (1.25%) Qualys
9 3 (0.94%) Alibaba
9 3 (0.94%) EMC
9 3 (0.94%) NetApp
9 3 (0.94%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.94%) Symantec
9 3 (0.94%) Zscaler