Security Posture Job Trends in London

Security Posture
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 271 347
Rank change year-on-year +74 +76 +41
Permanent jobs citing Security Posture 255 123 121
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.08% 1.01% 0.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.13% 2.21% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 137 82 95
10th Percentile £57,000 £53,784 £53,000
25th Percentile £65,186 £74,063 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £83,750 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% -1.47% -
75th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,500 £117,250 £119,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £68,750 £72,500
% change year-on-year +1.82% -5.17% +7.01%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,138 5,556 8,166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.47% 45.46% 41.63%
Number of salaries quoted 4,881 3,259 5,333
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,125 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% -3.13% +5.96%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £135,000 £138,750
England median annual salary £58,497 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +6.36% -4.35% -11.54%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Security Posture job vacancy trend in London

Security Posture
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Security Posture.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Security Posture

Security Posture
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Posture in London over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Security Posture in London

Security Posture
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Posture within the London region over the 6 months to 7 August 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +8 27 £71,250 -10.94% 28
West London -7 21 £82,500 +8.20% 9
East London -14 3 £95,000 +5.56%
Security Posture
England

Security Posture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (1.96%) Confluence
2 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (4.71%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 103 (40.39%) Azure
2 74 (29.02%) AWS
3 32 (12.55%) Entra ID
4 31 (12.16%) GCP
5 30 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (5.49%) Azure Sentinel
7 13 (5.10%) PaaS
8 12 (4.71%) Datadog
9 11 (4.31%) IaaS
10 10 (3.92%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 10 (3.92%) SaaS
11 9 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (2.75%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (2.75%) Mimecast
13 6 (2.35%) Nutanix
13 6 (2.35%) Power Platform
14 5 (1.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 4 (1.57%) Cloudflare
16 3 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
16 3 (1.18%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 66 (25.88%) Firewall
1 66 (25.88%) Network Security
2 33 (12.94%) VPN
3 27 (10.59%) WAN
4 25 (9.80%) Cisco ISE
5 19 (7.45%) DNS
6 18 (7.06%) Wireless
7 16 (6.27%) Cisco Wireless
8 15 (5.88%) LAN
9 14 (5.49%) SD-WAN
10 13 (5.10%) TCP/IP
11 12 (4.71%) Kerberos
11 12 (4.71%) SSL
12 11 (4.31%) Internet
13 9 (3.53%) Intrusion Detection
13 9 (3.53%) OSPF
14 8 (3.14%) BGP
15 7 (2.75%) BIG-IP
15 7 (2.75%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 7 (2.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.96%) MongoDB
1 5 (1.96%) MySQL
1 5 (1.96%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.57%) Power BI
2 4 (1.57%) Tableau
3 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 13 (5.10%) JIRA
2 8 (3.14%) GitLab
3 3 (1.18%) Jenkins
General
1 93 (36.47%) Social Skills
2 81 (31.76%) Finance
3 55 (21.57%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (18.82%) Banking
5 46 (18.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 41 (16.08%) Retail
7 27 (10.59%) Local Government
8 23 (9.02%) Law
9 21 (8.24%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (6.67%) Legal
11 10 (3.92%) Aviation
12 7 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.57%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (1.18%) Back Office
15 3 (1.18%) Digital Health
15 3 (1.18%) Digital Healthcare
16 2 (0.78%) Public Sector
16 2 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (18.82%) Senior
2 38 (14.90%) Analyst
3 37 (14.51%) Security Engineer
4 34 (13.33%) Security Analyst
5 24 (9.41%) Consultant
6 23 (9.02%) Lead
7 21 (8.24%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 21 (8.24%) Network Engineer
8 19 (7.45%) Security Manager
9 17 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (5.49%) Security Specialist
11 13 (5.10%) Senior Consultant
12 12 (4.71%) Architect
12 12 (4.71%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 11 (4.31%) Security Consultant
14 10 (3.92%) Senior Analyst
14 10 (3.92%) Senior Security Analyst
15 8 (3.14%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 8 (3.14%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
15 8 (3.14%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.49%) SAML
2 13 (5.10%) OpenID
3 12 (4.71%) LDAP
4 10 (3.92%) OAuth
5 8 (3.14%) REST
6 5 (1.96%) React
6 5 (1.96%) Ruby on Rails
7 4 (1.57%) 802.1X
8 2 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.78%) SailPoint
9 1 (0.39%) .NET
9 1 (0.39%) JSON
9 1 (0.39%) JWT
9 1 (0.39%) Kafka
9 1 (0.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (12.55%) Management Information System
2 21 (8.24%) Data Centre
3 20 (7.84%) Cloud Native
4 19 (7.45%) Cloud Security Posture
5 14 (5.49%) Cyber Threat
5 14 (5.49%) PKI
6 13 (5.10%) Onboarding
7 10 (3.92%) Product Ownership
8 9 (3.53%) Cyber Defence
8 9 (3.53%) Cyber Security Posture
9 8 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (2.75%) Blog
10 7 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.96%) AS400
11 5 (1.96%) Cyberattack
11 5 (1.96%) iSeries
11 5 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.96%) Security Operations Centre
12 4 (1.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 4 (1.57%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 38 (14.90%) Windows
2 30 (11.76%) Linux
3 12 (4.71%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.96%) Android
4 5 (1.96%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.57%) Unix
6 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (57.25%) Cybersecurity
2 98 (38.43%) Information Security
3 93 (36.47%) Incident Response
4 88 (34.51%) Risk Management
5 75 (29.41%) Cloud Security
6 71 (27.84%) Continuous Improvement
7 68 (26.67%) Vulnerability Management
8 64 (25.10%) SIEM
9 59 (23.14%) Security Operations
10 55 (21.57%) Roadmaps
11 48 (18.82%) Mentoring
12 41 (16.08%) Security Architecture
13 40 (15.69%) Threat Detection
14 37 (14.51%) Vulnerability Remediation
15 34 (13.33%) DevSecOps
15 34 (13.33%) Penetration Testing
15 34 (13.33%) Threat Intelligence
16 33 (12.94%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
16 33 (12.94%) Project Management
17 32 (12.55%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 40 (15.69%) Python
2 36 (14.12%) PowerShell
3 13 (5.10%) Java
4 11 (4.31%) Bash
5 8 (3.14%) Go
5 8 (3.14%) Ruby
6 7 (2.75%) SQL
7 6 (2.35%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (1.57%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.18%) C
9 3 (1.18%) C#
9 3 (1.18%) C++
9 3 (1.18%) Objective-C
9 3 (1.18%) Perl
9 3 (1.18%) Rust
10 2 (0.78%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 91 (35.69%) CISSP
2 67 (26.27%) CISM
3 48 (18.82%) Cisco Certification
4 44 (17.25%) Degree
5 30 (11.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 29 (11.37%) CCSP
7 24 (9.41%) CRISC
8 18 (7.06%) CCNP
8 18 (7.06%) Security Cleared
9 16 (6.27%) Master's Degree
10 15 (5.88%) SC Cleared
11 14 (5.49%) CompTIA Security+
12 13 (5.10%) CEH
13 12 (4.71%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (4.31%) OSCP
15 9 (3.53%) GIAC
16 8 (3.14%) CREST Certified
16 8 (3.14%) DV Cleared
16 8 (3.14%) GCIH
17 6 (2.35%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (46.27%) NIST
2 110 (43.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 31 (12.16%) GRC
3 31 (12.16%) QA
4 30 (11.76%) GDPR
5 26 (10.20%) PCI DSS
6 17 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
7 16 (6.27%) NIST 800
8 7 (2.75%) SOC 2
9 6 (2.35%) Government Security Classifications
9 6 (2.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 6 (2.35%) JSP 440
9 6 (2.35%) SLA
10 5 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (1.57%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (1.18%) Accessibility
12 3 (1.18%) HIPAA
12 3 (1.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 36 (14.12%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.14%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.18%) Docker
5 3 (1.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (0.78%) IAG
6 2 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (10.59%) Terraform
2 15 (5.88%) Ansible
3 9 (3.53%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (3.14%) QRadar
5 6 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.96%) FortiGate
6 5 (1.96%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (1.18%) VxRail
8 2 (0.78%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
9 1 (0.39%) CASB
Vendors
1 75 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 31 (12.16%) Cisco
3 28 (10.98%) Splunk
4 26 (10.20%) Palo Alto
5 19 (7.45%) Qualys
6 16 (6.27%) Tenable
6 16 (6.27%) VMware
7 15 (5.88%) Google
8 13 (5.10%) Arista
8 13 (5.10%) CrowdStrike
8 13 (5.10%) ServiceNow
9 12 (4.71%) ForeScout
9 12 (4.71%) Infoblox
9 12 (4.71%) SevOne
9 12 (4.71%) SolarWinds
10 10 (3.92%) Sophos
11 9 (3.53%) Rapid7
12 7 (2.75%) CyberArk
12 7 (2.75%) F5
13 6 (2.35%) Capita