Security Posture Jobs in the South East

Security Posture
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in permanent job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 222 345 335
Rank change year-on-year +123 -10 +83
Permanent jobs citing Security Posture 66 52 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.78% 0.31% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.30% 0.90% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 40 29 18
10th Percentile £35,925 £36,150 £45,875
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% -20.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 -
90th Percentile £77,700 £80,250 £83,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -11.33%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,869 5,755 6,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 33.90% 34.49% 42.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,636 3,769 3,297
10th Percentile £30,625 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £49,139 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.01% -10.66% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £73,875
90th Percentile £76,000 £75,000 £87,500
England 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 the South East

Job postings citing Security Posture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Security Posture in the South East

Security Posture
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Posture in the South East.

Salary trend for Security Posture in the South East

Security Posture
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Posture in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Posture in the South East

Security Posture
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Posture within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Middlesex - 21 - -
Surrey +83 17 £55,000 -27.87% 4
Hampshire +72 13 £49,000 -17.65% 5
Thames Valley +70 12 £67,500 -6.90% 6
Oxfordshire +37 5 £45,000 -40.98% 2
Berkshire +53 4 £70,000 - 4
Buckinghamshire +48 3 £47,500 -20.83% 2
Kent +31 2 £78,000 +105.26% 4
Sussex +20 1 - - 4
Security Posture
England

Security Posture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (3.03%) IBM Domino
Cloud Services
1 26 (39.39%) Azure
2 13 (19.70%) AWS
3 12 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (18.18%) PaaS
4 8 (12.12%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (7.58%) SaaS
6 3 (4.55%) GCP
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.03%) Serverless
7 2 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.52%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 15 (22.73%) Firewall
2 8 (12.12%) VPN
3 6 (9.09%) Network Security
4 4 (6.06%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (3.03%) SD-WAN
5 2 (3.03%) WAN
5 2 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (3.03%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Burp Suite
1 1 (1.52%) Metasploit
General
1 19 (28.79%) Finance
2 17 (25.76%) Social Skills
3 15 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.58%) Aerospace
4 5 (7.58%) Electronics
5 4 (6.06%) Law
5 4 (6.06%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.03%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.52%) Legal
7 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (36.36%) Security Engineer
2 20 (30.30%) Analyst
3 15 (22.73%) Security Analyst
4 13 (19.70%) Lead
5 10 (15.15%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 6 (9.09%) Vulnerability Manager
7 5 (7.58%) SOC Analyst
8 4 (6.06%) Senior
9 3 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 3 (4.55%) Infrastructure Manager
9 3 (4.55%) IT Manager
9 3 (4.55%) Junior
9 3 (4.55%) Technical Analyst
10 2 (3.03%) Architect
10 2 (3.03%) Information Manager
10 2 (3.03%) Information Security Manager
10 2 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.03%) Operations Analyst
10 2 (3.03%) Senior Analyst
10 2 (3.03%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (18.18%) YAML
2 2 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.15%) Cloud Security Posture
2 9 (13.64%) Security Operations Centre
3 8 (12.12%) Cyber Security Posture
3 8 (12.12%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (9.09%) Cloud Native
4 6 (9.09%) Operational Technology
5 5 (7.58%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.03%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (3.03%) YARA
7 1 (1.52%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.12%) Windows
2 6 (9.09%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.06%) Linux
4 2 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (80.30%) Cybersecurity
2 28 (42.42%) Vulnerability Management
3 23 (34.85%) Mentoring
4 19 (28.79%) Agile
4 19 (28.79%) Coaching
4 19 (28.79%) Creative Thinking
4 19 (28.79%) Incident Response
5 17 (25.76%) Computer Science
5 17 (25.76%) SIEM
6 16 (24.24%) Cloud Security
7 15 (22.73%) DevOps
8 14 (21.21%) Application Security
8 14 (21.21%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 14 (21.21%) Threat Intelligence
8 14 (21.21%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 13 (19.70%) Information Security
9 13 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (19.70%) Security Operations
9 13 (19.70%) Security Testing
10 12 (18.18%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 18 (27.27%) PowerShell
2 8 (12.12%) Bash
2 8 (12.12%) Python
3 7 (10.61%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (3.03%) Search Processing Language
4 2 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (42.42%) Degree
2 17 (25.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (18.18%) CISSP
3 12 (18.18%) Master's Degree
4 9 (13.64%) Network+ Certification
5 8 (12.12%) CompTIA Security+
6 7 (10.61%) CISM
7 6 (9.09%) CEH
8 4 (6.06%) OSCP
8 4 (6.06%) SC Cleared
8 4 (6.06%) Security Cleared
9 3 (4.55%) CompTIA CySA+
9 3 (4.55%) GCIH
10 2 (3.03%) AWS Certification
10 2 (3.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (1.52%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (45.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (37.88%) NIST
3 13 (19.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 12 (18.18%) GDPR
4 12 (18.18%) NCSC
5 9 (13.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (4.55%) HIPAA
7 2 (3.03%) Def Stans
7 2 (3.03%) GRC
7 2 (3.03%) PCI DSS
8 1 (1.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.06%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.55%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (7.58%) CASB
2 4 (6.06%) FortiGate
3 3 (4.55%) QRadar
4 2 (3.03%) Nessus
4 2 (3.03%) Terraform
4 2 (3.03%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 33 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.09%) VMware
3 5 (7.58%) Splunk
4 4 (6.06%) Fortinet
5 3 (4.55%) Cisco
5 3 (4.55%) Palo Alto
5 3 (4.55%) Tenable
6 2 (3.03%) Google
6 2 (3.03%) Meraki