Cyber Security Posture Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Posture
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Security Posture in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 567 720 736
Rank change year-on-year +153 +16 +113
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Security Posture 12 42 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.030% 0.056% 0.021%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.089% 0.17% 0.049%
Number of salaries quoted 6 39 11
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,150 £65,000
25th Percentile £31,563 £37,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £50,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -33.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £81,875 £72,500 -
90th Percentile £102,500 £76,500 -
UK median annual salary £71,500 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.33% -16.67%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Cyber 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,541 24,499 24,363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.12% 32.71% 42.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,957 15,292 10,888
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,925 £35,000 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Cyber Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cyber Security Posture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Security Posture in the UK excluding London

Cyber Security Posture
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cyber Security Posture in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cyber Security Posture in the UK excluding London

Cyber Security Posture
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Security Posture in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cyber Security Posture in the UK excluding London

Cyber Security Posture
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Security Posture within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
South East +71 9 £47,500 +23.38% 10
Scotland +120 2 £37,500 -44.44% 2
Midlands +64 1 £85,000 +30.77% 5
West Midlands +55 1 £85,000 +30.77% 3
North of England +33 1 £65,000 +62.50% 5
Yorkshire - 1 £65,000 - 1
Cyber Security Posture
UK

Cyber Security Posture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (8.33%) IIS
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (8.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DHCP
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Vulnerability Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Security Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Security Manager
2 2 (16.67%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Head of Cybersecurity
3 1 (8.33%) Head of Operations
3 1 (8.33%) Head of Security
3 1 (8.33%) Information Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Information Security Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Operational Security Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Operations Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Resilience Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Security Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 11 (91.67%) Security Posture
2 6 (50.00%) Management Information System
3 5 (41.67%) Cloud Native
3 5 (41.67%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
4 2 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (8.33%) Operational Technology
5 1 (8.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (66.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 8 (66.67%) Threat Intelligence
2 8 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
3 6 (50.00%) Cloud Security
4 5 (41.67%) Agile
4 5 (41.67%) Coaching
4 5 (41.67%) Creative Thinking
4 5 (41.67%) Data Loss Prevention
4 5 (41.67%) Mentoring
4 5 (41.67%) Security Monitoring
4 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (41.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
5 4 (33.33%) Incident Response
6 3 (25.00%) Information Security
6 3 (25.00%) Security Operations
6 3 (25.00%) SIEM
7 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (16.67%) ITIL
7 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) CISSP
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) CEH
3 1 (8.33%) CISMP
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (25.00%) NIST
2 2 (16.67%) GDPR
3 1 (8.33%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) CASB
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (8.33%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Tenable
3 1 (8.33%) VMware