Security Posture Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Posture
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 416 591 503
Rank change year-on-year +175 -88 +152
Permanent jobs citing Security Posture 174 174 255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.24% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.30% 0.72% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 128 133 107
10th Percentile £37,716 £35,150 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,840 £70,000 £74,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £66,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% +9.02% -5.00%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,411 24,153 24,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.64% 33.77% 42.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6,122 15,207 11,097
10th Percentile £28,800 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,975 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.95% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Posture in the UK excluding London

Security Posture
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Security Posture in the UK excluding London

Security Posture
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Posture in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Posture in the UK excluding London

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 Security Posture within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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 +102 64 £55,000 +22.22% 61
North of England +52 59 £58,500 -2.50% 33
North West -2 41 £74,870 +24.78% 17
South West +110 16 £51,058 +13.46% 30
Midlands +51 15 £57,500 +9.52% 41
Yorkshire +74 14 £50,000 -2.44% 14
West Midlands +39 12 £62,500 +13.64% 31
East of England +37 10 £50,000 +17.65% 8
Scotland +104 6 £52,500 -25.00% 13
North East +36 4 £41,468 -10.34% 2
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 5
East Midlands +19 3 £52,500 - 10
Wales +36 1 £55,000 - 5
Security Posture
UK

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 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.15%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 54 (31.03%) Azure
2 39 (22.41%) AWS
3 15 (8.62%) Entra ID
3 15 (8.62%) PaaS
4 14 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (7.47%) Azure Sentinel
5 13 (7.47%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (4.60%) Microsoft Purview
6 8 (4.60%) SaaS
7 5 (2.87%) GCP
8 3 (1.72%) IaaS
9 2 (1.15%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.57%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (0.57%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.57%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.57%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.57%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.57%) Serverless
10 1 (0.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 55 (31.61%) Firewall
2 19 (10.92%) Intrusion Detection
3 17 (9.77%) Network Security
3 17 (9.77%) VPN
4 8 (4.60%) DNS
4 8 (4.60%) TCP/IP
5 6 (3.45%) DHCP
5 6 (3.45%) VLAN
6 4 (2.30%) WAN
6 4 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (1.72%) Wireshark
8 2 (1.15%) HTTP
8 2 (1.15%) LAN
8 2 (1.15%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.15%) SMTP
9 1 (0.57%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (2.87%) Burp Suite
1 5 (2.87%) Metasploit
2 3 (1.72%) AppScan
General
1 56 (32.18%) Social Skills
2 39 (22.41%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (18.97%) Finance
4 15 (8.62%) Legal
5 14 (8.05%) Law
6 9 (5.17%) Aerospace
6 9 (5.17%) Electronics
7 8 (4.60%) Retail
8 7 (4.02%) Banking
9 6 (3.45%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (2.30%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.15%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.57%) Advertising
14 1 (0.57%) Automotive
14 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.57%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 65 (37.36%) Security Engineer
2 41 (23.56%) Analyst
3 29 (16.67%) Security Analyst
4 23 (13.22%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 20 (11.49%) Lead
6 18 (10.34%) Cloud Engineer
6 18 (10.34%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 16 (9.20%) Architect
8 14 (8.05%) Security Architect
9 12 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (6.90%) Security Manager
10 11 (6.32%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 10 (5.75%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (5.17%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
12 9 (5.17%) SOC Analyst
13 8 (4.60%) Information Manager
13 8 (4.60%) Information Security Manager
14 7 (4.02%) Senior
15 6 (3.45%) Operations Engineer
15 6 (3.45%) Vulnerability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.47%) YAML
2 1 (0.57%) EDI
2 1 (0.57%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.57%) HTML
2 1 (0.57%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 35 (20.11%) Management Information System
2 24 (13.79%) Cloud Security Posture
3 21 (12.07%) Cyber Threat
4 20 (11.49%) Security Operations Centre
5 18 (10.34%) Cyber Security Posture
6 14 (8.05%) Cloud Native
6 14 (8.05%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (6.90%) Social Media
7 12 (6.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 9 (5.17%) Public Cloud
9 7 (4.02%) Operational Technology
9 7 (4.02%) Product Ownership
10 4 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.72%) Cyberattack
12 2 (1.15%) Biopharmaceutical
12 2 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (1.15%) IoT
12 2 (1.15%) PKI
12 2 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
12 2 (1.15%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 25 (14.37%) Windows
2 16 (9.20%) Linux
3 12 (6.90%) Windows Vista
4 8 (4.60%) Windows Server
5 7 (4.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.72%) Kali Linux
8 2 (1.15%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (68.97%) Cybersecurity
2 67 (38.51%) Vulnerability Management
3 62 (35.63%) Information Security
4 60 (34.48%) Cloud Security
5 59 (33.91%) Incident Response
6 45 (25.86%) Security Operations
6 45 (25.86%) SIEM
7 44 (25.29%) Risk Management
8 42 (24.14%) DevOps
9 38 (21.84%) Computer Science
9 38 (21.84%) Mentoring
10 36 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
11 34 (19.54%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (17.24%) Coaching
12 30 (17.24%) DevSecOps
13 26 (14.94%) Threat Intelligence
14 25 (14.37%) CI/CD
15 24 (13.79%) Agile
15 24 (13.79%) Vulnerability Remediation
16 22 (12.64%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 26 (14.94%) PowerShell
2 12 (6.90%) Python
3 10 (5.75%) Kusto Query Language
4 7 (4.02%) Bash
5 4 (2.30%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.15%) Search Processing Language
6 2 (1.15%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.15%) SQL
7 1 (0.57%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 57 (32.76%) Degree
2 41 (23.56%) CISSP
3 36 (20.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 33 (18.97%) CISM
5 25 (14.37%) CEH
5 25 (14.37%) Master's Degree
6 17 (9.77%) CISA
7 15 (8.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 15 (8.62%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (8.05%) CompTIA Security+
9 13 (7.47%) AWS Certification
9 13 (7.47%) Security Cleared
10 12 (6.90%) DBS Check
11 11 (6.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 10 (5.75%) SC Cleared
13 9 (5.17%) Network+ Certification
14 8 (4.60%) OSCP
15 7 (4.02%) GIAC
16 6 (3.45%) GCIH
17 3 (1.72%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (40.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 59 (33.91%) NIST
3 36 (20.69%) GDPR
4 21 (12.07%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (7.47%) NCSC
6 11 (6.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 7 (4.02%) GRC
8 3 (1.72%) Def Stans
8 3 (1.72%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.72%) PCI DSS
9 2 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.60%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (3.45%) Docker
3 6 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.30%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.57%) Snort
Systems Management
1 9 (5.17%) Terraform
2 6 (3.45%) Nessus
3 5 (2.87%) CASB
3 5 (2.87%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.87%) QRadar
4 4 (2.30%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.15%) Ansible
6 2 (1.15%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 2 (1.15%) ZENworks
7 1 (0.57%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.57%) Nmap
Vendors
1 60 (34.48%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.17%) Splunk
3 6 (3.45%) VMware
4 5 (2.87%) Fortinet
5 4 (2.30%) Google
5 4 (2.30%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.72%) Cisco
6 3 (1.72%) Tenable
6 3 (1.72%) Trustwave
7 2 (1.15%) Meraki
8 1 (0.57%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.57%) Intel
8 1 (0.57%) LogRhythm
8 1 (0.57%) Okta
8 1 (0.57%) SAP