Security Posture Jobs

Security Posture
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 520 664
Rank change year-on-year -7 +144 +115
Permanent jobs citing Security Posture 262 251 547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.43% 0.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.06% 1.13% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 134 209 247
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,443 £38,910
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £63,000 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -4.55% +1.54%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £118,375 £111,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,662 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.28% -4.17% +20.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 24,750 22,260 64,109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.56% 37.91% 45.44%
Number of salaries quoted 10,956 16,186 31,701
10th Percentile £32,875 £34,234 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,628 £45,321 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Posture in the UK

Security Posture
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Security Posture in the UK

Security Posture
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Posture over the 6 months to 26 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Posture in the UK

Security Posture
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 October 2024. 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
England -39 241 £68,750 +5.77% 93
UK excluding London -45 136 £57,662 +0.28% 55
London +50 121 £82,500 +3.13% 39
Work from Home +34 89 £57,825 -17.39% 65
North of England +9 50 £45,000 -25.00% 19
Yorkshire +51 26 £45,000 -39.60% 9
Midlands -32 25 £45,000 -21.74% 9
South West +20 23 £64,000 -1.54% 8
North West -39 21 £57,500 -0.86% 9
West Midlands -29 19 £48,750 -15.22% 6
South East -47 17 £60,000 +4.35% 16
Scotland +6 15 £70,000 +57.30% 3
East Midlands -22 6 £45,000 -14.29% 3
East of England -48 6 £61,500 +2.50% 1
North East - 3 £45,000 - 1
Channel Islands - 2 £64,000 -

Security Posture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (4.58%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.29%) Apache
3 6 (2.29%) nginx
4 3 (1.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 109 (41.60%) Azure
2 56 (21.37%) AWS
3 46 (17.56%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (12.21%) Entra ID
5 17 (6.49%) GCP
6 14 (5.34%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 14 (5.34%) Microsoft Purview
7 11 (4.20%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (2.29%) SaaS
9 5 (1.91%) GitHub
9 5 (1.91%) IaaS
9 5 (1.91%) PaaS
10 4 (1.53%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.53%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.53%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.53%) Serverless
11 3 (1.15%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 60 (22.90%) Firewall
2 44 (16.79%) Network Security
3 27 (10.31%) DNS
4 22 (8.40%) DHCP
5 20 (7.63%) Intrusion Detection
6 14 (5.34%) Broadband
6 14 (5.34%) Unified Communications
7 11 (4.20%) TCP/IP
8 8 (3.05%) BGP
8 8 (3.05%) VLAN
9 5 (1.91%) Internet
9 5 (1.91%) NAS
9 5 (1.91%) OSPF
9 5 (1.91%) SAN
9 5 (1.91%) VPN
9 5 (1.91%) WAN
10 4 (1.53%) Reverse Proxy
11 3 (1.15%) LAN
11 3 (1.15%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.76%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.29%) MySQL
1 6 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.76%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (2.29%) Git
1 6 (2.29%) Mercurial
2 4 (1.53%) JIRA
3 2 (0.76%) Burp Suite
3 2 (0.76%) GitLab
3 2 (0.76%) Katalon Studio
3 2 (0.76%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.38%) Jenkins
General
1 70 (26.72%) Social Skills
2 57 (21.76%) Finance
3 46 (17.56%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.25%) Legal
5 17 (6.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (6.11%) Law
7 15 (5.73%) Pharmaceutical
8 14 (5.34%) Public Sector
9 9 (3.44%) Retail
10 6 (2.29%) French Language
10 6 (2.29%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.53%) Games
11 4 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.15%) Dutch Language
12 3 (1.15%) Polish Language
13 2 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.76%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.76%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 53 (20.23%) Analyst
2 41 (15.65%) Senior
3 40 (15.27%) Security Analyst
4 38 (14.50%) Security Engineer
5 23 (8.78%) Security Manager
6 21 (8.02%) Consultant
7 20 (7.63%) Security Consultant
8 18 (6.87%) Lead
9 17 (6.49%) Cloud Engineer
9 17 (6.49%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 17 (6.49%) Technical Specialist
10 15 (5.73%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 15 (5.73%) Senior Analyst
11 14 (5.34%) Architect
11 14 (5.34%) Linux Specialist
11 14 (5.34%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 14 (5.34%) Senior Linux Specialist
11 14 (5.34%) Senior Technical Specialist
11 14 (5.34%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
12 13 (4.96%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.29%) LAMP
1 6 (2.29%) LAPP Stack
1 6 (2.29%) LEMP Stack
2 2 (0.76%) Azure Blueprints
2 2 (0.76%) Kafka
2 2 (0.76%) OAuth
2 2 (0.76%) OpenID
2 2 (0.76%) SAML
2 2 (0.76%) Web Services
2 2 (0.76%) YAML
3 1 (0.38%) ADO
3 1 (0.38%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 38 (14.50%) Management Information System
2 32 (12.21%) Cyber Threat
3 26 (9.92%) Cloud Security Posture
4 24 (9.16%) Operational Technology
5 20 (7.63%) Cyber Security Posture
6 18 (6.87%) SCADA
7 17 (6.49%) Cloud Native
8 14 (5.34%) Social Media
8 14 (5.34%) Video Conferencing
9 11 (4.20%) Data Centre
10 10 (3.82%) Security Operations Centre
11 9 (3.44%) Onboarding
11 9 (3.44%) Public Cloud
12 8 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (2.29%) Enterprise Cloud
13 6 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
14 4 (1.53%) Cyber Defence
14 4 (1.53%) Driving Licence
15 3 (1.15%) Insider Threat
15 3 (1.15%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 54 (20.61%) Windows
2 37 (14.12%) Linux
3 25 (9.54%) Ubuntu
4 16 (6.11%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.29%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (1.91%) Unix
6 5 (1.91%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.76%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.38%) Android
8 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (61.83%) Cybersecurity
2 87 (33.21%) Security Operations
3 83 (31.68%) Information Security
4 79 (30.15%) Incident Response
5 64 (24.43%) Cloud Security
6 59 (22.52%) Risk Management
7 58 (22.14%) Vulnerability Management
8 50 (19.08%) Roadmaps
9 49 (18.70%) SIEM
10 48 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
11 43 (16.41%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (13.36%) Identity Access Management
13 33 (12.60%) Security Monitoring
14 30 (11.45%) DevOps
14 30 (11.45%) Penetration Testing
14 30 (11.45%) Vulnerability Assessment
15 29 (11.07%) Data Loss Prevention
15 29 (11.07%) Vulnerability Remediation
16 25 (9.54%) Security Architecture
17 22 (8.40%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 24 (9.16%) Python
2 23 (8.78%) PowerShell
3 21 (8.02%) Bash
4 6 (2.29%) PHP
5 2 (0.76%) SQL
6 1 (0.38%) Bicep
6 1 (0.38%) C++
6 1 (0.38%) CodeQL
6 1 (0.38%) Java
6 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.38%) Ruby
6 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 79 (30.15%) CISSP
2 50 (19.08%) CISM
3 47 (17.94%) Degree
4 38 (14.50%) CEH
5 30 (11.45%) CISA
6 28 (10.69%) Security Cleared
7 24 (9.16%) SC Cleared
8 21 (8.02%) Azure Certification
8 21 (8.02%) Cisco Certification
9 16 (6.11%) AWS Certification
9 16 (6.11%) GCIA
9 16 (6.11%) GCIH
10 15 (5.73%) GCFE
11 13 (4.96%) CompTIA Security+
12 12 (4.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 12 (4.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 12 (4.58%) CCSP
12 12 (4.58%) CRISC
12 12 (4.58%) GIAC
13 8 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (37.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 65 (24.81%) NIST
3 38 (14.50%) GDPR
4 35 (13.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 24 (9.16%) PCI DSS
6 13 (4.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 13 (4.96%) GRC
7 10 (3.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 9 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 8 (3.05%) NIST 800
10 7 (2.67%) SOC 2
11 5 (1.91%) COBIT
12 3 (1.15%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.76%) FISMA
13 2 (0.76%) GLBA
13 2 (0.76%) NCSC
14 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.38%) PMO
14 1 (0.38%) SOC 1
System Software
1 34 (12.98%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.82%) Docker
4 3 (1.15%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.76%) vSphere
6 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (6.87%) Kubernetes
1 18 (6.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (5.73%) CASB
3 14 (5.34%) Jamf Pro
3 14 (5.34%) Terraform
4 10 (3.82%) CSIRT
5 5 (1.91%) vCenter Server
6 4 (1.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.15%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.15%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (0.76%) Nessus
8 2 (0.76%) Nmap
8 2 (0.76%) Suricata
9 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 96 (36.64%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.73%) CyberArk
3 14 (5.34%) Tanium
4 12 (4.58%) VMware
5 9 (3.44%) Cisco
5 9 (3.44%) Zscaler
6 7 (2.67%) Palo Alto
7 6 (2.29%) Google
8 5 (1.91%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.91%) Juniper
8 5 (1.91%) Proofpoint
8 5 (1.91%) Splunk
9 4 (1.53%) Darktrace
9 4 (1.53%) Thales
10 3 (1.15%) Apple
10 3 (1.15%) Citrix
10 3 (1.15%) Intel
10 3 (1.15%) Oracle
10 3 (1.15%) SAP
11 2 (0.76%) ServiceNow