Security Posture Job Trends

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 8 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 400 545
Rank change year-on-year +76 +145 -52
Permanent jobs citing Security Posture 624 290 253
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.59% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.16% 1.43% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 429 207 163
10th Percentile £42,000 £40,538 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,165 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -6.90% +11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £95,625
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £51,058 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.62% -14.90% +4.35%

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 28,940 20,239 25,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.90% 41.16% 32.11%
Number of salaries quoted 18,166 10,134 13,541
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.55%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Security Posture job vacancy trend in the UK

Security Posture
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Security Posture.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Security Posture

Security Posture
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Posture over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

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 8 September 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
England +98 578 £70,000 +3.70% 559
UK excluding London +58 345 £57,500 +12.62% 239
London +48 250 £80,000 -4.48% 374
Work from Home +73 214 £65,000 - 364
North of England +18 107 £55,500 -3.48% 70
South East -16 80 £59,745 +3.90% 51
North West +20 57 £64,750 +12.61% 47
Midlands -14 56 £65,000 +30.00% 25
South West -41 54 £56,250 +10.17% 33
Yorkshire -15 30 £62,500 +4.17% 17
West Midlands -32 29 £65,000 +30.00% 13
East of England -3 27 £64,025 +11.35% 22
East Midlands -12 27 £68,000 +81.33% 12
North East -45 20 £43,750 -50.00% 6
Scotland -1 12 £80,000 +113.33% 25
Wales -58 11 £55,000 +4.76% 4

Security Posture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 30 (4.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (4.49%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.80%) Confluence
4 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.16%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (1.92%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 201 (32.21%) Azure
2 125 (20.03%) AWS
3 88 (14.10%) Microsoft 365
4 83 (13.30%) Entra ID
5 40 (6.41%) GCP
6 26 (4.17%) PaaS
7 23 (3.69%) Azure Sentinel
8 22 (3.53%) IaaS
9 19 (3.04%) SaaS
10 18 (2.88%) GitHub
10 18 (2.88%) Serverless
11 17 (2.72%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 16 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (2.24%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
15 12 (1.92%) Azure Functions
15 12 (1.92%) Azure Key Vault
15 12 (1.92%) Datadog
15 12 (1.92%) Power Platform
16 11 (1.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 135 (21.63%) Firewall
2 114 (18.27%) Network Security
3 68 (10.90%) VPN
4 46 (7.37%) WAN
5 41 (6.57%) DNS
6 35 (5.61%) LAN
7 29 (4.65%) Cisco ISE
7 29 (4.65%) Wireless
8 25 (4.01%) Internet
9 24 (3.85%) TCP/IP
10 21 (3.37%) Wi-Fi
11 20 (3.21%) Intrusion Detection
12 17 (2.72%) SSL
13 16 (2.56%) Cisco Wireless
14 15 (2.40%) SD-WAN
15 11 (1.76%) DHCP
15 11 (1.76%) Kerberos
16 10 (1.60%) OSPF
16 10 (1.60%) VLAN
17 9 (1.44%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (1.12%) SQL Server
3 6 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (0.80%) MongoDB
4 5 (0.80%) MySQL
5 4 (0.64%) Power BI
5 4 (0.64%) Tableau
6 2 (0.32%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.16%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.16%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.16%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (2.56%) JIRA
2 15 (2.40%) Burp Suite
2 15 (2.40%) Git
2 15 (2.40%) Metasploit
3 5 (0.80%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.64%) GitLab
5 3 (0.48%) MSI
6 2 (0.32%) Maven
6 2 (0.32%) Snyk
6 2 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.16%) Yeoman
General
1 242 (38.78%) Social Skills
2 112 (17.95%) Finance
3 104 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (10.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 59 (9.46%) Retail
6 43 (6.89%) Banking
6 43 (6.89%) Law
7 42 (6.73%) Legal
8 36 (5.77%) Aerospace
8 36 (5.77%) Public Sector
9 26 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
10 22 (3.53%) Local Government
11 15 (2.40%) Manufacturing
12 13 (2.08%) Aviation
13 12 (1.92%) Military
14 10 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (1.12%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.96%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 133 (21.31%) Analyst
2 101 (16.19%) Senior
3 99 (15.87%) Security Analyst
4 76 (12.18%) Security Engineer
5 68 (10.90%) Lead
6 60 (9.62%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 56 (8.97%) Security Manager
8 51 (8.17%) Senior Analyst
9 49 (7.85%) Consultant
10 42 (6.73%) Senior Security Analyst
11 27 (4.33%) Architect
11 27 (4.33%) Information Manager
11 27 (4.33%) Information Security Manager
11 27 (4.33%) Security Specialist
12 26 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
12 26 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 26 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 25 (4.01%) Network Engineer
13 25 (4.01%) Security Consultant
13 25 (4.01%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (8.65%) Terraform
2 15 (2.40%) LDAP
3 14 (2.24%) SAML
4 13 (2.08%) OpenID
5 10 (1.60%) ModSecurity
6 9 (1.44%) OAuth
6 9 (1.44%) REST
7 6 (0.96%) .NET
8 5 (0.80%) 802.1X
8 5 (0.80%) React
8 5 (0.80%) Ruby on Rails
9 2 (0.32%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.32%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.32%) JSON
9 2 (0.32%) SailPoint
9 2 (0.32%) XML
10 1 (0.16%) gRPC
10 1 (0.16%) JWT
10 1 (0.16%) Kafka
10 1 (0.16%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 58 (9.29%) Management Information System
2 55 (8.81%) Cyber Threat
3 42 (6.73%) Cloud Security Posture
4 38 (6.09%) Onboarding
5 37 (5.93%) Cloud Native
6 36 (5.77%) Cyber Security Posture
7 26 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
8 25 (4.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 20 (3.21%) Data Centre
9 20 (3.21%) PKI
9 20 (3.21%) Security Operations Centre
10 18 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
11 15 (2.40%) Public Cloud
12 14 (2.24%) Cyber Defence
13 13 (2.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 12 (1.92%) Podcast
14 12 (1.92%) Product Ownership
14 12 (1.92%) Social Media
15 11 (1.76%) CSOC
16 10 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 100 (16.03%) Windows
2 52 (8.33%) Linux
3 35 (5.61%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.92%) VMS
5 7 (1.12%) Android
5 7 (1.12%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.96%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.64%) Kali Linux
8 3 (0.48%) Unix
9 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (62.34%) Cybersecurity
2 236 (37.82%) Incident Response
3 203 (32.53%) Information Security
4 176 (28.21%) Vulnerability Management
5 173 (27.72%) Security Operations
6 170 (27.24%) SIEM
7 167 (26.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 151 (24.20%) Cloud Security
9 141 (22.60%) Risk Management
10 116 (18.59%) Problem-Solving
11 98 (15.71%) Mentoring
12 96 (15.38%) Threat Detection
13 94 (15.06%) Roadmaps
14 93 (14.90%) Vulnerability Remediation
15 86 (13.78%) Penetration Testing
16 80 (12.82%) AI
17 78 (12.50%) Security Architecture
18 72 (11.54%) Threat Intelligence
19 71 (11.38%) Decision-Making
20 70 (11.22%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (11.54%) PowerShell
2 66 (10.58%) Python
3 35 (5.61%) Kusto Query Language
4 24 (3.85%) Bash
5 22 (3.53%) SQL
6 17 (2.72%) Java
7 16 (2.56%) Bicep
7 16 (2.56%) C#
8 9 (1.44%) C
9 8 (1.28%) Ruby
10 7 (1.12%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.96%) Search Processing Language
12 5 (0.80%) Go
13 3 (0.48%) C++
13 3 (0.48%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.48%) Perl
13 3 (0.48%) Rust
14 1 (0.16%) Delphi
14 1 (0.16%) Pascal
14 1 (0.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 147 (23.56%) CISSP
2 101 (16.19%) Security Cleared
3 92 (14.74%) CISM
4 90 (14.42%) Degree
5 82 (13.14%) Cisco Certification
6 65 (10.42%) SC Cleared
7 43 (6.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 38 (6.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 38 (6.09%) CCNP
9 36 (5.77%) DV Cleared
10 30 (4.81%) CCSP
11 27 (4.33%) CRISC
12 26 (4.17%) Azure Certification
12 26 (4.17%) CEH
13 23 (3.69%) CompTIA Security+
14 19 (3.04%) CREST Certified
15 18 (2.88%) CCNA
16 17 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
16 17 (2.72%) OSCP
17 13 (2.08%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (37.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 187 (29.97%) NIST
3 82 (13.14%) GDPR
4 65 (10.42%) Cyber Essentials
4 65 (10.42%) GRC
5 59 (9.46%) PCI DSS
6 36 (5.77%) QA
7 34 (5.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 26 (4.17%) NCSC
9 20 (3.21%) SLA
10 18 (2.88%) NIST 800
11 14 (2.24%) SOC 2
12 10 (1.60%) JSP 440
13 8 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (1.28%) HIPAA
14 7 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 6 (0.96%) Data Quality
16 5 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 5 (0.80%) PERC
16 5 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 81 (12.98%) Active Directory
2 30 (4.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (2.08%) vSphere
5 11 (1.76%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.64%) Docker
8 3 (0.48%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.32%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.32%) IAG
10 1 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 43 (6.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (3.37%) Ansible
2 21 (3.37%) Kubernetes
3 17 (2.72%) Single Sign-On
4 15 (2.40%) Nmap
5 9 (1.44%) QRadar
6 5 (0.80%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (0.64%) FortiGate
7 4 (0.64%) SCCM
8 3 (0.48%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 3 (0.48%) VxRail
9 2 (0.32%) Argo
9 2 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.32%) Nessus
9 2 (0.32%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.16%) CASB
Vendors
1 215 (34.46%) Microsoft
2 56 (8.97%) Cisco
3 51 (8.17%) Palo Alto
4 46 (7.37%) Splunk
5 35 (5.61%) VMware
6 28 (4.49%) Qualys
7 23 (3.69%) CrowdStrike
8 22 (3.53%) Tenable
9 21 (3.37%) Fortinet
10 19 (3.04%) ServiceNow
11 15 (2.40%) SolarWinds
12 14 (2.24%) Google
13 12 (1.92%) Arista
13 12 (1.92%) ForeScout
13 12 (1.92%) Infoblox
13 12 (1.92%) Meraki
13 12 (1.92%) ScienceLogic
13 12 (1.92%) SevOne
14 11 (1.76%) Rapid7
15 10 (1.60%) Aruba