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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 416 575 542
Rank change year-on-year +159 -33 +224
Permanent jobs citing Security Posture 328 350 489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.35% 0.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.58% 0.99% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 244 273 251
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,161 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +9.02% -5.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £96,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

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 20,780 35,301 43,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.98% 35.32% 43.42%
Number of salaries quoted 9,864 23,050 23,226
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,435
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £109,865
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,884 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.77% -9.09% +4.76%

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 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Posture in the UK

Security Posture
Top 17 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 20 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
England +122 303 £70,000 -3.45% 287
UK excluding London +166 175 £55,000 +4.76% 171
London +93 128 £82,500 -2.94% 161
Work from Home +111 100 £55,000 -15.38% 188
South East +102 65 £55,000 +22.22% 58
North of England +56 59 £58,500 -2.50% 29
North West -9 41 £74,870 +24.78% 14
South West +104 16 £51,058 +13.46% 18
Midlands +46 15 £55,000 +4.76% 35
Yorkshire +79 14 £50,000 -2.44% 13
West Midlands +51 12 £57,500 +4.55% 28
East of England +35 10 £50,000 +17.65% 12
Scotland +118 6 £52,500 -25.00% 15
North East +41 4 £41,468 -10.34% 2
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 5
East Midlands +20 3 £52,500 - 7
Wales +41 1 £55,000 - 5

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 9 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.61%) IBM Domino
2 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 121 (36.89%) Azure
2 71 (21.65%) AWS
3 40 (12.20%) GCP
4 30 (9.15%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (7.93%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (7.62%) Azure Sentinel
7 24 (7.32%) Entra ID
8 20 (6.10%) PaaS
9 17 (5.18%) SaaS
10 13 (3.96%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (1.83%) Azure AKS
12 5 (1.52%) IaaS
13 4 (1.22%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (0.91%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (0.91%) Amazon S3
14 3 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (0.91%) Azure Key Vault
14 3 (0.91%) GitHub
14 3 (0.91%) Serverless
14 3 (0.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 105 (32.01%) Firewall
2 58 (17.68%) Network Security
3 27 (8.23%) Intrusion Detection
4 26 (7.93%) VPN
5 17 (5.18%) DNS
6 11 (3.35%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.13%) DHCP
7 7 (2.13%) VLAN
7 7 (2.13%) WAN
8 6 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.52%) SD-WAN
10 4 (1.22%) HTTP
11 3 (0.91%) DMARC
11 3 (0.91%) Wireshark
12 2 (0.61%) DKIM
12 2 (0.61%) LAN
12 2 (0.61%) SMTP
12 2 (0.61%) Wireless
13 1 (0.30%) BGP
13 1 (0.30%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.30%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.30%) DynamoDB
2 1 (0.30%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (1.83%) Burp Suite
1 6 (1.83%) Metasploit
2 3 (0.91%) AppScan
2 3 (0.91%) JIRA
3 1 (0.30%) Postman
3 1 (0.30%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.30%) SoapUI
General
1 120 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 80 (24.39%) Finance
3 66 (20.12%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (10.98%) Legal
5 31 (9.45%) Retail
6 28 (8.54%) Law
7 23 (7.01%) Banking
8 11 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.74%) Aerospace
9 9 (2.74%) Electronics
9 9 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.74%) Marketing
10 8 (2.44%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.52%) Front Office
12 5 (1.52%) Local Government
13 4 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.91%) Public Sector
14 3 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 85 (25.91%) Security Engineer
2 64 (19.51%) Analyst
3 47 (14.33%) Security Analyst
4 37 (11.28%) Senior
5 34 (10.37%) Lead
6 31 (9.45%) Architect
7 29 (8.84%) Security Manager
8 27 (8.23%) Security Architect
9 26 (7.93%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 24 (7.32%) Cloud Engineer
11 22 (6.71%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 18 (5.49%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 16 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 15 (4.57%) Information Manager
14 15 (4.57%) Information Security Manager
15 14 (4.27%) Information Analyst
15 14 (4.27%) Information Security Analyst
16 12 (3.66%) AWS Engineer
17 10 (3.05%) Head of Information Security
17 10 (3.05%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.88%) YAML
2 6 (1.83%) Azure Blueprints
3 3 (0.91%) RESTful
4 2 (0.61%) JSON
5 1 (0.30%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.30%) EDI
5 1 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.30%) HTML
5 1 (0.30%) JWT
5 1 (0.30%) OAuth
5 1 (0.30%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.30%) REST
5 1 (0.30%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 90 (27.44%) Management Information System
2 38 (11.59%) Cloud Security Posture
3 29 (8.84%) Security Operations Centre
4 27 (8.23%) Cyber Security Posture
5 25 (7.62%) Cyber Threat
6 23 (7.01%) Cloud Native
7 21 (6.40%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (5.79%) Social Media
8 19 (5.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 11 (3.35%) Public Cloud
10 8 (2.44%) Operational Technology
10 8 (2.44%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.83%) PKI
11 6 (1.83%) Taxonomies
12 5 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
13 4 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (1.22%) Video Conferencing
13 4 (1.22%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.91%) Machine to Machine
Operating Systems
1 48 (14.63%) Windows
2 25 (7.62%) Linux
3 19 (5.79%) Windows Vista
4 17 (5.18%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.52%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.91%) Kali Linux
8 3 (0.91%) VMS
9 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.30%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (63.41%) Cybersecurity
2 153 (46.65%) Information Security
3 129 (39.33%) Vulnerability Management
4 127 (38.72%) Incident Response
5 108 (32.93%) Risk Management
6 107 (32.62%) Cloud Security
7 93 (28.35%) SIEM
8 79 (24.09%) Security Operations
9 75 (22.87%) Problem-Solving
10 67 (20.43%) DevOps
11 63 (19.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 59 (17.99%) Computer Science
13 57 (17.38%) DevSecOps
14 53 (16.16%) Mentoring
15 50 (15.24%) CI/CD
16 48 (14.63%) Incident Management
17 47 (14.33%) Data Protection
18 45 (13.72%) Data Loss Prevention
19 44 (13.41%) Agile
20 41 (12.50%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 48 (14.63%) PowerShell
2 28 (8.54%) Python
3 18 (5.49%) Bash
4 14 (4.27%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (1.22%) SQL
5 4 (1.22%) TypeScript
6 3 (0.91%) Search Processing Language
7 2 (0.61%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.30%) R
8 1 (0.30%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 105 (32.01%) Degree
2 85 (25.91%) CISSP
3 65 (19.82%) CISM
4 52 (15.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (14.33%) Master's Degree
6 45 (13.72%) Cisco Certification
7 42 (12.80%) CEH
8 40 (12.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 33 (10.06%) CISA
10 27 (8.23%) Security Cleared
11 24 (7.32%) SC Cleared
12 22 (6.71%) AWS Certification
13 21 (6.40%) CompTIA Security+
14 20 (6.10%) CCSP
15 19 (5.79%) DBS Check
16 13 (3.96%) OSCP
17 12 (3.66%) CRISC
17 12 (3.66%) GCIH
17 12 (3.66%) GIAC
18 11 (3.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (44.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 136 (41.46%) NIST
3 81 (24.70%) GDPR
4 36 (10.98%) PCI DSS
5 29 (8.84%) Cyber Essentials
6 19 (5.79%) GRC
7 18 (5.49%) NCSC
8 16 (4.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 13 (3.96%) SOC 2
10 9 (2.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (2.44%) HIPAA
11 8 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 7 (2.13%) NIST 800
13 6 (1.83%) SOC 1
14 5 (1.52%) QA
15 3 (0.91%) Def Stans
16 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
16 1 (0.30%) ISAE 3402
System Software
1 22 (6.71%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.96%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (3.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.44%) Docker
5 5 (1.52%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.30%) Snort
7 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (6.40%) Terraform
2 19 (5.79%) CASB
2 19 (5.79%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (2.13%) Nessus
5 6 (1.83%) RSA Archer
6 5 (1.52%) Ansible
6 5 (1.52%) CSIRT
6 5 (1.52%) QRadar
6 5 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.22%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.22%) ZENworks
8 3 (0.91%) Istio
8 3 (0.91%) linkerd
8 3 (0.91%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.91%) Puppet
9 2 (0.61%) Host Intrusion Detection System
9 2 (0.61%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.61%) SCCM
10 1 (0.30%) Nmap
Vendors
1 99 (30.18%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.27%) Google
2 14 (4.27%) VMware
3 12 (3.66%) Splunk
4 9 (2.74%) Symantec
5 7 (2.13%) Cisco
5 7 (2.13%) Citrix
6 6 (1.83%) Carbon Black
7 5 (1.52%) Fortinet
7 5 (1.52%) Palo Alto
7 5 (1.52%) Tanium
7 5 (1.52%) Tenable
8 4 (1.22%) Meraki
8 4 (1.22%) Zscaler
9 3 (0.91%) Alibaba
9 3 (0.91%) CheckPoint
9 3 (0.91%) LogRhythm
9 3 (0.91%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.91%) Trustwave
10 2 (0.61%) EMC