Security Posture Job Trends in Yorkshire

Security Posture
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in permanent job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 114 178
Rank change year-on-year -37 +64 +71
Permanent jobs citing Security Posture 7 39 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.21% 1.22% 0.095%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.70% 4.02% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 5 28 2
10th Percentile - £41,065 £59,350
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £59,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -29.69% -7.51%
75th Percentile £63,500 £55,250 £67,375
90th Percentile £102,200 £63,725 £67,450
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +0.57%

All Generic Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 996 970 1,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 30.12% 30.33% 36.16%
Number of salaries quoted 507 389 893
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,250 £29,300
25th Percentile £30,125 £41,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £89,417
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Security Posture job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Security Posture
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Security Posture.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Security Posture

Security Posture
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Posture in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Security Posture in Yorkshire

Security Posture
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Posture within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 January 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
West Yorkshire -13 5 £59,000 +9.26% 4
East Yorkshire -21 2 £45,000 -
Security Posture
England

Security Posture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) SaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) HTTP
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Snyk
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Security Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Product Owner
3 1 (14.29%) Security Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) JWT
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth
1 1 (14.29%) SAML
1 1 (14.29%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 1 (14.29%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
3 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps
3 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Data Privacy
4 2 (28.57%) Identity Management
4 2 (28.57%) Information Security
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) OWASP
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) SIEM
4 2 (28.57%) Validation
4 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 1 (14.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 1 (14.29%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Bicep
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) GRC
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (28.57%) GDPR
2 2 (28.57%) NIST
2 2 (28.57%) SOC 2
3 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
3 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Checkmarx
2 1 (14.29%) Qualys
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk