Security Posture Contracts in the North of England

Security Posture
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Posture over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 171 201 239
Rank change year-on-year +30 +38 -46
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 15 12 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.33% 0.21% 0.070%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.23% 0.71% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 5
10th Percentile £425 £450 -
25th Percentile £575 £534 £145
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £628 £375
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +67.33% -44.89%
75th Percentile £788 £694 £565
90th Percentile £988 £733 £654
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -11.11%

All Generic Skills
North of England

Security Posture is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,219 1,690 2,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.46% 30.27% 34.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 744 1,125 1,891
10th Percentile £265 £288 £200
25th Percentile £400 £410 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.37% +11.76%
75th Percentile £582 £610 £575
90th Percentile £656 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 81 106
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.00 £10.63 £14.25
Median hourly rate £15.11 £16.85 £18.85
Median % change year-on-year -10.36% -10.61% +6.50%
75th Percentile £26.66 £40.00 £26.88
90th Percentile £48.24 £66.69 £46.30
England median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +52.15% -15.15% +1.09%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Security Posture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Security Posture in the North of England

Security Posture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Posture in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Security Posture in the North of England

Security Posture
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Posture in the North of England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Posture in the North of England

Security Posture
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Posture within the North of England region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +30 13 £650 +5.05% 7
Yorkshire +20 2 - - 6
Security Posture
England

Security Posture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (13.33%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) IaaS
3 2 (13.33%) PaaS
3 2 (13.33%) SaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) Network Security
2 1 (6.67%) DHCP
2 1 (6.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Burp Suite
General
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Automotive
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Architect
1 6 (40.00%) Security Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
4 1 (6.67%) IAM Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Information Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Security Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Security Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) SOC Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Technologist
4 1 (6.67%) Threat Hunter
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Cyberattack
2 3 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (13.33%) Insider Threat
3 2 (13.33%) Operational Technology
4 1 (6.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 4 (26.67%) Analytics
3 4 (26.67%) Incident Response
3 4 (26.67%) Security Testing
4 3 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 3 (20.00%) DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) DevSecOps
4 3 (20.00%) Information Security
4 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (20.00%) Security Architecture
5 2 (13.33%) Agile
5 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis
5 2 (13.33%) Data Security
5 2 (13.33%) Ethical Hacking
5 2 (13.33%) Identity Management
5 2 (13.33%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) CISSP
1 3 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (13.33%) CISM
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (33.33%) NIST
3 2 (13.33%) PCI DSS
4 1 (6.67%) GDPR
4 1 (6.67%) HIPAA
4 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (6.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) HP Fortify
1 1 (6.67%) Nmap
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Rapid7
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco
3 1 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (6.67%) Darktrace
3 1 (6.67%) SolarWinds
3 1 (6.67%) Sophos
3 1 (6.67%) VMware