Security Posture Contracts

Security Posture
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Posture over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 539 706
Rank change year-on-year +155 +167 -83
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 220 174 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.29% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.66% 0.88% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 119 106
10th Percentile £413 £400 £464
25th Percentile £425 £454 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £619
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -11.15% -4.77%
75th Percentile £668 £658 £688
90th Percentile £790 £720 £806
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £520 £600
% change year-on-year +3.37% -13.33% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £46.00
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - £94.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,239 19,871 29,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.37% 33.29% 33.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,498 13,667 20,456
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £659 £680 £656
90th Percentile £788 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 907 640 726
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.42% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Security Posture in the UK

Security Posture
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Posture over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Posture in the UK

Security Posture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Posture in the UK

Security Posture
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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
England +160 191 £550 -8.33% 105
London +129 99 £600 +5.49% 49
UK excluding London +95 91 £538 +3.37% 59
Work from Home +103 68 £595 +8.18% 57
South West +51 44 £425 -35.85% 5
Midlands +38 17 £615 +17.14% 11
West Midlands +35 13 £616 +2.71% 8
North of England +25 13 £590 -11.94% 9
South East +23 12 £815 +44.89% 22
North West +21 11 £590 -9.75% 5
Scotland +24 6 £575 +26.37% 4
East Midlands +24 3 £400 -23.81% 3
Yorkshire +22 2 - - 1

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 6 (2.73%) Confluence
2 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.45%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (2.27%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 58 (26.36%) Azure
2 32 (14.55%) AWS
3 22 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 13 (5.91%) GCP
5 12 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (3.18%) Entra ID
7 5 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (2.27%) AWS CloudTrail
7 5 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (1.82%) GitHub
8 4 (1.82%) IaaS
8 4 (1.82%) PaaS
8 4 (1.82%) SaaS
9 3 (1.36%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (1.36%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.91%) Google App Engine
10 2 (0.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (0.91%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.91%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 41 (18.64%) Firewall
2 30 (13.64%) Network Security
3 8 (3.64%) DNS
4 7 (3.18%) Cisco ASA
4 7 (3.18%) Cisco ISE
5 6 (2.73%) VPN
6 3 (1.36%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (1.36%) SSL
6 3 (1.36%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.36%) WAN
7 2 (0.91%) Internet
7 2 (0.91%) LAN
7 2 (0.91%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.91%) Wireless
8 1 (0.45%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.45%) DKIM
8 1 (0.45%) DMARC
8 1 (0.45%) MPLS
8 1 (0.45%) NGFW
8 1 (0.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.82%) Big Data
1 4 (1.82%) BigQuery
2 3 (1.36%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.45%) MySQL
3 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.45%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (2.73%) JIRA
2 4 (1.82%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.36%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.36%) GitLab
4 2 (0.91%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.45%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.45%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.45%) Git
5 1 (0.45%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.45%) MSI
General
1 44 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 30 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
2 30 (13.64%) Finance
3 25 (11.36%) Banking
4 19 (8.64%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (3.18%) Legal
7 6 (2.73%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.36%) Law
9 3 (1.36%) Marketing
10 2 (0.91%) Automotive
11 1 (0.45%) French Language
11 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Local Government
11 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (16.36%) Security Engineer
2 31 (14.09%) Architect
3 26 (11.82%) Lead
4 25 (11.36%) Analyst
5 19 (8.64%) Consultant
5 19 (8.64%) Security Architect
5 19 (8.64%) SOC Engineer
6 15 (6.82%) Security Manager
7 14 (6.36%) Security Consultant
8 13 (5.91%) Security Analyst
9 10 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 8 (3.64%) SOC Analyst
11 7 (3.18%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 6 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
13 5 (2.27%) Information Analyst
13 5 (2.27%) Information Manager
13 5 (2.27%) Information Security Manager
13 5 (2.27%) Network Analyst
13 5 (2.27%) Network Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.36%) ModSecurity
2 2 (0.91%) OAuth
2 2 (0.91%) OpenID
2 2 (0.91%) SAML
2 2 (0.91%) SPML
3 1 (0.45%) .NET
3 1 (0.45%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.45%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.45%) EDI
3 1 (0.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.27%) Management Information System
2 26 (11.82%) Security Operations Centre
3 16 (7.27%) Cyber Threat
4 11 (5.00%) PKI
4 11 (5.00%) Public Cloud
5 10 (4.55%) Cloud Security Posture
6 9 (4.09%) Cloud Native
6 9 (4.09%) Operational Technology
7 6 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.27%) Cyber Security Posture
9 4 (1.82%) Cyberattack
9 4 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.82%) IoT
10 3 (1.36%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (1.36%) Industry 4.0
10 3 (1.36%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.36%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.36%) SCADA
11 2 (0.91%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.27%) Windows
2 15 (6.82%) Linux
3 4 (1.82%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.36%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.91%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.45%) AIX
6 1 (0.45%) Android
6 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.45%) Unix
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (56.82%) Cybersecurity
2 55 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 54 (24.55%) Security Operations
4 46 (20.91%) SIEM
5 44 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (19.09%) Cloud Security
7 39 (17.73%) Risk Management
8 36 (16.36%) Information Security
9 35 (15.91%) Threat Detection
10 34 (15.45%) Roadmaps
11 33 (15.00%) Threat Intelligence
12 29 (13.18%) Computer Science
13 28 (12.73%) Analytics
13 28 (12.73%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 27 (12.27%) Vulnerability Management
15 26 (11.82%) Identity Access Management
16 24 (10.91%) Security Architecture
16 24 (10.91%) Stakeholder Identification
17 23 (10.45%) Vulnerability Assessment
18 22 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (10.91%) Kusto Query Language
2 20 (9.09%) Python
3 8 (3.64%) PowerShell
4 7 (3.18%) Search Processing Language
5 6 (2.73%) Java
5 6 (2.73%) SQL
6 3 (1.36%) Ruby
7 2 (0.91%) C
7 2 (0.91%) C++
7 2 (0.91%) Go
7 2 (0.91%) Perl
7 2 (0.91%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.45%) Bash
8 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 55 (25.00%) CISSP
2 52 (23.64%) Security Cleared
3 42 (19.09%) SC Cleared
4 35 (15.91%) Degree
5 27 (12.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (11.36%) CISM
7 24 (10.91%) CompTIA Security+
8 20 (9.09%) Azure Certification
9 16 (7.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (6.82%) DV Cleared
11 13 (5.91%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (3.64%) CCNP
12 8 (3.64%) CISA
13 7 (3.18%) CEH
14 4 (1.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (1.82%) AWS Certification
14 4 (1.82%) CCSP
14 4 (1.82%) CREST Certified
14 4 (1.82%) GIAC
15 3 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (16.36%) NIST
2 29 (13.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (6.82%) NCSC
4 13 (5.91%) GDPR
5 9 (4.09%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (3.18%) GRC
7 6 (2.73%) NIST 800
8 5 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 5 (2.27%) PCI DSS
9 4 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (1.82%) SLA
10 3 (1.36%) Accessibility
10 3 (1.36%) HIPAA
10 3 (1.36%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.91%) PMO
11 2 (0.91%) QA
12 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.45%) COBIT
12 1 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.45%) ISA99
System Software
1 7 (3.18%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.27%) Docker
2 5 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.36%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.45%) Firmware
4 1 (0.45%) Samba
4 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (5.91%) Terraform
2 9 (4.09%) Nessus
3 6 (2.73%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.82%) Ansible
4 4 (1.82%) QRadar
4 4 (1.82%) SCCM
4 4 (1.82%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 3 (1.36%) CASB
5 3 (1.36%) OPNET
6 2 (0.91%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.45%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.45%) Nmap
7 1 (0.45%) PaperCut
7 1 (0.45%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 78 (35.45%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.82%) Splunk
3 11 (5.00%) Google
4 10 (4.55%) Cisco
4 10 (4.55%) Palo Alto
4 10 (4.55%) Qualys
4 10 (4.55%) Rapid7
5 8 (3.64%) VMware
6 7 (3.18%) Atlassian
6 7 (3.18%) Juniper
7 6 (2.73%) ScienceLogic
8 4 (1.82%) CA
8 4 (1.82%) Ping Identity
9 2 (0.91%) BiZZdesign
9 2 (0.91%) Checkmarx
9 2 (0.91%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.91%) Sophos
9 2 (0.91%) Veeam
9 2 (0.91%) Veracode
10 1 (0.45%) Darktrace