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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 513 698
Rank change year-on-year +138 +185 -50
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 207 170 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.30% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.60% 0.91% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 120 98
10th Percentile £413 £413 £419
25th Percentile £456 £456 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £739 £804
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £613
% change year-on-year +4.76% -14.29% +11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £46.00
25th Percentile £62.50 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile £67.50 - £85.00
90th Percentile - - £94.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - -

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 12,955 18,685 29,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.09% 33.33% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,317 12,877 20,364
10th Percentile £270 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 612 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.18 £10.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.13 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +58.19% -17.99% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £74.93 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.61 £22.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year +57.30% +3.53% -7.61%

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 1 June 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 14 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 1 June 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 +141 183 £550 -8.33% 119
London +125 100 £545 -9.17% 55
UK excluding London +62 86 £550 +4.76% 64
Work from Home +97 68 £550 -4.35% 47
South West +39 39 £550 -8.33% 9
North of England +27 18 £625 -0.40% 21
North West +26 15 £650 +5.05% 13
South East +18 14 £800 +39.13% 17
Midlands +22 9 £450 -29.41% 7
West Midlands +12 6 £500 -33.33% 4
Scotland +23 5 £500 +9.29% 5
Yorkshire +17 3 £600 -15.79% 6
East Midlands +13 3 £400 -23.81% 3
East of England +3 1 £500 +130.95% 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 6 (2.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.97%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 55 (26.57%) Azure
2 34 (16.43%) AWS
3 17 (8.21%) Azure Sentinel
3 17 (8.21%) GCP
4 13 (6.28%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (4.83%) Entra ID
6 7 (3.38%) PaaS
7 6 (2.90%) OpenShift
8 5 (2.42%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (1.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.93%) AWS CloudTrail
9 4 (1.93%) GitHub
9 4 (1.93%) IaaS
9 4 (1.93%) SaaS
10 3 (1.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 2 (0.97%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.97%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.97%) Google App Engine
11 2 (0.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 38 (18.36%) Firewall
2 29 (14.01%) Network Security
3 9 (4.35%) DNS
4 8 (3.86%) VPN
5 6 (2.90%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (2.90%) Cisco ISE
5 6 (2.90%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.45%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (1.45%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.45%) WAN
7 2 (0.97%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.97%) SSL
7 2 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.48%) DHCP
8 1 (0.48%) Internet
8 1 (0.48%) LAN
8 1 (0.48%) Modbus
8 1 (0.48%) MPLS
8 1 (0.48%) NGFW
8 1 (0.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.93%) Big Data
1 4 (1.93%) BigQuery
2 3 (1.45%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.48%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.48%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (4.83%) JIRA
2 6 (2.90%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.45%) GitLab
3 3 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.97%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.48%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.48%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.48%) Git
5 1 (0.48%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.48%) MSI
General
1 44 (21.26%) Social Skills
2 39 (18.84%) Finance
3 31 (14.98%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (12.56%) Banking
5 14 (6.76%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.83%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.86%) Legal
8 6 (2.90%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.45%) Marketing
12 2 (0.97%) Automotive
12 2 (0.97%) Law
13 1 (0.48%) French Language
13 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (19.81%) Architect
2 33 (15.94%) Security Engineer
3 27 (13.04%) Security Architect
4 24 (11.59%) Analyst
4 24 (11.59%) Consultant
5 19 (9.18%) Security Consultant
6 13 (6.28%) Security Manager
7 12 (5.80%) Security Analyst
7 12 (5.80%) SOC Engineer
8 10 (4.83%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 10 (4.83%) Lead
9 8 (3.86%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (3.86%) Cybersecurity Architect
9 8 (3.86%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 8 (3.86%) SOC Analyst
10 6 (2.90%) Network Engineer
11 5 (2.42%) Information Analyst
11 5 (2.42%) Information Manager
11 5 (2.42%) Information Security Analyst
11 5 (2.42%) Information Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.90%) ModSecurity
2 4 (1.93%) .NET
2 4 (1.93%) .NET Framework
3 2 (0.97%) OAuth
3 2 (0.97%) OpenID
3 2 (0.97%) SAML
3 2 (0.97%) SPML
4 1 (0.48%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.48%) Google JAX
4 1 (0.48%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.48%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.48%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.48%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.48%) Web Services
4 1 (0.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.14%) Management Information System
2 18 (8.70%) Cyber Threat
3 15 (7.25%) Security Operations Centre
4 14 (6.76%) PKI
5 13 (6.28%) Public Cloud
6 10 (4.83%) Cloud Security Posture
7 9 (4.35%) Cloud Native
8 8 (3.86%) Operational Technology
9 6 (2.90%) Cyberattack
9 6 (2.90%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (2.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.93%) Cyber Security Posture
11 4 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.93%) IoT
11 4 (1.93%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.45%) Industry 4.0
13 2 (0.97%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.97%) Cyber Defence
13 2 (0.97%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.25%) Linux
2 14 (6.76%) Windows
3 4 (1.93%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.45%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.97%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (50.24%) Cybersecurity
2 47 (22.71%) Incident Response
3 40 (19.32%) Cloud Security
3 40 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (18.84%) Security Operations
5 37 (17.87%) SIEM
6 36 (17.39%) Information Security
7 32 (15.46%) Vulnerability Management
8 30 (14.49%) Threat Detection
9 29 (14.01%) Penetration Testing
10 28 (13.53%) Risk Management
11 26 (12.56%) Security Architecture
11 26 (12.56%) Threat Intelligence
12 25 (12.08%) Identity Access Management
13 23 (11.11%) Agile
13 23 (11.11%) Computer Science
14 22 (10.63%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 21 (10.14%) CI/CD
15 21 (10.14%) Vulnerability Assessment
16 20 (9.66%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 24 (11.59%) Python
2 19 (9.18%) Kusto Query Language
3 11 (5.31%) PowerShell
4 8 (3.86%) Search Processing Language
5 7 (3.38%) Java
6 5 (2.42%) SQL
7 3 (1.45%) C
7 3 (1.45%) C++
7 3 (1.45%) Ruby
8 2 (0.97%) Go
8 2 (0.97%) Perl
8 2 (0.97%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.48%) Bash
9 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.48%) R
9 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 48 (23.19%) CISSP
2 39 (18.84%) Security Cleared
3 32 (15.46%) SC Cleared
4 30 (14.49%) Degree
5 29 (14.01%) CISM
6 18 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (7.73%) CompTIA Security+
8 14 (6.76%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (5.80%) Azure Certification
10 11 (5.31%) CEH
10 11 (5.31%) DV Cleared
11 9 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (3.86%) CISA
13 7 (3.38%) CCNP
14 6 (2.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (2.42%) CREST Certified
15 5 (2.42%) GIAC
15 5 (2.42%) Master's Degree
16 4 (1.93%) AWS Certification
16 4 (1.93%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (19.32%) NIST
2 30 (14.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (7.25%) GDPR
4 11 (5.31%) NCSC
5 8 (3.86%) PCI DSS
6 7 (3.38%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (3.38%) GRC
7 6 (2.90%) NIST 800
8 5 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (1.93%) COBIT
9 4 (1.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (1.93%) SLA
10 2 (0.97%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.97%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.97%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.48%) COSO
11 1 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.48%) ISA99
11 1 (0.48%) QA
System Software
1 8 (3.86%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.38%) Docker
2 7 (3.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.90%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.48%) Firmware
4 1 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (6.28%) Terraform
2 10 (4.83%) Nessus
3 9 (4.35%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.90%) Ansible
4 6 (2.90%) OPNET
5 4 (1.93%) PowerCLI
5 4 (1.93%) QRadar
5 4 (1.93%) SCCM
5 4 (1.93%) Trend Micro Deep Security
6 3 (1.45%) CASB
7 2 (0.97%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.48%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.48%) Nmap
8 1 (0.48%) OpenVAS
8 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 75 (36.23%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.73%) Cisco
3 15 (7.25%) Google
4 13 (6.28%) Splunk
5 12 (5.80%) Palo Alto
5 12 (5.80%) Qualys
6 11 (5.31%) VMware
7 9 (4.35%) Rapid7
8 8 (3.86%) Atlassian
9 6 (2.90%) Juniper
10 5 (2.42%) CA
10 5 (2.42%) ScienceLogic
11 4 (1.93%) F5
11 4 (1.93%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.93%) Ping Identity
12 2 (0.97%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (0.97%) Checkmarx
12 2 (0.97%) CyberArk
12 2 (0.97%) ForeScout
12 2 (0.97%) Veracode