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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 440 586 525
Rank change year-on-year +146 -61 +210
Permanent jobs citing Security Posture 285 346 438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.31% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.35% 0.93% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 211 265 249
10th Percentile £44,590 £37,600 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £83,750 £91,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -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 21,126 37,173 39,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.38% 33.24% 43.56%
Number of salaries quoted 9,864 23,657 21,867
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £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 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £97,500 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -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 22 June 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 22 June 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 +135 260 £70,000 - 1,243
UK excluding London +167 146 £55,000 +2.33% 785
London +82 115 £80,000 -5.88% 594
Work from Home +106 90 £57,500 -11.54% 565
South East +112 59 £62,500 +14.16% 231
North of England +28 33 £74,870 +49.74% 165
North West +1 28 £74,870 +24.78% 83
Midlands +93 21 £51,750 -1.43% 127
South West +117 16 £51,058 +13.46% 81
West Midlands +59 15 £54,250 -1.36% 72
Scotland +95 7 £45,000 -35.71% 58
East Midlands +50 6 £45,000 -14.29% 55
East of England +40 6 £50,000 +17.65% 88
Yorkshire +54 4 £60,000 +60.00% 58
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 24
Wales +48 1 £55,000 - 19
North East +45 1 £80,000 +77.78% 24

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 (3.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.35%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 118 (41.40%) Azure
2 61 (21.40%) AWS
3 33 (11.58%) GCP
4 32 (11.23%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (10.88%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (8.77%) Azure Sentinel
7 24 (8.42%) Entra ID
7 24 (8.42%) PaaS
8 18 (6.32%) SaaS
9 13 (4.56%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (1.75%) IaaS
12 4 (1.40%) GitHub
13 3 (1.05%) Azure Key Vault
13 3 (1.05%) Miro
14 2 (0.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 2 (0.70%) AWS CloudTrail
14 2 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
14 2 (0.70%) Azure AKS
14 2 (0.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 73 (25.61%) Firewall
2 43 (15.09%) Network Security
3 23 (8.07%) VPN
4 17 (5.96%) Intrusion Detection
5 16 (5.61%) DNS
6 8 (2.81%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.46%) DHCP
8 5 (1.75%) VLAN
9 4 (1.40%) HTTP
9 4 (1.40%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.40%) WAN
9 4 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (1.05%) DMARC
10 3 (1.05%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.70%) DKIM
11 2 (0.70%) Internet
11 2 (0.70%) SMTP
11 2 (0.70%) Wireless
12 1 (0.35%) BGP
12 1 (0.35%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (2.11%) Burp Suite
1 6 (2.11%) Metasploit
2 3 (1.05%) AppScan
2 3 (1.05%) JIRA
3 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.35%) GitLab
3 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.35%) Postman
3 1 (0.35%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.35%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 109 (38.25%) Social Skills
2 84 (29.47%) Finance
3 62 (21.75%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (9.47%) Retail
5 26 (9.12%) Banking
6 24 (8.42%) Legal
7 16 (5.61%) Law
8 12 (4.21%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (3.86%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (3.86%) Marketing
10 9 (3.16%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.75%) Front Office
11 5 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.75%) Local Government
12 4 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.05%) Advertising
13 3 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.05%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.05%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.70%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 70 (24.56%) Security Engineer
2 57 (20.00%) Analyst
3 46 (16.14%) Security Analyst
4 34 (11.93%) Lead
5 33 (11.58%) Senior
6 25 (8.77%) Security Manager
7 18 (6.32%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 17 (5.96%) Architect
9 15 (5.26%) Information Analyst
9 15 (5.26%) Information Security Analyst
9 15 (5.26%) Security Architect
10 12 (4.21%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (4.21%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 12 (4.21%) Information Manager
10 12 (4.21%) Information Security Manager
11 11 (3.86%) SOC Analyst
12 10 (3.51%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 9 (3.16%) Head of Security
13 9 (3.16%) IT Analyst
13 9 (3.16%) IT Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.02%) YAML
2 3 (1.05%) RESTful
3 1 (0.35%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.35%) EDI
3 1 (0.35%) HTML
3 1 (0.35%) JWT
3 1 (0.35%) ModSecurity
3 1 (0.35%) OAuth
3 1 (0.35%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.35%) REST
3 1 (0.35%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 70 (24.56%) Management Information System
2 31 (10.88%) Security Operations Centre
3 28 (9.82%) Cloud Security Posture
4 19 (6.67%) Cloud Native
5 17 (5.96%) Cyber Security Posture
6 15 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
7 9 (3.16%) Public Cloud
7 9 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (2.81%) Social Media
8 8 (2.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 7 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.46%) Operational Technology
9 7 (2.46%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.46%) Taxonomies
10 6 (2.11%) Video Conferencing
11 5 (1.75%) PKI
11 5 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (1.40%) Virtual Team
13 3 (1.05%) Cyber Defence
13 3 (1.05%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 37 (12.98%) Windows
2 24 (8.42%) Linux
3 14 (4.91%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.81%) Windows Vista
6 6 (2.11%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.05%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.70%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.35%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (63.51%) Cybersecurity
2 135 (47.37%) Information Security
3 111 (38.95%) Incident Response
4 98 (34.39%) Vulnerability Management
5 88 (30.88%) Cloud Security
6 83 (29.12%) Risk Management
7 74 (25.96%) SIEM
8 69 (24.21%) Problem-Solving
9 64 (22.46%) Security Operations
10 56 (19.65%) Computer Science
11 53 (18.60%) Mentoring
12 52 (18.25%) Agile
13 48 (16.84%) Continuous Improvement
13 48 (16.84%) DevSecOps
14 47 (16.49%) DevOps
15 45 (15.79%) CI/CD
16 44 (15.44%) Incident Management
17 36 (12.63%) Data Loss Prevention
18 34 (11.93%) Threat Intelligence
19 32 (11.23%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 43 (15.09%) PowerShell
2 21 (7.37%) Python
3 10 (3.51%) Bash
4 9 (3.16%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (1.40%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.05%) Search Processing Language
7 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.70%) SQL
8 1 (0.35%) R
8 1 (0.35%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 98 (34.39%) Degree
2 79 (27.72%) CISSP
3 57 (20.00%) CISM
4 47 (16.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (14.39%) Master's Degree
6 31 (10.88%) CEH
6 31 (10.88%) Cisco Certification
7 30 (10.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 25 (8.77%) Security Cleared
9 23 (8.07%) CISA
9 23 (8.07%) SC Cleared
10 21 (7.37%) CompTIA Security+
11 15 (5.26%) CCSP
12 13 (4.56%) CRISC
13 12 (4.21%) GIAC
14 11 (3.86%) OSCP
15 10 (3.51%) AWS Certification
16 9 (3.16%) GCIH
17 8 (2.81%) DBS Check
18 6 (2.11%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (47.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 123 (43.16%) NIST
3 55 (19.30%) GDPR
4 32 (11.23%) PCI DSS
5 24 (8.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 22 (7.72%) NCSC
7 20 (7.02%) SOC 2
8 16 (5.61%) GRC
9 12 (4.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 9 (3.16%) HIPAA
11 8 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 7 (2.46%) NIST 800
12 7 (2.46%) SOC 1
13 5 (1.75%) QA
14 2 (0.70%) COBIT
14 2 (0.70%) ISO 31000
15 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.35%) ISAE 3402
15 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (7.72%) Active Directory
2 12 (4.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.51%) Docker
4 9 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.11%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.35%) Snort
7 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (5.96%) Kubernetes
1 17 (5.96%) Terraform
2 11 (3.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (3.16%) Nessus
4 8 (2.81%) CASB
5 7 (2.46%) RSA Archer
6 5 (1.75%) Ansible
6 5 (1.75%) QRadar
7 4 (1.40%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.40%) ZENworks
8 3 (1.05%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.05%) Puppet
9 2 (0.70%) Host Intrusion Detection System
9 2 (0.70%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.35%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.35%) Nmap
10 1 (0.35%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 108 (37.89%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.56%) VMware
3 11 (3.86%) Splunk
4 9 (3.16%) Symantec
5 8 (2.81%) Cisco
5 8 (2.81%) Google
6 7 (2.46%) Citrix
7 6 (2.11%) Carbon Black
8 5 (1.75%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.75%) Tanium
8 5 (1.75%) Tenable
9 4 (1.40%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.40%) Meraki
9 4 (1.40%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.05%) Alibaba
10 3 (1.05%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.05%) Trustwave
11 2 (0.70%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (0.70%) NetApp
11 2 (0.70%) TippingPoint
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