Most UK tech careers don't fail on skill.They fail on expectations.
POST maps realistic moves across UK IT, cloud and cybersecurity, then judges your route, CV, offer or hiring brief against the work itself.
No account. The free route takes about ninety seconds.
A route, not a wish list
IT Support to Detection Engineer
- IT Support£28k–£36kUser, device and identity operations
- Junior SOC Analyst£30k–£40kAlert triage under supervision
- SOC Analyst£40k–£55kOwns investigations and escalationBottleneck
- Detection Engineer£55k–£80kBuilds and tunes detection logic
The move depends on authored rules, tuning decisions and telemetry ownership. Another foundation cert does not close that gap.
Salary ranges are POST practitioner estimates for UK roles, not survey data. The route is illustrative; location, sector and responsibility change the range.
What decision are you facing?
Start with the decision, not the content library.
Four different problems need four different judgements. Pick the one in front of you.
Plan my next career move
Map where you are, where you want to go and the step most likely to stall.
Guided RouteStrengthen my CV
See what the document proves, what it only claims and what the target role still needs.
CV Reality CheckAssess an offer
Judge the salary, terms and tradeoffs while there is still time to act.
Offer Reality CheckDiagnose a hiring brief
Find where the brief is narrowing the pool or asking one person to cover several jobs.
Hiring Reality ReportThe POST difference
Career advice should survive contact with the job.
- 01
Routes, not dream titles
A destination without the bridge roles is advertising. POST shows the sequence and where it usually stalls.
- 02
Evidence, not aspirations
Interest is not workplace proof. Certifications support a move only when the work around them holds up.
- 03
Judgement, not endless options
A useful answer makes a call, names the tradeoff and says what would change it.
CV Reality Check
A CV can look polished and still prove the wrong thing.
POST tests each target-role requirement against the line that supports it. No invented achievements and no theatrical ATS score.
Sample provenance: Synthetic test case. It uses a permanent test CV, not customer data.
- Identity administrationManaged Entra ID users and groups Proven
- Cloud security controlsAzure exposure mentioned once Partial
- Incident ownershipSecurity campaigns, role unclear Claimed only
- Detection engineeringNo supporting CV line Missing
What the proof actually is
Inspectable work, with the limits left in.
No testimonials and no outcome claims. The useful proof is the map, the written method and samples whose origin is stated.
- 56mapped role pages
- Only roles with written intelligence count.
- 83mapped certifications
- Each separates signal from practical depth.
- No accountprivate report access
- Paid reports use private links; retention is stated before purchase.
Method reviewed May 2026. Individual evidence records carry their own date when one exists. Missing records stay marked as pending.
Recent perspectives
Useful arguments for decisions that do not fit in a card.
Is a computer science degree worth it in the UK?
For a specific route, yes, and it's still one of the best bets going. For most people asking the question, no. Here's the tradeoff nobody selling either route wants to put this cleanly.
Read the perspectiveThe certification didn't get you into cyber, the signal did
The cyber or GRC cert changes your position in the hiring system, not your capability inside it. Filter-first, evaluate-later is how the market actually runs, and the candidates who understand that build different things in parallel.
Read the perspectiveWhy most people should start in IT support
Not because it's prestigious. Because it installs the operational instincts every later role quietly assumes you already have, and skipping it is what makes year two so painful.
Read the perspectiveStart with the route
Tell POST where you are and where you are trying to go.
The free Guided Route takes about ninety seconds. No account and no payment.