Security Hardening Contracts in England

Security Hardening
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Security Hardening skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Hardening over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 488 604 694
Rank change year-on-year +116 +90 -108
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 57 55 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.11% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.12% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 37 40
10th Percentile £250 £420 £459
25th Percentile £475 £513 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +4.55% +29.41%
75th Percentile £575 £738 £623
90th Percentile £584 £763 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +29.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 0
10th Percentile £22.05 - -
25th Percentile £22.08 £71.50 -
Median hourly rate £23.05 £73.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -68.42% - -
75th Percentile £35.66 £74.88 -
90th Percentile £73.28 £75.55 -
UK median hourly rate £23.05 £73.00 -
% change year-on-year -68.42% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Security Hardening is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,171 45,739 64,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.55% 90.26% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,096 32,069 45,706
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,236 1,617 1,773
10th Percentile £12.89 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.23
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Security Hardening as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Security Hardening in England

Security Hardening
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Security Hardening in England

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Hardening in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Hardening in England

Security Hardening
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Hardening in England

Security Hardening
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Hardening in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Hardening in England

Security Hardening
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Hardening within the England region over the 6 months to 26 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
London +118 37 £525 - 4
West Midlands +33 5 £550 -24.14% 1
Midlands +30 5 £550 -24.14% 1
South West +26 5 - - 4
South East +27 4 £500 -6.98% 3
East of England -1 4 £475 -29.63% 2
North of England - 2 £200 - 1
North West - 2 £200 -
Security Hardening
UK

Security Hardening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (15.79%) Confluence
2 4 (7.02%) IIS
3 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (3.51%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.75%) Apache
5 1 (1.75%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.75%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.75%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 28 (49.12%) AWS
2 21 (36.84%) Azure
3 10 (17.54%) Nutanix
3 10 (17.54%) Rubrik
4 9 (15.79%) PaaS
4 9 (15.79%) SaaS
5 8 (14.04%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (14.04%) GCP
5 8 (14.04%) IaaS
5 8 (14.04%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (7.02%) GitHub
8 2 (3.51%) Amazon Glacier
8 2 (3.51%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (3.51%) Cohesity
8 2 (3.51%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.51%) Mimecast
9 1 (1.75%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 30 (52.63%) DNS
2 22 (38.60%) DHCP
3 18 (31.58%) TCP/IP
4 13 (22.81%) Firewall
4 13 (22.81%) SAN
5 12 (21.05%) NAS
6 8 (14.04%) Kerberos
6 8 (14.04%) VLAN
7 7 (12.28%) Internet
8 4 (7.02%) 4G
9 3 (5.26%) 5G
10 2 (3.51%) BGP
10 2 (3.51%) DKIM
10 2 (3.51%) DMARC
10 2 (3.51%) Extranet
10 2 (3.51%) iSCSI
10 2 (3.51%) Network Security
10 2 (3.51%) VPN
10 2 (3.51%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (3.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.77%) Relational Database
2 4 (7.02%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.51%) MySQL
3 2 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (15.79%) Jenkins
1 9 (15.79%) JIRA
2 8 (14.04%) Git
2 8 (14.04%) TeamCity
3 4 (7.02%) GitLab
4 2 (3.51%) Artifactory
General
1 12 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.04%) Finance
3 6 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (5.26%) Aerospace
4 3 (5.26%) Front Office
5 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Electronics
6 1 (1.75%) Local Government
6 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.75%) Marketing
6 1 (1.75%) Military
6 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (22.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (15.79%) IT Support
3 7 (12.28%) IT Engineer
4 6 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Principal Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) QA Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Senior
6 4 (7.02%) Architect
6 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) IT Support Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Support Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Consultant
7 3 (5.26%) Java Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Network Communications Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Network Systems Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Python Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Support Officer
7 3 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.54%) LDAP
2 5 (8.77%) RESTful
3 3 (5.26%) .NET
4 2 (3.51%) SAML
4 2 (3.51%) Software Packaging
5 1 (1.75%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.54%) Clustering
1 10 (17.54%) Replication
2 8 (14.04%) Data Centre
2 8 (14.04%) PKI
3 5 (8.77%) Private Cloud
4 4 (7.02%) Management Information System
4 4 (7.02%) Security Posture
5 2 (3.51%) Fat Client
5 2 (3.51%) Thin Client
5 2 (3.51%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 46 (80.70%) Windows
2 32 (56.14%) Linux
3 22 (38.60%) Windows Server
4 18 (31.58%) Unix
5 17 (29.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (14.04%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (14.04%) Solaris
7 4 (7.02%) Ubuntu
7 4 (7.02%) Windows 10
8 3 (5.26%) Apple iOS
9 2 (3.51%) Android
9 2 (3.51%) Mac OS
9 2 (3.51%) Mac OS X
9 2 (3.51%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (3.51%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (1.75%) CentOS
10 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (28.07%) Agile
2 15 (26.32%) DevOps
2 15 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (24.56%) Disaster Recovery
4 13 (22.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (22.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 11 (19.30%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (19.30%) Deployment Automation
6 10 (17.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (17.54%) High Availability
6 10 (17.54%) Patch Management
6 10 (17.54%) Performance Tuning
6 10 (17.54%) Root Cause Analysis
6 10 (17.54%) Systems Engineering
7 9 (15.79%) Containerisation
7 9 (15.79%) Server Management
7 9 (15.79%) Vulnerability Management
8 8 (14.04%) Capacity Management
8 8 (14.04%) CI/CD
8 8 (14.04%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 17 (29.82%) PowerShell
1 17 (29.82%) Python
2 13 (22.81%) Java
3 9 (15.79%) Bash
4 7 (12.28%) C#
5 3 (5.26%) VB.NET
6 2 (3.51%) C++
7 1 (1.75%) C
7 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.75%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (38.60%) Security Cleared
2 15 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 9 (15.79%) DV Cleared
4 8 (14.04%) Degree
5 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (7.02%) AWS Certification
6 4 (7.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (7.02%) Azure Certification
7 3 (5.26%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (3.51%) MCSE
9 1 (1.75%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (1.75%) LPIC
9 1 (1.75%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.04%) GDPR
1 8 (14.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 7 (12.28%) NIST
3 6 (10.53%) QA
4 5 (8.77%) SLA
5 3 (5.26%) Accessibility
5 3 (5.26%) ISO 9001
5 3 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (3.51%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (3.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (3.51%) NCSC
System Software
1 29 (50.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (42.11%) Active Directory
3 12 (21.05%) Docker
4 11 (19.30%) Hyper-V
5 9 (15.79%) VMware NSX
6 8 (14.04%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (12.28%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (7.02%) vSphere
9 2 (3.51%) BitLocker
9 2 (3.51%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (3.51%) NFS
10 1 (1.75%) KVM
10 1 (1.75%) Xen
Systems Management
1 18 (31.58%) SCCM
2 16 (28.07%) Kubernetes
3 13 (22.81%) Terraform
4 9 (15.79%) Ansible
5 8 (14.04%) EMC NetWorker
5 8 (14.04%) Netcool
5 8 (14.04%) SCOM
5 8 (14.04%) SCVMM
5 8 (14.04%) Tivoli
5 8 (14.04%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 8 (14.04%) vCenter Server
6 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (7.02%) WSUS
8 3 (5.26%) NetBackup
9 2 (3.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (3.51%) Backup Exec
9 2 (3.51%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (3.51%) vRealize
9 2 (3.51%) VxRail
10 1 (1.75%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 33 (57.89%) VMware
2 25 (43.86%) Microsoft
3 11 (19.30%) Cisco
3 11 (19.30%) Dell
3 11 (19.30%) EMC
4 10 (17.54%) HP
4 10 (17.54%) Qualys
4 10 (17.54%) ServiceNow
4 10 (17.54%) Splunk
5 8 (14.04%) CyberArk
5 8 (14.04%) IBM
5 8 (14.04%) Isilon
5 8 (14.04%) Oracle
5 8 (14.04%) Serena
6 7 (12.28%) Veeam
7 3 (5.26%) Apple
7 3 (5.26%) Commvault
7 3 (5.26%) Dell Compellent
7 3 (5.26%) Juniper
7 3 (5.26%) Proofpoint