Security Hardening Contracts in London

Security Hardening
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Security Hardening skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Hardening over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 439 556
Rank change year-on-year +79 +117 -21
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 25 16 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.073% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.080% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 31
10th Percentile £250 £463 £522
25th Percentile £425 £475 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £638
90th Percentile £664 £738 £744
England median daily rate £540 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -16.92% +8.33% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £23.80 - -
75th Percentile £112.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £23.80 £63.75 £73.00
% change year-on-year -62.67% -12.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Security Hardening falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,516 19,882 36,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.18% 90.36% 91.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,653 14,414 26,066
10th Percentile £350 £363 £394
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +5.45%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £788
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 227 284
10th Percentile £17.25 £18.10 £16.25
25th Percentile £23.80 £21.25 £21.83
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +10.35%
75th Percentile £55.00 £62.13 £58.81
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.25 £74.86
England median hourly rate £43.00 £43.90 £29.00
% change year-on-year -2.05% +51.38% +37.77%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Hardening in London

Security Hardening
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Hardening in London

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Hardening in London over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Hardening in London

Security Hardening
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Hardening in London

Security Hardening
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Hardening in London over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Hardening in London

Security Hardening
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Central London +31 5 £500 -2.44% 1
North London - 2 £250 -
West London - 2 - - 1
Security Hardening
England

Security Hardening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 8 (32.00%) SharePoint
2 7 (28.00%) Confluence
3 3 (12.00%) IIS
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 13 (52.00%) AWS
1 13 (52.00%) Azure
2 12 (48.00%) Nutanix
3 8 (32.00%) GCP
3 8 (32.00%) PaaS
3 8 (32.00%) SaaS
4 7 (28.00%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (28.00%) GitHub
4 7 (28.00%) IaaS
5 6 (24.00%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (20.00%) Rubrik
7 3 (12.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (12.00%) Entra ID
7 3 (12.00%) Mimecast
7 3 (12.00%) Snowflake
8 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (4.00%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 13 (52.00%) DNS
2 9 (36.00%) TCP/IP
3 8 (32.00%) Kerberos
4 7 (28.00%) SAN
5 6 (24.00%) NAS
6 4 (16.00%) Firewall
6 4 (16.00%) Internet
7 3 (12.00%) DHCP
7 3 (12.00%) DKIM
7 3 (12.00%) DMARC
7 3 (12.00%) Extranet
7 3 (12.00%) LAN
7 3 (12.00%) VPN
7 3 (12.00%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (12.00%) Wireless
8 2 (8.00%) VLAN
9 1 (4.00%) MPLS
9 1 (4.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.00%) Dremio
2 3 (12.00%) InfluxDB
2 3 (12.00%) MariaDB
2 3 (12.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (12.00%) Sybase ASE
3 2 (8.00%) MySQL
3 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (40.00%) Git
1 10 (40.00%) TeamCity
2 7 (28.00%) JIRA
2 7 (28.00%) Subversion
3 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.00%) International Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (16.00%) IT Support
1 4 (16.00%) Server Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Administrator
2 3 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Linux Administrator
2 3 (12.00%) Site Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Support Officer
3 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (8.00%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Windows Server Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Information Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Information Security Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Linux Support
4 1 (4.00%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (40.00%) LDAP
2 7 (28.00%) REST
3 3 (12.00%) Software Packaging
4 1 (4.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 12 (48.00%) Clustering
1 12 (48.00%) Replication
2 5 (20.00%) PKI
3 3 (12.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (12.00%) Fat Client
3 3 (12.00%) Thin Client
3 3 (12.00%) Virtual Team
4 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (8.00%) Security Posture
5 1 (4.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 17 (68.00%) Windows
2 13 (52.00%) Linux
3 10 (40.00%) Windows Server
4 8 (32.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (32.00%) Solaris
5 7 (28.00%) Unix
6 3 (12.00%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (8.00%) CentOS
7 2 (8.00%) Ubuntu
7 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (4.00%) Android
8 1 (4.00%) Apple iOS
8 1 (4.00%) Mac OS
8 1 (4.00%) Mac OS X
8 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 14 (56.00%) High Availability
3 13 (52.00%) DevOps
4 11 (44.00%) CI/CD
5 9 (36.00%) Data Security
6 8 (32.00%) Storage Management
7 7 (28.00%) API Integration
7 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (24.00%) Cost Optimisation
8 6 (24.00%) Deployment Automation
8 6 (24.00%) Project Delivery
9 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (20.00%) Kernel Tuning
9 5 (20.00%) Patch Management
9 5 (20.00%) Task Automation
10 4 (16.00%) Agile
10 4 (16.00%) ITIL
10 4 (16.00%) Migration
11 3 (12.00%) Application Packaging
11 3 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 12 (48.00%) PowerShell
2 11 (44.00%) Bash
2 11 (44.00%) Python
3 5 (20.00%) Perl
4 3 (12.00%) C#
5 2 (8.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) MCSA
3 2 (8.00%) MCSE
3 2 (8.00%) RHCT
4 1 (4.00%) CISA
4 1 (4.00%) CISM
4 1 (4.00%) CISSP
4 1 (4.00%) GCED
4 1 (4.00%) GSEC
4 1 (4.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (44.00%) GDPR
2 10 (40.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (12.00%) SLA
4 2 (8.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (8.00%) NCSC
5 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
5 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (4.00%) NIST
5 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (68.00%) Active Directory
2 14 (56.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (20.00%) NFS
4 5 (20.00%) Veritas File System
4 5 (20.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 3 (12.00%) BitLocker
5 3 (12.00%) Ceph
5 3 (12.00%) Docker
5 3 (12.00%) Hyper-V
5 3 (12.00%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (8.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (40.00%) Ansible
2 9 (36.00%) Tivoli
3 8 (32.00%) EMC NetWorker
3 8 (32.00%) Netcool
3 8 (32.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 7 (28.00%) QRadar
5 5 (20.00%) Control-M
5 5 (20.00%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (16.00%) SCCM
6 4 (16.00%) Terraform
7 3 (12.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (12.00%) Grafana
7 3 (12.00%) Kibana
7 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
7 3 (12.00%) NetBackup
7 3 (12.00%) Prometheus
7 3 (12.00%) SCOM
7 3 (12.00%) SCVMM
7 3 (12.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 16 (64.00%) VMware
2 14 (56.00%) Microsoft
3 11 (44.00%) EMC
4 10 (40.00%) Splunk
5 9 (36.00%) CyberArk
5 9 (36.00%) IBM
5 9 (36.00%) Qualys
6 8 (32.00%) Oracle
7 7 (28.00%) Red Hat
8 5 (20.00%) BMC
8 5 (20.00%) Cisco
8 5 (20.00%) SaltStack
9 4 (16.00%) Proofpoint
10 3 (12.00%) Dell Compellent
10 3 (12.00%) Equitrac
10 3 (12.00%) F5
10 3 (12.00%) MobileIron
10 3 (12.00%) ServiceNow
10 3 (12.00%) SolarWinds
10 3 (12.00%) Sybase