Security Hardening Contracts

Security Hardening
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 538 630 772
Rank change year-on-year +92 +142 -131
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 62 83 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.14% 0.095%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.15% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 58 52
10th Percentile £250 £463 £425
25th Percentile £475 £513 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +22.91%
75th Percentile £584 £731 £623
90th Percentile £615 £741 £681
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +26.67%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £72.75 £73.00 -
% change year-on-year -0.34% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,621 53,662 80,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.30% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,254 37,244 56,449
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.95 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +80.00% -7.24%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Hardening in the UK

Security Hardening
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Security Hardening in the UK

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Hardening over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Hardening in the UK

Security Hardening
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Hardening in the UK

Security Hardening
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Hardening over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Hardening in the UK

Security Hardening
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 29 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
England +104 53 £500 -16.67% 14
London +112 34 £536 +2.14% 3
Work from Home +116 24 £500 -13.04% 9
UK excluding London +40 20 £500 -9.09% 11
West Midlands +30 5 £550 -24.14% 1
Midlands +30 5 £550 -24.14% 1
South West +15 5 - - 4
South East +20 4 £500 -6.98% 3
East of England -2 3 £505 -25.19% 3
North West - 2 £200 -
North of England - 2 £200 - 1
Scotland +25 1 - - 1

Security Hardening
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 (14.52%) Confluence
2 4 (6.45%) IIS
3 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (3.23%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.61%) Apache
5 1 (1.61%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (1.61%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (8.06%) Trello
2 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 30 (48.39%) AWS
2 26 (41.94%) Azure
3 13 (20.97%) PaaS
3 13 (20.97%) SaaS
4 12 (19.35%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (16.13%) Nutanix
5 10 (16.13%) Rubrik
6 8 (12.90%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (12.90%) GCP
6 8 (12.90%) IaaS
7 5 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (8.06%) Miro
8 4 (6.45%) GitHub
9 3 (4.84%) Amazon Glacier
9 3 (4.84%) Amazon S3
9 3 (4.84%) Cohesity
9 3 (4.84%) Entra ID
10 2 (3.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (3.23%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 29 (46.77%) DNS
2 22 (35.48%) DHCP
3 18 (29.03%) TCP/IP
4 15 (24.19%) Firewall
5 13 (20.97%) SAN
6 12 (19.35%) NAS
7 8 (12.90%) Kerberos
7 8 (12.90%) VLAN
8 6 (9.68%) Internet
9 4 (6.45%) 4G
10 3 (4.84%) 5G
10 3 (4.84%) BGP
10 3 (4.84%) iSCSI
10 3 (4.84%) Network Security
11 2 (3.23%) DKIM
11 2 (3.23%) DMARC
11 2 (3.23%) Extranet
11 2 (3.23%) VPN
11 2 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (3.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.45%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.23%) MySQL
2 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (14.52%) Git
1 9 (14.52%) Jenkins
1 9 (14.52%) JIRA
2 8 (12.90%) TeamCity
3 4 (6.45%) GitLab
4 2 (3.23%) Artifactory
General
1 12 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.13%) Finance
3 4 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (4.84%) Aerospace
4 3 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.84%) Front Office
4 3 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Banking
6 1 (1.61%) Electronics
6 1 (1.61%) Local Government
6 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.61%) Marketing
6 1 (1.61%) Military
6 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (20.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (16.13%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (14.52%) IT Support
4 7 (11.29%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (11.29%) IT Engineer
4 7 (11.29%) Senior
5 6 (9.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 6 (9.68%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Architect
7 4 (6.45%) IT Support Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Support Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Consultant
8 3 (4.84%) Network Communications Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Network Systems Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Server Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.84%) Support Officer
8 3 (4.84%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.13%) LDAP
2 3 (4.84%) .NET
2 3 (4.84%) SAML
3 2 (3.23%) RESTful
3 2 (3.23%) Software Packaging
4 1 (1.61%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.13%) Clustering
1 10 (16.13%) Replication
2 9 (14.52%) PKI
3 8 (12.90%) Data Centre
4 5 (8.06%) Security Posture
5 3 (4.84%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.23%) Fat Client
6 2 (3.23%) Private Cloud
6 2 (3.23%) Thin Client
6 2 (3.23%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.61%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (82.26%) Windows
2 32 (51.61%) Linux
3 23 (37.10%) Windows Server
4 18 (29.03%) Unix
5 17 (27.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (12.90%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (12.90%) Solaris
7 4 (6.45%) Ubuntu
7 4 (6.45%) Windows 10
8 3 (4.84%) Apple iOS
9 2 (3.23%) Android
9 2 (3.23%) Mac OS
9 2 (3.23%) Mac OS X
9 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (1.61%) CentOS
10 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (30.65%) DevOps
2 17 (27.42%) Agile
3 16 (25.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (22.58%) Disaster Recovery
5 13 (20.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (19.35%) Deployment Automation
7 10 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (16.13%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (16.13%) High Availability
7 10 (16.13%) Patch Management
7 10 (16.13%) Performance Tuning
7 10 (16.13%) Root Cause Analysis
7 10 (16.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 10 (16.13%) Systems Engineering
8 9 (14.52%) Server Management
8 9 (14.52%) Vulnerability Management
9 8 (12.90%) Capacity Management
9 8 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (12.90%) SIEM
9 8 (12.90%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (27.42%) PowerShell
2 13 (20.97%) Python
3 9 (14.52%) Bash
3 9 (14.52%) Java
4 7 (11.29%) C#
5 3 (4.84%) VB.NET
6 2 (3.23%) C++
7 1 (1.61%) C
7 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.61%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (35.48%) Security Cleared
2 15 (24.19%) SC Cleared
3 12 (19.35%) Degree
4 9 (14.52%) DV Cleared
5 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (8.06%) Azure Certification
7 4 (6.45%) AWS Certification
7 4 (6.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (4.84%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (3.23%) MCSE
10 1 (1.61%) CISSP
10 1 (1.61%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (1.61%) LPIC
10 1 (1.61%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.90%) GDPR
1 8 (12.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 7 (11.29%) NIST
3 5 (8.06%) SLA
4 3 (4.84%) Accessibility
4 3 (4.84%) ISO 9001
4 3 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (3.23%) NCSC
5 2 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 29 (46.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (41.94%) Active Directory
3 12 (19.35%) Docker
4 11 (17.74%) Hyper-V
5 10 (16.13%) VMware NSX
6 8 (12.90%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (11.29%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (6.45%) vSphere
9 3 (4.84%) NFS
10 2 (3.23%) BitLocker
10 2 (3.23%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (1.61%) KVM
11 1 (1.61%) Xen
Systems Management
1 18 (29.03%) SCCM
2 16 (25.81%) Kubernetes
3 14 (22.58%) Terraform
4 9 (14.52%) Ansible
5 8 (12.90%) EMC NetWorker
5 8 (12.90%) Netcool
5 8 (12.90%) SCOM
5 8 (12.90%) SCVMM
5 8 (12.90%) Tivoli
5 8 (12.90%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 8 (12.90%) vCenter Server
6 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (6.45%) WSUS
8 3 (4.84%) NetBackup
8 3 (4.84%) vRealize
9 2 (3.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (3.23%) Backup Exec
9 2 (3.23%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (3.23%) VxRail
10 1 (1.61%) Nessus
Vendors
1 34 (54.84%) VMware
2 30 (48.39%) Microsoft
3 14 (22.58%) Splunk
4 13 (20.97%) Cisco
5 11 (17.74%) Dell
5 11 (17.74%) EMC
6 10 (16.13%) HP
6 10 (16.13%) Qualys
6 10 (16.13%) ServiceNow
7 8 (12.90%) CyberArk
7 8 (12.90%) IBM
7 8 (12.90%) Isilon
7 8 (12.90%) Oracle
7 8 (12.90%) Serena
8 7 (11.29%) Veeam
9 5 (8.06%) Dynatrace
9 5 (8.06%) Juniper
10 4 (6.45%) F5
11 3 (4.84%) Aruba
11 3 (4.84%) Proofpoint