Security Hardening Contracts with Work from Home Options

Security Hardening
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 443 590
Rank change year-on-year +117 +147 -137
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 24 25 31
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.100% 0.071%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.11% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 18 19
10th Percentile £452 £521 £469
25th Percentile £475 £545 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +23.08%
75th Percentile £556 £738 £638
90th Percentile £650 £743 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £554 £550
% change year-on-year -5.15% +0.64% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £76.00 -
UK median hourly rate £23.05 £73.00 -
% change year-on-year -68.42% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,243 22,460 40,020
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.02% 89.72% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,878 15,870 29,041
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 519 537
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.63 £13.90
25th Percentile £25.50 £29.31 £20.40
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +52.43% +42.86%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £70.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Security Hardening
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Hardening as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Security Hardening trend for jobs with a WFH option

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Hardening.

Security Hardening daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Security Hardening over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Security Hardening daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Security Hardening
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Hardening.

Security Hardening hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Security Hardening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (29.17%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 14 (58.33%) Azure
2 13 (54.17%) AWS
3 12 (50.00%) PaaS
3 12 (50.00%) SaaS
4 7 (29.17%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (29.17%) GCP
4 7 (29.17%) IaaS
4 7 (29.17%) Nutanix
4 7 (29.17%) Rubrik
5 5 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (20.83%) Miro
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (41.67%) DHCP
1 10 (41.67%) DNS
2 9 (37.50%) TCP/IP
3 8 (33.33%) Firewall
4 7 (29.17%) Kerberos
4 7 (29.17%) NAS
4 7 (29.17%) SAN
4 7 (29.17%) VLAN
5 3 (12.50%) 4G
5 3 (12.50%) 5G
6 2 (8.33%) Network Security
6 2 (8.33%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Git
1 7 (29.17%) Jenkins
1 7 (29.17%) JIRA
1 7 (29.17%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (37.50%) Finance
2 3 (12.50%) Aerospace
2 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Front Office
3 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (12.50%) Consultant
3 3 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Network Communications Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Network Systems Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Author
4 2 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Security Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Technical Author
5 1 (4.17%) Requirements Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) LDAP
2 2 (8.33%) .NET
3 1 (4.17%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Clustering
1 7 (29.17%) Replication
2 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.17%) PKI
2 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (79.17%) Windows
2 11 (45.83%) Linux
3 9 (37.50%) Windows Server
4 7 (29.17%) Oracle Linux
4 7 (29.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (29.17%) Solaris
5 3 (12.50%) Unix
6 2 (8.33%) Ubuntu
7 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Agile
2 12 (50.00%) DevOps
3 9 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 8 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
4 8 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (29.17%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (29.17%) Cost Optimisation
5 7 (29.17%) Data Security
5 7 (29.17%) High Availability
5 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (29.17%) Service Catalogue
5 7 (29.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 7 (29.17%) Storage Management
5 7 (29.17%) Vulnerability Management
6 5 (20.83%) OOP
6 5 (20.83%) Performance Testing
6 5 (20.83%) Project Management
6 5 (20.83%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) PowerShell
2 8 (33.33%) Python
3 7 (29.17%) Bash
4 2 (8.33%) C++
4 2 (8.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Degree
1 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) CISM
2 2 (8.33%) CISSP
2 2 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (37.50%) GDPR
2 7 (29.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (8.33%) COBIT
3 2 (8.33%) COSO
3 2 (8.33%) ISO 9001
3 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (8.33%) NIST
3 2 (8.33%) PCI DSS
3 2 (8.33%) SLA
4 1 (4.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (45.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (41.67%) Active Directory
3 7 (29.17%) Docker
4 3 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 3 (12.50%) vSphere
5 2 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Ansible
1 7 (29.17%) EMC NetWorker
1 7 (29.17%) Kubernetes
1 7 (29.17%) Netcool
1 7 (29.17%) Terraform
1 7 (29.17%) Tivoli
1 7 (29.17%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (12.50%) WSUS
3 2 (8.33%) SCCM
4 1 (4.17%) Check_MK
4 1 (4.17%) Nessus
4 1 (4.17%) SCOM
4 1 (4.17%) SCVMM
4 1 (4.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) Microsoft
1 14 (58.33%) Splunk
2 11 (45.83%) VMware
3 10 (41.67%) Cisco
4 9 (37.50%) Qualys
5 8 (33.33%) CyberArk
6 7 (29.17%) Dell
6 7 (29.17%) EMC
6 7 (29.17%) HP
6 7 (29.17%) IBM
6 7 (29.17%) Isilon
6 7 (29.17%) Oracle
6 7 (29.17%) Serena
6 7 (29.17%) ServiceNow
7 5 (20.83%) Dynatrace
8 3 (12.50%) Fortinet
8 3 (12.50%) Juniper
9 2 (8.33%) Arista
9 2 (8.33%) F5
9 2 (8.33%) Sparx