Security Hardening Contracts in England

Security Hardening
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 454 491 599
Rank change year-on-year +37 +108 +111
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 31 51 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.16% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 24 36
10th Percentile £379 £250 £419
25th Percentile £503 £456 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £631 £575 £738
90th Percentile £742 £584 £765
UK median daily rate £550 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +6.28% -5.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 4
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 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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 1 May 2025.

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
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 1 May 2025. 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 +17 11 £563 +12.50% 12
South West +51 10 £485 - 4
South East +48 6 £600 +20.00% 18
Midlands +19 2 £775 +40.91% 3
West Midlands +11 2 £775 +40.91% 2
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 4 (12.90%) SharePoint
2 3 (9.68%) Confluence
3 2 (6.45%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (6.45%) IIS
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (6.45%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 13 (41.94%) AWS
2 12 (38.71%) Azure
3 6 (19.35%) GCP
3 6 (19.35%) GitHub
4 3 (9.68%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (9.68%) Nutanix
5 2 (6.45%) IaaS
6 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.23%) PaaS
6 1 (3.23%) Rubrik
6 1 (3.23%) SaaS
6 1 (3.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (32.26%) DNS
2 9 (29.03%) Firewall
3 5 (16.13%) TCP/IP
4 3 (9.68%) DHCP
4 3 (9.68%) Kerberos
5 2 (6.45%) Skype
5 2 (6.45%) VPN
6 1 (3.23%) FTP
6 1 (3.23%) HTTP
6 1 (3.23%) NAS
6 1 (3.23%) SAN
6 1 (3.23%) VLAN
6 1 (3.23%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (19.35%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.23%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 7 (22.58%) JIRA
2 5 (16.13%) Git
2 5 (16.13%) TeamCity
3 4 (12.90%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.90%) Subversion
General
1 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.68%) Banking
2 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.45%) Finance
4 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Administrator
2 7 (22.58%) Linux Administrator
3 4 (12.90%) Architect
3 4 (12.90%) Senior
4 3 (9.68%) DevOps Administrator
4 3 (9.68%) Linux DevOps Administrator
4 3 (9.68%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 3 (9.68%) Project Manager
4 3 (9.68%) Security Manager
4 3 (9.68%) Security Project Manager
5 2 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Security Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Security Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Test Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) REST
2 3 (9.68%) LDAP
3 2 (6.45%) .NET
4 1 (3.23%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.23%) EDI
4 1 (3.23%) JSON
4 1 (3.23%) MSMQ
4 1 (3.23%) SOAP
4 1 (3.23%) WCF
4 1 (3.23%) XML
4 1 (3.23%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Clustering
2 3 (9.68%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (9.68%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (9.68%) Replication
3 2 (6.45%) Hedge funds
3 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.45%) PKI
3 2 (6.45%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 17 (54.84%) Linux
2 16 (51.61%) Windows
3 10 (32.26%) Windows Server
4 6 (19.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (19.35%) Solaris
5 4 (12.90%) Unix
6 3 (9.68%) Rocky
6 3 (9.68%) Windows 10
6 3 (9.68%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (6.45%) Ubuntu
7 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (3.23%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) DevOps
2 11 (35.48%) CI/CD
3 9 (29.03%) Disaster Recovery
3 9 (29.03%) High Availability
3 9 (29.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (22.58%) Task Automation
5 6 (19.35%) Containerisation
5 6 (19.35%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (16.13%) Data Security
6 5 (16.13%) Migration
6 5 (16.13%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 4 (12.90%) API Integration
7 4 (12.90%) Data Protection
7 4 (12.90%) GitOps
7 4 (12.90%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (12.90%) Kernel Tuning
7 4 (12.90%) Patch Management
7 4 (12.90%) Vulnerability Management
8 3 (9.68%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 14 (45.16%) Python
2 12 (38.71%) Bash
3 8 (25.81%) Perl
3 8 (25.81%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.45%) SQL
5 1 (3.23%) ActionScript
5 1 (3.23%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (3.23%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (6.45%) CCSP
3 2 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (6.45%) CISSP
3 2 (6.45%) Degree
3 2 (6.45%) Master's Degree
3 2 (6.45%) MCSA
3 2 (6.45%) MCSE
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.23%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) GDPR
1 3 (9.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (6.45%) HIPAA
2 2 (6.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (25.81%) VMware ESXi
1 8 (25.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (22.58%) Active Directory
2 7 (22.58%) Docker
3 4 (12.90%) NFS
3 4 (12.90%) Veritas File System
3 4 (12.90%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 1 (3.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 1 (3.23%) VMware NSX
4 1 (3.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (48.39%) Ansible
2 9 (29.03%) Kubernetes
2 9 (29.03%) Terraform
3 4 (12.90%) Packer
3 4 (12.90%) Progress Chef
3 4 (12.90%) QRadar
3 4 (12.90%) Red Hat Satellite
3 4 (12.90%) SCCM
4 3 (9.68%) Grafana
4 3 (9.68%) Nessus
4 3 (9.68%) Netcool
4 3 (9.68%) Prometheus
4 3 (9.68%) Puppet
4 3 (9.68%) Tivoli
5 2 (6.45%) CASB
5 2 (6.45%) Control-M
5 2 (6.45%) OPNET
5 2 (6.45%) SCOM
5 2 (6.45%) WSUS
6 1 (3.23%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 13 (41.94%) VMware
2 7 (22.58%) Oracle
3 6 (19.35%) Qualys
4 5 (16.13%) CyberArk
4 5 (16.13%) IBM
4 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
4 5 (16.13%) Splunk
5 4 (12.90%) Red Hat
5 4 (12.90%) SaltStack
5 4 (12.90%) ServiceNow
6 2 (6.45%) BMC
6 2 (6.45%) Cisco
6 2 (6.45%) Dynatrace
6 2 (6.45%) Google
6 2 (6.45%) TOWER Software
7 1 (3.23%) Dell
7 1 (3.23%) EMC
7 1 (3.23%) Isilon
7 1 (3.23%) Serena
7 1 (3.23%) Snow