Security Hardening Contracts in Glasgow

Security Hardening
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 72 - 83
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.88% - 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% - 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £504 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £550 - £525

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Hardening in Glasgow

Security Hardening
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Security Hardening in Glasgow

Security Hardening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 7 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) NAS
1 7 (100.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Git
1 7 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Python Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Backup Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Unix
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Data Deduplication
1 7 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 7 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 7 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
2 6 (85.71%) Observability
3 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Capacity Management
4 2 (28.57%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (14.29%) Data Security
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 7 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Veritas