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 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 342 359 464
Rank change year-on-year +17 +105 +83
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 11 32 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.088% 0.18% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.095% 0.20% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 18
10th Percentile £483 £250 £370
25th Percentile £513 £400 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -4.76% -7.08%
75th Percentile £608 £584 £700
90th Percentile £694 - £743
England median daily rate £575 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +15.00% -16.67% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £22.23 -
England median hourly rate - £23.05 £73.00
% change year-on-year - -68.42% -

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 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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 1 May 2025.

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

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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 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
Central London - 3 £670 -
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 2 (18.18%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
1 8 (72.73%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) GCP
2 5 (45.45%) GitHub
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (18.18%) Nutanix
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) IaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (9.09%) PaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Rubrik
4 1 (9.09%) SaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) DNS
1 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
2 2 (18.18%) Kerberos
3 1 (9.09%) DHCP
3 1 (9.09%) Firewall
3 1 (9.09%) NAS
3 1 (9.09%) SAN
3 1 (9.09%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
2 1 (9.09%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Git
2 4 (36.36%) JIRA
2 4 (36.36%) TeamCity
3 3 (27.27%) Subversion
4 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Administrator
2 3 (27.27%) Linux Administrator
2 3 (27.27%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Site Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Solaris Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Solaris Systems Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) REST
2 2 (18.18%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Clustering
2 3 (27.27%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (27.27%) Replication
3 2 (18.18%) Hedge funds
4 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 9 (81.82%) Linux
2 6 (54.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (45.45%) Solaris
4 4 (36.36%) Windows
4 4 (36.36%) Windows Server
5 3 (27.27%) Rocky
6 1 (9.09%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) High Availability
3 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (36.36%) Data Security
4 4 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (36.36%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (27.27%) API Integration
5 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
5 3 (27.27%) Kernel Tuning
5 3 (27.27%) Patch Management
5 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (27.27%) Task Automation
6 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
6 2 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
6 2 (18.18%) Server Management
6 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 1 (9.09%) Migration
7 1 (9.09%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Python
2 8 (72.73%) Bash
3 4 (36.36%) Perl
4 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
5 1 (9.09%) C#
5 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) GDPR
1 3 (27.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (18.18%) HIPAA
2 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) VMware ESXi
1 6 (54.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (36.36%) Docker
3 3 (27.27%) NFS
3 3 (27.27%) Veritas File System
3 3 (27.27%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Ansible
2 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 4 (36.36%) Terraform
3 3 (27.27%) Packer
3 3 (27.27%) Progress Chef
3 3 (27.27%) Puppet
3 3 (27.27%) QRadar
3 3 (27.27%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (18.18%) Netcool
4 2 (18.18%) Tivoli
5 1 (9.09%) Control-M
5 1 (9.09%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (9.09%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) VMware
2 4 (36.36%) CyberArk
2 4 (36.36%) Oracle
2 4 (36.36%) Qualys
2 4 (36.36%) Splunk
3 3 (27.27%) Red Hat
3 3 (27.27%) SaltStack
4 2 (18.18%) Cisco
4 2 (18.18%) Google
4 2 (18.18%) IBM
4 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow
5 1 (9.09%) BMC
5 1 (9.09%) EMC
5 1 (9.09%) Isilon
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 1 (9.09%) NetApp
5 1 (9.09%) Serena
5 1 (9.09%) Snow
5 1 (9.09%) Sybase