Security Hardening Contracts in London

Security Hardening
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 352 470 549
Rank change year-on-year +118 +79 -103
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 37 30 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.21% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.12% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 19 27
10th Percentile £295 £370 £490
25th Percentile £420 £469 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -7.08% +26.97%
75th Percentile £584 £663 £630
90th Percentile £595 £741 £684
England median daily rate £513 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -10.87% +4.55% +29.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £22.04 - -
25th Percentile £22.08 - -
Median hourly rate £22.23 - -
75th Percentile £23.43 - -
90th Percentile £23.80 - -
England median hourly rate £23.05 £73.00 -
% change year-on-year -68.42% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,769 24,761 35,836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.51% 91.14% 92.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,293 17,773 26,130
10th Percentile £338 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 287 421
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.83 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.75 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.28% +8.33% +11.73%
75th Percentile £47.34 £62.59 £50.61
90th Percentile £66.25 £78.20 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

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 26 April 2024.

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

Security Hardening
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 26 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
West London - 3 £400 -
North London - 2 £250 -
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 9 (24.32%) Confluence
2 4 (10.81%) IIS
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (5.41%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.70%) Apache
5 1 (2.70%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.70%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 26 (70.27%) AWS
2 21 (56.76%) Azure
3 10 (27.03%) Nutanix
3 10 (27.03%) Rubrik
4 9 (24.32%) PaaS
4 9 (24.32%) SaaS
5 8 (21.62%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (21.62%) GCP
5 8 (21.62%) IaaS
6 6 (16.22%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (10.81%) GitHub
9 2 (5.41%) Amazon Glacier
9 2 (5.41%) Amazon S3
9 2 (5.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (5.41%) Cohesity
9 2 (5.41%) Entra ID
9 2 (5.41%) Mimecast
10 1 (2.70%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 15 (40.54%) DNS
2 13 (35.14%) SAN
3 12 (32.43%) Firewall
3 12 (32.43%) NAS
4 9 (24.32%) DHCP
5 8 (21.62%) Kerberos
5 8 (21.62%) TCP/IP
5 8 (21.62%) VLAN
6 5 (13.51%) Internet
7 2 (5.41%) BGP
7 2 (5.41%) DKIM
7 2 (5.41%) DMARC
7 2 (5.41%) Extranet
7 2 (5.41%) iSCSI
7 2 (5.41%) LAN
7 2 (5.41%) VPN
7 2 (5.41%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (5.41%) Wireless
8 1 (2.70%) 4G
8 1 (2.70%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.11%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.41%) MySQL
3 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (24.32%) Jenkins
1 9 (24.32%) JIRA
2 8 (21.62%) Git
2 8 (21.62%) TeamCity
3 4 (10.81%) GitLab
General
1 8 (21.62%) Finance
2 6 (16.22%) Influencing Skills
2 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Electronics
4 1 (2.70%) Local Government
4 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.70%) Marketing
4 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) IT Support
2 6 (16.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) IT Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) IT Support Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Support Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Architect
4 3 (8.11%) Consultant
4 3 (8.11%) QA Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (8.11%) Support Officer
5 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) IT Consultant
5 2 (5.41%) Server Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Support Consultant
6 1 (2.70%) Lead
6 1 (2.70%) Python Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.03%) LDAP
2 3 (8.11%) RESTful
3 2 (5.41%) SAML
3 2 (5.41%) Software Packaging
4 1 (2.70%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.03%) Clustering
1 10 (27.03%) Replication
2 7 (18.92%) Data Centre
2 7 (18.92%) PKI
3 4 (10.81%) Security Posture
4 3 (8.11%) Private Cloud
5 2 (5.41%) Fat Client
5 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
5 2 (5.41%) Thin Client
5 2 (5.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (81.08%) Windows
2 18 (48.65%) Linux
3 13 (35.14%) Windows Server
4 8 (21.62%) Oracle Linux
4 8 (21.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (21.62%) Solaris
4 8 (21.62%) Unix
5 3 (8.11%) Apple iOS
6 2 (5.41%) Android
6 2 (5.41%) Mac OS
6 2 (5.41%) Mac OS X
6 2 (5.41%) Windows 10
7 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (40.54%) DevOps
2 13 (35.14%) Agile
2 13 (35.14%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (29.73%) Deployment Automation
3 11 (29.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 10 (27.03%) High Availability
5 9 (24.32%) Vulnerability Management
6 8 (21.62%) Capacity Management
6 8 (21.62%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (21.62%) Data Security
6 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (21.62%) Performance Tuning
6 8 (21.62%) Server Management
6 8 (21.62%) Storage Management
7 7 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (18.92%) Cost Optimisation
7 7 (18.92%) Root Cause Analysis
7 7 (18.92%) Service Catalogue
8 6 (16.22%) CI/CD
8 6 (16.22%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (35.14%) PowerShell
1 13 (35.14%) Python
2 9 (24.32%) Bash
3 4 (10.81%) Java
4 1 (2.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (24.32%) Security Cleared
2 8 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.81%) AWS Certification
3 4 (10.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 4 (10.81%) Azure Certification
4 3 (8.11%) Degree
4 3 (8.11%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.41%) MCSE
5 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.62%) GDPR
1 8 (21.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (10.81%) QA
3 3 (8.11%) Accessibility
4 2 (5.41%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (5.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (5.41%) SLA
5 1 (2.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (48.65%) Active Directory
2 17 (45.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (24.32%) Docker
4 8 (21.62%) Hyper-V
5 4 (10.81%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (5.41%) BitLocker
6 2 (5.41%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (5.41%) NFS
6 2 (5.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (35.14%) Kubernetes
1 13 (35.14%) Terraform
2 10 (27.03%) SCCM
3 8 (21.62%) Ansible
3 8 (21.62%) EMC NetWorker
3 8 (21.62%) Netcool
3 8 (21.62%) SCOM
3 8 (21.62%) SCVMM
3 8 (21.62%) Tivoli
3 8 (21.62%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (8.11%) NetBackup
6 2 (5.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (5.41%) Backup Exec
6 2 (5.41%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (5.41%) vRealize
6 2 (5.41%) VxRail
7 1 (2.70%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (2.70%) SCOrch
7 1 (2.70%) Simpana
Vendors
1 21 (56.76%) Microsoft
1 21 (56.76%) VMware
2 11 (29.73%) Dell
2 11 (29.73%) EMC
3 10 (27.03%) Cisco
3 10 (27.03%) HP
3 10 (27.03%) ServiceNow
4 9 (24.32%) Splunk
5 8 (21.62%) CyberArk
5 8 (21.62%) IBM
5 8 (21.62%) Isilon
5 8 (21.62%) Oracle
5 8 (21.62%) Qualys
5 8 (21.62%) Serena
6 3 (8.11%) Apple
6 3 (8.11%) Commvault
6 3 (8.11%) Dell Compellent
6 3 (8.11%) MobileIron
6 3 (8.11%) Proofpoint
7 2 (5.41%) F5