Security Hardening Contracts in the Midlands

Security Hardening
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 13 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 142 212
Rank change year-on-year +9 +70 -14
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 3 8 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.11% 0.27% 0.059%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.31% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 3
10th Percentile £355 £563 -
25th Percentile £358 £713 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £738 £600
Median % change year-on-year -49.15% +22.92% +20.00%
75th Percentile £481 £750 £625
90th Percentile £538 - -
England median daily rate £540 £725 £600
% change year-on-year -25.52% +20.83% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,225 2,556 4,453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.92% 85.51% 88.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,441 1,757 3,185
10th Percentile £263 £250 £250
25th Percentile £380 £375 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% +13.14%
75th Percentile £612 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £701 £660
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +8.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 97 119
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.10 £11.54
25th Percentile £15.10 £18.25 £14.29
Median hourly rate £21.50 £27.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +52.78% +24.14%
75th Percentile £40.97 £51.50 £30.44
90th Percentile £55.00 £68.00 £35.80
England median hourly rate £43.00 £43.33 £29.06
% change year-on-year -0.76% +49.13% +38.36%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Hardening in the Midlands

Security Hardening
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Security Hardening in the Midlands

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Hardening in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Hardening in the Midlands

Security Hardening
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 September 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 Midlands +7 2 £453 -39.67% 1
East Midlands +1 1 £375 +66.67%
Security Hardening
England

Security Hardening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (33.33%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) INAP
2 1 (33.33%) Intelligent Network
2 1 (33.33%) RTP
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) Locust
1 1 (33.33%) Robot Framework
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) TestCafe
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Engineering Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) QA Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) Taurus
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (33.33%) CentOS
3 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) API Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Application Security
1 1 (33.33%) Build Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Information Management
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Load Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Server Management
1 1 (33.33%) SIEM
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
1 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
1 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
1 1 (33.33%) yum
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Dialogic
1 1 (33.33%) Metaswitch
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) Veeam
1 1 (33.33%) VMware