Security Hardening Contracts in Scotland

Security Hardening
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 108 128 152
Rank change year-on-year +20 +24 +18
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 8 1 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.49% 0.045% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.051% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 9
10th Percentile £483 - £500
25th Percentile £525 - £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £525
75th Percentile - - £557
90th Percentile - - £561
UK median daily rate £550 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +6.28% -5.91% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Hardening in Scotland

Security Hardening
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Security Hardening in Scotland

Security Hardening
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow - 7 £550 -
Edinburgh +5 1 £500 -
Security Hardening
UK

Security Hardening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (87.50%) Amazon S3
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
1 7 (87.50%) Cloud Computing
1 7 (87.50%) OpenShift
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) NAS
1 7 (87.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) InfluxDB
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (87.50%) Git
General
1 7 (87.50%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Python Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Backup Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Unix
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (87.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Decision-Making
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 7 (87.50%) Data Deduplication
2 7 (87.50%) Data Protection
2 7 (87.50%) Penetration Testing
3 6 (75.00%) Observability
4 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Capacity Management
5 2 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (25.00%) DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
6 1 (12.50%) Agile
6 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (12.50%) Data Security
6 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Kanban
6 1 (12.50%) Scrum
6 1 (12.50%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) Perl
2 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) KVM
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Kubernetes
1 7 (87.50%) NetBackup
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) HAProxy
2 1 (12.50%) Nagios
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Veritas
2 1 (12.50%) Commvault
2 1 (12.50%) NetApp
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat