Security Hardening Contracts in the South West

Security Hardening
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 101 152 165
Rank change year-on-year +51 +13 +7
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 10 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.60% 0.16% 0.055%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.19% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £319 - £733
25th Percentile £347 - £744
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 - £775
Median % change year-on-year - - +55.00%
75th Percentile £569 - £794
90th Percentile £638 - £798
England median daily rate £575 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +15.00% -16.67% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £72.75 -
England median hourly rate - £23.05 £73.00
% change year-on-year - -68.42% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
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 the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Hardening in the South West

Security Hardening
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Security Hardening in the South West

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Hardening in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Hardening in the South West

Security Hardening
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Hardening in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Security Hardening in the South West

Security Hardening
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Bristol +22 5 £338 -
Wiltshire - 4 £563 - 2
Somerset - 1 £400 -
Security Hardening
England

Security Hardening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (20.00%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) Firewall
2 5 (50.00%) DNS
3 2 (20.00%) DHCP
3 2 (20.00%) Skype
3 2 (20.00%) VPN
4 1 (10.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Administrator
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps Administrator
1 3 (30.00%) Linux Administrator
1 3 (30.00%) Linux DevOps Administrator
1 3 (30.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Service Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (20.00%) PKI
2 2 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Linux
1 7 (70.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (20.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (20.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (40.00%) GitOps
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (30.00%) High Availability
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (30.00%) Task Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Benchmarking
4 2 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (20.00%) IT Strategy
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
5 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity
5 1 (10.00%) ITIL
5 1 (10.00%) Service Management
5 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Bash
1 3 (30.00%) Perl
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) MCSA
3 2 (20.00%) MCSE
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) Docker
3 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (40.00%) Ansible
2 4 (40.00%) SCCM
2 4 (40.00%) Terraform
3 3 (30.00%) Grafana
3 3 (30.00%) Nessus
3 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (20.00%) OPNET
4 2 (20.00%) WSUS
5 1 (10.00%) Packer
5 1 (10.00%) vCenter Server
5 1 (10.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Dell
3 1 (10.00%) Qualys