Security Hardening Contracts in Suffolk

Security Hardening
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Suffolk 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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Security Hardening 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Suffolk 3.08% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £673 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £695 - -
75th Percentile £718 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £695 - £725
% change year-on-year - - +26.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52 51 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 80.00% 65.38% 84.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 32 96
10th Percentile £200 £105 £334
25th Percentile £238 £185 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £341 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.99% -43.25% +4.35%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £700
90th Percentile £544 £575 £745
East of England median daily rate £500 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 2
10th Percentile £20.17 - £14.66
25th Percentile £22.04 £14.05 £15.64
Median hourly rate £25.15 £14.60 £17.78
Median % change year-on-year +72.26% -17.89% -
75th Percentile £35.67 £51.91 £19.42
90th Percentile £41.97 £53.75 £20.10
East of England median hourly rate £31.35 £41.25 £19.81
% change year-on-year -24.01% +108.23% -3.37%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Hardening in Suffolk

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Security Hardening.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Security Hardening

Security Hardening
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Suffolk

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 Suffolk region over the 6 months to 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Ipswich - 1 £695 - 1
Security Hardening
East of England

Security Hardening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Specialist
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft