Security Hardening Contracts in Wiltshire

Security Hardening
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 53 - 92
Rank change year-on-year - - -18
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 0.89% - 0.091%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% - 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £490 - -
25th Percentile £496 - £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +50.00%
75th Percentile £638 - £775
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £485 - £775
% change year-on-year - - +55.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 404 778 1,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 89.98% 82.42% 92.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 569 855
10th Percentile £311 £315 £400
25th Percentile £478 £463 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -5.22% +9.52%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £675
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 17 14
10th Percentile £18.58 £12.00 £60.45
25th Percentile £18.69 - £62.75
Median hourly rate £18.87 £14.54 £68.15
Median % change year-on-year +29.78% -78.66% +15.02%
75th Percentile £39.44 £30.25 £77.50
90th Percentile £51.77 £47.75 £85.25
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Hardening in Wiltshire

Security Hardening
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Security Hardening in Wiltshire

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Hardening in Wiltshire

Security Hardening
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Hardening in Wiltshire.

Hourly rate trend for Security Hardening in Wiltshire

Security Hardening
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire 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
Corsham - 4 £563 - 1
Security Hardening
South West

Security Hardening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (50.00%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Skype
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Service Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) PKI
1 2 (50.00%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Benchmarking
1 2 (50.00%) Business Strategy
1 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (50.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
1 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (25.00%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) GitOps
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) MCSA
2 2 (50.00%) MCSE
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) SCCM
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Nessus
2 2 (50.00%) OPNET
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Packer
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (25.00%) VxRail
3 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Dell