Security Hardening Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Security Hardening
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 323 444
Rank change year-on-year +31 +121 +143
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 12 23 26
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.15% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.17% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 19
10th Percentile £375 £445 £523
25th Percentile £434 £475 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £638 £588 £738
90th Percentile £694 £650 £741
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £554
% change year-on-year +4.76% -5.15% +0.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £76.00
UK median hourly rate - £23.05 £73.00
% change year-on-year - -68.42% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,922 13,303 22,743
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.31% 87.93% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,138 8,910 16,065
10th Percentile £338 £325 £363
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 574 524
10th Percentile £13.85 £15.05 £18.65
25th Percentile £19.00 £25.50 £30.00
Median hourly rate £39.04 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.21% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £65.50 £60.00 £68.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £28.68 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -21.44% +1.39% +44.00%

Security Hardening
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Security Hardening as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Security Hardening trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Security Hardening.

Security Hardening daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Security Hardening over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Security Hardening daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Security Hardening
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Security Hardening.

Security Hardening hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Security Hardening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
1 2 (16.67%) Skype for Business
2 1 (8.33%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) IaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) Nutanix
3 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (8.33%) PaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Rubrik
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) DHCP
1 3 (25.00%) DNS
2 2 (16.67%) Skype
2 2 (16.67%) VPN
3 1 (8.33%) Firewall
3 1 (8.33%) FTP
3 1 (8.33%) HTTP
3 1 (8.33%) Kerberos
3 1 (8.33%) NAS
3 1 (8.33%) SAN
3 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (8.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
4 1 (8.33%) InfluxDB
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
4 1 (8.33%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Analyst
1 2 (16.67%) Architect
1 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 2 (16.67%) Security Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) BizTalk Developer
2 1 (8.33%) DBA
2 1 (8.33%) Developer
2 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared DBA
2 1 (8.33%) Senior
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Service Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Site Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) SQL DBA
2 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Unix Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) EDI
2 1 (8.33%) JSON
2 1 (8.33%) LDAP
2 1 (8.33%) MSMQ
2 1 (8.33%) SOAP
2 1 (8.33%) WCF
2 1 (8.33%) XML
2 1 (8.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (16.67%) PKI
1 2 (16.67%) Replication
1 2 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (8.33%) Clustering
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Windows
2 8 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (33.33%) Linux
4 3 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (16.67%) Windows 10
5 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (8.33%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (8.33%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (8.33%) Solaris
6 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Business Continuity
4 2 (16.67%) Business Strategy
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) IT Strategy
4 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (16.67%) Server Hardening
4 2 (16.67%) Storage Management
4 2 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
4 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) Bash
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) ActionScript
3 1 (8.33%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (8.33%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) Perl
3 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) MCSA
2 2 (16.67%) MCSE
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) OCP
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (8.33%) Docker
3 1 (8.33%) KVM
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) SCCM
2 3 (25.00%) Ansible
3 2 (16.67%) Nessus
3 2 (16.67%) OPNET
3 2 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 2 (16.67%) Terraform
3 2 (16.67%) WSUS
4 1 (8.33%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (8.33%) Grafana
4 1 (8.33%) HAProxy
4 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (8.33%) Nagios
4 1 (8.33%) Netcool
4 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (8.33%) SCOM
4 1 (8.33%) Tivoli
4 1 (8.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle
2 3 (25.00%) Qualys
2 3 (25.00%) VMware
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco
3 2 (16.67%) IBM
3 2 (16.67%) NetApp
3 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (8.33%) Commvault
4 1 (8.33%) CyberArk
4 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
4 1 (8.33%) EMC
4 1 (8.33%) Isilon
4 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto
4 1 (8.33%) SAP
4 1 (8.33%) Serena
4 1 (8.33%) Splunk
4 1 (8.33%) Sybase