Security Hardening Contracts in England

Security Hardening
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Security Hardening skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Hardening over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 479 605 703
Rank change year-on-year +126 +98 -112
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 52 41 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.085% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.094% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 30 45
10th Percentile £250 £459 £464
25th Percentile £463 £503 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £663 £565
Median % change year-on-year -24.53% +17.26% +32.94%
75th Percentile £584 £738 £623
90th Percentile £625 £776 £664
UK median daily rate £550 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.55% +29.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £22.08 - -
25th Percentile £22.19 £71.50 -
Median hourly rate £23.80 £73.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -67.40% - -
75th Percentile £47.53 £74.50 -
90th Percentile £73.95 - -
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £73.00 -
% change year-on-year -67.40% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Security Hardening is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,426 43,648 64,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.34% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,611 30,630 45,872
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 1,533 1,757
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Hardening in England

Security Hardening
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Security Hardening in England

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Hardening in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Hardening in England

Security Hardening
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Hardening in England

Security Hardening
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Hardening in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Hardening in England

Security Hardening
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
London +104 25 £494 -5.95% 2
South East +31 12 £550 +2.33% 5
South West +14 7 £500 -35.48% 1
West Midlands +22 5 £550 -24.14%
Midlands +19 5 £550 -24.14%
North West - 2 £200 -
North of England - 2 £200 -
East of England +1 1 - - 2
Security Hardening
UK

Security Hardening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (11.54%) Confluence
2 2 (3.85%) IIS
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.92%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 18 (34.62%) AWS
1 18 (34.62%) Azure
2 8 (15.38%) Nutanix
2 8 (15.38%) Rubrik
3 7 (13.46%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (13.46%) PaaS
3 7 (13.46%) SaaS
4 6 (11.54%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (11.54%) GCP
4 6 (11.54%) IaaS
5 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.77%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.77%) GitHub
6 2 (3.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (3.85%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.92%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.92%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 22 (42.31%) DNS
2 20 (38.46%) DHCP
3 16 (30.77%) TCP/IP
4 10 (19.23%) Firewall
4 10 (19.23%) NAS
4 10 (19.23%) SAN
5 6 (11.54%) Kerberos
5 6 (11.54%) VLAN
6 3 (5.77%) 4G
6 3 (5.77%) 5G
6 3 (5.77%) Internet
7 2 (3.85%) DKIM
7 2 (3.85%) DMARC
7 2 (3.85%) Extranet
7 2 (3.85%) LAN
7 2 (3.85%) Network Security
7 2 (3.85%) VoIP
7 2 (3.85%) VPN
7 2 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (3.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (19.23%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.85%) MySQL
2 2 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (11.54%) Git
1 6 (11.54%) Jenkins
1 6 (11.54%) JIRA
1 6 (11.54%) TeamCity
2 3 (5.77%) GitLab
3 2 (3.85%) Artifactory
General
1 9 (17.31%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.54%) Finance
3 3 (5.77%) Aerospace
3 3 (5.77%) Front Office
4 2 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Military
5 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (15.38%) IT Support
3 7 (13.46%) IT Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Administrator
4 6 (11.54%) DBA
4 6 (11.54%) SQL DBA
5 5 (9.62%) Consultant
5 5 (9.62%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Principal Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Senior
6 4 (7.69%) IT Support Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Support Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Network Communications Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Network Systems Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Server Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.38%) LDAP
2 3 (5.77%) .NET
3 2 (3.85%) Software Packaging
4 1 (1.92%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.92%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.38%) Clustering
1 8 (15.38%) Replication
2 6 (11.54%) Data Centre
3 5 (9.62%) PKI
4 4 (7.69%) Security Posture
5 2 (3.85%) Fat Client
5 2 (3.85%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.85%) Thin Client
5 2 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (75.00%) Windows
2 27 (51.92%) Linux
3 17 (32.69%) Unix
3 17 (32.69%) Windows Server
4 15 (28.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (11.54%) Oracle Linux
5 6 (11.54%) Solaris
6 5 (9.62%) Windows 10
7 4 (7.69%) Ubuntu
8 2 (3.85%) Android
8 2 (3.85%) Apple iOS
8 2 (3.85%) Mac OS
8 2 (3.85%) Mac OS X
9 1 (1.92%) CentOS
9 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (26.92%) Performance Tuning
2 13 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (21.15%) DevOps
4 11 (21.15%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (19.23%) Systems Engineering
6 9 (17.31%) Agile
6 9 (17.31%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (17.31%) Deployment Automation
6 9 (17.31%) Patch Management
6 9 (17.31%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (15.38%) High Availability
7 8 (15.38%) Server Management
7 8 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
8 7 (13.46%) Capacity Management
8 7 (13.46%) Security Monitoring
8 7 (13.46%) SIEM
8 7 (13.46%) Task Automation
8 7 (13.46%) Virtual Environments
8 7 (13.46%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (28.85%) PowerShell
2 9 (17.31%) Python
3 7 (13.46%) Bash
3 7 (13.46%) C#
3 7 (13.46%) Java
4 6 (11.54%) SQL
5 3 (5.77%) VB.NET
6 2 (3.85%) C++
7 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 14 (26.92%) DV Cleared
3 8 (15.38%) Degree
3 8 (15.38%) SC Cleared
4 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (5.77%) AWS Certification
5 3 (5.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (5.77%) Azure Certification
5 3 (5.77%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (3.85%) CISM
6 2 (3.85%) CISSP
6 2 (3.85%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.85%) MCSE
6 2 (3.85%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.92%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (1.92%) LPIC
7 1 (1.92%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (17.31%) NIST
2 8 (15.38%) GDPR
3 6 (11.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (9.62%) SLA
5 3 (5.77%) ISO 9001
5 3 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (3.85%) Accessibility
6 2 (3.85%) COBIT
6 2 (3.85%) COSO
6 2 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (3.85%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.92%) NCSC
System Software
1 25 (48.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (36.54%) Active Directory
3 10 (19.23%) Hyper-V
4 9 (17.31%) Docker
5 8 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (13.46%) VMware NSX
7 6 (11.54%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (7.69%) vSphere
9 2 (3.85%) BitLocker
9 2 (3.85%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (1.92%) KVM
10 1 (1.92%) Xen
Systems Management
1 18 (34.62%) SCCM
2 13 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 10 (19.23%) Terraform
4 8 (15.38%) vCenter Server
5 7 (13.46%) Ansible
5 7 (13.46%) SCOM
5 7 (13.46%) SCVMM
6 6 (11.54%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (11.54%) Netcool
6 6 (11.54%) Tivoli
6 6 (11.54%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (7.69%) WSUS
8 2 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (3.85%) Backup Exec
8 2 (3.85%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (3.85%) NetBackup
8 2 (3.85%) VxRail
9 1 (1.92%) Nessus
9 1 (1.92%) SELinux
Vendors
1 27 (51.92%) VMware
2 22 (42.31%) Microsoft
3 9 (17.31%) Cisco
3 9 (17.31%) Dell
3 9 (17.31%) Splunk
4 8 (15.38%) EMC
4 8 (15.38%) HP
4 8 (15.38%) Qualys
4 8 (15.38%) ServiceNow
5 7 (13.46%) CyberArk
5 7 (13.46%) Veeam
6 6 (11.54%) IBM
6 6 (11.54%) Isilon
6 6 (11.54%) Oracle
6 6 (11.54%) Serena
7 3 (5.77%) Juniper
8 2 (3.85%) Apple
8 2 (3.85%) CA
8 2 (3.85%) Commvault
8 2 (3.85%) Forcepoint