Security Hardening Contracts in London

Security Hardening
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 458 552
Rank change year-on-year +89 +94 -102
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 26 22 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.085% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.094% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 31
10th Percentile £250 £440 £500
25th Percentile £400 £469 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £590
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -11.02% +24.21%
75th Percentile £584 £738 £625
90th Percentile - £748 £688
England median daily rate £500 £663 £558
% change year-on-year -24.53% +18.83% +28.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.08 - -
Median hourly rate £22.30 - -
75th Percentile £23.80 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £23.80 £73.00 -
% change year-on-year -67.40% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,495 23,478 35,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 90.88% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,110 16,936 26,017
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 270 417
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.84 £38.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.22% +2.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.94 £51.48
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.28 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Hardening in London

Security Hardening
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Hardening in London

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Hardening in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Hardening in London

Security Hardening
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Hardening in London

Security Hardening
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 17 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
West London - 3 £400 -
North London - 2 £250 -
Security Hardening
England

Security Hardening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (23.08%) Confluence
2 2 (7.69%) IIS
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 19 (73.08%) AWS
2 18 (69.23%) Azure
3 8 (30.77%) Nutanix
3 8 (30.77%) Rubrik
4 7 (26.92%) PaaS
4 7 (26.92%) SaaS
5 6 (23.08%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (23.08%) GCP
5 6 (23.08%) IaaS
6 5 (19.23%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (15.38%) GitHub
8 2 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
8 2 (7.69%) Mimecast
9 1 (3.85%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 10 (38.46%) NAS
1 10 (38.46%) SAN
2 9 (34.62%) DNS
3 8 (30.77%) Firewall
4 7 (26.92%) DHCP
5 6 (23.08%) Kerberos
5 6 (23.08%) TCP/IP
5 6 (23.08%) VLAN
6 3 (11.54%) Internet
7 2 (7.69%) DKIM
7 2 (7.69%) DMARC
7 2 (7.69%) Extranet
7 2 (7.69%) LAN
7 2 (7.69%) VPN
7 2 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (7.69%) Wireless
8 1 (3.85%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.69%) MySQL
2 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Git
1 6 (23.08%) Jenkins
1 6 (23.08%) JIRA
1 6 (23.08%) TeamCity
2 4 (15.38%) GitLab
General
1 6 (23.08%) Finance
2 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) IT Support
2 6 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) IT Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) IT Support Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Support Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) IT Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Server Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Support Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Support Officer
6 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Support
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (30.77%) LDAP
2 2 (7.69%) Software Packaging
3 1 (3.85%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Clustering
1 8 (30.77%) Replication
2 6 (23.08%) Data Centre
3 4 (15.38%) PKI
4 3 (11.54%) Security Posture
5 2 (7.69%) Fat Client
5 2 (7.69%) Thin Client
5 2 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (88.46%) Windows
2 14 (53.85%) Linux
3 8 (30.77%) Windows Server
4 7 (26.92%) Unix
5 6 (23.08%) Oracle Linux
5 6 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (23.08%) Solaris
6 2 (7.69%) Android
6 2 (7.69%) Apple iOS
6 2 (7.69%) Mac OS
6 2 (7.69%) Mac OS X
6 2 (7.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) DevOps
2 10 (38.46%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (30.77%) Deployment Automation
3 8 (30.77%) High Availability
3 8 (30.77%) Vulnerability Management
4 7 (26.92%) Agile
4 7 (26.92%) Capacity Management
4 7 (26.92%) Server Management
5 6 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (23.08%) Cost Optimisation
5 6 (23.08%) Data Security
5 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
5 6 (23.08%) Service Catalogue
5 6 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 6 (23.08%) Storage Management
6 4 (15.38%) Patch Management
6 4 (15.38%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) PowerShell
2 7 (26.92%) Bash
2 7 (26.92%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) AWS Certification
1 4 (15.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 4 (15.38%) Azure Certification
2 3 (11.54%) Degree
2 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) DV Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) MCSE
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) GDPR
1 6 (23.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 13 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (26.92%) Hyper-V
3 6 (23.08%) Docker
4 4 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (7.69%) BitLocker
5 2 (7.69%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 11 (42.31%) Terraform
2 10 (38.46%) Kubernetes
3 9 (34.62%) SCCM
4 7 (26.92%) SCOM
4 7 (26.92%) SCVMM
5 6 (23.08%) Ansible
5 6 (23.08%) EMC NetWorker
5 6 (23.08%) Netcool
5 6 (23.08%) Tivoli
5 6 (23.08%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (7.69%) Backup Exec
7 2 (7.69%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (7.69%) NetBackup
7 2 (7.69%) VxRail
Vendors
1 18 (69.23%) Microsoft
2 15 (57.69%) VMware
3 8 (30.77%) Cisco
3 8 (30.77%) Dell
3 8 (30.77%) EMC
3 8 (30.77%) HP
3 8 (30.77%) ServiceNow
4 7 (26.92%) Splunk
5 6 (23.08%) CyberArk
5 6 (23.08%) IBM
5 6 (23.08%) Isilon
5 6 (23.08%) Oracle
5 6 (23.08%) Qualys
5 6 (23.08%) Serena
6 2 (7.69%) Adobe
6 2 (7.69%) Avaya
6 2 (7.69%) Dell Compellent
6 2 (7.69%) Equitrac
6 2 (7.69%) Juniper
6 2 (7.69%) MobileIron