Security Hardening Contracts in the South East

Security Hardening
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 185 213 249
Rank change year-on-year +28 +36 -34
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 13 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.24% 0.036% 0.091%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.040% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 4
10th Percentile £455 £436 -
25th Percentile £475 £472 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £538 £478
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% +12.57% +31.72%
75th Percentile £625 £597 £513
90th Percentile - £629 £558
England median daily rate £525 £663 £565
% change year-on-year -20.75% +17.26% +32.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,621 5,004 6,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.96% 89.12% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,687 3,457 4,696
10th Percentile £255 £250 £231
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% +0.10% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £618 £595
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 443 216 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.22
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.38
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £62.21
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.14% +49.20% +10.23%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Security Hardening as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Security Hardening in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Hardening in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Security Hardening in the South East

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Hardening in the South East over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Hardening in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Hardening in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Security Hardening in the South East

Security Hardening
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 23 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
Hampshire - 9 £600 - 1
Surrey - 2 £500 -
Thames Valley +7 1 £413 -23.26% 3
Buckinghamshire - 1 £413 - 1
West Sussex - 1 £500 -
Security Hardening
England

Security Hardening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) DHCP
1 4 (30.77%) DNS
2 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (23.08%) Front Office
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Administrator
1 7 (53.85%) DBA
1 7 (53.85%) SQL DBA
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) SCCM Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Server Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Linux
3 3 (23.08%) Ubuntu
3 3 (23.08%) Unix
4 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
2 4 (30.77%) Patch Management
3 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (23.08%) Customer Experience
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) ITIL
3 3 (23.08%) Line Management
3 3 (23.08%) Project Delivery
3 3 (23.08%) RBAC
3 3 (23.08%) Release Management
3 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
3 3 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (23.08%) Security Patching
3 3 (23.08%) Service Delivery
3 3 (23.08%) Service Delivery Management
3 3 (23.08%) Software Delivery
3 3 (23.08%) Software Deployment
3 3 (23.08%) Software Distribution
3 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
2 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
3 3 (23.08%) VB.NET
4 2 (15.38%) C++
5 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 7 (53.85%) DV Cleared
3 4 (30.77%) Degree
4 3 (23.08%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) ISO 9001
1 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 3 (23.08%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
1 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (30.77%) vSphere
2 3 (23.08%) Hyper-V
2 3 (23.08%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) WSUS
2 2 (15.38%) SCCM
3 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Nessus
3 1 (7.69%) SELinux
3 1 (7.69%) Sysprep
3 1 (7.69%) vCenter Server
3 1 (7.69%) yum
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
1 4 (30.77%) VMware
2 2 (15.38%) Qualys
3 1 (7.69%) Dell