Security Hardening Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Hardening
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 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 366 408 474
Rank change year-on-year +42 +66 -41
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 28 38 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.16% 0.081%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.18% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 32 18
10th Percentile £406 - £414
25th Percentile £475 £513 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £554 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% +16.53% +28.81%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £500
90th Percentile - £750 £599
UK median daily rate £550 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.55% +29.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £65.18 - -
25th Percentile £67.31 £71.50 -
Median hourly rate £72.75 £73.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.34% - -
75th Percentile £76.31 £74.50 -
90th Percentile £77.33 - -
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £73.00 -
% change year-on-year -67.40% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,076 20,688 27,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.26% 89.44% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,209 14,247 19,122
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,062 1,260 1,365
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.71 £61.50
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Hardening in the UK excluding London

Security Hardening
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Hardening in the UK excluding London

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Hardening in the UK excluding London

Security Hardening
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Hardening in the UK excluding London

Security Hardening
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
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 -
Scotland +33 1 - -
East of England +1 1 - - 2
Security Hardening
UK

Security Hardening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (3.57%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.57%) Azure
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (46.43%) DHCP
1 13 (46.43%) DNS
2 10 (35.71%) TCP/IP
3 3 (10.71%) 4G
3 3 (10.71%) 5G
4 2 (7.14%) Firewall
4 2 (7.14%) Network Security
4 2 (7.14%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Artifactory
General
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Aerospace
2 3 (10.71%) Front Office
3 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Military
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Administrator
2 6 (21.43%) DBA
2 6 (21.43%) SQL DBA
3 5 (17.86%) Principal Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Senior
5 3 (10.71%) IT Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Network Communications Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Network Systems Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Security Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) Service Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Service Desk Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Requirements Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Security Technical Consultant
7 1 (3.57%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) .NET
2 1 (3.57%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.57%) PKI
2 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (60.71%) Windows
2 14 (50.00%) Linux
3 10 (35.71%) Unix
4 9 (32.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (32.14%) Windows Server
5 4 (14.29%) Ubuntu
6 3 (10.71%) Windows 10
7 1 (3.57%) CentOS
7 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 10 (35.71%) Systems Engineering
2 8 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
3 7 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (25.00%) Information Management
3 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
3 7 (25.00%) SIEM
3 7 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
3 7 (25.00%) Visualisation
4 5 (17.86%) Computer Science
4 5 (17.86%) Patch Management
5 3 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (10.71%) ITIL
5 3 (10.71%) Release Management
5 3 (10.71%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (10.71%) Service Delivery
5 3 (10.71%) Software Deployment
5 3 (10.71%) Software Distribution
5 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) C#
1 7 (25.00%) Java
2 6 (21.43%) SQL
3 5 (17.86%) PowerShell
4 3 (10.71%) VB.NET
5 2 (7.14%) C++
5 2 (7.14%) Python
6 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (60.71%) Security Cleared
2 12 (42.86%) DV Cleared
3 5 (17.86%) Degree
3 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
4 3 (10.71%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (7.14%) CISM
5 2 (7.14%) CISSP
5 2 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (7.14%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (3.57%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (3.57%) LPIC
6 1 (3.57%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (32.14%) NIST
2 3 (10.71%) ISO 9001
2 3 (10.71%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 3 (10.71%) SLA
3 2 (7.14%) COBIT
3 2 (7.14%) COSO
3 2 (7.14%) GDPR
3 2 (7.14%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (25.00%) VMware NSX
4 6 (21.43%) Active Directory
5 4 (14.29%) vSphere
6 3 (10.71%) Docker
6 3 (10.71%) Hyper-V
6 3 (10.71%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (3.57%) KVM
7 1 (3.57%) Xen
Systems Management
1 9 (32.14%) SCCM
2 8 (28.57%) vCenter Server
3 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 4 (14.29%) WSUS
4 1 (3.57%) Ansible
4 1 (3.57%) Check_MK
4 1 (3.57%) Nessus
4 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.57%) Puppet
4 1 (3.57%) SELinux
4 1 (3.57%) Sysprep
4 1 (3.57%) yum
Vendors
1 12 (42.86%) VMware
2 7 (25.00%) Veeam
3 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.14%) Atlassian
4 2 (7.14%) Qualys
4 2 (7.14%) Sparx
4 2 (7.14%) Splunk
5 1 (3.57%) Cisco
5 1 (3.57%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.57%) Dell
5 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.57%) Juniper
5 1 (3.57%) Red Hat