Security Hardening Contracts

Security Hardening
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 520 619 756
Rank change year-on-year +99 +137 -99
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 63 77 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.13% 0.096%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.15% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 55 54
10th Percentile £250 £468 £425
25th Percentile £475 £513 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £557 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% +1.27% +23.60%
75th Percentile £584 £738 £614
90th Percentile £626 £750 £669
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £554 £475
% change year-on-year -9.67% +16.53% +26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 0
10th Percentile £22.05 - -
25th Percentile £22.08 £71.50 -
Median hourly rate £23.05 £73.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -68.42% - -
75th Percentile £35.66 £74.88 -
90th Percentile £73.28 £75.55 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.75 £73.00 -
% change year-on-year -0.34% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,868 52,242 79,883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.23% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,721 36,208 56,080
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,718 1,919
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -6.98%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Hardening in the UK

Security Hardening
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Security Hardening in the UK

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Hardening over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Hardening in the UK

Security Hardening
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Hardening in the UK

Security Hardening
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Hardening over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Hardening in the UK

Security Hardening
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 13 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
England +108 55 £500 -21.57% 9
London +94 32 £500 -4.76% 3
Work from Home +116 24 £500 -16.67% 5
UK excluding London +50 24 £500 -9.67% 7
South East +23 8 £500 -6.98% 5
South West +22 7 £500 -35.48%
Midlands +34 5 £550 -24.14%
West Midlands +24 5 £550 -24.14%
North West - 2 £200 -
North of England - 2 £200 -
Scotland +39 1 - - 1
East of England -8 1 - - 2

Security Hardening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (12.70%) Confluence
2 4 (6.35%) IIS
3 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (3.17%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.59%) Apache
5 1 (1.59%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (1.59%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (7.94%) Trello
2 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 28 (44.44%) AWS
2 25 (39.68%) Azure
3 13 (20.63%) PaaS
3 13 (20.63%) SaaS
4 12 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (15.87%) Nutanix
5 10 (15.87%) Rubrik
6 8 (12.70%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (12.70%) GCP
6 8 (12.70%) IaaS
7 5 (7.94%) Miro
8 4 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (6.35%) GitHub
9 3 (4.76%) Amazon Glacier
9 3 (4.76%) Amazon S3
9 3 (4.76%) Cohesity
9 3 (4.76%) Entra ID
10 2 (3.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (3.17%) Mimecast
11 1 (1.59%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 27 (42.86%) DNS
2 22 (34.92%) DHCP
3 18 (28.57%) TCP/IP
4 14 (22.22%) Firewall
5 13 (20.63%) SAN
6 12 (19.05%) NAS
7 8 (12.70%) Kerberos
7 8 (12.70%) VLAN
8 3 (4.76%) 4G
8 3 (4.76%) 5G
8 3 (4.76%) BGP
8 3 (4.76%) Internet
8 3 (4.76%) iSCSI
9 2 (3.17%) DKIM
9 2 (3.17%) DMARC
9 2 (3.17%) Extranet
9 2 (3.17%) Network Security
9 2 (3.17%) VPN
9 2 (3.17%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (3.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.17%) MySQL
2 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (12.70%) Git
1 8 (12.70%) Jenkins
1 8 (12.70%) JIRA
1 8 (12.70%) TeamCity
2 4 (6.35%) GitLab
3 2 (3.17%) Artifactory
General
1 11 (17.46%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (4.76%) Aerospace
3 3 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.76%) Front Office
4 2 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.59%) Banking
5 1 (1.59%) Local Government
5 1 (1.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (15.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (14.29%) IT Support
4 7 (11.11%) IT Engineer
4 7 (11.11%) Senior
5 6 (9.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 6 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Consultant
6 5 (7.94%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) IT Support Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Support Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Administrator
8 3 (4.76%) Architect
8 3 (4.76%) DBA
8 3 (4.76%) Network Systems Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Server Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) SQL DBA
8 3 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.87%) LDAP
2 3 (4.76%) .NET
2 3 (4.76%) SAML
3 2 (3.17%) Software Packaging
4 1 (1.59%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.59%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.87%) Clustering
1 10 (15.87%) Replication
2 9 (14.29%) PKI
3 7 (11.11%) Data Centre
4 4 (6.35%) Security Posture
5 2 (3.17%) Fat Client
5 2 (3.17%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.17%) Thin Client
5 2 (3.17%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (80.95%) Windows
2 30 (47.62%) Linux
3 23 (36.51%) Windows Server
4 18 (28.57%) Unix
5 16 (25.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (12.70%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (12.70%) Solaris
7 5 (7.94%) Windows 10
8 4 (6.35%) Ubuntu
9 2 (3.17%) Android
9 2 (3.17%) Apple iOS
9 2 (3.17%) Mac OS
9 2 (3.17%) Mac OS X
9 2 (3.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (3.17%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (1.59%) CentOS
10 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (28.57%) DevOps
2 15 (23.81%) Agile
2 15 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 13 (20.63%) Performance Tuning
5 12 (19.05%) Deployment Automation
5 12 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (15.87%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (15.87%) High Availability
6 10 (15.87%) Patch Management
6 10 (15.87%) Root Cause Analysis
6 10 (15.87%) Systems Engineering
7 9 (14.29%) Server Management
7 9 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
8 8 (12.70%) Capacity Management
8 8 (12.70%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (12.70%) Data Security
8 8 (12.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 8 (12.70%) Storage Management
9 7 (11.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 11 (17.46%) Python
3 9 (14.29%) Bash
4 7 (11.11%) C#
4 7 (11.11%) Java
5 3 (4.76%) SQL
5 3 (4.76%) VB.NET
6 2 (3.17%) C++
7 1 (1.59%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.59%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 21 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (19.05%) Degree
3 11 (17.46%) DV Cleared
3 11 (17.46%) SC Cleared
4 5 (7.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (6.35%) AWS Certification
5 4 (6.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (6.35%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (3.17%) CISM
7 2 (3.17%) CISSP
7 2 (3.17%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.17%) MCSE
7 2 (3.17%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.59%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (1.59%) LPIC
8 1 (1.59%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.87%) GDPR
2 9 (14.29%) NIST
3 8 (12.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (7.94%) SLA
5 3 (4.76%) ISO 9001
5 3 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (3.17%) Accessibility
6 2 (3.17%) COBIT
6 2 (3.17%) COSO
6 2 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (3.17%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.59%) NCSC
System Software
1 28 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (39.68%) Active Directory
3 11 (17.46%) Docker
3 11 (17.46%) Hyper-V
4 10 (15.87%) VMware NSX
5 8 (12.70%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (6.35%) vSphere
8 3 (4.76%) NFS
9 2 (3.17%) BitLocker
9 2 (3.17%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (1.59%) KVM
10 1 (1.59%) Xen
Systems Management
1 19 (30.16%) SCCM
2 15 (23.81%) Kubernetes
3 13 (20.63%) Terraform
4 9 (14.29%) Ansible
5 8 (12.70%) EMC NetWorker
5 8 (12.70%) Netcool
5 8 (12.70%) SCOM
5 8 (12.70%) SCVMM
5 8 (12.70%) Tivoli
5 8 (12.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 8 (12.70%) vCenter Server
6 5 (7.94%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (6.35%) WSUS
8 3 (4.76%) NetBackup
8 3 (4.76%) vRealize
9 2 (3.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (3.17%) Backup Exec
9 2 (3.17%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (3.17%) VxRail
10 1 (1.59%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 33 (52.38%) VMware
2 29 (46.03%) Microsoft
3 15 (23.81%) Splunk
4 13 (20.63%) Cisco
5 12 (19.05%) Dell
6 11 (17.46%) EMC
7 10 (15.87%) HP
7 10 (15.87%) Qualys
7 10 (15.87%) ServiceNow
8 9 (14.29%) CyberArk
9 8 (12.70%) IBM
9 8 (12.70%) Isilon
9 8 (12.70%) Oracle
9 8 (12.70%) Serena
10 7 (11.11%) Veeam
11 5 (7.94%) Dynatrace
11 5 (7.94%) Juniper
12 4 (6.35%) F5
13 3 (4.76%) Aruba
13 3 (4.76%) Proofpoint