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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 487 602 710
Rank change year-on-year +115 +108 -79
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 56 36 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.076% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.085% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 25 47
10th Percentile £325 £463 £463
25th Percentile £475 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £725 £575
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +26.09% +29.21%
75th Percentile £625 £750 £624
90th Percentile - £767 £655
UK median daily rate £550 £557 £575
% change year-on-year -1.26% -3.13% +29.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £22.08 - -
25th Percentile £22.24 - -
Median hourly rate £23.80 - -
75th Percentile £35.66 - -
90th Percentile £73.28 - -
UK median hourly rate £23.80 - -

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 31,789 42,321 64,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.46% 89.92% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,644 29,706 45,695
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,352 1,534 1,708
10th Percentile £12.81 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.73 £15.30
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.63 £49.77
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.35 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +89 25 £494 -14.13% 2
South East +30 18 £600 +11.63% 5
Midlands +22 5 £550 -24.14%
South West +15 5 £500 -35.48% 2
West Midlands +13 5 £550 -24.14%
North West - 2 £200 -
North of England - 2 £200 -
East of England -4 1 - - 1
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 5 (8.93%) Confluence
2 3 (5.36%) IIS
2 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.79%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 18 (32.14%) AWS
1 18 (32.14%) Azure
2 8 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (14.29%) Nutanix
2 8 (14.29%) Rubrik
3 6 (10.71%) PaaS
3 6 (10.71%) SaaS
4 5 (8.93%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (8.93%) GCP
4 5 (8.93%) IaaS
5 4 (7.14%) Entra ID
6 3 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.36%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (5.36%) GitHub
6 3 (5.36%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.79%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 22 (39.29%) DNS
2 19 (33.93%) DHCP
3 15 (26.79%) TCP/IP
4 10 (17.86%) Firewall
4 10 (17.86%) NAS
4 10 (17.86%) SAN
5 5 (8.93%) Kerberos
5 5 (8.93%) VLAN
6 4 (7.14%) Internet
7 3 (5.36%) DKIM
7 3 (5.36%) DMARC
7 3 (5.36%) Extranet
7 3 (5.36%) LAN
7 3 (5.36%) VPN
7 3 (5.36%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (5.36%) Wireless
8 1 (1.79%) 4G
8 1 (1.79%) 5G
8 1 (1.79%) Network Security
8 1 (1.79%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (26.79%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.57%) MySQL
2 2 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (8.93%) Git
1 5 (8.93%) Jenkins
1 5 (8.93%) JIRA
1 5 (8.93%) TeamCity
2 3 (5.36%) GitLab
3 2 (3.57%) Artifactory
General
1 10 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.93%) Finance
3 3 (5.36%) Front Office
4 2 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (3.57%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.79%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 12 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (19.64%) Administrator
2 11 (19.64%) DBA
2 11 (19.64%) SQL DBA
3 9 (16.07%) IT Support
4 5 (8.93%) Consultant
4 5 (8.93%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (8.93%) IT Engineer
4 5 (8.93%) Principal Engineer
4 5 (8.93%) Senior
5 4 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Support Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Server Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Support Officer
7 2 (3.57%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.50%) LDAP
2 3 (5.36%) .NET
2 3 (5.36%) Software Packaging
3 1 (1.79%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.79%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) Clustering
1 7 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 7 (12.50%) Replication
2 5 (8.93%) PKI
3 4 (7.14%) Security Posture
3 4 (7.14%) Virtual Team
4 3 (5.36%) Fat Client
4 3 (5.36%) Thin Client
5 2 (3.57%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 37 (66.07%) Windows
2 26 (46.43%) Linux
3 18 (32.14%) Unix
4 15 (26.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (26.79%) Windows Server
5 5 (8.93%) Oracle Linux
5 5 (8.93%) Solaris
5 5 (8.93%) Windows 10
6 4 (7.14%) Ubuntu
7 2 (3.57%) Android
7 2 (3.57%) Apple iOS
7 2 (3.57%) CentOS
7 2 (3.57%) Mac OS
7 2 (3.57%) Mac OS X
8 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.14%) Performance Tuning
2 12 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 12 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (19.64%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (17.86%) Deployment Automation
4 10 (17.86%) DevOps
4 10 (17.86%) Patch Management
5 9 (16.07%) Server Management
6 8 (14.29%) Agile
6 8 (14.29%) Capacity Management
6 8 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (14.29%) High Availability
6 8 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
6 8 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
6 8 (14.29%) Task Automation
7 7 (12.50%) Information Management
7 7 (12.50%) ITIL
7 7 (12.50%) SIEM
7 7 (12.50%) Visualisation
7 7 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (26.79%) PowerShell
2 11 (19.64%) SQL
3 8 (14.29%) Python
4 7 (12.50%) C#
4 7 (12.50%) Java
5 6 (10.71%) Bash
6 3 (5.36%) VB.NET
7 2 (3.57%) C++
8 1 (1.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 19 (33.93%) DV Cleared
3 9 (16.07%) Degree
4 7 (12.50%) SC Cleared
5 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (5.36%) AWS Certification
6 3 (5.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (5.36%) Azure Certification
6 3 (5.36%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (3.57%) CISM
7 2 (3.57%) CISSP
7 2 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.57%) MCSE
7 2 (3.57%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.79%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (1.79%) LPIC
8 1 (1.79%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.07%) NIST
2 7 (12.50%) GDPR
3 6 (10.71%) SLA
4 5 (8.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (5.36%) ISO 9001
5 3 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (3.57%) Accessibility
6 2 (3.57%) COBIT
6 2 (3.57%) COSO
6 2 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (3.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (44.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (33.93%) Active Directory
3 11 (19.64%) Hyper-V
4 8 (14.29%) Docker
4 8 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (12.50%) VMware NSX
6 6 (10.71%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (7.14%) vSphere
8 3 (5.36%) BitLocker
8 3 (5.36%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (1.79%) KVM
9 1 (1.79%) Xen
Systems Management
1 19 (33.93%) SCCM
2 13 (23.21%) Kubernetes
3 9 (16.07%) Terraform
4 8 (14.29%) SCOM
4 8 (14.29%) SCVMM
4 8 (14.29%) vCenter Server
5 6 (10.71%) Ansible
6 5 (8.93%) EMC NetWorker
6 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (8.93%) Netcool
6 5 (8.93%) Tivoli
6 5 (8.93%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 4 (7.14%) WSUS
8 3 (5.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (5.36%) NetBackup
8 3 (5.36%) VxRail
9 2 (3.57%) Backup Exec
9 2 (3.57%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (3.57%) SELinux
9 2 (3.57%) yum
Vendors
1 27 (48.21%) VMware
2 22 (39.29%) Microsoft
3 9 (16.07%) Dell
4 8 (14.29%) Cisco
4 8 (14.29%) EMC
4 8 (14.29%) HP
5 7 (12.50%) Qualys
5 7 (12.50%) ServiceNow
5 7 (12.50%) Splunk
5 7 (12.50%) Veeam
6 6 (10.71%) CyberArk
7 5 (8.93%) IBM
7 5 (8.93%) Isilon
7 5 (8.93%) Oracle
7 5 (8.93%) Serena
8 3 (5.36%) Avaya
8 3 (5.36%) Commvault
8 3 (5.36%) Forcepoint
8 3 (5.36%) Juniper
8 3 (5.36%) Wyse