Security Hardening Contracts in London

Security Hardening
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Security Hardening skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Hardening over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 462 552
Rank change year-on-year +87 +90 -72
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 25 20 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.080% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.087% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 30
10th Percentile £250 £463 £500
25th Percentile £399 £475 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -14.13% -3.36% +29.35%
75th Percentile £584 £738 £634
90th Percentile £589 £752 £710
England median daily rate £550 £725 £575
% change year-on-year -24.14% +26.09% +26.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £22.08 - -
25th Percentile £22.13 - -
Median hourly rate £23.05 - -
75th Percentile £23.80 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £23.80 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Security Hardening falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,607 22,862 35,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.27% 90.90% 92.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,159 16,574 26,061
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 267 388
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.09
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.42 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.90% +9.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.83
90th Percentile £67.60 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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 12 June 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 12 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
West London - 4 £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 5 (20.00%) Confluence
2 3 (12.00%) IIS
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 18 (72.00%) AWS
2 17 (68.00%) Azure
3 8 (32.00%) Nutanix
3 8 (32.00%) Rubrik
4 6 (24.00%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (24.00%) PaaS
4 6 (24.00%) SaaS
5 5 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (20.00%) GCP
5 5 (20.00%) IaaS
6 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (12.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (12.00%) Entra ID
6 3 (12.00%) GitHub
6 3 (12.00%) Mimecast
7 1 (4.00%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 10 (40.00%) NAS
1 10 (40.00%) SAN
2 9 (36.00%) DNS
3 8 (32.00%) Firewall
4 6 (24.00%) DHCP
5 5 (20.00%) Kerberos
5 5 (20.00%) TCP/IP
5 5 (20.00%) VLAN
6 4 (16.00%) Internet
7 3 (12.00%) DKIM
7 3 (12.00%) DMARC
7 3 (12.00%) Extranet
7 3 (12.00%) LAN
7 3 (12.00%) VPN
7 3 (12.00%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (12.00%) Wireless
8 1 (4.00%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.00%) MySQL
2 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Git
1 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 5 (20.00%) JIRA
1 5 (20.00%) TeamCity
2 3 (12.00%) GitLab
General
1 5 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) IT Support
2 5 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) IT Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Support Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Consultant
4 3 (12.00%) Support Officer
5 2 (8.00%) Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) IT Consultant
5 2 (8.00%) Server Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Support Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Incident Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Security Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Site Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) LDAP
2 3 (12.00%) Software Packaging
3 1 (4.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Clustering
1 7 (28.00%) Data Centre
1 7 (28.00%) Replication
2 5 (20.00%) PKI
3 3 (12.00%) Fat Client
3 3 (12.00%) Security Posture
3 3 (12.00%) Thin Client
3 3 (12.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (88.00%) Windows
2 12 (48.00%) Linux
3 8 (32.00%) Unix
4 7 (28.00%) Windows Server
5 5 (20.00%) Oracle Linux
5 5 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (20.00%) Solaris
6 2 (8.00%) Android
6 2 (8.00%) Apple iOS
6 2 (8.00%) Mac OS
6 2 (8.00%) Mac OS X
6 2 (8.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) DevOps
1 10 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (32.00%) Capacity Management
2 8 (32.00%) Deployment Automation
2 8 (32.00%) High Availability
2 8 (32.00%) Server Management
3 7 (28.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 6 (24.00%) Agile
5 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
5 5 (20.00%) Data Security
5 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (20.00%) Patch Management
5 5 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (20.00%) Service Catalogue
5 5 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 5 (20.00%) Storage Management
5 5 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (24.00%) Bash
2 6 (24.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (12.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 3 (12.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
1 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) MCSE
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) GDPR
1 5 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (12.00%) SLA
3 2 (8.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (8.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (8.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 13 (52.00%) Active Directory
1 13 (52.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (32.00%) Hyper-V
3 5 (20.00%) Docker
4 3 (12.00%) BitLocker
4 3 (12.00%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (12.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (40.00%) SCCM
2 9 (36.00%) Terraform
3 8 (32.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (32.00%) SCOM
3 8 (32.00%) SCVMM
4 5 (20.00%) Ansible
4 5 (20.00%) EMC NetWorker
4 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (20.00%) Netcool
4 5 (20.00%) Tivoli
4 5 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 3 (12.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (12.00%) NetBackup
5 3 (12.00%) VxRail
6 2 (8.00%) Backup Exec
6 2 (8.00%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 17 (68.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (60.00%) VMware
3 8 (32.00%) Cisco
3 8 (32.00%) Dell
3 8 (32.00%) EMC
3 8 (32.00%) HP
4 7 (28.00%) ServiceNow
5 6 (24.00%) Splunk
6 5 (20.00%) CyberArk
6 5 (20.00%) IBM
6 5 (20.00%) Isilon
6 5 (20.00%) Oracle
6 5 (20.00%) Qualys
6 5 (20.00%) Serena
7 3 (12.00%) Avaya
7 3 (12.00%) Brocade
7 3 (12.00%) Commvault
7 3 (12.00%) Dell Compellent
7 3 (12.00%) Juniper
7 3 (12.00%) Mitel