Security Hardening Contract Job Trends in Basingstoke

Security Hardening
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Basingstoke requiring Security Hardening skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Basingstoke 0.25% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £625 - £600

All Process & Methodology Skills
Basingstoke

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 Basingstoke.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 350 179 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 88.16% 85.24% 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 155 150
10th Percentile £463 £463 £412
25th Percentile £515 £513 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
75th Percentile £725 £613 £697
90th Percentile £750 £650 £725
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £525 £570
% change year-on-year +4.76% -7.89% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 4
10th Percentile £13.11 - -
25th Percentile £15.20 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.00 £21.39 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.52% -18.51% +64.06%
75th Percentile £28.00 - £41.38
90th Percentile £39.50 - £51.05
Hampshire median hourly rate £49.00 £25.15 £62.50
% change year-on-year +94.83% -59.76% +13.64%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Hardening relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke.

Security Hardening job vacancy trend in Basingstoke

Security Hardening
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat