Security Hardening Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Security Hardening
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Security Hardening skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 55 -
Rank change year-on-year -21 - -
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.12% 0.19% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.21% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £355 -
West Midlands median daily rate £526 £775 £550
% change year-on-year -32.16% +40.91% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 735 477 630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.17% 90.34% 82.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 339 411
10th Percentile £263 £200 £258
25th Percentile £402 £395 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +13.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £656
West Midlands median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.37% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 13 41
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.62 £13.18
25th Percentile £16.05 £14.70 £18.50
Median hourly rate £17.69 £22.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.38% -21.05% +105.41%
75th Percentile £24.29 £30.68 £48.75
90th Percentile £30.00 £48.14 £67.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.52 £18.63 £23.00
% change year-on-year +15.54% -19.02% +29.80%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Security Hardening job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Security Hardening.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Security Hardening

Security Hardening
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) AIX Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Server Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) PowerHA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM