Security Hardening Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Security Hardening
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Security Hardening skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 51 76
Rank change year-on-year -27 +25 -
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 1 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.080% 1.05% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 1.14% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £538 £319 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £338 -
Median % change year-on-year +70.37% - -
75th Percentile £613 £391 -
90th Percentile - £411 -
South West median daily rate £450 £443 £500
% change year-on-year +1.69% -11.50% -35.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £65.18
25th Percentile - - £67.31
Median hourly rate - - £72.75
75th Percentile - - £76.31
90th Percentile - - £77.33
South West median hourly rate - - £72.75

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 983 526 878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 78.33% 92.44% 82.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 296 481
10th Percentile £335 £230 £250
25th Percentile £413 £361 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £573 £600
90th Percentile £650 £659 £688
South West median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.88% -1.82% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 88 192
10th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £40.00
25th Percentile £60.00 £32.19 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £66.13
Median % change year-on-year - -1.70% +8.85%
75th Percentile £67.50 £68.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -8.33%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Security Hardening job vacancy trend in Bristol

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Security Hardening.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Security Hardening

Security Hardening
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
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%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC 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
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat