Security Hardening Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Security Hardening
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Security Hardening skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 32 47
Rank change year-on-year -40 +15 -
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 2 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.23% 1.69% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 1.79% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £525 £450 -
25th Percentile £536 £488 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £476
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% +15.49% -
75th Percentile £581 £575 £540
90th Percentile £586 £590 -
South East median daily rate £558 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -7.08% - +11.63%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 667 224 396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 78.29% 94.92% 80.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 467 146 276
10th Percentile £326 £243 £273
25th Percentile £450 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £469
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +1.20% -4.21%
75th Percentile £600 £560 £550
90th Percentile £638 £650 £645
South East median daily rate £520 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.20% -0.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 31 29
10th Percentile - - £15.85
25th Percentile £15.05 £14.20 £18.00
Median hourly rate £16.35 £15.12 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.13% -39.52% +84.23%
75th Percentile £18.32 £20.50 £28.75
90th Percentile £19.34 £62.50 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +108.75% -47.05% -9.52%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Security Hardening job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

Security Hardening
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 10 June 2026. 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
Milton Keynes -40 2 £563 +2.41% 2
Security Hardening
South East

Security Hardening
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) MCSA
1 1 (50.00%) MCSE
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft