Security Hardening Contract Job Trends in Central London

Security Hardening
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London 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 128 125 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 5 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.20% 0.15% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.16% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile £415 £544 -
25th Percentile £475 £591 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £670 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.64% - -
75th Percentile £588 £710 -
90th Percentile £708 £734 -
London median daily rate £475 £563 £500
% change year-on-year -15.56% +12.50% -4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,092 1,856 2,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 85.25% 93.08% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,415 1,200 1,563
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £452 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 24 23
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £20.22
25th Percentile £19.13 £22.75 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.53% -20.54%
75th Percentile £45.03 £43.97 £30.41
90th Percentile £59.64 £50.75 £41.47
London median hourly rate £35.71 £34.25 £28.00
% change year-on-year +4.26% +22.32% -28.21%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Security Hardening job vacancy trend in Central London

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Security Hardening

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Hardening in Central London over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Hardening in Central London

Security Hardening
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
City of London -16 5 £525 -21.64% 1
Security Hardening
London

Security Hardening
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) nginx
1 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) NAS
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) CentOS
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (20.00%) VMS
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Runbook
2 1 (20.00%) Server Hardening
2 1 (20.00%) SIEM
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (20.00%) RHCE
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Icinga
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk
1 1 (20.00%) VMware