Security Hardening Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Security Hardening
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Security Hardening skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 124 137
Rank change year-on-year +2 +13 +56
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 2 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.11% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.20% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £483
25th Percentile £475 £425 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £525 £475 £613
90th Percentile - - £658
Central London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £112.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £112.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,662 1,968 2,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.98% 91.62% 89.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,165 1,216 1,650
10th Percentile £338 £363 £363
25th Percentile £420 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £750 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 11
10th Percentile £20.06 £16.70 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.88 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +54.00% -51.46%
75th Percentile £52.19 £92.50 £42.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £122.20 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -11.43% +37.25% -49.50%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Security Hardening job vacancy trend in the City of London

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Security Hardening.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Security Hardening

Security Hardening
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) CyberArk Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Icinga
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CyberArk