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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 118 121
Rank change year-on-year -18 +3 +29
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 5 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.22% 0.058% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.062% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £498 - -
25th Percentile £503 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.20%
75th Percentile £663 - £475
90th Percentile £738 - -
Central London median daily rate £525 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £112.00
Central London median hourly rate - - £112.00

All Process & 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 1,981 1,625 1,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.91% 94.09% 91.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,365 1,080 1,214
10th Percentile £366 £321 £370
25th Percentile £456 £419 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £766 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 21 18
10th Percentile £16.98 £17.08 £15.40
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.75 £20.88
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.15 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% -14.05% +19.09%
75th Percentile £32.05 £56.75 £107.13
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £28.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.74% -19.07% +30.84%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Hardening in the City of London over the 6 months to 22 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Hardening in the City of London

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) JBoss
1 1 (20.00%) nginx
1 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (20.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (20.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) NAS
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Unix Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Unix Linux Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Genomics
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) AIX
3 1 (20.00%) CentOS
3 1 (20.00%) Solaris
3 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (20.00%) Unix
3 1 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Coaching
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) LLM
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) Runbook
2 1 (20.00%) Server Hardening
2 1 (20.00%) Smoke Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (20.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (20.00%) Puppet
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk