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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 113 127
Rank change year-on-year -11 +14 +56
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 3 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.15% 0.28% 0.042%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.30% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £385 £443 -
25th Percentile £400 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £500 £604 £525
90th Percentile £515 £644 -
Central London median daily rate £450 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
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 1,728 1,664 2,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.93% 91.58% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,200 1,006 1,507
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £430 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 8 14
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £28.94 £19.18
Median hourly rate £31.00 £40.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +24.62% -7.14%
75th Percentile £43.86 £64.56 £45.52
90th Percentile £54.35 £112.00 £66.70
Central London median hourly rate £26.34 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -24.74% +25.85% -20.54%

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 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) CyberArk Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) VMS
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) SIEM
1 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Icinga
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CyberArk
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft