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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 129 125
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 +39
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 5 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.21% 0.053% 0.048%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.057% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £523 - -
25th Percentile £538 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £750 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% - -
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile £748 - -
Central London median daily rate £575 £750 £550
% change year-on-year -23.33% +36.36% +4.76%

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 2,083 1,761 1,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.48% 94.17% 91.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,422 1,154 1,282
10th Percentile £375 £326 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £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 £764 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 21 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £15.20
25th Percentile £18.18 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +5.56% -13.60%
75th Percentile £32.05 £56.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £57.49 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £30.04 £27.00
% change year-on-year -22.89% +11.24% -22.86%

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 11 August 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%) nginx
1 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
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%) Pharmaceutical
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%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Genomics
2 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 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%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
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%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) LLM
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Runbook
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
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%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (20.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) PMO
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 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
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%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk