Secure Coding Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Secure Code Development
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Secure Coding skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 69 92
Rank change year-on-year -21 +23 +27
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 3 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.23% 0.66% 0.077%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.78% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - £426 -
25th Percentile £620 £463 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £526 £625
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% -15.80% +58.73%
75th Percentile £660 £588 £638
90th Percentile - £625 -
South East median daily rate £600 £650 £633
% change year-on-year -7.69% +2.77% +16.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

Secure Coding 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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 768 1,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 83.03% 84.49% 86.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 739 533 619
10th Percentile £312 £356 £313
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +2.80%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £649
90th Percentile £725 £698 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 47 74
10th Percentile £16.17 £20.65 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £27.25 £21.48
Median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £50.71
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% -30.98% +16.57%
75th Percentile £25.15 £70.00 £63.44
90th Percentile £49.63 £75.00 £77.50
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £47.78 £53.50
% change year-on-year -52.91% -10.69% +42.67%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Secure Coding relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Secure Coding job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Secure Coding
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Secure Coding.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Secure Coding

Secure Coding
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Secure Coding within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 19 December 2025. 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
Southampton +4 3 £640 +59.01% 2
Secure Coding
South East

Secure Coding
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 2 (66.67%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) HTTPS
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 2 (66.67%) React
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) Vue
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Clean Code
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Prototyping
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) User Research
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Rsyslog
2 1 (33.33%) SCOM
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat