Security Hardening Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Security Hardening
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Security Hardening skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 67 -
Rank change year-on-year -26 - -
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.19% 0.42% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.46% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £298 - -
25th Percentile £331 £588 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% - -
75th Percentile £456 £613 -
90th Percentile £483 - -
South East median daily rate £420 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -30.00% +20.00% +17.65%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,274 648 1,334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 81.41% 90.50% 86.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 829 473 724
10th Percentile £325 £332 £372
25th Percentile £463 £461 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £581
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -5.38% +10.71%
75th Percentile £650 £620 £675
90th Percentile £738 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 39 131
10th Percentile £12.60 £20.09 £12.63
25th Percentile £16.17 £30.63 £18.32
Median hourly rate £22.00 £57.75 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year -61.90% +5.24% +14.32%
75th Percentile £48.75 £73.13 £62.50
90th Percentile £55.50 £75.00 £75.16
South East median hourly rate £35.00 £34.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year +0.72% -7.33% -16.67%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Security Hardening job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Security Hardening.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Security Hardening

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Hardening in Hampshire over the 6 months to 22 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Hardening in Hampshire

Security Hardening
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Security Hardening.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Security Hardening

Security Hardening
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 Security Hardening within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 22 March 2026. 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
Portsmouth - 1 £300 -
Farnborough - 1 £500 - 2
Security Hardening
South East

Security Hardening
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
1 1 (33.33%) Kerberos
General
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Deployment Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared Deployment Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Deployment Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) RBAC
1 1 (33.33%) Runbook
1 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) VMware