Security Hardening Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Security Hardening
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Security Hardening skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 - 128
Rank change year-on-year - - +26
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 7 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.16% - 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% - 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile £391 - -
25th Percentile £406 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.14%
75th Percentile £438 - £575
90th Percentile £565 - -
England median daily rate £503 £563 £545
% change year-on-year -10.58% +3.21% -17.74%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,585 1,804 2,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.58% 88.47% 81.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,256 1,185 1,528
10th Percentile £305 £206 £231
25th Percentile £400 £358 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -2.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £551 £600
90th Percentile £670 £642 £688
England median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 103 173
10th Percentile £13.54 £12.62 £11.07
25th Percentile £16.72 £14.90 £14.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.87 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.49% -0.68% -15.56%
75th Percentile £53.13 £28.18 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.41 £50.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% +0.54%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Security Hardening job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Security Hardening

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Hardening in the Midlands over the 6 months to 3 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Hardening in the Midlands

Security Hardening
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
West Midlands - 5 £425 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £380 - 2
Security Hardening
England

Security Hardening
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (28.57%) Apache
1 2 (28.57%) CloudStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) IaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) SAN
2 3 (42.86%) Firewall
3 2 (28.57%) NAS
3 2 (28.57%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (14.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Administrator
1 3 (42.86%) AIX Administrator
1 3 (42.86%) Server Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Data Centre Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Data Centre
2 3 (42.86%) Clustering
3 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (28.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) AIX
1 3 (42.86%) Unix
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Ubuntu
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Migration
2 5 (71.43%) Capacity Planning
2 5 (71.43%) Data Centre Operations
2 5 (71.43%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (57.14%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) ITIL
5 2 (28.57%) BCP
5 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
5 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity Planning
5 2 (28.57%) High Availability
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Network Design
5 2 (28.57%) Observability
5 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
5 2 (28.57%) RBAC
5 2 (28.57%) Server Management
6 1 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
6 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Perl
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
1 2 (28.57%) CCNP
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Firmware
1 3 (42.86%) PowerHA
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) vSphere
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Check_MK
1 2 (28.57%) Grafana
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) IBM
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco
3 2 (28.57%) Commvault
3 2 (28.57%) Fortinet
3 2 (28.57%) Veeam
3 2 (28.57%) VMware
4 1 (14.29%) Databricks
4 1 (14.29%) Sophos