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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 135 140
Rank change year-on-year -22 +5 +66
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 1 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.036% 0.075% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.040% 0.089% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £354 £513
25th Percentile £584 £355 £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £617 £365 £750
Median % change year-on-year +69.04% -51.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £651 £380 -
90th Percentile - £385 -
England median daily rate £540 £545 £538
% change year-on-year -0.92% +1.40% -10.42%

All Process and 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 2,474 2,235 2,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 89.19% 83.46% 85.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,591 1,406 1,696
10th Percentile £250 £253 £250
25th Percentile £363 £364 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.04% -1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £699 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 67 104
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.68 £13.79
25th Percentile £17.78 £17.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.25 £23.60 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.96% -14.18% +56.61%
75th Percentile £26.51 £37.34 £52.06
90th Percentile £40.46 £53.50 £68.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +33.65%

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
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 17 October 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
West Midlands -23 1 £617 +73.80%
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Multicast
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Server Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Server Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Server Patching
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Terminal Services
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware