Security Hardening Contract Job Trends in the North East

Security Hardening
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Security Hardening skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.48% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £416 - -
25th Percentile £422 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £540 £540
% change year-on-year -2.78% - -21.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 700 235 241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 83.83% 83.33% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 128 103
10th Percentile £313 £218 £311
25th Percentile £363 £400 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -2.11% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £597
90th Percentile £650 £629 £711
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 17 33
10th Percentile £14.73 £11.60 £13.75
25th Percentile £34.28 £13.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £17.30 £29.77
Median % change year-on-year +154.10% -41.89% +48.85%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.63 £46.18
90th Percentile - £42.40 £70.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.81%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Security Hardening job vacancy trend in the North East

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

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

Security Hardening
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Tyne and Wear - 4 £475 - 2
Security Hardening
England

Security Hardening
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Route 53
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
1 1 (25.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) McAfee ePO
1 1 (25.00%) Nessus
1 1 (25.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Tenable
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Carbon Black
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (25.00%) McAfee
3 1 (25.00%) VMware