Security Hardening Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Security Hardening
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring Security Hardening skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 0.43% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £380 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 220 111 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 94.83% 96.52% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 94 72
10th Percentile £313 £309 £229
25th Percentile £358 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £400 £485
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -17.53% +14.12%
75th Percentile £464 £525 £526
90th Percentile £528 £619 £564
Northamptonshire median daily rate £405 £408 £489
% change year-on-year -0.61% -16.67% +11.14%

Security Hardening
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton 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%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Migration Specialist
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Collection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Sophos