Security Hardening Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Security Hardening
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 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 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 0.38% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £380 £375 -
% change year-on-year +1.33% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 245 148 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 92.11% 92.50% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 116 111
10th Percentile £313 £307 £263
25th Percentile £358 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £408 £489
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% -16.67% +11.14%
75th Percentile £475 £506 £534
90th Percentile £550 £616 £588
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £430 £475
% change year-on-year -2.33% -9.47% +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 14
10th Percentile - - £13.16
25th Percentile - £23.10 £18.01
Median hourly rate - £24.20 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year - -52.55% +177.55%
75th Percentile - £25.30 £51.50
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £22.05 £21.52
% change year-on-year -14.40% +2.46% +27.84%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Security Hardening job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Security Hardening
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Northampton - 1 £380 -
Security Hardening
East Midlands

Security Hardening
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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