Security Hardening Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Security Hardening
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Security Hardening skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.32% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £639 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £628 £775 £750
% change year-on-year -18.97% +3.33% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 290 101 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 93.55% 82.79% 80.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 71 25
10th Percentile £400 £300 £274
25th Percentile £450 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £477 £410
Median % change year-on-year +7.97% +16.34% -23.36%
75th Percentile £538 £522 £495
90th Percentile £560 £567 £573
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £26.13 - -
25th Percentile £27.59 - -
Median hourly rate £31.31 £12.18 -
Median % change year-on-year +157.02% - -
75th Percentile £36.30 £17.89 -
90th Percentile £38.53 £21.32 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.50 £22.00 £24.60
% change year-on-year -6.82% -10.57% +38.98%

Security Hardening
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Telford - 1 £639 -
Security Hardening
West Midlands

Security Hardening
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Kerberos
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) GSEC
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft