Security Hardening Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Security Hardening
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Security Hardening skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.25% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 - -
South East median daily rate £300 £600 £425
% change year-on-year -50.00% +41.18% -30.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 362 413 609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 90.05% 90.17% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 287 479
10th Percentile £204 £203 £195
25th Percentile £250 £262 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £463 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.14% -10.19% -1.90%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £678 £653 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 15 35
10th Percentile £25.15 £16.07 £19.20
25th Percentile £28.25 - £45.42
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year +127.46% -60.77% +36.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.45 £76.53
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.02
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% +4.76% +23.01%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Security Hardening job vacancy trend in Surrey

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Security Hardening.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Security Hardening

Security Hardening
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 13 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
Guildford - 1 £200 -
Security Hardening
South East

Security Hardening
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
1 1 (100.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft