Security Hardening Contract Job Trends in West London

Security Hardening
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring Security Hardening skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 - 41
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in West London 0.25% - 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% - 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £400
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £475 £563 £494
% change year-on-year -15.56% +13.92% -14.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £22.60
25th Percentile - - £23.05
Median hourly rate - - £23.80
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate - - £23.05

All Process & Methodology Skills
West London

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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 353 209 323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 86.95% 90.48% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 129 231
10th Percentile £263 £225 £225
25th Percentile £400 £325 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -15.79% -17.39%
75th Percentile £675 £501 £588
90th Percentile £788 £590 £650
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 27 26
10th Percentile £23.95 £20.24 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.15 £20.45 £19.17
Median hourly rate £28.03 £25.15 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -16.61% -53.24%
75th Percentile £30.59 £32.70 £59.38
90th Percentile £33.41 £53.20 £66.00
London median hourly rate £37.00 £32.70 £28.50
% change year-on-year +13.17% +14.72% -27.31%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Security Hardening job vacancy trend in West London

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Security Hardening

Security Hardening
Hourly Rate Trend in West London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Security Hardening.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Security Hardening

Security Hardening
Contract Job Locations in West London

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 West London region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Wembley - 1 £475 - 1
Security Hardening
London

Security Hardening
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London 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%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Advisory Board
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware