Security Hardening Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Security Hardening
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Security Hardening skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 103 -
Rank change year-on-year -14 - -
Contract jobs citing Security Hardening 8 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.48% 0.068% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.080% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £491 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £650 - -
England median daily rate £540 £545 £575
% change year-on-year -0.92% -5.22% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,499 1,248 1,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 90.03% 84.61% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 969 732 1,167
10th Percentile £250 £300 £306
25th Percentile £375 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £625
90th Percentile £649 £655 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 39 31
10th Percentile £17.34 - £13.17
25th Percentile £18.78 £12.55 £18.13
Median hourly rate £23.79 £19.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +25.20% -10.84% +12.16%
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.75 £25.27
90th Percentile £78.38 £50.25 £44.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% -4.49% +36.92%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Security Hardening job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Security Hardening
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Hardening in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 9 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Hardening in Yorkshire

Security Hardening
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 9 October 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
West Yorkshire - 5 £500 -
South Yorkshire - 3 £650 - 1
Security Hardening
England

Security Hardening
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) Postman
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Linux Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
1 3 (37.50%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
2 1 (12.50%) Security Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Security Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) AIX
3 1 (12.50%) Solaris
3 1 (12.50%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (25.00%) Data Management
3 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (25.00%) Server Building
3 2 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (12.50%) Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Debt
4 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (12.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) vRealize
1 4 (50.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
2 3 (37.50%) Ansible
3 2 (25.00%) Puppet
3 2 (25.00%) SCCM
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (12.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Red Hat
3 2 (25.00%) MuleSoft
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft