Server Hardening Contracts in England

Server Hardening
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Server Hardening skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Server Hardening over the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 497 574 753
Rank change year-on-year +77 +179 -3
Contract jobs citing Server Hardening 7 12 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.023% 0.031% 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.026% 0.034% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 19
10th Percentile £425 £335 £310
25th Percentile £444 £350 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -20.17%
75th Percentile £580 £581 £563
90th Percentile £613 £705 £748
UK median daily rate £550 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +22.22% -2.70% -22.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £74.18
Median hourly rate - - £74.35
75th Percentile - - £74.53
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £74.35

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Server 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,769 34,852 60,447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.80% 88.69% 90.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,336 23,841 42,404
10th Percentile £313 £313 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% +6.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 956 1,473 1,596
10th Percentile £15.10 £14.43 £13.41
25th Percentile £20.30 £19.06 £17.56
Median hourly rate £37.00 £45.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.78% +28.57% +66.27%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.81 £77.50 £72.38
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £44.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.45% +25.71% +62.79%

Server Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Server Hardening as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Server Hardening in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Server Hardening in England.

Daily rate trend for Server Hardening in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Hardening in England over the 6 months to 18 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Server Hardening in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Server Hardening in England.

Hourly rate trend for Server Hardening in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Server Hardening within the England region over the 6 months to 18 November 2024. 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
South East +37 6 £463 +32.14% 1
London +40 1 £635 +41.11% 1
Server Hardening
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) DHCP
1 4 (57.14%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (28.57%) SAN
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) MSI
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 4 (57.14%) Wintel Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Operational Security Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Operations Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Security Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Security Operations Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Wintel Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (14.29%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Application Packaging
1 4 (57.14%) Release Management
1 4 (57.14%) Software Deployment
2 3 (42.86%) Information Security
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
3 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Information Security Management
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Security Management
4 1 (14.29%) Security Testing
4 1 (14.29%) SIEM
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (28.57%) MCSE
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (14.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (14.29%) CCSP
3 1 (14.29%) CISA
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (14.29%) CISM
3 1 (14.29%) CISSP
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) MCSA
3 1 (14.29%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
1 1 (14.29%) NIST 800
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (71.43%) vSphere
3 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
3 4 (57.14%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (57.14%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (57.14%) XenApp
3 4 (57.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) SCCM
2 2 (28.57%) Backup Exec
2 2 (28.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) VMware
2 4 (57.14%) Citrix
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco
3 2 (28.57%) EMC
3 2 (28.57%) McAfee
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) Veritas
4 1 (14.29%) BMC