Server Hardening Contracts

Server Hardening
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 670 805
Rank change year-on-year +94 +135 -115
Contract jobs citing Server Hardening 8 27 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.049% 0.049%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.054% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 20 41
10th Percentile £425 £495 £425
25th Percentile £438 £544 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £663 £625
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +6.00% +5.04%
75th Percentile £560 £725 £688
90th Percentile £599 £738 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £619 £630
% change year-on-year -27.27% -1.79% +5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

Server Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Hardening in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Server Hardening in the UK

Server Hardening
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Hardening over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Server Hardening in the UK

Server Hardening
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Hardening in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 12 June 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
England +72 8 £530 -22.20% 3
Work from Home +111 4 £560 -20.00% 1
London +76 4 £560 -20.00%
UK excluding London +22 4 £450 -27.27% 3
South East +16 4 £450 - 2

Server Hardening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (50.00%) GCP
2 3 (37.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) SSH
2 3 (37.50%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (37.50%) SAN
3 1 (12.50%) DHCP
3 1 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (50.00%) MySQL
1 4 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MSI
General
1 1 (12.50%) Electronics
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
1 1 (12.50%) Marketing
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Consultant
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) CyberArk Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Unix Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Unix Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Management Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Wintel Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Wintel Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) SailPoint
2 2 (25.00%) LDAP
2 2 (25.00%) OpenID
2 2 (25.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Clustering
1 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
1 3 (37.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 6 (75.00%) Windows
3 2 (25.00%) Solaris
3 2 (25.00%) Unix
4 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (50.00%) User Experience
2 3 (37.50%) Business Continuity
2 3 (37.50%) Information Security
2 3 (37.50%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) Use Case
3 2 (25.00%) Benchmarking
3 2 (25.00%) Budgeting
3 2 (25.00%) Change Management
3 2 (25.00%) Mathematics
3 2 (25.00%) Storage Management
4 1 (12.50%) Application Packaging
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 1 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Privileged Access Management
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Programme Management
4 1 (12.50%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) AWK
1 2 (25.00%) Bourne shell
1 2 (25.00%) Korn
1 2 (25.00%) Perl
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) RHCE
2 2 (25.00%) RHCSA
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (12.50%) MCSE
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (12.50%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (12.50%) vSphere
3 1 (12.50%) XenApp
3 1 (12.50%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Failover Clustering
1 2 (25.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle ZFS
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (25.00%) yum
2 1 (12.50%) Backup Exec
2 1 (12.50%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (37.50%) CyberArk
2 3 (37.50%) EMC
2 3 (37.50%) Veritas
3 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (12.50%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco
4 1 (12.50%) Citrix
4 1 (12.50%) McAfee
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) SAP