Server Hardening Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Server Hardening
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Server Hardening skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 59 -
Rank change year-on-year -20 - -
Contract jobs citing Server Hardening 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.077% 0.16% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.098% 0.18% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £381 £375 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - -
75th Percentile £444 £425 -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £413 £400 -
% change year-on-year +3.13% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,016 560 884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 78.27% 92.26% 80.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 298 484
10th Percentile £349 £213 £257
25th Percentile £413 £358 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.31%
75th Percentile £575 £561 £599
90th Percentile £644 £650 £675
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 85 201
10th Percentile £19.33 £18.51 £40.00
25th Percentile £53.53 £18.87 £48.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +27.27%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.00 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £32.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +76.92% -40.91% -4.35%

Server Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Server Hardening job vacancy trend in Bristol

Server Hardening
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Server Hardening.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Server Hardening

Server Hardening
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable