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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 539 625
Rank change year-on-year +57 +86 +108
Contract jobs citing Server Hardening 3 3 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.012% 0.008% 0.055%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.014% 0.009% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 23
10th Percentile £378 £365 £470
25th Percentile £381 £388 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £640
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -29.69% +16.36%
75th Percentile £419 £475 £725
90th Percentile £423 - £735
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £640
% change year-on-year -11.11% -29.69% +8.94%

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 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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

Server Hardening
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

Server Hardening
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

Server Hardening
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 1 May 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
London - 1 - - 1
North West - 1 £400 - 1
South West - 1 £400 - 1
North of England - 1 £400 - 1
Server Hardening
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Server Hardening
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Operational Security Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Operations Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Fintech
2 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (33.33%) Security Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CCSP
1 1 (33.33%) CISA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CISM
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Nessus
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
1 1 (33.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Qualys