Server Hardening Contracts in England

Server Hardening
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Server Hardening skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Server Hardening over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 550 617 731
Rank change year-on-year +67 +114 -134
Contract jobs citing Server Hardening 4 28 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.011% 0.057% 0.067%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% 0.063% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 22 45
10th Percentile £373 £466 £438
25th Percentile £406 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £663 £550
Median % change year-on-year -32.08% +20.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £516 £725 £675
90th Percentile £589 £736 £688
UK median daily rate £450 £640 £588
% change year-on-year -29.69% +8.94% +2.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Server Hardening is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,870 44,294 64,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.18% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,878 31,074 45,519
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £674 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,246 1,569 1,736
10th Percentile £12.90 £10.73 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +10 3 £450 -
London +87 1 £625 -9.09% 2
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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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Unix Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Unix Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Solaris
2 2 (50.00%) Unix
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Benchmarking
1 2 (50.00%) Budgeting
1 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) Information Security
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (50.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Security Patching
2 1 (25.00%) Server Management
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) AWK
1 2 (50.00%) Bourne shell
1 2 (50.00%) Korn
1 2 (50.00%) Perl
1 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) RHCE
1 2 (50.00%) RHCSA
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle ZFS
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (50.00%) yum
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) EMC
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (50.00%) Veritas
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle