Server Hardening Contract Job Trends in England

Server Hardening
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Server Hardening skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 593 467 535
Rank change year-on-year -126 +68 +79
Contract jobs citing Server Hardening 10 9 8
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.024% 0.037% 0.022%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.028% 0.040% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 6
10th Percentile £408 £375 £425
25th Percentile £425 £381 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £530
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -24.53% -21.48%
75th Percentile £475 £434 £560
90th Percentile £500 £481 £599
UK median daily rate £450 £400 £530
% change year-on-year +12.50% -24.53% -17.83%

All Process & 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 36,103 22,244 31,795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.13% 91.27% 85.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,869 14,374 20,646
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,268 1,001 2,353
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.25 £28.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.79% -24.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.00 £73.75 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.85% -24.66% +1.67%

Server Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Server Hardening job vacancy trend in England

Server Hardening
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Server Hardening
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Server Hardening.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Server Hardening

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 9 June 2026. 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 - 5 £450 -
North West -38 2 £450 +9.09% 1
North of England -75 2 £450 +9.09% 1
West Midlands - 2 £450 -
Midlands - 2 £450 - 1
South West -30 1 £413 +3.13% 1
Server Hardening
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Server Hardening
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) IIS
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) nginx
2 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Stack
3 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) DNS
2 6 (60.00%) DHCP
3 1 (10.00%) NAS
3 1 (10.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 2 (20.00%) Banking
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Administrator
2 2 (20.00%) Citrix Administrator
2 2 (20.00%) Server Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SCCM Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SCCM Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Server Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Clustering
1 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (20.00%) PKI
2 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 7 (70.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (50.00%) Linux
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (10.00%) CentOS
5 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
5 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 4 (40.00%) ITIL
2 4 (40.00%) Runbook
2 4 (40.00%) Security Hardening
3 3 (30.00%) High Availability
3 3 (30.00%) Patch Management
3 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (30.00%) Virtual Environments
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Application Virtualisation
4 2 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (20.00%) Identity Management
4 2 (20.00%) Information Security
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
4 2 (20.00%) SIEM
4 2 (20.00%) User Experience
4 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (40.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) Bicep
4 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) SLA
2 2 (20.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (20.00%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (20.00%) vSphere
2 2 (20.00%) XenApp
2 2 (20.00%) XenDesktop
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) SCCM
2 2 (20.00%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (20.00%) Nessus
2 2 (20.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (20.00%) WSUS
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Puppet
3 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) VMware
2 3 (30.00%) Citrix
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Qualys
3 2 (20.00%) Tenable
4 1 (10.00%) Red Hat