Server Hardening Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Server Hardening
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Server Hardening skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Server Hardening 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.048% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.058% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
England median daily rate £488 £518 £400
% change year-on-year -5.80% +29.38% -32.77%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,432 1,667 2,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.98% 87.74% 82.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,166 1,107 1,501
10th Percentile £300 £200 £235
25th Percentile £400 £360 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £658 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 80 177
10th Percentile £13.54 £12.62 £11.10
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.59 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.81 £18.36 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.27% -3.39% +7.22%
75th Percentile £31.00 £25.91 £35.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £35.23 £55.00
England median hourly rate £41.86 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.29% -9.60% -6.17%

Server Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Server Hardening job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Server Hardening
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Server Hardening

Server Hardening
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
West Midlands - 2 £450 -
Server Hardening
England

Server Hardening
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (100.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) Server Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Application Virtualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) XenApp
1 2 (100.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
1 2 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware