Server Hardening Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Server Hardening
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 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 440 338 389
Rank change year-on-year -102 +51 +32
Contract jobs citing Server Hardening 5 9 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.020% 0.068% 0.019%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.024% 0.076% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 3
10th Percentile £390 £375 -
25th Percentile £403 £381 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -27.27%
75th Percentile £463 £434 £500
90th Percentile £470 £481 £515
UK median daily rate £450 £400 £530
% change year-on-year +12.50% -24.53% -17.83%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 20,674 11,899 17,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.63% 90.45% 82.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,309 7,359 10,286
10th Percentile £300 £235 £250
25th Percentile £402 £370 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £677 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,211 895 2,171
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.29 £16.95 £15.43
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +8.91%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £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 the UK excluding London

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

Server Hardening job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Server Hardening
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Server Hardening.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Server Hardening

Server Hardening
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Server Hardening.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Server Hardening

Server Hardening
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North West -38 2 £450 +9.09% 1
North of England -75 2 £450 +9.09% 1
Midlands - 2 £450 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £450 -
South West -30 1 £413 +3.13% 1
Server Hardening
UK

Server Hardening
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (40.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DHCP
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Citrix Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Server Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Server Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Clustering
1 2 (40.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 3 (60.00%) Patch Management
2 3 (60.00%) Security Hardening
2 3 (60.00%) Virtual Environments
3 2 (40.00%) Application Virtualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (40.00%) High Availability
3 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (40.00%) Runbook
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (40.00%) vSphere
2 2 (40.00%) XenApp
2 2 (40.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) SCCM
2 2 (40.00%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (40.00%) Nessus
2 2 (40.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (40.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Qualys
2 2 (40.00%) Tenable