Server Hardening Contracts

Server Hardening
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 654 793
Rank change year-on-year +82 +139 -107
Contract jobs citing Server Hardening 7 30 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.053% 0.055%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.059% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 23 45
10th Percentile £425 £460 £441
25th Percentile £438 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £640 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.19% +2.40% +5.04%
75th Percentile £560 £719 £675
90th Percentile £599 £735 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £619 £650
% change year-on-year -27.27% -4.81% +9.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

Server Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Server Hardening as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Server Hardening in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Server Hardening.

Daily rate trend for Server Hardening in the UK

Server Hardening
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Hardening over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Server Hardening in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Server Hardening.

Hourly rate trend for Server Hardening in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 June 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
England +80 7 £530 -21.48% 4
Work from Home +103 4 £560 -20.00% 1
London +92 4 £560 -17.04%
UK excluding London +41 3 £450 -27.27% 4
South East +10 3 £450 - 2

Server Hardening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (57.14%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Entra ID
1 4 (57.14%) GCP
2 3 (42.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) SSH
2 3 (42.86%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (42.86%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (57.14%) MySQL
1 4 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (14.29%) Electronics
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
1 1 (14.29%) Marketing
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Consultant
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) CyberArk Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Unix Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Unix Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Management Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Wintel Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) SailPoint
2 2 (28.57%) LDAP
2 2 (28.57%) OpenID
2 2 (28.57%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Clustering
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
1 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
2 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (71.43%) Windows
3 2 (28.57%) Solaris
3 2 (28.57%) Unix
4 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
1 4 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (57.14%) User Experience
2 3 (42.86%) Business Continuity
2 3 (42.86%) Information Security
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) Use Case
3 2 (28.57%) Benchmarking
3 2 (28.57%) Budgeting
3 2 (28.57%) Change Management
3 2 (28.57%) Mathematics
3 2 (28.57%) Storage Management
4 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Privileged Access Management
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) AWK
1 2 (28.57%) Bourne shell
1 2 (28.57%) Korn
1 2 (28.57%) Perl
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Certification
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) RHCE
3 2 (28.57%) RHCSA
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (14.29%) MCSE
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (14.29%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Failover Clustering
1 2 (28.57%) NetBackup
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle ZFS
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (28.57%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (28.57%) yum
2 1 (14.29%) Backup Exec
2 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 3 (42.86%) CyberArk
2 3 (42.86%) EMC
2 3 (42.86%) Veritas
3 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
3 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow
4 1 (14.29%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco
4 1 (14.29%) McAfee
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) SAP
4 1 (14.29%) VMware