Server Hardening Contracts with Work from Home Options

Server Hardening
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 456 602
Rank change year-on-year +115 +146 -134
Contract jobs citing Server Hardening 4 9 24
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.027% 0.037% 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.031% 0.041% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 21
10th Percentile £492 £363 -
25th Percentile £518 £513 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.69% +9.24%
75th Percentile - £725 £688
90th Percentile - £738 -
UK median daily rate £530 £640 £625
% change year-on-year -17.19% +2.40% +5.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,834 21,730 40,136
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.66% 89.60% 91.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,652 15,403 29,146
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 505 522
10th Percentile £14.89 £17.90 £14.03
25th Percentile £24.19 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%

Server Hardening
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Server Hardening as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Server Hardening trend for jobs with a WFH option

Server Hardening
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Server Hardening.

Server Hardening daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Server Hardening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (75.00%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
1 3 (75.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) SSH
2 1 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Electronics
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) CyberArk Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Management Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Wintel Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) SailPoint
2 2 (50.00%) LDAP
2 2 (50.00%) OpenID
2 2 (50.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (50.00%) Clustering
3 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Use Case
1 3 (75.00%) User Experience
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (25.00%) MCSE
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (25.00%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
1 2 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (25.00%) Backup Exec
2 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) CyberArk
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (25.00%) BeyondTrust
3 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) EMC
3 1 (25.00%) McAfee
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) SAP
3 1 (25.00%) Veritas
3 1 (25.00%) VMware