Server Hardening Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Server Hardening
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Server Hardening skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Server Hardening over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 - 465
Rank change year-on-year - - +137
Contract jobs citing Server Hardening 3 0 12
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% - 0.046%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% - 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 12
10th Percentile £380 - £389
25th Percentile £388 - £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile £413 - £728
90th Percentile £420 - £738
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £640
% change year-on-year -11.11% -29.69% +8.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Server Hardening
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Server Hardening as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Server Hardening trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Server Hardening
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Server Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) VMWare Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Fintech
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
2 1 (33.33%) Nessus
2 1 (33.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Qualys
1 1 (33.33%) VMware