Hybrid/Remote Server Hardening Contract Job Trends

Server Hardening
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work 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 348 289 337
Rank change year-on-year -59 +48 +103
Contract jobs citing Server Hardening 2 9 4
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.016% 0.093% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.018% 0.10% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 3
10th Percentile £388 £375 £492
25th Percentile £398 £381 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £400 £560
Median % change year-on-year +7.81% -28.57% -20.00%
75th Percentile £448 £425 -
90th Percentile £449 £431 -
UK median daily rate £450 £400 £530
% change year-on-year +12.50% -24.53% -17.83%

All Process & 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 11,244 8,812 12,810
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.10% 91.32% 87.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,213 5,998 8,620
10th Percentile £350 £328 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -2.38% -2.78%
75th Percentile £620 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 586 219 573
10th Percentile £17.43 £13.72 £14.90
25th Percentile £32.44 £18.36 £23.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £35.89 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.21% -16.53% -18.10%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.63 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £74.40
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 for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Server Hardening and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Server Hardening job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Server Hardening
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Server Hardening.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Server Hardening

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