Server Hardening Contracts in the UK excluding London

Server Hardening
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 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 389 437 485
Rank change year-on-year +48 +48 -64
Contract jobs citing Server Hardening 3 9 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.014% 0.039% 0.066%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.017% 0.044% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 20
10th Percentile - £488 £491
25th Percentile £425 £525 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £619 £650
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -4.81% +9.24%
75th Percentile £500 £720 £678
90th Percentile £515 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £530 £640 £625
% change year-on-year -17.19% +2.40% +5.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,285 20,362 27,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.51% 89.30% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,280 13,968 18,972
10th Percentile £250 £260 £238
25th Percentile £375 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £486
Median % change year-on-year - +2.87% +9.23%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £690 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,123 1,246 1,358
10th Percentile £12.40 £10.63 £12.39
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.25 £62.33
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%

Server Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Server Hardening as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Server Hardening in the UK excluding London

Server Hardening
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Server Hardening in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Server Hardening in the UK excluding London

Server Hardening
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Server Hardening in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Server Hardening in the UK excluding London

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 29 May 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
South East +6 3 £450 - 1
Server Hardening
UK

Server Hardening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Administrator
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Unix Administrator
2 2 (66.67%) Unix Administrator
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Wintel Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Solaris
2 2 (66.67%) Unix
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Benchmarking
2 2 (66.67%) Budgeting
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 2 (66.67%) Storage Management
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) AWK
1 2 (66.67%) Bourne shell
1 2 (66.67%) Korn
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) RHCE
2 2 (66.67%) RHCSA
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (33.33%) MCSE
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (33.33%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) NetBackup
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle ZFS
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (66.67%) yum
2 1 (33.33%) Backup Exec
2 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) EMC
1 3 (100.00%) Veritas
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) McAfee
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) VMware