Server Engineer Contracts in Berkshire

Server Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Server Engineer daily rate in Berkshire is £453 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 106 123
Rank change year-on-year -1 +17 -23
Contract jobs requiring a Server Engineer 10 6 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.51% 0.33% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.35% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 12
10th Percentile - £280 -
25th Percentile £300 £298 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £350 £275
Median % change year-on-year +29.29% +27.27% +38.19%
75th Percentile £608 £416 -
90th Percentile - £444 -
South East median daily rate £506 £350 £320
% change year-on-year +44.64% +9.38% -14.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Berkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,863 1,720 2,295
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.33% 94.82% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 986 1,102 1,476
10th Percentile £213 £325 £206
25th Percentile £376 £425 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £580
90th Percentile £688 £706 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 56 41
10th Percentile £18.80 £17.61 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.50 £22.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £56.89 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.48% +170.88% -2.33%
75th Percentile £70.50 £73.69 £32.50
90th Percentile £86.19 £79.72 £68.25
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%

Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings that featured Server Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Server Engineer in Berkshire

Server Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Server Engineer in Berkshire

Server Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Engineer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Server Engineer in Berkshire

Server Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Engineer in Berkshire

Server Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Server Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Slough +14 5 £300 -14.29%
Reading -2 5 £605 +42.35% 1
Server Engineer
South East

Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Server Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Server Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (80.00%) ITIL
1 8 (80.00%) HP
1 8 (80.00%) Dell
1 8 (80.00%) Data Centre
1 8 (80.00%) Break/Fix
2 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 5 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 5 (50.00%) JIRA
2 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 5 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (30.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (30.00%) Veeam
3 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) 3PAR
3 3 (30.00%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (30.00%) WSUS
3 3 (30.00%) Oracle
3 3 (30.00%) Degree
3 3 (30.00%) NetBackup
3 3 (30.00%) EMC
3 3 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (30.00%) Juniper
3 3 (30.00%) SAN
3 3 (30.00%) Symantec
3 3 (30.00%) Project Management

Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) DHCP
1 3 (30.00%) DNS
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
1 3 (30.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
1 3 (30.00%) Windows 10
1 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
1 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2019
1 3 (30.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Break/Fix
1 8 (80.00%) ITIL
2 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (50.00%) Problem Management
3 3 (30.00%) Converged Infrastructure
3 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (30.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (30.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Project Management
3 3 (30.00%) Server Management
3 3 (30.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) CCNA
2 3 (30.00%) CCNP
2 3 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (30.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (30.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (30.00%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 3 (30.00%) NetBackup
1 3 (30.00%) SCCM
1 3 (30.00%) SCOM
1 3 (30.00%) vCenter Server
1 3 (30.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Dell
1 8 (80.00%) HP
2 5 (50.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (30.00%) 3PAR
3 3 (30.00%) Cisco
3 3 (30.00%) EMC
3 3 (30.00%) Extreme Networks
3 3 (30.00%) Juniper
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (30.00%) Oracle
3 3 (30.00%) Palo Alto
3 3 (30.00%) Symantec
3 3 (30.00%) Veeam
3 3 (30.00%) VMware