Server Engineer Contracts in Central London

Server Engineer
London > Central London

The median Server Engineer daily rate in Central London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 169 189
Rank change year-on-year +39 +20 -29
Contract jobs requiring a Server Engineer 3 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.12% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.14% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile £450 £460 £289
25th Percentile £488 £550 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £444
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +57.66% -0.06%
75th Percentile £595 - £555
90th Percentile £622 - £573
London median daily rate £425 £544 £500
% change year-on-year -21.88% +8.80% +15.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £20.71 -
London median hourly rate - £27.85 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,304 3,649 4,292
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.32% 95.20% 94.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,643 2,501 3,269
10th Percentile £350 £325 £360
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £560
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +5.36% +6.67%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £813 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 27 52
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £21.63 £19.36 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -6.04% +107.23%
75th Percentile £27.81 £58.75 £51.00
90th Percentile £40.00 £86.32 £65.43
London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +10.62%

Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Engineer in Central London

Server Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Server Engineer in Central London

Server Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Server Engineer in Central London

Server Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Engineer in Central London

Server Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 5 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
City of London +45 2 £589 -15.93% 1
Server Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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 Central London region featuring Server Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Wealth Management
3 1 (33.33%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) VB
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) IIS
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) HP Storage
3 1 (33.33%) Hedge funds
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (33.33%) CyberArk
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Sun
3 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (33.33%) HP

Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Front Office
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Hedge funds
1 1 (33.33%) HP Storage
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (33.33%) E-business
1 1 (33.33%) Electronic Trading
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) CyberArk
2 1 (33.33%) Dell
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) Sun
2 1 (33.33%) VMware