The first table below looks at the demand for the Server Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Server Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Server Engineer
Rank 188 194 211
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Server Engineer 13 26 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.206% 0.333% 0.259%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.223% 0.364% 0.281%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 17
Average daily rate £368 £256 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+43.83% -39.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £305 £178 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £393 £334 £445
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £258 £275
% change year-on-year
+6.79% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
Average hourly rate £21.00 £17.85 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.64% -46.71%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £23.00 £21.40
% change year-on-year
+13.04% +7.47%
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5840 7150 8882
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.42% 91.56% 91.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4286 5125 6488
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £279 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 179 185
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £42.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Server Engineer
London

Server Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Server Engineer across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Server Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Server Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Server Engineer across the City of London region.

City of London Server Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Server Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Server Engineer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

City of London Server Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Server Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Server Engineer across the City of London region.

City of London Server Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Server Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Server Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Server Engineer in their job title.

1 21 (70.00%) Windows
2 14 (46.67%) VMware
3 13 (43.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 12 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 9 (30.00%) Active Directory
5 9 (30.00%) HP
5 9 (30.00%) Linux
5 9 (30.00%) vSphere
6 8 (26.67%) Finance
7 7 (23.33%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
8 6 (20.00%) EMC
8 6 (20.00%) Citrix
8 6 (20.00%) BMC
8 6 (20.00%) MS Exchange
8 6 (20.00%) SQL Server
8 6 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
8 6 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
9 5 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (16.67%) SCCM
9 5 (16.67%) SCOM
9 5 (16.67%) C#
9 5 (16.67%) Perl
9 5 (16.67%) Cisco
9 5 (16.67%) Red Hat
9 5 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
10 4 (13.33%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (13.33%) Oracle
10 4 (13.33%) Oracle 8/8i
10 4 (13.33%) SharePoint

Server Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Server Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Server Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (10.00%) Web Services
2 2 (6.667%) .NET
3 1 (3.333%) COM
3 1 (3.333%) Servlets
3 1 (3.333%) JMS
3 1 (3.333%) REST
Application Platforms
1 6 (20.00%) MS Exchange
2 5 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (13.33%) SharePoint
4 2 (6.667%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (3.333%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (3.333%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (3.333%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (3.333%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.333%) Amazon AWS
5 1 (3.333%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 2 (6.667%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (3.333%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) DNS
1 3 (10.00%) SAN
1 3 (10.00%) DHCP
2 2 (6.667%) NAS
3 1 (3.333%) AMQP
3 1 (3.333%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (3.333%) HTTP
3 1 (3.333%) DMZ
3 1 (3.333%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 6 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (13.33%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (10.00%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (3.333%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.333%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.333%) Maven
1 1 (3.333%) Git (software)
General
1 8 (26.67%) Finance
2 2 (6.667%) Banking
2 2 (6.667%) Investment Banking
3 1 (3.333%) Multimedia
3 1 (3.333%) Law
3 1 (3.333%) Legal
3 1 (3.333%) Financial Institution
3 1 (3.333%) Front Office
3 1 (3.333%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.667%) Blackberry
1 2 (6.667%) Computer Science
2 1 (3.333%) LPAR
2 1 (3.333%) Open Source
2 1 (3.333%) NHS
2 1 (3.333%) Handset
2 1 (3.333%) Clustering
2 1 (3.333%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 21 (70.00%) Windows
2 13 (43.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 12 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (30.00%) Linux
5 5 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (13.33%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (3.333%) UNIX
7 1 (3.333%) Windows 2000
7 1 (3.333%) Windows XP
7 1 (3.333%) AIX
7 1 (3.333%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (10.00%) ITIL
2 2 (6.667%) ITSM
2 2 (6.667%) Workflow
2 2 (6.667%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (3.333%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (3.333%) Migration
3 1 (3.333%) Business Continuity
3 1 (3.333%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (3.333%) Multithreading
3 1 (3.333%) OO
3 1 (3.333%) E-Commerce
3 1 (3.333%) SOA
3 1 (3.333%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) C#
1 5 (16.67%) Perl
2 4 (13.33%) SQL
3 2 (6.667%) VB.NET
3 2 (6.667%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.333%) Scala
4 1 (3.333%) C
4 1 (3.333%) ActionScript
4 1 (3.333%) Erlang
4 1 (3.333%) C++
4 1 (3.333%) Java
4 1 (3.333%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (6.667%) CCNA
1 2 (6.667%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (6.667%) MCTS
1 2 (6.667%) MCITP
1 2 (6.667%) Degree
1 2 (6.667%) Microsoft Certified Master
System Software
1 9 (30.00%) Active Directory
1 9 (30.00%) vSphere
2 7 (23.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (13.33%) XenApp
3 4 (13.33%) XenDesktop
4 1 (3.333%) Terminal Services
4 1 (3.333%) VMware ESX
4 1 (3.333%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (3.333%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) SCCM
1 5 (16.67%) SCOM
2 2 (6.667%) BMC PATROL
2 2 (6.667%) WSUS
2 2 (6.667%) BMC Performance Manager
3 1 (3.333%) ServiceCenter
3 1 (3.333%) Backup Exec
3 1 (3.333%) Legato
3 1 (3.333%) Tivoli
3 1 (3.333%) MOM
3 1 (3.333%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (3.333%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 14 (46.67%) VMware
2 9 (30.00%) HP
3 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
4 6 (20.00%) EMC
4 6 (20.00%) Citrix
4 6 (20.00%) BMC
5 5 (16.67%) Red Hat
5 5 (16.67%) Cisco
6 4 (13.33%) Oracle
7 3 (10.00%) Dell
8 2 (6.667%) Remedy
8 2 (6.667%) NetApp
8 2 (6.667%) SolarWinds
8 2 (6.667%) Websense
9 1 (3.333%) Wyse
9 1 (3.333%) Veritas
9 1 (3.333%) McAfee
9 1 (3.333%) Sophos
9 1 (3.333%) Compaq
9 1 (3.333%) IBM
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