Server Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Server Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Server Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £589 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 169 187
Rank change year-on-year +42 +18 -44
Contract jobs requiring a Server Engineer 2 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.090% 0.082% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.095% 0.086% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile £556 - £289
25th Percentile £566 - £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £589 £700 £444
Median % change year-on-year -15.93% +57.66% +15.18%
75th Percentile £618 - £555
90th Percentile £631 - £573
Central London median daily rate £550 £700 £444
% change year-on-year -21.43% +57.66% +15.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £20.71 -
Central London median hourly rate - £20.71 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 2,111 3,471 3,990
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.00% 95.20% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,503 2,350 3,011
10th Percentile £350 £350 £369
25th Percentile £450 £470 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £792 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £560
% change year-on-year -5.17% +3.57% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 26 50
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.74
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.04% +107.23%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £44.10 £86.65 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -26.34% -6.04% +107.23%

Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Engineer in the City of London

Server Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Server Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Server Engineer in the City of London

Server Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Server Engineer in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Server Engineer in the City of London

Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 25 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 City of London region featuring Server Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) HP Storage
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) E-business
2 1 (50.00%) Front Office
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Electronic Trading
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) DNS

Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (50.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Front Office
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) HP Storage
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) E-business
1 1 (50.00%) Electronic Trading
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (50.00%) Dell
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Sun
1 1 (50.00%) VMware