Server Engineer Contracts in England

Server Engineer
UK > England

The median Server Engineer daily rate in England is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 470 551 603
Rank change year-on-year +81 +52 -74
Contract jobs requiring a Server Engineer 72 113 194
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.22% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.23% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 85 151
10th Percentile £262 £250 £205
25th Percentile £300 £325 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £440 £375
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +17.33% -
75th Percentile £608 £565 £500
90th Percentile £650 £700 £588
UK median daily rate £428 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -4.89% +12.50% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £89.20 £21.47 -
25th Percentile £91.00 £23.35 £22.50
Median hourly rate £98.00 £26.48 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +270.09% +15.13% -19.30%
75th Percentile £103.00 £30.74 £23.50
90th Percentile £103.60 £33.30 -
UK median hourly rate £98.00 £26.48 £23.00
% change year-on-year +270.09% +15.13% -19.30%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,314 48,292 68,671
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.53% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,846 34,229 48,801
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,384 1,462 1,928
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +100.00% +0.76%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.95 £62.33
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% +0.48%

Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Engineer in England

Server Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Server Engineer in England

Server Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Engineer in England over the 6 months to 20 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Server Engineer in England

Server Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Engineer in England

Server Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 20 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
London +72 32 £425 -24.17% 3
South East +10 17 £500 +42.86% 3
North of England +34 10 £415 +10.67% 2
East of England +21 8 £575 -
North West +22 5 £438 -22.57% 1
Midlands +23 4 £419 +1.52%
Yorkshire +20 3 £400 +23.08%
North East +23 2 £423 +5.75% 1
West Midlands +22 2 £500 +2.56%
East Midlands +14 2 £338 +51.35%
South West +15 1 £350 -12.50% 2
Server Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 England region featuring Server Engineer in the job title.

1 36 (50.00%) Linux
2 31 (43.06%) Windows
2 31 (43.06%) Security Cleared
3 28 (38.89%) Windows Server
4 27 (37.50%) DV Cleared
5 26 (36.11%) Data Centre
6 25 (34.72%) VMware
7 22 (30.56%) Microsoft
8 20 (27.78%) Active Directory
9 19 (26.39%) Social Skills
10 18 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
11 14 (19.44%) Azure
12 13 (18.06%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (18.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 13 (18.06%) Dell
12 13 (18.06%) CI/CD
13 12 (16.67%) HP
13 12 (16.67%) Jenkins
14 11 (15.28%) Progress Chef
14 11 (15.28%) Puppet
14 11 (15.28%) Hyper-V
14 11 (15.28%) PowerShell
14 11 (15.28%) Customer Requirements
14 11 (15.28%) SSL
14 11 (15.28%) HTTP
14 11 (15.28%) TCP/IP
15 10 (13.89%) DNS
15 10 (13.89%) Migration
15 10 (13.89%) Data Protection Act
15 10 (13.89%) Problem-Solving

Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (5.56%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.78%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (2.78%) IIS
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 14 (19.44%) Azure
2 6 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 4 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.78%) OCI
4 2 (2.78%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.39%) AWS
5 1 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.39%) Azure Storage
5 1 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.39%) IaaS
5 1 (1.39%) npm
5 1 (1.39%) PaaS
5 1 (1.39%) SaaS
5 1 (1.39%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.28%) HTTP
1 11 (15.28%) SSL
1 11 (15.28%) TCP/IP
2 10 (13.89%) DNS
3 8 (11.11%) DHCP
4 6 (8.33%) SAN
5 4 (5.56%) Firewall
6 3 (4.17%) Kerberos
7 2 (2.78%) AMQP
7 2 (2.78%) DMZ
7 2 (2.78%) Modbus
7 2 (2.78%) MQTT
7 2 (2.78%) Network Security
8 1 (1.39%) NAS
8 1 (1.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.94%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.78%) Tableau
3 1 (1.39%) KDB
3 1 (1.39%) MySQL
3 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.94%) JIRA
3 1 (1.39%) Babel
3 1 (1.39%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.39%) webpack
General
1 19 (26.39%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.06%) Presentation Skills
3 8 (11.11%) Finance
4 7 (9.72%) Manufacturing
5 5 (6.94%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.94%) Telecoms
6 4 (5.56%) Electronics
6 4 (5.56%) Marketing
7 2 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.39%) Banking
8 1 (1.39%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.78%) .NET
1 2 (2.78%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (2.78%) ASP.NET
1 2 (2.78%) JSON
1 2 (2.78%) Web Services
1 2 (2.78%) XML
1 2 (2.78%) XSLT
2 1 (1.39%) LDAP
2 1 (1.39%) Middleware
2 1 (1.39%) Node.js
2 1 (1.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (36.11%) Data Centre
2 10 (13.89%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (5.56%) Clustering
4 3 (4.17%) PKI
5 2 (2.78%) IoT
6 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.39%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.39%) Derivative
6 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.39%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.39%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.39%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.39%) HP Storage
6 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.39%) NHS
6 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (50.00%) Linux
2 31 (43.06%) Windows
3 28 (38.89%) Windows Server
4 9 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (9.72%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (6.94%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (5.56%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (2.78%) Windows 10
8 2 (2.78%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (2.78%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (18.06%) CI/CD
1 13 (18.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (15.28%) Customer Requirements
3 10 (13.89%) Data Protection
3 10 (13.89%) Migration
3 10 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 9 (12.50%) ITIL
5 8 (11.11%) Break/Fix
6 5 (6.94%) Problem Management
6 5 (6.94%) Server Management
7 4 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (5.56%) Digital Marketing
7 4 (5.56%) High Availability
7 4 (5.56%) Programme Management
8 3 (4.17%) Agile
8 3 (4.17%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (4.17%) Project Management
8 3 (4.17%) Server Migrations
9 2 (2.78%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.28%) PowerShell
2 5 (6.94%) SQL
3 4 (5.56%) Python
4 3 (4.17%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.78%) VB
6 1 (1.39%) C#
6 1 (1.39%) C++
6 1 (1.39%) Java
Qualifications
1 31 (43.06%) Security Cleared
2 27 (37.50%) DV Cleared
3 6 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.94%) Degree
5 4 (5.56%) MCSE
5 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.78%) CCNA
6 2 (2.78%) CCNP
6 2 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.78%) MCSA
7 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.39%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.39%) MiFID
1 1 (1.39%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (27.78%) Active Directory
2 18 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (15.28%) Hyper-V
4 6 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (6.94%) Firmware
5 5 (6.94%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.78%) Docker
6 2 (2.78%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (15.28%) Progress Chef
1 11 (15.28%) Puppet
2 8 (11.11%) SCCM
3 4 (5.56%) SCOM
3 4 (5.56%) vCenter Server
4 3 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (4.17%) WSUS
5 2 (2.78%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (2.78%) Grafana
5 2 (2.78%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (2.78%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.39%) Backup Exec
6 1 (1.39%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.39%) Nessus
Vendors
1 25 (34.72%) VMware
2 22 (30.56%) Microsoft
3 13 (18.06%) Dell
4 12 (16.67%) HP
5 6 (8.33%) ServiceNow
6 4 (5.56%) SAP
7 3 (4.17%) Cisco
7 3 (4.17%) Oracle
8 2 (2.78%) 3PAR
8 2 (2.78%) CA
8 2 (2.78%) EMC
8 2 (2.78%) Extreme Networks
8 2 (2.78%) Huawei
8 2 (2.78%) Juniper
8 2 (2.78%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.78%) Symantec
8 2 (2.78%) Trend Micro
8 2 (2.78%) Veeam
9 1 (1.39%) BEA
9 1 (1.39%) CyberArk