The first table below looks at the demand for the Server Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the England 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 18 June 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 England 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Server Engineer
Rank 380 363 375
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Server Engineer 158 192 218
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.361% 0.362% 0.381%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.390% 0.391% 0.412%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 94 115
Average daily rate £300 £280 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £228 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £376 £375 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £258 £275
% change year-on-year
+16.50% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 33
Average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £27.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.50 £16.68 £15.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.25 £68.00 £36.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £34.89 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-28.34% +74.45%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40481 49067 52965
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.47% 92.55% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23980 27814 29579
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1993 2429 2822
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.35 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.30 £40.00 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Server Engineer
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Server Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

England 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 England region.

England Server Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Server Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Server Engineer across the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

England Server Engineer Hourly Rate Histogram

Server Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Server Engineer within the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
South East +44 55 £300 +7.14% 10
London -29 43 £320 -1.53% 5
South West +31 12 £290 +123.07% 4
West Midlands +12 11 £268 -17.69% 3
Yorkshire +3 11 £225 -25.00% 2
East of England -6 11 £309 +19.90% 3
North West +11 7 £200 -9.09% 4
East Midlands -5 3 £300 +23.83%
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Server Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

1 224 (78.87%) Windows
2 148 (52.11%) VMware
2 148 (52.11%) Windows Server 2008
3 141 (49.65%) Active Directory
4 121 (42.61%) Microsoft
5 110 (38.73%) Windows Server 2003
6 83 (29.23%) Citrix
7 82 (28.87%) VMware Infrastructure
8 77 (27.11%) MS Exchange
9 57 (20.07%) SAN
10 53 (18.66%) SQL
11 51 (17.96%) Microsoft Certification
11 51 (17.96%) HP
12 47 (16.55%) Exchange Server 2010
13 41 (14.44%) SCCM
14 40 (14.08%) DNS
15 39 (13.73%) MCSE
16 38 (13.38%) SQL Server
17 37 (13.03%) Migration
18 36 (12.68%) Windows 7
19 33 (11.62%) PowerShell
19 33 (11.62%) DHCP
20 32 (11.27%) SCOM
21 31 (10.92%) Hyper-V
21 31 (10.92%) MS Excel
22 29 (10.21%) SharePoint
23 28 (9.859%) Windows XP
23 28 (9.859%) ITIL
23 28 (9.859%) vSphere
24 27 (9.507%) Security Cleared

Server Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 18 (6.338%) Web Services
2 13 (4.577%) .NET
3 4 (1.408%) .NET Framework
3 4 (1.408%) REST
4 3 (1.056%) Node.js
5 2 (0.704%) HTML
5 2 (0.704%) JSON
5 2 (0.704%) Application Packaging
5 2 (0.704%) XML
6 1 (0.352%) JMS
6 1 (0.352%) Middleware
6 1 (0.352%) LAMP
6 1 (0.352%) Spring
6 1 (0.352%) Ajax
6 1 (0.352%) COM
6 1 (0.352%) CSS
6 1 (0.352%) JSP
6 1 (0.352%) Servlets
6 1 (0.352%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 77 (27.11%) MS Exchange
2 47 (16.55%) Exchange Server 2010
3 29 (10.21%) SharePoint
4 26 (9.155%) Exchange Server 2007
5 19 (6.690%) Exchange Server 2003
6 15 (5.282%) IIS
7 9 (3.169%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 5 (1.761%) Apache
8 5 (1.761%) SharePoint 2010
9 3 (1.056%) Office Communications Server
9 3 (1.056%) SharePoint Server
9 3 (1.056%) Amazon AWS
10 2 (0.704%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.704%) Lync
10 2 (0.704%) Windows Azure
10 2 (0.704%) Google App Engine
11 1 (0.352%) lighttpd
11 1 (0.352%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.352%) GroupWise
Applications
1 31 (10.92%) MS Excel
2 16 (5.634%) MS Office
3 9 (3.169%) Office 365
4 1 (0.352%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.704%) RMDS
2 1 (0.352%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 57 (20.07%) SAN
2 40 (14.08%) DNS
3 33 (11.62%) DHCP
4 20 (7.042%) TCP/IP
4 20 (7.042%) WAN
5 17 (5.986%) LAN
6 16 (5.634%) Firewall
7 14 (4.930%) NAS
8 11 (3.873%) VPN
9 9 (3.169%) VLAN
10 6 (2.113%) IPsec
11 5 (1.761%) WLAN
12 4 (1.408%) Wireless
13 3 (1.056%) SSH
13 3 (1.056%) Cisco Nexus
13 3 (1.056%) SMS
13 3 (1.056%) IPv6
13 3 (1.056%) Internet
14 2 (0.704%) MPLS
14 2 (0.704%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (13.38%) SQL Server
2 23 (8.099%) SQL Server 2008
3 16 (5.634%) SQL Server 2005
4 7 (2.465%) SQL Server 2000
5 4 (1.408%) Oracle 8/8i
6 2 (0.704%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.704%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.352%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.352%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.352%) SQL Server 2012
7 1 (0.352%) MySQL
7 1 (0.352%) EDRMS
7 1 (0.352%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (0.352%) DTS
7 1 (0.352%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.352%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (1.056%) Fiddler
2 1 (0.352%) TeamCity
2 1 (0.352%) Git (software)
2 1 (0.352%) Ant
2 1 (0.352%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.352%) Subversion
2 1 (0.352%) Maven
General
1 25 (8.803%) Finance
2 7 (2.465%) Banking
2 7 (2.465%) Telecoms
3 6 (2.113%) Games
4 5 (1.761%) Law
4 5 (1.761%) Investment Banking
5 4 (1.408%) Back Office
6 3 (1.056%) Retail
7 2 (0.704%) Front Office
7 2 (0.704%) Military
7 2 (0.704%) Legal
8 1 (0.352%) Publishing
8 1 (0.352%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.352%) Local Government
8 1 (0.352%) Marketing
8 1 (0.352%) French Language
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.746%) Clustering
2 13 (4.577%) Blackberry
3 8 (2.817%) Replication
3 8 (2.817%) Computer Science
4 7 (2.465%) Celerra
5 4 (1.408%) PKI
5 4 (1.408%) CLARiiON
6 3 (1.056%) iPhone
6 3 (1.056%) iPad
7 2 (0.704%) Mathematics
7 2 (0.704%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.704%) SaaS
7 2 (0.704%) NHS
8 1 (0.352%) Thin Client
8 1 (0.352%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.352%) EPoS
8 1 (0.352%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.352%) Handset
8 1 (0.352%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.352%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 224 (78.87%) Windows
2 148 (52.11%) Windows Server 2008
3 110 (38.73%) Windows Server 2003
4 36 (12.68%) Windows 7
5 28 (9.859%) Windows XP
6 27 (9.507%) Linux
7 19 (6.690%) Windows Server 2012
8 16 (5.634%) Windows 2000 Server
9 13 (4.577%) Windows 2000
10 12 (4.225%) UNIX
10 12 (4.225%) Windows Vista
10 12 (4.225%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (2.465%) CentOS
12 5 (1.761%) Solaris
13 4 (1.408%) VMS
13 4 (1.408%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.352%) Windows 8
14 1 (0.352%) NetWare
14 1 (0.352%) Windows NT
14 1 (0.352%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (13.03%) Migration
2 28 (9.859%) ITIL
3 13 (4.577%) Capacity Planning
4 9 (3.169%) Software Deployment
4 9 (3.169%) Configuration Management
4 9 (3.169%) Incident Management
5 8 (2.817%) Workflow
6 6 (2.113%) E-Commerce
6 6 (2.113%) Change Control
7 5 (1.761%) Benchmarking
7 5 (1.761%) Release Management
8 4 (1.408%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (1.408%) Performance Testing
8 4 (1.408%) Load Balancing
8 4 (1.408%) Project Management
8 4 (1.408%) Business Continuity
8 4 (1.408%) Asset Management
8 4 (1.408%) Service Delivery
8 4 (1.408%) Change Management
8 4 (1.408%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 53 (18.66%) SQL
2 33 (11.62%) PowerShell
3 19 (6.690%) C#
4 13 (4.577%) Perl
5 12 (4.225%) VB
6 10 (3.521%) VBScript
7 8 (2.817%) VB.NET
8 7 (2.465%) Java
9 6 (2.113%) C++
10 5 (1.761%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.704%) C
11 2 (0.704%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.352%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.352%) Tcl
12 1 (0.352%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.352%) Erlang
12 1 (0.352%) Scala
Qualifications
1 51 (17.96%) Microsoft Certification
2 39 (13.73%) MCSE
3 27 (9.507%) Security Cleared
4 20 (7.042%) SC Cleared
5 15 (5.282%) MCITP
6 13 (4.577%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 10 (3.521%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (3.169%) CCNA
9 8 (2.817%) DV Cleared
10 7 (2.465%) MCSA
11 4 (1.408%) MCP
12 3 (1.056%) MCTS
12 3 (1.056%) VCP5
13 2 (0.704%) Microsoft Certified Master
13 2 (0.704%) VCP4
13 2 (0.704%) Degree
13 2 (0.704%) CCA
13 2 (0.704%) Citrix Certification
14 1 (0.352%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.352%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.873%) SLA
System Software
1 141 (49.65%) Active Directory
2 82 (28.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (10.92%) Hyper-V
4 28 (9.859%) vSphere
5 24 (8.451%) XenApp
6 11 (3.873%) ISA Server
7 10 (3.521%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (3.169%) VMware ESX
9 8 (2.817%) XenDesktop
10 6 (2.113%) Terminal Server
10 6 (2.113%) XenServer
11 5 (1.761%) Citrix Presentation Server
11 5 (1.761%) Terminal Services
11 5 (1.761%) UAG
12 4 (1.408%) MetaFrame
12 4 (1.408%) VMware Server
13 3 (1.056%) NFS
13 3 (1.056%) Forefront TMG
14 2 (0.704%) Xen
14 2 (0.704%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 41 (14.44%) SCCM
2 32 (11.27%) SCOM
3 16 (5.634%) Backup Exec
4 9 (3.169%) NetBackup
5 8 (2.817%) WSUS
5 8 (2.817%) BMC PATROL
5 8 (2.817%) BMC Performance Manager
6 6 (2.113%) McAfee ePO
7 4 (1.408%) SCVMM
7 4 (1.408%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
8 3 (1.056%) Splunk
8 3 (1.056%) Tivoli
8 3 (1.056%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (0.704%) MIMEsweeper
9 2 (0.704%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 2 (0.704%) ARCserve
9 2 (0.704%) HP Data Protector
9 2 (0.704%) HP SIM
10 1 (0.352%) ServiceCenter
10 1 (0.352%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 148 (52.11%) VMware
2 121 (42.61%) Microsoft
3 83 (29.23%) Citrix
4 51 (17.96%) HP
5 26 (9.155%) EMC
6 25 (8.803%) Dell
7 21 (7.394%) NetApp
7 21 (7.394%) Symantec
8 18 (6.338%) Cisco
9 15 (5.282%) IBM
10 13 (4.577%) Remedy
11 12 (4.225%) Oracle
11 12 (4.225%) BMC
12 11 (3.873%) Websense
13 9 (3.169%) CA
14 8 (2.817%) Red Hat
15 7 (2.465%) McAfee
15 7 (2.465%) Juniper
16 6 (2.113%) Sun
17 5 (1.761%) CommVault
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
3rd Line Engineer / Server Engineer / Server Support Engineer is required on a 2-Month initial contract, paying between £18-£20 per hour in a Wintel environment. As 3rd...
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Rate: £18 to £25 per hour
Posted: 13 June 2013
Gloucester, South West
3rd Line Engineer / Server Engineer / Server Support Engineer is required on a 2-Month initial contract, paying between £18-£20 per hour in a Wintel environment-As 3rd...
OPUS
Rate: GBP18 to GBP25 per hour
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
You will need solid experience of Windows Server 2003/2008, Symantec Backup Exec, Citrix Presentation Server + XenApp and exposure to VMware.Due to a current contractor emigrating my...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £150.00 - £160.00 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
City, London
You will need solid experience of Windows Server 2003/2008, Symantec Backup Exec, Citrix Presentation Server + XenApp and exposure to VMware... It is predominantly a Windows Server 2003/...
HAYS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Rate: £150.00 - £160.00 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
South West London
A Windows Specialist with strong Server skills in addition to experience with SQL Server 2012 required asap to work on a number of initiatives for a global client...
McGregor Boyall
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
Essex
Vivid Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £285 - £300 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Berkshire, South East
GSA Techsource
Rate: GBP342 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
West London
MBA Ltd
Posted: 12 June 2013
Milton Keynes, Thames Valley
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £350 - £450 per annum
Posted: 6 June 2013
Milton Keynes, Thames Valley
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £400 - £475 per annum + Market Rate
Posted: 7 June 2013
City of London
Rate: £25000 - £65000 per annum
Posted: 8 June 2013
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