Server Management Contracts in England

Server Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Server Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Server Management over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 436 491 636
Rank change year-on-year +55 +145 -107
Contract jobs citing Server Management 106 148 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.31% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.34% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 99 98
10th Percentile £262 £200 £209
25th Percentile £359 £330 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £473 £420
Median % change year-on-year -10.05% +12.50% +1.82%
75th Percentile £608 £585 £530
90th Percentile £613 £713 £596
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 6
10th Percentile £22.08 - £16.75
25th Percentile £23.05 - £18.19
Median hourly rate £40.00 £83.00 £25.95
Median % change year-on-year -51.81% +219.85% +88.73%
75th Percentile - - £28.90
90th Percentile - - £36.95
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £83.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -51.81% +260.87% +67.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Server Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,636 42,957 64,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.67% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,638 30,177 45,793
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,325 1,518 1,713
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.41
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

Server Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Server Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Server Management in England

Server Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Server Management in England

Server Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Management in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Server Management in England

Server Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Management in England

Server Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Server Management in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Server Management in England

Server Management
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 Management within the England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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 +78 48 £400 -19.29% 15
South East +29 31 £605 +27.37% 12
South West +3 17 £405 -10.00% 2
Midlands +15 7 - - 22
West Midlands +5 7 - - 17
North of England +17 1 £528 +86.90% 15
North West +11 1 £528 +86.90% 4
East of England +5 1 £425 +19.72% 9
Server Management
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Server Management
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 13 (12.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (6.60%) JBoss
2 7 (6.60%) nginx
3 6 (5.66%) Apache
3 6 (5.66%) OpenStack
3 6 (5.66%) Tomcat
4 5 (4.72%) SharePoint
5 3 (2.83%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 3 (2.83%) IIS
6 1 (0.94%) Confluence
6 1 (0.94%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.94%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (1.89%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (5.66%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 51 (48.11%) Azure
2 26 (24.53%) AWS
3 14 (13.21%) OCI
4 10 (9.43%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (7.55%) Entra ID
6 7 (6.60%) IaaS
7 5 (4.72%) Nutanix
7 5 (4.72%) OpenShift
8 4 (3.77%) GitHub
9 3 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.83%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (2.83%) Mimecast
9 3 (2.83%) Rubrik
9 3 (2.83%) SaaS
9 3 (2.83%) WhatsApp
10 2 (1.89%) Akamai
10 2 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.89%) Google Workspace
10 2 (1.89%) PaaS
11 1 (0.94%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 45 (42.45%) DNS
2 39 (36.79%) Firewall
3 31 (29.25%) SAN
4 28 (26.42%) DHCP
5 24 (22.64%) LAN
6 21 (19.81%) WAN
7 16 (15.09%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (10.38%) VPN
9 9 (8.49%) MPLS
10 6 (5.66%) Internet
10 6 (5.66%) Wireless
11 5 (4.72%) SSL
12 4 (3.77%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (3.77%) FTP
12 4 (3.77%) NAS
13 3 (2.83%) DKIM
13 3 (2.83%) Extranet
13 3 (2.83%) Junos
13 3 (2.83%) TCP/IP
13 3 (2.83%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.98%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.60%) RDBMS
2 7 (6.60%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.89%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (1.89%) Flink
4 2 (1.89%) MySQL
5 1 (0.94%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 1 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.94%) DB2
5 1 (0.94%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.94%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.94%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.94%) Power BI
5 1 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.94%) Tableau
5 1 (0.94%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 7 (6.60%) Git
2 3 (2.83%) Hudson
3 2 (1.89%) GitLab
3 2 (1.89%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.94%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.94%) JIRA
General
1 55 (51.89%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (9.43%) Finance
4 8 (7.55%) Aerospace
4 8 (7.55%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.66%) Mandarin Language
6 4 (3.77%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.77%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.83%) Banking
7 3 (2.83%) Electronics
7 3 (2.83%) Marketing
8 1 (0.94%) Advertising
8 1 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Legal
8 1 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (18.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (12.26%) Support Engineer
3 11 (10.38%) IT Engineer
4 10 (9.43%) Analyst
4 10 (9.43%) IT Analyst
4 10 (9.43%) Storage Engineer
5 9 (8.49%) IT Support
6 8 (7.55%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 8 (7.55%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
7 7 (6.60%) Desktop Support
7 7 (6.60%) Network Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) Server Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Administrator
8 6 (5.66%) Operations Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Server Administrator
9 5 (4.72%) VMware Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Windows Administrator
9 5 (4.72%) Windows Server Administrator
10 4 (3.77%) Consultant
10 4 (3.77%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.66%) IBM Integration Bus
2 3 (2.83%) Kafka
2 3 (2.83%) Middleware
2 3 (2.83%) Software Packaging
3 2 (1.89%) .NET
3 2 (1.89%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.89%) ATL
3 2 (1.89%) LDAP
3 2 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (1.89%) Vue
4 1 (0.94%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.94%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 40 (37.74%) Data Centre
2 10 (9.43%) Clustering
3 8 (7.55%) Client/Server
4 6 (5.66%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (4.72%) Replication
6 4 (3.77%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.83%) Fat Client
7 3 (2.83%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.83%) PKI
7 3 (2.83%) Thin Client
8 2 (1.89%) CCTV
9 1 (0.94%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.94%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.94%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.94%) Smart Meter
9 1 (0.94%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 73 (68.87%) Windows
2 49 (46.23%) Windows Server
3 38 (35.85%) Linux
4 24 (22.64%) Unix
5 21 (19.81%) Windows Server 2016
6 20 (18.87%) Windows 10
6 20 (18.87%) Windows Server 2012
7 15 (14.15%) Windows Server 2019
8 14 (13.21%) Windows XP
9 7 (6.60%) Mac OS
9 7 (6.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (4.72%) VMS
11 1 (0.94%) Android
11 1 (0.94%) OS/390
11 1 (0.94%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (30.19%) ITIL
2 29 (27.36%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (21.70%) Performance Tuning
4 22 (20.75%) Disaster Recovery
5 21 (19.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 21 (19.81%) Storage Management
6 17 (16.04%) Break/Fix
6 17 (16.04%) Capacity Management
6 17 (16.04%) Converged Infrastructure
7 16 (15.09%) Performance Monitoring
7 16 (15.09%) Proactive Monitoring
8 15 (14.15%) Network Management
8 15 (14.15%) Project Management
9 14 (13.21%) Application Packaging
9 14 (13.21%) Migration
10 12 (11.32%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (10.38%) Agile
11 11 (10.38%) Capacity Planning
11 11 (10.38%) Decision-Making
12 10 (9.43%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 44 (41.51%) PowerShell
2 16 (15.09%) Python
3 7 (6.60%) Shell Script
4 6 (5.66%) Bash
5 2 (1.89%) C#
5 2 (1.89%) Go
5 2 (1.89%) Scala
5 2 (1.89%) SQL
6 1 (0.94%) Java
6 1 (0.94%) VB
Qualifications
1 30 (28.30%) Security Cleared
2 29 (27.36%) Degree
3 24 (22.64%) SC Cleared
4 19 (17.92%) DV Cleared
5 16 (15.09%) CCNA
5 16 (15.09%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (14.15%) CCNP
7 6 (5.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.83%) MCSE
10 1 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.94%) CCIE
10 1 (0.94%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.72%) SLA
2 1 (0.94%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.94%) QA
System Software
1 47 (44.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 41 (38.68%) Active Directory
3 28 (26.42%) Hyper-V
4 19 (17.92%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (14.15%) Virtual Servers
6 14 (13.21%) Firmware
7 8 (7.55%) VMware Workstation
8 7 (6.60%) Docker
9 5 (4.72%) VMware NSX
10 4 (3.77%) vSphere
11 3 (2.83%) BitLocker
11 3 (2.83%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (1.89%) PowerDNS
12 2 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (1.89%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 36 (33.96%) SCCM
2 25 (23.58%) NetBackup
3 24 (22.64%) SCOM
4 17 (16.04%) vCenter Server
4 17 (16.04%) WSUS
5 14 (13.21%) EMC NetWorker
5 14 (13.21%) Terraform
6 9 (8.49%) Ansible
6 9 (8.49%) Kubernetes
7 8 (7.55%) Microsoft Clustering
7 8 (7.55%) Nagios
7 8 (7.55%) SCVMM
8 6 (5.66%) Dell DRAC
8 6 (5.66%) Puppet
9 5 (4.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (4.72%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (4.72%) Progress Chef
9 5 (4.72%) VxRail
10 2 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.94%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 50 (47.17%) VMware
2 39 (36.79%) Microsoft
3 33 (31.13%) Cisco
4 28 (26.42%) Dell
5 24 (22.64%) Oracle
6 23 (21.70%) Juniper
7 22 (20.75%) Veeam
8 18 (16.98%) EMC
8 18 (16.98%) HP
9 16 (15.09%) Palo Alto
10 14 (13.21%) 3PAR
10 14 (13.21%) Extreme Networks
10 14 (13.21%) Symantec
11 9 (8.49%) NetApp
12 8 (7.55%) Hitachi
13 7 (6.60%) Commvault
13 7 (6.60%) Red Hat
14 6 (5.66%) IBM
14 6 (5.66%) Temenos
14 6 (5.66%) TOWER Software