The first table below looks at the demand for the Server Support 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 Support in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Server Support
Rank 435 427 466
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +39
Contract jobs requiring a Server Support 78 132 105
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.188% 0.247% 0.187%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.203% 0.267% 0.202%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 64 42
Average daily rate £300 £250 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £171 £184 £227
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £366 £422
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £258 £300
% change year-on-year
+11.65% -14.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 13 19
Average hourly rate £23.00 £17.85 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.85% -25.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.20 £13.03 £14.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.80 £27.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £20.06 £23.50
% change year-on-year
+24.62% -14.63%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38421 49352 52077
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.41% 92.53% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22588 27902 28893
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £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 1983 2412 2765
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.86 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Server Support
UK

Server Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Server Support Jobs Demand Trend

Server Support
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Server Support across the England region.

England Server Support Daily Rate Trend

Server Support
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Server Support across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Server Support Daily Rate Histogram

Server Support
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Server Support across the England region.

England Server Support Hourly Rate Trend

Server Support
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Server Support across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Server Support Hourly Rate Histogram

Server Support
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Server Support within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
London +20 24 £350 +27.27%
South East +3 20 £300 +25.00%
South West +37 11 £268 -
Yorkshire +2 7 £330 +35.38%
West Midlands +12 5 £160 -
North West +9 4 £250 -9.09%
East of England -9 4 £269 +4.36%
East Midlands -9 2 £225 -9.09%
North East - 1 - -
Server Support
UK

Server Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Server Support 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 Support in their job title.

1 147 (77.37%) Windows
2 86 (45.26%) Windows Server 2008
3 71 (37.37%) Microsoft
3 71 (37.37%) Active Directory
4 66 (34.74%) Windows Server 2003
5 65 (34.21%) VMware
6 60 (31.58%) Citrix
7 54 (28.42%) MS Exchange
8 37 (19.47%) HP
9 33 (17.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 33 (17.37%) Windows 7
10 32 (16.84%) Exchange Server 2010
11 31 (16.32%) VMware Infrastructure
11 31 (16.32%) SQL Server
12 29 (15.26%) ITIL
13 28 (14.74%) MCSE
14 27 (14.21%) UNIX
14 27 (14.21%) Migration
15 26 (13.68%) SAN
16 23 (12.11%) Security Cleared
17 22 (11.58%) DHCP
17 22 (11.58%) DNS
18 21 (11.05%) Linux
18 21 (11.05%) Symantec
19 20 (10.53%) Windows 2000
19 20 (10.53%) WAN
19 20 (10.53%) SCCM
20 19 (10.00%) LAN
20 19 (10.00%) TCP/IP
20 19 (10.00%) SQL

Server Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Server Support 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 Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (4.737%) .NET
2 6 (3.158%) ASP.NET
3 5 (2.632%) Middleware
4 3 (1.579%) WCF
5 2 (1.053%) WinForms
5 2 (1.053%) Web Services
6 1 (0.526%) COM
6 1 (0.526%) CSS
6 1 (0.526%) XMPP
6 1 (0.526%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 54 (28.42%) MS Exchange
2 32 (16.84%) Exchange Server 2010
3 17 (8.947%) SharePoint
4 16 (8.421%) Exchange Server 2003
5 10 (5.263%) IIS
5 10 (5.263%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 8 (4.211%) Exchange Server 2007
7 4 (2.105%) WorkSite
8 3 (1.579%) Lync
8 3 (1.579%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (1.053%) SharePoint Server
9 2 (1.053%) Commerce Server
9 2 (1.053%) SharePoint 2010
10 1 (0.526%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.526%) Windows Azure
10 1 (0.526%) Apache
10 1 (0.526%) CMS
10 1 (0.526%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 18 (9.474%) MS Excel
2 11 (5.789%) MS Office
3 4 (2.105%) Office 365
4 1 (0.526%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 6 (3.158%) RMDS
2 1 (0.526%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.526%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 26 (13.68%) SAN
2 22 (11.58%) DHCP
2 22 (11.58%) DNS
3 20 (10.53%) WAN
4 19 (10.00%) LAN
4 19 (10.00%) TCP/IP
5 13 (6.842%) Firewall
6 11 (5.789%) VPN
7 7 (3.684%) NAS
8 5 (2.632%) IPv6
8 5 (2.632%) IPsec
9 4 (2.105%) WLAN
9 4 (2.105%) HTTP
9 4 (2.105%) Unified Communications
10 2 (1.053%) Network Security
10 2 (1.053%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (1.053%) Wireless
10 2 (1.053%) Internet
10 2 (1.053%) LDAP
11 1 (0.526%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (16.32%) SQL Server
2 11 (5.789%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (4.737%) SQL Server 2005
4 6 (3.158%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (2.632%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (2.105%) QlikView
6 4 (2.105%) SQL Server 2000
7 1 (0.526%) SQL Server 2012
7 1 (0.526%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.526%) GIS
7 1 (0.526%) EDRMS
7 1 (0.526%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (1.053%) JIRA
1 2 (1.053%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (0.526%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (8.421%) Finance
2 13 (6.842%) Banking
3 7 (3.684%) Investment Banking
4 5 (2.632%) Telecoms
5 4 (2.105%) Law
5 4 (2.105%) Front Office
6 3 (1.579%) Back Office
7 2 (1.053%) Retail
7 2 (1.053%) Legal
7 2 (1.053%) Military
8 1 (0.526%) Games
8 1 (0.526%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.947%) Clustering
2 12 (6.316%) Blackberry
3 8 (4.211%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.211%) CLARiiON
4 6 (3.158%) PKI
5 2 (1.053%) Computer Science
5 2 (1.053%) NHS
5 2 (1.053%) Smartcard
5 2 (1.053%) EqualLogic
5 2 (1.053%) Celerra
6 1 (0.526%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.526%) Grid Computing
6 1 (0.526%) Handset
6 1 (0.526%) VAX
6 1 (0.526%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 147 (77.37%) Windows
2 86 (45.26%) Windows Server 2008
3 66 (34.74%) Windows Server 2003
4 33 (17.37%) Windows 7
5 27 (14.21%) UNIX
6 21 (11.05%) Linux
7 20 (10.53%) Windows 2000
8 11 (5.789%) Windows XP
9 8 (4.211%) Windows 2000 Server
10 4 (2.105%) Windows Vista
11 3 (1.579%) Solaris
11 3 (1.579%) VMS
12 2 (1.053%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.526%) Windows 8
13 1 (0.526%) CentOS
13 1 (0.526%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.526%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (15.26%) ITIL
2 27 (14.21%) Migration
3 15 (7.895%) Service Delivery
4 10 (5.263%) Software Deployment
5 9 (4.737%) Capacity Planning
6 6 (3.158%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (2.632%) Capacity Management
7 5 (2.632%) Data Analysis
7 5 (2.632%) Systems Analysis
8 4 (2.105%) Network Load Balancing
8 4 (2.105%) Problem Management
8 4 (2.105%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (2.105%) Configuration Management
9 3 (1.579%) Performance Management
9 3 (1.579%) Data Migration
9 3 (1.579%) E-Commerce
10 2 (1.053%) Operations Management
10 2 (1.053%) Incident Management
10 2 (1.053%) Project Management
10 2 (1.053%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 19 (10.00%) SQL
2 7 (3.684%) PowerShell
3 6 (3.158%) VBScript
4 5 (2.632%) VB
4 5 (2.632%) C#
5 3 (1.579%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.053%) VB6
7 1 (0.526%) Perl
7 1 (0.526%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (17.37%) Microsoft Certification
2 28 (14.74%) MCSE
3 23 (12.11%) Security Cleared
4 14 (7.368%) SC Cleared
5 10 (5.263%) DV Cleared
6 7 (3.684%) MCITP
6 7 (3.684%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (2.632%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.632%) Degree
8 4 (2.105%) CCNA
8 4 (2.105%) MCSA
9 3 (1.579%) CCA
9 3 (1.579%) Citrix Certification
10 2 (1.053%) MCP
11 1 (0.526%) VCP4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.737%) SLA
System Software
1 71 (37.37%) Active Directory
2 31 (16.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.316%) Hyper-V
4 8 (4.211%) XenApp
5 6 (3.158%) vSphere
6 5 (2.632%) Terminal Services
7 4 (2.105%) UAG
7 4 (2.105%) VMware Server
8 3 (1.579%) XenDesktop
8 3 (1.579%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (1.579%) DFS Replication
8 3 (1.579%) ISA Server
8 3 (1.579%) VMware ESX
9 1 (0.526%) Forefront TMG
9 1 (0.526%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.526%) NLBS
9 1 (0.526%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.526%) Xen
9 1 (0.526%) Novell eDirectory
9 1 (0.526%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 20 (10.53%) SCCM
2 15 (7.895%) SCOM
3 11 (5.789%) Backup Exec
4 8 (4.211%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 5 (2.632%) McAfee ePO
5 5 (2.632%) WSUS
6 4 (2.105%) NetBackup
6 4 (2.105%) HP SIM
7 3 (1.579%) OpenView
7 3 (1.579%) MAILsweeper
7 3 (1.579%) Legato
7 3 (1.579%) RepliStor
8 2 (1.053%) DameWare
8 2 (1.053%) Tivoli
8 2 (1.053%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.526%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.526%) HP Data Protector
9 1 (0.526%) Cisco UCCX
9 1 (0.526%) MOM
9 1 (0.526%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 71 (37.37%) Microsoft
2 65 (34.21%) VMware
3 60 (31.58%) Citrix
4 37 (19.47%) HP
5 21 (11.05%) Symantec
6 17 (8.947%) EMC
7 13 (6.842%) IBM
8 12 (6.316%) Dell
9 11 (5.789%) Remedy
9 11 (5.789%) Cisco
10 8 (4.211%) McAfee
11 7 (3.684%) NetIQ
12 6 (3.158%) Compaq
12 6 (3.158%) SolarWinds
13 5 (2.632%) Juniper
14 4 (2.105%) Intel
14 4 (2.105%) Cadis
15 3 (1.579%) Oracle
15 3 (1.579%) Sun
15 3 (1.579%) Clearswift
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