The first table below looks at the demand for the Server Specialist role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Server Specialist 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 London 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 Specialist
Rank 362 392 430
Rank change year-on-year
+30 +38
Contract jobs requiring a Server Specialist 15 23 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.069% 0.085% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.092% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 5
Average daily rate £575 £315 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+82.53% -16.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £283 £330
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £403 £432
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.14% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
19942 24907 28750
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.08% 92.46% 92.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13399 16045 18461
Average daily rate £450 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.12% -6.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 450 624 677
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Server Specialist
England

Server Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Server Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Server Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Server Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Server Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London Server Specialist Daily Rate Histogram

Server Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Server Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Server Specialist
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Server Specialist within the London 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
Docklands, London +5 6 £625 -
City of London +9 4 £475 +35.71%
Server Specialist
England

Server Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 9 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 9 (50.00%) Banking
2 7 (38.89%) SQL Server 2008
2 7 (38.89%) Windows
3 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 6 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
4 5 (27.78%) Migration
5 4 (22.22%) VMware
5 4 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (22.22%) Red Hat
5 4 (22.22%) MS Excel
5 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
6 3 (16.67%) Linux
6 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (16.67%) Finance
6 3 (16.67%) Windows 7
6 3 (16.67%) Degree
7 2 (11.11%) CentOS
7 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (11.11%) SAN
7 2 (11.11%) Tivoli
7 2 (11.11%) EMC
7 2 (11.11%) Citrix
7 2 (11.11%) IBM
7 2 (11.11%) ISO 9001
8 1 (5.556%) OLTP
8 1 (5.556%) SharePoint
8 1 (5.556%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (5.556%) Data Modelling

Server Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (5.556%) HTML
1 1 (5.556%) CSS
1 1 (5.556%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.556%) SharePoint
1 1 (5.556%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (5.556%) WebSphere Portal
1 1 (5.556%) WebSphere Process Server
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) SAN
2 1 (5.556%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (38.89%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (5.556%) OLTP
4 1 (5.556%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2012
General
1 9 (50.00%) Banking
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (5.556%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.556%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.556%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.556%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (16.67%) Linux
3 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (16.67%) Windows 7
4 2 (11.11%) CentOS
4 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Migration
2 1 (5.556%) Data Modelling
2 1 (5.556%) ITIL
2 1 (5.556%) Project Management
2 1 (5.556%) Process Management
2 1 (5.556%) Parallel Processing
2 1 (5.556%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.556%) SQL
1 1 (5.556%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (5.556%) MCSE
2 1 (5.556%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.556%) MCITP
2 1 (5.556%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) ISO 9001
2 1 (5.556%) QA
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.556%) vSphere
2 1 (5.556%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Tivoli
2 1 (5.556%) SCCM
2 1 (5.556%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) VMware
1 4 (22.22%) Red Hat
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) EMC
2 2 (11.11%) Citrix
2 2 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (5.556%) Veeam
3 1 (5.556%) Open Text
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