Server Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Server Engineer
England > North of England

The median Server Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £423 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 176 203 219
Rank change year-on-year +27 +16 -52
Contract jobs requiring a Server Engineer 11 13 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.23% 0.22% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.24% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 18
10th Percentile £380 £290 £253
25th Percentile £397 £325 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £375 £425
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% -11.76% +18.06%
75th Percentile £488 £495 £563
90th Percentile £540 £565 £588
England median daily rate £453 £433 £375
% change year-on-year +4.74% +15.33% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £89.20 - -
25th Percentile £91.00 - -
Median hourly rate £98.00 - -
75th Percentile £103.00 - -
90th Percentile £103.60 - -
England median hourly rate £98.00 £26.48 £23.00
% change year-on-year +270.09% +15.13% -20.21%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,397 5,527 6,968
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.12% 95.33% 96.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,760 3,908 5,123
10th Percentile £263 £285 £200
25th Percentile £385 £412 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £681 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 159 289
10th Percentile £11.02 £14.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.70 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.75 £30.76 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -35.78% +64.60% +5.15%
75th Percentile £45.97 £49.88 £29.50
90th Percentile £60.00 £66.00 £50.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Engineer in the North of England

Server Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Server Engineer in the North of England

Server Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Server Engineer in the North of England

Server Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Engineer in the North of England

Server Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
North West +19 6 £475 -15.93% 1
Yorkshire +18 3 £400 +23.08%
North East +17 2 £423 +5.75% 1
Server Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 North of England region featuring Server Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (72.73%) Windows
1 8 (72.73%) Windows Server
2 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (45.45%) VMware
2 5 (45.45%) Migration
3 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
4 3 (27.27%) Linux
4 3 (27.27%) SAN
4 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
4 3 (27.27%) Azure
4 3 (27.27%) Manufacturing
4 3 (27.27%) Data Centre
5 2 (18.18%) Modbus
5 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (18.18%) Docker
5 2 (18.18%) IoT
5 2 (18.18%) MQTT
5 2 (18.18%) CRUD
5 2 (18.18%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Grafana
5 2 (18.18%) Server Building
5 2 (18.18%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
5 2 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (18.18%) Snowflake
5 2 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (18.18%) Tableau
5 2 (18.18%) Visualisation

Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Snowflake
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) SAN
2 2 (18.18%) AMQP
2 2 (18.18%) DMZ
2 2 (18.18%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) Kerberos
2 2 (18.18%) Modbus
2 2 (18.18%) MQTT
3 1 (9.09%) DHCP
3 1 (9.09%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Tableau
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (27.27%) Manufacturing
2 2 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (18.18%) JSON
1 2 (18.18%) Web Services
1 2 (18.18%) XML
1 2 (18.18%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 2 (18.18%) IoT
2 2 (18.18%) PKI
3 1 (9.09%) Driving Licence
3 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
1 8 (72.73%) Windows Server
2 3 (27.27%) Linux
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (45.45%) Migration
2 2 (18.18%) Agile
2 2 (18.18%) Change Management
2 2 (18.18%) CRUD
2 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis
2 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
2 2 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (18.18%) Performance Management
2 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
2 2 (18.18%) Reverse Engineering
2 2 (18.18%) Scrum
2 2 (18.18%) Security Management
2 2 (18.18%) Server Building
2 2 (18.18%) Use Case
2 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
3 1 (9.09%) BCP
3 1 (9.09%) Database Security
3 1 (9.09%) ITIL
3 1 (9.09%) Server Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) MCSE
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) MCSA
2 1 (9.09%) RHCE
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (18.18%) Docker
2 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
3 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 1 (9.09%) Firmware
3 1 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Grafana
1 2 (18.18%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (9.09%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) VMware
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) Dell
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco
4 1 (9.09%) Citrix
4 1 (9.09%) HP
4 1 (9.09%) Red Hat