The first table below looks at the demand for the Server Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire 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 17 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 Oxfordshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Server Engineer
Rank 47 57 43
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Server Engineer 2 1 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.463% 0.156% 2.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.491% 0.163% 2.108%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £263 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £269 £258 £275
% change year-on-year
+4.36% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £23.00 £20.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +10.84%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £23.00 £21.45
% change year-on-year
+17.39% +7.22%
All Job Titles
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
407 612 427
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 94.21% 95.63% 96.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 295 195
Average daily rate £340 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% +16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £179
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £500 £394
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 83 60
Average hourly rate £14.81 £16.80 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.84% +15.87%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £11.00 £11.36
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.15 £30.00 £26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Server Engineer
South East

Server Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire Server Engineer Daily Rate Trend

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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire Server Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Server Engineer
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (42.86%) Windows 7
2 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (42.86%) Replication
3 2 (28.57%) LAN
3 2 (28.57%) WAN
3 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 2 (28.57%) DNS
3 2 (28.57%) SCCM
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) NetApp
4 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) ITIL
4 1 (14.29%) NetBackup

Server Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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.

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) LAN
1 2 (28.57%) WAN
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (42.86%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) ITIL
1 1 (14.29%) Migration
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) NetApp