The first table below looks at the demand for the Server Specialist role in IT contracts advertised for the South East 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 19 June 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 South East 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Server Specialist
Rank 218 238 236
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Server Specialist 2 9 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.025% 0.090% 0.094%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.098% 0.102%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 6
Average daily rate £375 £350 £333
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.07% +5.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £355 £225 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £395 £400 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £344 £325 £376
% change year-on-year
+5.69% -13.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £29.00
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7436 9200 9812
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.86% 92.04% 92.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3762 4120 4265
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 584 683 849
Average hourly rate £18.00 £18.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.70% -2.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.20 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
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 South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South East 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 South East region.

South East Server Specialist Daily Rate Trend

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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Oxfordshire - 1 £350 - 1
Surrey - - - -
Buckinghamshire - - - -
Server Specialist
England

Server Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco
3 3 (50.00%) HP
3 3 (50.00%) SAN
3 3 (50.00%) NetApp
3 3 (50.00%) StorageTek
3 3 (50.00%) Symantec
3 3 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (50.00%) NetBackup
4 2 (33.33%) vSphere
4 2 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (33.33%) SAP
4 2 (33.33%) Sun
4 2 (33.33%) Solaris
4 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (33.33%) Oracle
5 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
5 1 (16.67%) AIX
5 1 (16.67%) C#
5 1 (16.67%) Perl
5 1 (16.67%) Windows 2000
5 1 (16.67%) MCSE
5 1 (16.67%) HTTP
5 1 (16.67%) CCNA
5 1 (16.67%) Banking
5 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Process Server
5 1 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (16.67%) MCITP

Server Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 (16.67%) WebSphere
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere MQ
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Process Server
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
1 1 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (16.67%) MSBuild
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Solaris
3 1 (16.67%) AIX
3 1 (16.67%) Windows 2000
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
2 1 (16.67%) Korn
2 1 (16.67%) Jython
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) MCSE
1 1 (16.67%) CCNA
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (16.67%) MCITP
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) vSphere
1 2 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) XenServer
2 1 (16.67%) Tivoli Directory Server
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (16.67%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) HP
2 3 (50.00%) NetApp
2 3 (50.00%) StorageTek
2 3 (50.00%) Symantec
2 3 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) SAP
3 2 (33.33%) Sun
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle
4 1 (16.67%) Citrix
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