Server Engineer Contracts in the South East

Server Engineer
England > South East

The median Server Engineer daily rate in the South East is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 203 210
Rank change year-on-year +16 +7 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Server Engineer 17 20 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.30% 0.34% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.36% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 40
10th Percentile - £175 £273
25th Percentile £300 £250 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £350 £320
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +9.38% -14.67%
75th Percentile £608 £488 £388
90th Percentile - £528 £409
England median daily rate £431 £440 £375
% change year-on-year -2.05% +17.33% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,161 5,536 7,502
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.33% 95.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,107 3,852 5,076
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £390 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £614 £603 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 477 243 339
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £16.18
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.08 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% +128.95% -13.40%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.30 £43.85
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £60.30
England median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -22.22% +100.00% +0.36%

Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Engineer in the South East

Server Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Server Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Server Engineer in the South East

Server Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Server Engineer in the South East

Server Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Server Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Server Engineer in the South East

Server Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Thames Valley +11 12 £300 -17.24% 1
Berkshire -6 9 £300 -14.29% 1
Hampshire +1 4 £506 +22.73% 1
Buckinghamshire +30 3 - -
West Sussex - 1 - -
Server Engineer
England

Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 23 April 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 South East region featuring Server Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (52.94%) VMware
2 8 (47.06%) Windows
2 8 (47.06%) HP
2 8 (47.06%) Break/Fix
3 7 (41.18%) Windows Server
3 7 (41.18%) Data Centre
3 7 (41.18%) Dell
3 7 (41.18%) Active Directory
3 7 (41.18%) ITIL
3 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
3 7 (41.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (35.29%) SCCM
4 6 (35.29%) DV Cleared
4 6 (35.29%) DHCP
4 6 (35.29%) DNS
4 6 (35.29%) ServiceNow
5 5 (29.41%) Hyper-V
5 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
5 5 (29.41%) Linux
5 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
5 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
5 5 (29.41%) JIRA
5 5 (29.41%) Problem Management
6 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (23.53%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (17.65%) Performance Tuning

Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (11.76%) Azure
1 2 (11.76%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) DHCP
1 6 (35.29%) DNS
2 2 (11.76%) Firewall
2 2 (11.76%) SAN
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) JIRA
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Electronics
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.88%) Marketing
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.88%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (47.06%) Windows
2 7 (41.18%) Windows Server
3 5 (29.41%) Linux
3 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (11.76%) Windows 10
5 2 (11.76%) Windows XP
6 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Break/Fix
2 7 (41.18%) ITIL
3 5 (29.41%) Problem Management
3 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (17.65%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (17.65%) Server Management
6 2 (11.76%) Converged Infrastructure
6 2 (11.76%) Data Protection
6 2 (11.76%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (11.76%) Proactive Monitoring
6 2 (11.76%) Project Management
6 2 (11.76%) Storage Management
7 1 (5.88%) Patch Management
7 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineering
7 1 (5.88%) Security Hardening
7 1 (5.88%) Server Migrations
7 1 (5.88%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 6 (35.29%) DV Cleared
3 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
4 3 (17.65%) Degree
5 2 (11.76%) CCNA
5 2 (11.76%) CCNP
5 2 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Active Directory
1 7 (41.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (29.41%) Hyper-V
3 4 (23.53%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) SCCM
2 3 (17.65%) vCenter Server
2 3 (17.65%) WSUS
3 2 (11.76%) EMC NetWorker
3 2 (11.76%) NetBackup
3 2 (11.76%) SCOM
4 1 (5.88%) Nessus
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) VMware
2 8 (47.06%) HP
3 7 (41.18%) Dell
4 6 (35.29%) ServiceNow
5 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
6 2 (11.76%) 3PAR
6 2 (11.76%) Cisco
6 2 (11.76%) EMC
6 2 (11.76%) Extreme Networks
6 2 (11.76%) Juniper
6 2 (11.76%) Oracle
6 2 (11.76%) Palo Alto
6 2 (11.76%) Symantec
6 2 (11.76%) Veeam
7 1 (5.88%) Qualys
7 1 (5.88%) Remedy
7 1 (5.88%) SAP