Server Engineer Contracts in the Thames Valley

Server Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Server Engineer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £453 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 142 152
Rank change year-on-year +12 +10 -21
Contract jobs requiring a Server Engineer 12 8 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.45% 0.27% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.29% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 13
10th Percentile - £280 £231
25th Percentile £300 £333 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £363 £275
Median % change year-on-year +24.83% +31.82% +38.19%
75th Percentile £608 £400 -
90th Percentile - £441 -
South East median daily rate £506 £350 £320
% change year-on-year +44.64% +9.38% -14.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,503 2,769 3,350
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.50% 94.28% 96.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,423 1,916 2,281
10th Percentile £207 £313 £190
25th Percentile £370 £408 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 76 101
10th Percentile £15.81 £17.31 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £20.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £46.70 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +166.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £63.09 £66.21 £23.75
90th Percentile £84.48 £79.19 £57.38
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%

Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Engineer in the Thames Valley

Server Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Server Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Server Engineer in the Thames Valley

Server Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Engineer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Server Engineer in the Thames Valley

Server Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Server Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Server Engineer in the Thames Valley

Server Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 27 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
Berkshire -1 10 £453 +29.29% 1
Buckinghamshire +26 2 - -
Server Engineer
South East

Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 27 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 Thames Valley region featuring Server Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (66.67%) HP
1 8 (66.67%) Dell
1 8 (66.67%) ITIL
1 8 (66.67%) Data Centre
1 8 (66.67%) Break/Fix
2 7 (58.33%) DV Cleared
2 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
3 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (41.67%) VMware
3 5 (41.67%) Linux
3 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (41.67%) JIRA
3 5 (41.67%) Problem Management
3 5 (41.67%) ServiceNow
4 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 3 (25.00%) Converged Infrastructure
4 3 (25.00%) EMC NetWorker
4 3 (25.00%) SCCM
4 3 (25.00%) SCOM
4 3 (25.00%) WSUS
4 3 (25.00%) vCenter Server
4 3 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 3 (25.00%) Windows 10
4 3 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (25.00%) Extreme Networks

Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) DHCP
1 3 (25.00%) DNS
1 3 (25.00%) Firewall
1 3 (25.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
2 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 3 (25.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Break/Fix
1 8 (66.67%) ITIL
2 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (41.67%) Problem Management
3 3 (25.00%) Converged Infrastructure
3 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Project Management
3 3 (25.00%) Server Management
3 3 (25.00%) Storage Management
4 2 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) DV Cleared
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) CCNA
3 3 (25.00%) CCNP
3 3 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 3 (25.00%) NetBackup
1 3 (25.00%) SCCM
1 3 (25.00%) SCOM
1 3 (25.00%) vCenter Server
1 3 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Dell
1 8 (66.67%) HP
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (41.67%) ServiceNow
2 5 (41.67%) VMware
3 3 (25.00%) 3PAR
3 3 (25.00%) Cisco
3 3 (25.00%) EMC
3 3 (25.00%) Extreme Networks
3 3 (25.00%) Juniper
3 3 (25.00%) Oracle
3 3 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 3 (25.00%) Symantec
3 3 (25.00%) Veeam