Server Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Server Management
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Server Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Server Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 144 163
Rank change year-on-year +20 +19 -40
Contract jobs citing Server Management 18 6 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.67% 0.20% 0.057%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.22% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 4 2
10th Percentile £415 £420 £178
25th Percentile £603 £600 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £700 £294
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% +138.30% -31.45%
75th Percentile £608 £700 £370
90th Percentile - £701 £414
South East median daily rate £605 £450 £413
% change year-on-year +34.44% +9.09% -13.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Server Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,334 2,697 3,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.19% 91.83% 89.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,298 1,872 2,094
10th Percentile £213 £323 £225
25th Percentile £369 £413 £388
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 £501 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.38% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 62 85
10th Percentile £15.48 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.71 £24.86 £12.05
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.00
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.00
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -13.46%

Server Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Server Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Server Management in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Server Management in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Server Management in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Management in the Thames Valley

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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 Management 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 +3 14 £605 -13.57% 4
Oxfordshire - 3 £408 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £250 - 1
Server Management
South East

Server Management
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 17 (94.44%) Azure
2 13 (72.22%) OCI
3 2 (11.11%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (11.11%) Google Workspace
3 2 (11.11%) IaaS
3 2 (11.11%) PaaS
3 2 (11.11%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 15 (83.33%) DNS
1 15 (83.33%) Firewall
2 13 (72.22%) DHCP
2 13 (72.22%) SAN
3 2 (11.11%) LAN
3 2 (11.11%) VPN
3 2 (11.11%) WAN
3 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
General
1 16 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (77.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (50.00%) Storage Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) PowerShell Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Server Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) VMware Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) SCCM Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 13 (72.22%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 17 (94.44%) Windows
1 17 (94.44%) Windows Server
2 13 (72.22%) Linux
2 13 (72.22%) Windows 10
2 13 (72.22%) Windows Server 2012
2 13 (72.22%) Windows Server 2016
2 13 (72.22%) Windows Server 2019
2 13 (72.22%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (72.22%) Break/Fix
2 13 (72.22%) Converged Infrastructure
2 13 (72.22%) Disaster Recovery
2 13 (72.22%) ITIL
2 13 (72.22%) Performance Monitoring
2 13 (72.22%) Performance Tuning
2 13 (72.22%) Proactive Monitoring
2 13 (72.22%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (72.22%) Project Management
2 13 (72.22%) Storage Management
3 2 (11.11%) Information Security
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (5.56%) Agile
4 1 (5.56%) Asset Management
4 1 (5.56%) Data Migration
4 1 (5.56%) Migration
4 1 (5.56%) Release Management
4 1 (5.56%) Scrum
4 1 (5.56%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 16 (88.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (77.78%) SC Cleared
1 14 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 13 (72.22%) CCNA
2 13 (72.22%) CCNP
2 13 (72.22%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (72.22%) Degree
2 13 (72.22%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 16 (88.89%) Active Directory
2 15 (83.33%) VMware ESXi
2 15 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (72.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (88.89%) SCCM
2 15 (83.33%) WSUS
3 14 (77.78%) SCOM
4 13 (72.22%) EMC NetWorker
4 13 (72.22%) NetBackup
4 13 (72.22%) vCenter Server
5 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (94.44%) Microsoft
2 15 (83.33%) Cisco
2 15 (83.33%) VMware
3 13 (72.22%) 3PAR
3 13 (72.22%) Dell
3 13 (72.22%) EMC
3 13 (72.22%) Extreme Networks
3 13 (72.22%) HP
3 13 (72.22%) Juniper
3 13 (72.22%) Oracle
3 13 (72.22%) Palo Alto
3 13 (72.22%) Symantec
3 13 (72.22%) Veeam
4 2 (11.11%) Google
4 2 (11.11%) Meraki