3rd Line Server Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Third Line Server Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Third Line Server Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £345 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 383 434 498
Rank change year-on-year +51 +64 -67
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Server Engineer 2 10 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.010% 0.043% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% 0.046% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 8
10th Percentile £327 - £210
25th Percentile £329 - £264
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 £223 £343
Median % change year-on-year +54.71% -34.89% +40.51%
75th Percentile £366 £381 £435
90th Percentile £372 £388 £450
UK median daily rate £345 £350 £343
% change year-on-year -1.43% +2.19% +24.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,772 21,693 29,145
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.28% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,463 15,127 20,437
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,267 1,104 1,447
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.07 £14.29
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.85
90th Percentile £73.85 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

3rd Line Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured 3rd Line Server Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Server Engineer in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Server Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Server Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Server Engineer in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Server Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Server Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Server Engineer in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Server Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Server Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Scotland +41 1 £340 -2.86%
South West +6 1 £350 -
3rd Line Server Engineer
UK

3rd Line Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, 3rd Line 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 UK excluding London region featuring 3rd Line Server Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) Compliance Management
1 2 (100.00%) Server Management
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) KVM
2 1 (50.00%) Software Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) MCSE
2 1 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) RHCE

3rd Line Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Solaris
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Compliance Management
1 2 (100.00%) Server Management
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Asset Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) MCSE
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) RHCE
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) KVM
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) BEA
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat