Server Administrator Contracts in the UK excluding London

Server Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Server Administrator daily rate in the UK excluding London is £300 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 447 509
Rank change year-on-year +59 +62 -73
Contract jobs requiring a Server Administrator 5 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.017% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.018% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £298 £288 -
25th Percentile £299 £306 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £350 £325
Median % change year-on-year -14.43% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £300 £381 £338
90th Percentile - £393 -
UK median daily rate £380 £438 £550
% change year-on-year -13.14% -20.45% +31.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £81.37 -
UK median hourly rate - £81.37 -

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 19,031 22,516 29,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.26% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,791 20,746
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £398 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,244 1,158 1,469
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.92 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.93
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

Server Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Administrator in the UK excluding London

Server Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Server Administrator in the UK excluding London

Server Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Administrator in the UK excluding London

Server Administrator
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 Server Administrator within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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
Midlands - 5 £300 - 1
West Midlands - 5 £300 - 1
Server Administrator
UK

Server Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Server Administrator 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 Server Administrator in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) DHCP
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (100.00%) SAN
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) PKI
1 5 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Server
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 5 (100.00%) vSphere
1 5 (100.00%) Remote Desktop
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 5 (100.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
1 5 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 5 (100.00%) VMware NSX
2 4 (80.00%) Task Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Patch Management
2 4 (80.00%) Bash
2 4 (80.00%) Change Control
2 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (80.00%) CentOS
2 4 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) LAN
2 4 (80.00%) WAN

Server Administrator 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:

Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DHCP
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 5 (100.00%) Remote Desktop
1 5 (100.00%) SAN
2 4 (80.00%) LAN
2 4 (80.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (80.00%) CentOS
2 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 5 (100.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 4 (80.00%) Change Control
2 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) Patch Management
2 4 (80.00%) Task Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bash
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Server
1 5 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) VMware