Server Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Server Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Server Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £431 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 400 353
Rank change year-on-year +56 -47 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Server Engineer 42 56 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.24% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.25% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 40 126
10th Percentile £300 £222 £205
25th Percentile £322 £280 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £375 £338
Median % change year-on-year +14.93% +11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £525 £469 £438
90th Percentile £608 £538 £510
UK median daily rate £431 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -4.22% +12.50% +10.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £89.20 - -
25th Percentile £91.00 - £22.50
Median hourly rate £98.00 £26.48 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +270.09% +15.13% -17.86%
75th Percentile £103.00 - £23.50
90th Percentile £103.60 - -
UK median hourly rate £98.00 £26.48 £23.00
% change year-on-year +270.09% +15.13% -20.21%

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 18,847 22,167 29,345
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,464 15,534 20,562
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £399 £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 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,241 1,145 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.57
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Engineer in the UK excluding London

Server Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Server Engineer in the UK excluding London

Server Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Server Engineer in the UK excluding London

Server Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Engineer in the UK excluding London

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 Server Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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
South East +23 17 £513 +46.43% 2
North of England +24 11 £423 +12.80% 3
Scotland +51 8 £270 -39.33%
North West +25 6 £475 -15.93% 1
Midlands +15 4 £419 -1.47%
Yorkshire +23 3 £400 +23.08%
East Midlands +15 2 £338 +51.35%
North East +15 2 £423 +5.75% 2
West Midlands +13 2 £500 +11.11%
South West +12 1 £350 -12.50% 3
East of England +4 1 - -
Server Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Server Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (50.00%) Windows
2 20 (47.62%) Windows Server
3 19 (45.24%) VMware
4 17 (40.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 15 (35.71%) Data Centre
5 15 (35.71%) Linux
6 14 (33.33%) Active Directory
7 13 (30.95%) VMware Infrastructure
7 13 (30.95%) Hyper-V
8 12 (28.57%) DHCP
8 12 (28.57%) DNS
8 12 (28.57%) Dell
9 11 (26.19%) HP
9 11 (26.19%) ITIL
9 11 (26.19%) Security Cleared
9 11 (26.19%) Azure
10 10 (23.81%) Microsoft
10 10 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (21.43%) Break/Fix
11 9 (21.43%) Server Management
11 9 (21.43%) SCCM
12 8 (19.05%) PowerShell
12 8 (19.05%) DV Cleared
12 8 (19.05%) VMware ESXi
12 8 (19.05%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (16.67%) SC Cleared
13 7 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
13 7 (16.67%) SAN
13 7 (16.67%) Python
13 7 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016

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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (26.19%) Azure
2 4 (9.52%) OCI
3 2 (4.76%) Entra ID
3 2 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (4.76%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.38%) AWS
4 1 (2.38%) GCP
4 1 (2.38%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (28.57%) DHCP
1 12 (28.57%) DNS
2 7 (16.67%) SAN
3 6 (14.29%) Firewall
4 2 (4.76%) AMQP
4 2 (4.76%) DMZ
4 2 (4.76%) Kerberos
4 2 (4.76%) Modbus
4 2 (4.76%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) Tableau
2 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) JIRA
2 2 (4.76%) Git
2 2 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.52%) Manufacturing
3 3 (7.14%) Finance
4 2 (4.76%) Banking
4 2 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Electronics
5 1 (2.38%) Marketing
5 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.76%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (4.76%) JSON
1 2 (4.76%) Web Services
1 2 (4.76%) XML
1 2 (4.76%) XSLT
2 1 (2.38%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 15 (35.71%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.76%) Clustering
3 2 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.76%) Driving Licence
3 2 (4.76%) IoT
3 2 (4.76%) PKI
4 1 (2.38%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.38%) NHS
4 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (50.00%) Windows
2 20 (47.62%) Windows Server
3 15 (35.71%) Linux
4 8 (19.05%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (9.52%) Windows 10
6 4 (9.52%) Windows XP
7 2 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (4.76%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (2.38%) Solaris
8 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (40.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (26.19%) ITIL
3 10 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (21.43%) Break/Fix
4 9 (21.43%) Server Management
5 7 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (14.29%) Agile
6 6 (14.29%) Migration
7 5 (11.90%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (11.90%) Problem Management
7 5 (11.90%) Project Management
8 4 (9.52%) Converged Infrastructure
8 4 (9.52%) DevOps
8 4 (9.52%) Performance Monitoring
8 4 (9.52%) Proactive Monitoring
8 4 (9.52%) Storage Management
9 2 (4.76%) CRUD
9 2 (4.76%) Data Engineering
9 2 (4.76%) Patch Management
9 2 (4.76%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 8 (19.05%) PowerShell
2 7 (16.67%) Python
3 3 (7.14%) Perl
4 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.76%) SQL
5 1 (2.38%) C
Qualifications
1 11 (26.19%) Security Cleared
2 8 (19.05%) DV Cleared
3 7 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 6 (14.29%) Degree
5 4 (9.52%) CCNA
5 4 (9.52%) CCNP
5 4 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (7.14%) MCSE
6 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (4.76%) RHCE
8 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.38%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 13 (30.95%) Hyper-V
2 13 (30.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (19.05%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (4.76%) Docker
4 2 (4.76%) Firmware
4 2 (4.76%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (4.76%) vSphere
5 1 (2.38%) KVM
Systems Management
1 9 (21.43%) SCCM
2 6 (14.29%) vCenter Server
3 5 (11.90%) WSUS
4 4 (9.52%) EMC NetWorker
4 4 (9.52%) NetBackup
4 4 (9.52%) SCOM
5 2 (4.76%) Grafana
5 2 (4.76%) Kubernetes
5 2 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.38%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (2.38%) Nessus
Vendors
1 19 (45.24%) VMware
2 12 (28.57%) Dell
3 11 (26.19%) HP
4 10 (23.81%) Microsoft
5 5 (11.90%) Cisco
5 5 (11.90%) ServiceNow
5 5 (11.90%) Veeam
6 4 (9.52%) 3PAR
6 4 (9.52%) EMC
6 4 (9.52%) Extreme Networks
6 4 (9.52%) Juniper
6 4 (9.52%) Oracle
6 4 (9.52%) Palo Alto
6 4 (9.52%) Symantec
7 2 (4.76%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.38%) BEA
8 1 (2.38%) Citrix
8 1 (2.38%) Qualys
8 1 (2.38%) SAP