Server Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Server Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 338 428
Rank change year-on-year +11 +90 -67
Contract jobs citing Server Management 63 105 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.45% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.50% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 83 55
10th Percentile £227 £200 £193
25th Percentile £316 £273 £241
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £378 £375
Median % change year-on-year +27.65% +0.80% -6.25%
75th Percentile £608 £550 £438
90th Percentile - £713 £495
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £420
% change year-on-year -11.11% +7.14% +1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 4
10th Percentile £35.99 - £18.48
25th Percentile - - £21.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £28.90 £25.95
Median % change year-on-year +38.41% +11.37% +11.81%
75th Percentile - - £32.93
90th Percentile - - £40.17
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.95 £23.00
% change year-on-year -28.51% +143.26% -0.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,295 20,910 27,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 89.50% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 14,450 18,900
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,280 1,343
10th Percentile £12.32 £10.99 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £47.11
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £61.45
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Server Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Server Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Server Management in the UK excluding London

Server Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Server Management in the UK excluding London

Server Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Server Management in the UK excluding London

Server Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Management in the UK excluding London

Server Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Server Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Server Management in the UK excluding London

Server Management
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 Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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 +35 27 £605 +34.44% 7
South West -2 17 £315 -30.00% 5
Midlands +22 9 £450 -33.33% 22
West Midlands +9 9 £450 -33.33% 17
Scotland +27 7 £264 -29.67% 2
North of England +19 2 £427 +44.58% 9
Yorkshire +11 1 £325 +8.33% 1
East of England +9 1 £425 +18.06% 7
North West +8 1 £528 +82.07% 7
Server Management
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Server Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (12.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.76%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (3.17%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.59%) Apache
4 1 (1.59%) Confluence
4 1 (1.59%) IIS
4 1 (1.59%) JBoss
4 1 (1.59%) nginx
4 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.59%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 29 (46.03%) Azure
2 14 (22.22%) OCI
3 7 (11.11%) AWS
4 6 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (7.94%) Entra ID
5 5 (7.94%) IaaS
6 3 (4.76%) GitHub
6 3 (4.76%) SaaS
7 2 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.17%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.17%) Google Workspace
7 2 (3.17%) Nutanix
7 2 (3.17%) PaaS
8 1 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.59%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 31 (49.21%) DNS
2 28 (44.44%) SAN
3 25 (39.68%) DHCP
4 21 (33.33%) Firewall
5 14 (22.22%) LAN
6 12 (19.05%) WAN
7 10 (15.87%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (14.29%) MPLS
9 5 (7.94%) Internet
10 4 (6.35%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (4.76%) Junos
11 3 (4.76%) VPN
12 2 (3.17%) Cisco ISE
12 2 (3.17%) FTP
12 2 (3.17%) PBX
12 2 (3.17%) WLAN
13 1 (1.59%) Cisco Wireless
13 1 (1.59%) Fibre Channel
13 1 (1.59%) Software-Defined Networking
13 1 (1.59%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.63%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.17%) MySQL
2 2 (3.17%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.17%) RDBMS
2 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.59%) Flink
3 1 (1.59%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Git
2 5 (7.94%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.76%) Hudson
4 2 (3.17%) GitLab
5 1 (1.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.59%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.59%) JIRA
5 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 41 (65.08%) Social Skills
2 16 (25.40%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (12.70%) Aerospace
3 8 (12.70%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.94%) Finance
5 3 (4.76%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.76%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.17%) Electronics
6 2 (3.17%) Marketing
6 2 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (15.87%) Storage Engineer
3 9 (14.29%) Server Engineer
4 8 (12.70%) Analyst
4 8 (12.70%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 8 (12.70%) IT Analyst
4 8 (12.70%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 8 (12.70%) Support Engineer
5 6 (9.52%) Linux Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) IT Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) VMware Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Network Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Data Centre Technician
8 3 (4.76%) Desktop Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Desktop Support
8 3 (4.76%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Hardware Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.17%) .NET
1 2 (3.17%) 802.1X
1 2 (3.17%) Redfish
2 1 (1.59%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.59%) IBM Integration Bus
2 1 (1.59%) Kafka
2 1 (1.59%) Middleware
2 1 (1.59%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.59%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 32 (50.79%) Data Centre
2 11 (17.46%) Clustering
3 8 (12.70%) Client/Server
4 3 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.76%) Replication
5 2 (3.17%) CCTV
5 2 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.17%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.59%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.59%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.59%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) Smart Meter
6 1 (1.59%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 46 (73.02%) Windows
2 32 (50.79%) Windows Server
3 31 (49.21%) Linux
4 17 (26.98%) Windows Server 2012
5 16 (25.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 15 (23.81%) Unix
6 15 (23.81%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (22.22%) Windows 10
7 14 (22.22%) Windows XP
8 3 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (3.17%) Solaris
10 1 (1.59%) Android
10 1 (1.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (39.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 25 (39.68%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (36.51%) ITIL
3 18 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 18 (28.57%) Storage Management
4 17 (26.98%) Break/Fix
4 17 (26.98%) Performance Tuning
4 17 (26.98%) Project Management
5 16 (25.40%) Proactive Monitoring
6 15 (23.81%) Performance Monitoring
7 14 (22.22%) Converged Infrastructure
8 13 (20.63%) Application Packaging
9 11 (17.46%) Asset Management
9 11 (17.46%) Capacity Planning
9 11 (17.46%) Decision-Making
9 11 (17.46%) Network Management
10 10 (15.87%) Data Migration
10 10 (15.87%) Migration
11 9 (14.29%) Agile
11 9 (14.29%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 30 (47.62%) PowerShell
2 12 (19.05%) Python
3 4 (6.35%) Bash
4 3 (4.76%) C
4 3 (4.76%) Perl
5 2 (3.17%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.17%) SQL
6 1 (1.59%) C#
6 1 (1.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (44.44%) Degree
2 27 (42.86%) Security Cleared
3 24 (38.10%) SC Cleared
4 17 (26.98%) DV Cleared
5 16 (25.40%) CCNA
5 16 (25.40%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (23.81%) CCNP
7 3 (4.76%) MCSE
7 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.59%) CCIE
9 1 (1.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (1.59%) MCP
9 1 (1.59%) MCSA
9 1 (1.59%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.76%) SLA
2 2 (3.17%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
System Software
1 38 (60.32%) Active Directory
2 33 (52.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (30.16%) VMware ESXi
4 18 (28.57%) Hyper-V
5 9 (14.29%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (12.70%) VMware Workstation
7 5 (7.94%) VMware NSX
8 3 (4.76%) vSphere
9 1 (1.59%) Docker
9 1 (1.59%) KVM
9 1 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (44.44%) SCCM
2 22 (34.92%) NetBackup
3 18 (28.57%) WSUS
4 17 (26.98%) vCenter Server
5 15 (23.81%) SCOM
6 14 (22.22%) EMC NetWorker
7 8 (12.70%) Microsoft Clustering
7 8 (12.70%) Nagios
8 5 (7.94%) Terraform
9 3 (4.76%) Ansible
10 2 (3.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (3.17%) Kubernetes
10 2 (3.17%) VxRail
11 1 (1.59%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (1.59%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (1.59%) Packer
11 1 (1.59%) PowerCLI
11 1 (1.59%) Puppet
11 1 (1.59%) vRealize
Vendors
1 36 (57.14%) VMware
2 30 (47.62%) Microsoft
3 23 (36.51%) Cisco
4 20 (31.75%) Dell
5 19 (30.16%) Oracle
6 18 (28.57%) Veeam
7 17 (26.98%) HP
7 17 (26.98%) Juniper
8 16 (25.40%) Extreme Networks
8 16 (25.40%) Palo Alto
9 15 (23.81%) EMC
10 14 (22.22%) 3PAR
10 14 (22.22%) Symantec
11 9 (14.29%) NetApp
12 8 (12.70%) Hitachi
13 3 (4.76%) Red Hat
13 3 (4.76%) SolarWinds
14 2 (3.17%) Fortinet
14 2 (3.17%) Google
14 2 (3.17%) Meraki