Server Specialist Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Server Specialist role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Server Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Server Specialist
Rank 499 530 532
Rank change year-on-year
+31 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Server Specialist 35 56 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.074% 0.094% 0.090%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.102% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 22 33
Average daily rate £425 £333 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+27.81% -11.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £434 £441
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.14% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 43445 54854 55821
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.19% 92.53% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24929 30221 30365
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2155 2623 2895
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Server Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Server Specialist within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Server Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Server Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Server Specialist within the UK.

Server Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Server Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Server Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Server Specialist Daily Rate Histogram

Server Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Server Specialist within the UK.

Server Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Server Specialist
Top 23 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Server Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +33 24 £425 +21.42%
London +23 15 £575 +82.53%
Docklands, London +5 6 £625 -
City of London +4 4 £475 +35.71%
West Midlands +13 3 £205 -
South East +12 3 £350 -6.80%
Edinburgh +3 3 £450 +0.01%
Scotland -18 3 £450 +20.00%
Glasgow - 3 £450 -
Hampshire 0 2 £348 -
South Yorkshire -2 2 £310 +44.18%
Yorkshire -3 2 £310 +36.26%
Doncaster - 2 £310 -
Warwickshire - 2 £205 -
Channel Islands - 2 £408 -
Oxfordshire - 1 £350 -
Northamptonshire - 1 £225 -
East Midlands - 1 £225 -
Portsmouth - 1 £310 -
Northampton - 1 £225 -
Jersey - 1 £450 -
Birmingham - 1 - -
Banbury - 1 £350 -

Server Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Server Specialist in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Server Specialist in their job title.

1 23 (45.10%) Windows
2 16 (31.37%) SQL Server
3 15 (29.41%) Microsoft
4 13 (25.49%) Windows Server 2008
5 11 (21.57%) SAN
5 11 (21.57%) VMware
5 11 (21.57%) Banking
6 10 (19.61%) Migration
6 10 (19.61%) Active Directory
6 10 (19.61%) SQL Server 2008
7 9 (17.65%) IBM
7 9 (17.65%) SQL
7 9 (17.65%) SQL Server 2005
8 8 (15.69%) WebSphere
8 8 (15.69%) WebSphere Application Server
9 7 (13.73%) MS Exchange
9 7 (13.73%) Citrix
10 6 (11.76%) Windows 7
10 6 (11.76%) NetApp
10 6 (11.76%) HTTP
10 6 (11.76%) WebSphere MQ
10 6 (11.76%) MS Excel
10 6 (11.76%) Java
10 6 (11.76%) Finance
11 5 (9.804%) IBM HTTP Server
11 5 (9.804%) T-SQL
11 5 (9.804%) Oracle
11 5 (9.804%) VMS
11 5 (9.804%) UNIX
11 5 (9.804%) Tivoli

Server Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Server Specialist in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Server Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (15.69%) WebSphere
2 2 (3.922%) Middleware
3 1 (1.961%) Software Packaging
3 1 (1.961%) HTML
3 1 (1.961%) CSS
3 1 (1.961%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 8 (15.69%) WebSphere Application Server
2 7 (13.73%) MS Exchange
3 6 (11.76%) WebSphere MQ
4 5 (9.804%) IBM HTTP Server
5 4 (7.843%) SharePoint
6 3 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (5.882%) WebSphere Process Server
7 2 (3.922%) Exchange Server 2007
7 2 (3.922%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (1.961%) Windows Azure
8 1 (1.961%) GlassFish
Applications
1 6 (11.76%) MS Excel
2 3 (5.882%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 11 (21.57%) SAN
2 6 (11.76%) HTTP
3 3 (5.882%) Internet
3 3 (5.882%) VPN
4 2 (3.922%) DNS
4 2 (3.922%) NetScreen
5 1 (1.961%) VLAN
5 1 (1.961%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (31.37%) SQL Server
2 10 (19.61%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (17.65%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (3.922%) OLTP
4 2 (3.922%) DB2
4 2 (3.922%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.922%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (1.961%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.961%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.961%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.961%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (1.961%) MSBuild
1 1 (1.961%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (1.961%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (21.57%) Banking
2 6 (11.76%) Finance
3 2 (3.922%) Financial Institution
3 2 (3.922%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.961%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.961%) Retail
4 1 (1.961%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.804%) PMI
2 2 (3.922%) Replication
2 2 (3.922%) Statistics
3 1 (1.961%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.961%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 23 (45.10%) Windows
2 13 (25.49%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (11.76%) Windows 7
4 5 (9.804%) VMS
4 5 (9.804%) UNIX
4 5 (9.804%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (7.843%) Windows 2000
5 4 (7.843%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (5.882%) Solaris
6 3 (5.882%) Linux
6 3 (5.882%) Windows XP
7 2 (3.922%) CentOS
7 2 (3.922%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.961%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (19.61%) Migration
2 3 (5.882%) Process Management
3 2 (3.922%) ITIL
3 2 (3.922%) Data Modelling
3 2 (3.922%) Change Management
3 2 (3.922%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (3.922%) Business Continuity
3 2 (3.922%) Release Management
4 1 (1.961%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (1.961%) Parallel Processing
4 1 (1.961%) Asset Management
4 1 (1.961%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (1.961%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (1.961%) Service Delivery
4 1 (1.961%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (17.65%) SQL
2 6 (11.76%) Java
3 5 (9.804%) T-SQL
4 2 (3.922%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.961%) Korn
5 1 (1.961%) Jython
5 1 (1.961%) Perl
5 1 (1.961%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (9.804%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (9.804%) PMI Certification
2 4 (7.843%) MCSE
2 4 (7.843%) MCITP
3 3 (5.882%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.882%) Degree
4 2 (3.922%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.961%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.961%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.922%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.961%) QA
System Software
1 10 (19.61%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.843%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (5.882%) vSphere
3 3 (5.882%) Tivoli Directory Server
3 3 (5.882%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.922%) VMware Server
4 2 (3.922%) XenApp
4 2 (3.922%) XenServer
5 1 (1.961%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (9.804%) Tivoli
2 4 (7.843%) NetBackup
2 4 (7.843%) SCCM
3 3 (5.882%) Backup Exec
4 2 (3.922%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (1.961%) SCOM
5 1 (1.961%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 15 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 11 (21.57%) VMware
3 9 (17.65%) IBM
4 7 (13.73%) Citrix
5 6 (11.76%) NetApp
6 5 (9.804%) Oracle
7 4 (7.843%) HP
7 4 (7.843%) Symantec
7 4 (7.843%) Red Hat
8 3 (5.882%) Sun
9 2 (3.922%) Cisco
9 2 (3.922%) EMC
9 2 (3.922%) Intel
9 2 (3.922%) StorageTek
9 2 (3.922%) Veritas
9 2 (3.922%) SAP
9 2 (3.922%) Sybase
10 1 (1.961%) Veeam
10 1 (1.961%) Kaspersky
10 1 (1.961%) Blue Coat
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