Server Engineer Contracts

Server Engineer
UK

The median Server Engineer daily rate in the UK is £431 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 491 554 616
Rank change year-on-year +63 +62 -47
Contract jobs requiring a Server Engineer 88 146 247
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.24% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.26% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 93 190
10th Percentile £260 £250 £205
25th Percentile £319 £325 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -4.22% +12.50% +8.47%
75th Percentile £608 £565 £475
90th Percentile £650 £700 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £431 £400 £338
% change year-on-year +7.75% +18.52% +3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £89.20 £21.47 -
25th Percentile £91.00 £23.35 £22.50
Median hourly rate £98.00 £26.48 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +270.09% +15.13% -19.30%
75th Percentile £103.00 £30.74 £23.50
90th Percentile £103.60 £33.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £98.00 £26.48 £23.00
% change year-on-year +270.09% +15.13% -18.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Engineer in the UK

Server Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Server Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Server Engineer in the UK

Server Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Engineer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Server Engineer in the UK

Server Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Server Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Server Engineer in the UK

Server Engineer
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 April 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
England +69 73 £431 -3.15% 10
UK excluding London +55 50 £431 +7.75% 9
London +88 32 £425 -22.73% 3
Work from Home +58 22 £375 -28.57% 5
South East +23 18 £506 +44.64% 2
North of England +24 11 £423 +12.80% 3
Scotland +41 9 £340 -37.04% 1
East of England +19 7 £575 -
North West +21 6 £475 -15.93% 2
Midlands +11 4 £419 +1.52%
Yorkshire +17 3 £400 +23.08%
West Midlands +20 2 £500 +2.56%
North East +20 2 £423 +5.75% 1
East Midlands +17 2 £338 +51.35%
South West +17 1 £350 -12.50% 2

Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 featuring Server Engineer in the job title.

1 43 (48.86%) Linux
2 39 (44.32%) Windows
3 35 (39.77%) Windows Server
4 33 (37.50%) Security Cleared
5 31 (35.23%) VMware
6 28 (31.82%) DV Cleared
6 28 (31.82%) Data Centre
7 26 (29.55%) Microsoft
7 26 (29.55%) Active Directory
8 21 (23.86%) VMware Infrastructure
8 21 (23.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 21 (23.86%) Social Skills
9 19 (21.59%) PowerShell
10 17 (19.32%) Azure
11 16 (18.18%) HP
11 16 (18.18%) Dell
11 16 (18.18%) DNS
12 14 (15.91%) DHCP
12 14 (15.91%) Hyper-V
12 14 (15.91%) Jenkins
12 14 (15.91%) CI/CD
12 14 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (14.77%) Windows Server 2012
13 13 (14.77%) SCCM
14 12 (13.64%) Puppet
14 12 (13.64%) ITIL
15 11 (12.50%) HTTP
15 11 (12.50%) TCP/IP
15 11 (12.50%) SSL
15 11 (12.50%) Migration

Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (4.55%) IIS
1 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.41%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.27%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (2.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (19.32%) Azure
2 7 (7.95%) Entra ID
3 5 (5.68%) AWS
3 5 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.41%) OCI
4 3 (3.41%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.27%) IaaS
5 2 (2.27%) SaaS
5 2 (2.27%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.14%) Azure Storage
6 1 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.14%) GCP
6 1 (1.14%) GitHub
6 1 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.14%) npm
6 1 (1.14%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.14%) PaaS
6 1 (1.14%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 16 (18.18%) DNS
2 14 (15.91%) DHCP
3 11 (12.50%) HTTP
3 11 (12.50%) SSL
3 11 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 10 (11.36%) SAN
5 5 (5.68%) Firewall
6 3 (3.41%) Kerberos
7 2 (2.27%) AMQP
7 2 (2.27%) DMZ
7 2 (2.27%) Modbus
7 2 (2.27%) MQTT
7 2 (2.27%) NAS
7 2 (2.27%) Network Security
7 2 (2.27%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.14%) Internet
8 1 (1.14%) VPN
8 1 (1.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.23%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.41%) Power BI
3 2 (2.27%) MySQL
3 2 (2.27%) Tableau
4 1 (1.14%) KDB
4 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (15.91%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.68%) JIRA
3 2 (2.27%) Git
4 1 (1.14%) Babel
4 1 (1.14%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.14%) webpack
General
1 21 (23.86%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
3 10 (11.36%) Finance
4 7 (7.95%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.68%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.68%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.55%) Electronics
6 4 (4.55%) Marketing
7 3 (3.41%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.41%) Banking
8 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Front Office
9 1 (1.14%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.27%) .NET
1 2 (2.27%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (2.27%) ASP.NET
1 2 (2.27%) JSON
1 2 (2.27%) LDAP
1 2 (2.27%) Web Services
1 2 (2.27%) XML
1 2 (2.27%) XSLT
2 1 (1.14%) Middleware
2 1 (1.14%) Node.js
2 1 (1.14%) Redfish
2 1 (1.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (31.82%) Data Centre
2 10 (11.36%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (7.95%) Clustering
4 4 (4.55%) PKI
5 3 (3.41%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.27%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.27%) IoT
6 2 (2.27%) Replication
7 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.14%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.14%) Derivative
7 1 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.14%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (1.14%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.14%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.14%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.14%) HP Storage
7 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (48.86%) Linux
2 39 (44.32%) Windows
3 35 (39.77%) Windows Server
4 13 (14.77%) Windows Server 2012
5 11 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (7.95%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (4.55%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (3.41%) Windows 10
8 3 (3.41%) Windows XP
9 2 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (2.27%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (1.14%) Solaris
10 1 (1.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (23.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (15.91%) CI/CD
2 14 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (13.64%) ITIL
4 11 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 11 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (12.50%) Migration
5 9 (10.23%) Break/Fix
5 9 (10.23%) Customer Requirements
5 9 (10.23%) Server Management
6 7 (7.95%) Agile
7 5 (5.68%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (5.68%) DevOps
7 5 (5.68%) High Availability
7 5 (5.68%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (5.68%) Problem Management
8 4 (4.55%) Digital Marketing
8 4 (4.55%) Programme Management
8 4 (4.55%) Project Management
8 4 (4.55%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (21.59%) PowerShell
2 8 (9.09%) Python
3 7 (7.95%) SQL
4 3 (3.41%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.41%) Perl
5 2 (2.27%) VB
6 1 (1.14%) Bash
6 1 (1.14%) C
6 1 (1.14%) C#
6 1 (1.14%) C++
6 1 (1.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 33 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 28 (31.82%) DV Cleared
3 9 (10.23%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.95%) MCSE
4 7 (7.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (6.82%) Degree
6 3 (3.41%) CCNA
6 3 (3.41%) CCNP
6 3 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.41%) MCSA
7 2 (2.27%) RHCE
8 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.14%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.27%) SLA
2 1 (1.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 26 (29.55%) Active Directory
2 21 (23.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (15.91%) Hyper-V
4 6 (6.82%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (5.68%) Firmware
5 5 (5.68%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (4.55%) vSphere
7 2 (2.27%) Docker
7 2 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.14%) KVM
8 1 (1.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (14.77%) SCCM
2 12 (13.64%) Puppet
3 11 (12.50%) Progress Chef
4 7 (7.95%) SCOM
5 6 (6.82%) vCenter Server
6 5 (5.68%) WSUS
7 3 (3.41%) EMC NetWorker
7 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (3.41%) NetBackup
7 3 (3.41%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (2.27%) Backup Exec
8 2 (2.27%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (2.27%) Grafana
8 2 (2.27%) Kubernetes
9 1 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.14%) Nessus
9 1 (1.14%) SCOrch
9 1 (1.14%) SCVMM
9 1 (1.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (35.23%) VMware
2 26 (29.55%) Microsoft
3 16 (18.18%) Dell
3 16 (18.18%) HP
4 6 (6.82%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.55%) Cisco
5 4 (4.55%) Oracle
5 4 (4.55%) SAP
5 4 (4.55%) Veeam
6 3 (3.41%) 3PAR
6 3 (3.41%) CA
6 3 (3.41%) EMC
6 3 (3.41%) Extreme Networks
6 3 (3.41%) Juniper
6 3 (3.41%) Palo Alto
6 3 (3.41%) Symantec
7 2 (2.27%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (2.27%) Huawei
7 2 (2.27%) Trend Micro
7 2 (2.27%) Varonis