Server Support Contracts

Server Support
UK

The median Server Support daily rate in the UK is £288 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 686 807
Rank change year-on-year +115 +121 -124
Contract jobs requiring a Server Support 11 17 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.029% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.031% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 22
10th Percentile £213 £217 £196
25th Percentile £217 £223 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £272 £338
Median % change year-on-year +5.89% -19.56% +3.85%
75th Percentile £339 £538 £425
90th Percentile £500 £540 £448
UK excluding London median daily rate £225 £223 £225
% change year-on-year +0.90% -0.89% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.50
Median hourly rate - - £23.00
75th Percentile - - £23.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £23.00

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 39,888 54,783 83,316
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,953 38,247 58,493
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,534 2,048
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Server Support
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Support in the UK

Server Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Server Support in the UK

Server Support
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Support over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Server Support in the UK

Server Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Support in the UK

Server Support
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Server Support within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England +93 9 £250 +12.11% 5
London +96 5 £325 -39.59%
UK excluding London +54 5 £225 +0.90% 5
Work from Home +116 4 £500 -7.41% 1
South West +19 3 £225 +25.00%
Scotland - 1 £340 -
South East - 1 £230 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Server Support 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 Support in the job title.

1 7 (63.64%) Windows
2 6 (54.55%) Windows Server
3 5 (45.45%) Windows 10
3 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
3 5 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (27.27%) AWS
4 3 (27.27%) SCCM
4 3 (27.27%) SLA
5 2 (18.18%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
5 2 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
5 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow
5 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
5 2 (18.18%) ITIL
5 2 (18.18%) Citrix
5 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (18.18%) Finance
5 2 (18.18%) VMware
5 2 (18.18%) Time Management
5 2 (18.18%) Test Scripting
5 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (9.09%) High Availability
6 1 (9.09%) Process Improvement
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (9.09%) Azure
6 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (9.09%) Banking
6 1 (9.09%) FLEXCUBE

Server Support 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) OCI
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
General
1 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
1 2 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Windows
2 6 (54.55%) Windows Server
3 5 (45.45%) Windows 10
4 1 (9.09%) Linux
4 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (9.09%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (18.18%) ITIL
1 2 (18.18%) Test Scripting
1 2 (18.18%) Time Management
1 2 (18.18%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 1 (9.09%) Application Packaging
2 1 (9.09%) Batch Processing
2 1 (9.09%) Business Continuity
2 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (9.09%) Change Management
2 1 (9.09%) Compliance Management
2 1 (9.09%) Customer Service
2 1 (9.09%) High Availability
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (9.09%) ITSM
2 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (9.09%) Process Improvement
2 1 (9.09%) Release Management
2 1 (9.09%) Server Management
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) RHCE
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (9.09%) KVM
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Citrix
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow
1 2 (18.18%) VMware
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat