Server Management Contracts in the West Midlands

Server Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Server Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Server Management over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 112 166
Rank change year-on-year +8 +54 -33
Contract jobs citing Server Management 7 17 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.34% 0.77% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.88% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 14 7
10th Percentile - £358 £258
25th Percentile - £459 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £675 £420
Median % change year-on-year - +60.71% +60.00%
75th Percentile - £731 £469
90th Percentile - - £535
England median daily rate £425 £473 £423
% change year-on-year -10.05% +11.83% +1.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £19.95 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £83.00 £28.90
% change year-on-year -51.81% +187.20% +110.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Server Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,667 1,939 3,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 81.64% 87.62% 90.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,104 1,316 2,338
10th Percentile £265 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.00% +16.53%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £586
90th Percentile £731 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 51 58
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £12.18
25th Percentile £14.31 £14.03 £13.90
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year - +30.43% +15.00%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.97
90th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £24.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Server Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Server Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Server Management in the West Midlands

Server Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Server Management in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Server Management in the West Midlands

Server Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Server Management in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Server Management in the West Midlands

Server Management
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
Birmingham +5 4 - - 3
Warwickshire - 2 - -
Server Management
England

Server Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
1 1 (14.29%) SAN
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) Flink
1 1 (14.29%) InterSystems Cache
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Data Centre Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) IT Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (14.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) CCTV
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Antivirus Management
3 1 (14.29%) Change Control
3 1 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (14.29%) Server Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) Server Virtualisation
3 1 (14.29%) Storage Management
3 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) Docker
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Commvault
3 1 (14.29%) NetApp
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Sophos