Server Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Server Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Server Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 384 513
Rank change year-on-year +65 +129 -71
Contract jobs requiring a Server Engineer 22 83 106
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.15% 0.33% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.35% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 50 78
10th Percentile £225 £325 £271
25th Percentile £281 £400 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £525 £423
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +24.26% +20.28%
75th Percentile £449 £700 £500
90th Percentile £489 - £588
UK median daily rate £431 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -4.22% +12.50% +10.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate £98.00 £26.48 £23.00
% change year-on-year +270.09% +15.13% -20.21%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,049 23,953 42,349
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.34% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,416 16,906 30,628
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 553 596
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.61 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.34 £25.71 £18.76
Median hourly rate £44.74 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.15% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Server Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Server Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Server Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Server Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Server Engineer.

Server Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Server Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Server Engineer over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Server Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Server Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Server Engineer.

Server Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 7 May 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Server Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (77.27%) Windows
2 13 (59.09%) Active Directory
2 13 (59.09%) Windows Server
3 9 (40.91%) PowerShell
4 8 (36.36%) Linux
4 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
5 7 (31.82%) DNS
5 7 (31.82%) Azure
6 6 (27.27%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (27.27%) SCCM
7 5 (22.73%) Finance
7 5 (22.73%) Migration
7 5 (22.73%) DHCP
7 5 (22.73%) SQL Server
7 5 (22.73%) Dell
7 5 (22.73%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (22.73%) Entra ID
7 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (22.73%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
8 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (18.18%) Hyper-V
8 4 (18.18%) High Availability
8 4 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (18.18%) IIS
8 4 (18.18%) HP
8 4 (18.18%) SCOM
9 3 (13.64%) Network Load Balancing
9 3 (13.64%) VMware
9 3 (13.64%) Clustering

Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (18.18%) IIS
2 3 (13.64%) OpenStack
3 2 (9.09%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) Entra ID
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
4 2 (9.09%) AWS
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) Serverless
5 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (31.82%) DNS
2 5 (22.73%) DHCP
3 2 (9.09%) Network Security
3 2 (9.09%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (9.09%) SAN
4 1 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.64%) Power BI
3 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
1 1 (4.55%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (22.73%) Finance
1 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Banking
2 1 (4.55%) Dutch Language
2 1 (4.55%) Electronics
2 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
2 1 (4.55%) Marketing
2 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) .NET
1 2 (9.09%) ASP.NET
2 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Clustering
2 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Hedge funds
3 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.55%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 17 (77.27%) Windows
2 13 (59.09%) Windows Server
3 8 (36.36%) Linux
4 6 (27.27%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (22.73%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (22.73%) Migration
1 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (18.18%) High Availability
2 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (13.64%) Network Load Balancing
4 2 (9.09%) BCP
4 2 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (9.09%) Change Management
4 2 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (9.09%) Dashboard Development
4 2 (9.09%) Due Diligence
4 2 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (9.09%) Server Management
4 2 (9.09%) Server Migrations
5 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (4.55%) Observability
5 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (4.55%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) PowerShell
2 3 (13.64%) SQL
3 2 (9.09%) Python
3 2 (9.09%) VB
4 1 (4.55%) Bash
4 1 (4.55%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) MCSA
1 3 (13.64%) MCSE
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) MCP
System Software
1 13 (59.09%) Active Directory
2 5 (22.73%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (18.18%) Hyper-V
4 3 (13.64%) Firmware
5 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (9.09%) vSphere
6 1 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) SCCM
2 4 (18.18%) SCOM
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (9.09%) Terraform
4 2 (9.09%) vCenter Server
5 1 (4.55%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
5 1 (4.55%) Nessus
5 1 (4.55%) Puppet
5 1 (4.55%) SCOrch
5 1 (4.55%) SCVMM
5 1 (4.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 5 (22.73%) Dell
3 4 (18.18%) HP
4 3 (13.64%) VMware
5 2 (9.09%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (9.09%) Huawei
5 2 (9.09%) Trend Micro
5 2 (9.09%) Varonis
6 1 (4.55%) Qualys
6 1 (4.55%) SAP