Server Management Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Server Management
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Server Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 - 61
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing Server Management 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.34% - 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% - 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £355
Median % change year-on-year - - -50.18%
75th Percentile £438 - £358
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £345 £355
% change year-on-year +23.19% -2.82% -37.58%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 730 586 602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 82.02% 91.56% 83.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 387 392
10th Percentile £300 £249 £200
25th Percentile £400 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £688 £649 £738
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.91% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 54 10
10th Percentile £13.46 £12.62 £19.65
25th Percentile £19.51 £12.78 £22.33
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year +132.96% -59.42% +55.00%
75th Percentile £55.00 £22.08 £54.56
90th Percentile £75.00 £26.51 £57.53
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 £23.05 £23.89
% change year-on-year -0.22% -3.52% -13.13%

Server Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Server Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Server Management job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Server Management
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Server Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Server Management

Server Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Server Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Server Management

Server Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Apache
1 2 (66.67%) CloudStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) NAS
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Structured Cabling
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (66.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
3 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) BCP
2 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity
2 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Data Centre Operations
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Network Design
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Security Hardening
3 1 (33.33%) Dependency Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (66.67%) CCNP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Check_MK
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Commvault
2 2 (66.67%) Fortinet
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Veeam