Server Management Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Server Management
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Server Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Server Management 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 0.46% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £541 £375 £405
% change year-on-year +44.33% -7.41% -10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 152 94 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 70.37% 95.92% 84.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 64 98
10th Percentile £350 £201 £175
25th Percentile £383 £341 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £475 £506
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% -6.17% -1.22%
75th Percentile £588 £552 £633
90th Percentile £703 £593 £734
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 33
10th Percentile £21.00 £14.70 £11.87
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.25 £13.69
Median hourly rate £63.14 £15.50 £14.81
Median % change year-on-year +307.32% +4.66% -73.69%
75th Percentile £72.54 £23.34 £56.49
90th Percentile £74.68 £67.50 £61.50
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £32.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +79.69% -41.82% -4.35%

Server Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Server Management job vacancy trend in Dorset

Server Management
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

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

Server Management
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

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 Dorset region over the 6 months to 17 June 2026. 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
Blandford Forum - 1 £575 - 2
Server Management
South West

Server Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) OPNET
1 1 (100.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle