Server Administrator Contracts in England

Server Administrator
UK > England

The median Server Administrator daily rate in England is £380 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 524 640 764
Rank change year-on-year +116 +124 -145
Contract jobs requiring a Server Administrator 17 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.047% 0.010% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.011% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 2
10th Percentile £299 £313 £525
25th Percentile £338 £369 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -26.92% +67.74%
75th Percentile £403 £506 £713
90th Percentile £425 £518 £735
UK median daily rate £380 £438 £550
% change year-on-year -13.14% -20.45% +49.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £81.37 -
UK median hourly rate - £81.37 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,898 46,550 67,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.63% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,460 33,060 48,164
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,436 1,372 1,874
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.51
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +2.59%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.13%

Server Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Administrator in England

Server Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Server Administrator in England

Server Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Administrator in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Server Administrator in England

Server Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Administrator in England

Server Administrator
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Server Administrator within the England region over the 6 months to 13 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
London +97 12 £380 -22.05% 1
Midlands - 5 £300 - 1
West Midlands - 5 £300 - 1
Server Administrator
UK

Server Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, Server Administrator 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 across the England region featuring Server Administrator in the job title.

1 14 (82.35%) Windows
1 14 (82.35%) Windows Server
2 12 (70.59%) VMware
3 11 (64.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (52.94%) Active Directory
5 8 (47.06%) Veeam
6 7 (41.18%) Vulnerability Management
6 7 (41.18%) VMS
7 6 (35.29%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 6 (35.29%) DNS
7 6 (35.29%) Firmware
7 6 (35.29%) Server Management
8 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
8 5 (29.41%) SAN
8 5 (29.41%) PKI
8 5 (29.41%) Load Balancing
8 5 (29.41%) DHCP
8 5 (29.41%) Virtual Infrastructure
8 5 (29.41%) vCenter Server
8 5 (29.41%) VMware NSX
8 5 (29.41%) Remote Desktop
8 5 (29.41%) vSphere
8 5 (29.41%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (29.41%) Fibre Channel
8 5 (29.41%) Performance Improvement
8 5 (29.41%) VMware Server
8 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
9 4 (23.53%) CentOS
9 4 (23.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (23.53%) Azure

Server Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (5.88%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) DNS
2 5 (29.41%) DHCP
2 5 (29.41%) Fibre Channel
2 5 (29.41%) Remote Desktop
2 5 (29.41%) SAN
3 4 (23.53%) LAN
3 4 (23.53%) WAN
4 1 (5.88%) Firewall
4 1 (5.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.88%) OLAP
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database 11g
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database 12c
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle OLAP
General
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) .NET
1 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) PKI
2 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (82.35%) Windows
1 14 (82.35%) Windows Server
2 7 (41.18%) VMS
3 4 (23.53%) CentOS
3 4 (23.53%) Linux
3 4 (23.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (23.53%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Vulnerability Management
2 6 (35.29%) Server Management
2 6 (35.29%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 5 (29.41%) Load Balancing
3 5 (29.41%) Performance Improvement
3 5 (29.41%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 4 (23.53%) Change Control
4 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (23.53%) Patch Management
4 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (23.53%) Task Automation
5 2 (11.76%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (5.88%) Change Management
6 1 (5.88%) Data Modelling
6 1 (5.88%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
2 4 (23.53%) Bash
3 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) VB
System Software
1 11 (64.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (52.94%) Active Directory
3 6 (35.29%) Firmware
4 5 (29.41%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (29.41%) VMware NSX
4 5 (29.41%) VMware Server
4 5 (29.41%) vSphere
5 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) vCenter Server
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (70.59%) VMware
2 8 (47.06%) Veeam
3 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle