Server Management Contracts in England

Server Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 420 435 476
Rank change year-on-year +15 +41 +146
Contract jobs citing Server Management 65 107 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.29% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.33% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 60 119
10th Percentile £316 £262 £198
25th Percentile £393 £313 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £465
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -13.98% +16.25%
75th Percentile £578 £608 £594
90th Percentile £618 - £713
UK median daily rate £515 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +28.75% -11.11% +8.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 15 2
10th Percentile - £22.03 £34.31
25th Percentile - £22.19 £42.43
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £55.95
Median % change year-on-year - -28.51% +93.60%
75th Percentile - - £69.48
90th Percentile - - £77.59
UK median hourly rate - £40.00 £55.95
% change year-on-year - -28.51% +115.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Server Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Server Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Server Management in England

Server Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Server Management in England

Server Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Management in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Server Management in England

Server Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Management in England

Server Management
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 Management within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +13 25 £525 +36.81% 40
North of England +33 16 £550 +28.96% 27
Yorkshire +22 15 £550 +69.23% 9
South East +34 13 £500 -17.36% 33
South West +34 6 £375 +27.12% 13
Midlands +14 2 - - 18
West Midlands +6 2 - - 11
East of England +30 1 £600 +41.18% 17
North East - 1 £350 - 3
Server Management
UK

Server Management
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 13 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (12.31%) SharePoint
3 5 (7.69%) Confluence
4 2 (3.08%) IIS
5 1 (1.54%) Apache
5 1 (1.54%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) iTrent
1 1 (1.54%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 23 (35.38%) Azure
2 14 (21.54%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (15.38%) AWS
4 9 (13.85%) Power Platform
5 5 (7.69%) GCP
6 4 (6.15%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.62%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (4.62%) Copilot Studio
7 3 (4.62%) GitHub
7 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (4.62%) PowerApps
8 2 (3.08%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.54%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.54%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.54%) IaaS
9 1 (1.54%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.54%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 22 (33.85%) DNS
2 19 (29.23%) Firewall
3 13 (20.00%) VPN
4 8 (12.31%) SAN
5 7 (10.77%) Internet
6 6 (9.23%) DHCP
6 6 (9.23%) Network Security
7 5 (7.69%) VLAN
8 4 (6.15%) TCP/IP
9 3 (4.62%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (4.62%) LAN
9 3 (4.62%) MPLS
9 3 (4.62%) VoIP
9 3 (4.62%) WAN
10 2 (3.08%) BGP
10 2 (3.08%) EIGRP
10 2 (3.08%) iSCSI
10 2 (3.08%) NAS
10 2 (3.08%) OpenLDAP
10 2 (3.08%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.08%) Oracle Database
2 9 (13.85%) Power BI
3 5 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 4 (6.15%) MySQL
5 3 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (7.69%) JIRA
2 4 (6.15%) Git
3 2 (3.08%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.08%) Maven
3 2 (3.08%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.54%) GitLab
4 1 (1.54%) JIRA Agile
4 1 (1.54%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.54%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (1.54%) Zephyr
General
1 24 (36.92%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.92%) Finance
3 8 (12.31%) Public Sector
3 8 (12.31%) Telecoms
4 6 (9.23%) Banking
4 6 (9.23%) Investment Banking
5 4 (6.15%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.62%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.62%) Military
7 2 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.08%) Electronics
7 2 (3.08%) Legal
7 2 (3.08%) Marketing
8 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.54%) Local Government
8 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (33.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (15.38%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 9 (13.85%) Senior
4 8 (12.31%) Engineering Specialist
4 8 (12.31%) Linux Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) IT Manager
5 6 (9.23%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) IT Services Manager
6 5 (7.69%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Service Manager
6 5 (7.69%) Windows Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Developer
7 4 (6.15%) IT Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Senior IT Manager
8 3 (4.62%) Senior Manager
8 3 (4.62%) Senior Service Manager
8 3 (4.62%) Support Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Windows Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.69%) LDAP
1 5 (7.69%) YAML
2 2 (3.08%) Flash
3 1 (1.54%) .NET
3 1 (1.54%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.54%) Classic ASP
3 1 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.54%) Redfish
3 1 (1.54%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (7.69%) Clustering
2 5 (7.69%) PKI
2 5 (7.69%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (3.08%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.08%) Hedge funds
3 2 (3.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 40 (61.54%) Windows
2 34 (52.31%) Linux
3 28 (43.08%) Windows Server
4 8 (12.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (7.69%) Ubuntu
6 4 (6.15%) CentOS
7 3 (4.62%) Solaris
8 2 (3.08%) Debian
8 2 (3.08%) Rocky
8 2 (3.08%) Unix
8 2 (3.08%) VMS
8 2 (3.08%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.54%) AIX
9 1 (1.54%) HPUX
9 1 (1.54%) Windows 10
9 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (52.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (36.92%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (29.23%) Agile
4 16 (24.62%) Migration
5 13 (20.00%) Microservices
5 13 (20.00%) Security Management
5 13 (20.00%) SOA
6 12 (18.46%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (12.31%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (10.77%) Analytics
8 7 (10.77%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (10.77%) Task Automation
9 6 (9.23%) DevOps
9 6 (9.23%) Storage Management
10 5 (7.69%) Break/Fix
10 5 (7.69%) Contract Management
10 5 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (7.69%) Infrastructure Management
10 5 (7.69%) Penetration Testing
10 5 (7.69%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 31 (47.69%) PowerShell
2 23 (35.38%) Bash
3 19 (29.23%) SQL
4 17 (26.15%) Python
5 15 (23.08%) PL/SQL
6 14 (21.54%) Perl
7 3 (4.62%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.08%) Bicep
8 2 (3.08%) C#
9 1 (1.54%) C-shell
9 1 (1.54%) Groovy
9 1 (1.54%) Java
9 1 (1.54%) Korn
Qualifications
1 31 (47.69%) Security Cleared
2 24 (36.92%) SC Cleared
3 17 (26.15%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (7.69%) MCSE
4 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.62%) CCNA
5 3 (4.62%) Degree
6 2 (3.08%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.08%) CCNP
6 2 (3.08%) Master's Degree
6 2 (3.08%) MCSA
6 2 (3.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.54%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.08%) Accessibility
1 2 (3.08%) HIPAA
1 2 (3.08%) NCSC
1 2 (3.08%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 9 (13.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (10.77%) Hyper-V
4 5 (7.69%) Docker
5 3 (4.62%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (3.08%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (3.08%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (1.54%) Firmware
7 1 (1.54%) NFS
7 1 (1.54%) Samba
7 1 (1.54%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (1.54%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (13.85%) Ansible
2 7 (10.77%) Puppet
2 7 (10.77%) Terraform
3 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (4.62%) vCenter Server
5 2 (3.08%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.08%) Nessus
5 2 (3.08%) Packer
5 2 (3.08%) SCOM
5 2 (3.08%) SELinux
6 1 (1.54%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.54%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.54%) Nagios
6 1 (1.54%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (1.54%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (1.54%) Plesk
6 1 (1.54%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.54%) SCCM
6 1 (1.54%) WSUS
6 1 (1.54%) yum
Vendors
1 22 (33.85%) Cisco
2 19 (29.23%) Microsoft
3 17 (26.15%) Oracle
4 15 (23.08%) VMware
5 6 (9.23%) Red Hat
6 4 (6.15%) Citrix
6 4 (6.15%) Google
7 3 (4.62%) Atlassian
7 3 (4.62%) EMC
7 3 (4.62%) Planview
7 3 (4.62%) Salesforce
8 2 (3.08%) SAP
8 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
8 2 (3.08%) Sophos
8 2 (3.08%) Splunk
8 2 (3.08%) Sybase
8 2 (3.08%) Veeam
9 1 (1.54%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.54%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.54%) Veritas