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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 441 411 483
Rank change year-on-year -30 +72 +136
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Server Management 56 106 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.32% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.37% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 79 88
10th Percentile £325 £295 £237
25th Percentile £363 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -9.55% +10.56%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £633
90th Percentile £690 £613 £731
UK median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.79 - -
Median hourly rate £20.19 £23.80 £83.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.17% -71.33% +236.03%
75th Percentile £20.60 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £23.80 £83.00
% change year-on-year -3.36% -71.33% +236.03%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25,062 28,457 39,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.79% 85.79% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,974 18,468 27,622
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £404 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £626 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £756 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,446 1,582 1,376
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.12 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.75 £40.85
Median % change year-on-year -41.17% +4.66% +51.39%
75th Percentile £50.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £41.00
% change year-on-year -38.57% -0.15% +54.72%

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
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Server Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Management in England over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Server Management in England

Server Management
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Server Management
DemandTrendContract 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 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +6 24 £463 +15.63% 15
North of England -23 15 £525 +5.00% 12
Yorkshire -12 14 £525 +3.45% 2
South East -11 11 £513 -4.65% 7
Midlands -5 2 £485 -3.00% 1
West Midlands -6 2 £485 - 1
South West +18 1 £375 +7.14% 4
East of England +5 1 £350 -17.65% 3
North West -6 1 - - 8
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 8 (14.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.79%) Confluence
3 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.79%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (30.36%) Azure
2 10 (17.86%) Entra ID
3 9 (16.07%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (10.71%) IaaS
5 5 (8.93%) AWS
5 5 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (8.93%) PaaS
6 4 (7.14%) Azure AKS
7 3 (5.36%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (5.36%) GCP
8 2 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (3.57%) Google Workspace
8 2 (3.57%) Serverless
9 1 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.79%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.79%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (30.36%) DNS
1 17 (30.36%) Firewall
2 9 (16.07%) TCP/IP
3 8 (14.29%) DHCP
4 6 (10.71%) Internet
5 5 (8.93%) HTTPS
5 5 (8.93%) SSL
6 4 (7.14%) VPN
7 2 (3.57%) Softphone
7 2 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (3.57%) Wireless
8 1 (1.79%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.79%) LAN
8 1 (1.79%) NAS
8 1 (1.79%) Network Security
8 1 (1.79%) SAN
8 1 (1.79%) SSH
8 1 (1.79%) VLAN
8 1 (1.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 2 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.79%) MySQL
3 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.79%) Power BI
3 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (1.79%) Git
2 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.71%) Finance
2 6 (10.71%) Telecoms
3 4 (7.14%) Manufacturing
4 3 (5.36%) Electronics
4 3 (5.36%) Marketing
4 3 (5.36%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.57%) Banking
5 2 (3.57%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Military
6 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (16.07%) Support Engineer
3 8 (14.29%) Administrator
3 8 (14.29%) Architect
4 6 (10.71%) Junior
5 5 (8.93%) 1st Line Support
5 5 (8.93%) 1st Line Support Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) 1st Line Support Technician
5 5 (8.93%) 1st Line Technical Support
5 5 (8.93%) Engineering Specialist
5 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 5 (8.93%) Junior Support Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) Junior Support Technician
5 5 (8.93%) Junior Technical Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) Junior Technical Support
5 5 (8.93%) Junior Technical Support Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) Support Technician
5 5 (8.93%) Technical Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) Technical Support
5 5 (8.93%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.93%) REST
2 3 (5.36%) Middleware
3 2 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (3.57%) LDAP
3 2 (3.57%) Web Services
4 1 (1.79%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.64%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (16.07%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.57%) iPad
3 2 (3.57%) PKI
3 2 (3.57%) Security Posture
3 2 (3.57%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.79%) Clustering
4 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.79%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.79%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 26 (46.43%) Windows
2 20 (35.71%) Linux
2 20 (35.71%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.14%) Unix
4 3 (5.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (5.36%) Windows 10
4 3 (5.36%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (3.57%) Mac OS X
5 2 (3.57%) Windows 8
5 2 (3.57%) Windows XP
6 1 (1.79%) CentOS
6 1 (1.79%) Solaris
6 1 (1.79%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 18 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (30.36%) Agile
3 15 (26.79%) DevOps
4 10 (17.86%) Microservices
4 10 (17.86%) Migration
5 8 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 8 (14.29%) Security Management
5 8 (14.29%) SOA
6 7 (12.50%) Cloud Security
6 7 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (10.71%) Configuration Management
7 6 (10.71%) Infrastructure Management
7 6 (10.71%) ITIL
8 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (7.14%) Customer Service
9 4 (7.14%) Patch Management
9 4 (7.14%) Service Management
9 4 (7.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (48.21%) PowerShell
2 15 (26.79%) Bash
2 15 (26.79%) SQL
3 11 (19.64%) Python
4 8 (14.29%) PL/SQL
5 7 (12.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 20 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 14 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (5.36%) Azure Certification
4 3 (5.36%) Degree
5 2 (3.57%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.79%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) SLA
2 2 (3.57%) NCSC
3 1 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 18 (32.14%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.36%) NFS
2 3 (5.36%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (5.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (3.57%) vSphere
3 2 (3.57%) XenApp
4 1 (1.79%) GPFS
4 1 (1.79%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.79%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.79%) Xen
Systems Management
1 18 (32.14%) Ansible
2 13 (23.21%) Terraform
3 6 (10.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (5.36%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.36%) WSUS
5 2 (3.57%) McAfee ePO
5 2 (3.57%) Norton AntiVirus
5 2 (3.57%) SELinux
6 1 (1.79%) BladeLogic
6 1 (1.79%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.79%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.79%) Packer
6 1 (1.79%) yum
Vendors
1 14 (25.00%) Cisco
2 10 (17.86%) Microsoft
3 9 (16.07%) VMware
4 8 (14.29%) Oracle
5 6 (10.71%) Citrix
6 4 (7.14%) Google
6 4 (7.14%) ServiceNow
7 3 (5.36%) Dell
7 3 (5.36%) HP
7 3 (5.36%) Kaspersky
7 3 (5.36%) Red Hat
7 3 (5.36%) SAP
7 3 (5.36%) Sophos
8 2 (3.57%) Adobe
8 2 (3.57%) Autodesk
8 2 (3.57%) McAfee
8 2 (3.57%) Sage
8 2 (3.57%) Symantec
8 2 (3.57%) Toshiba
8 2 (3.57%) Wyse