Server Specialist Contracts in England

Server Specialist
UK > England

The median Server Specialist daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 527 648
Rank change year-on-year +50 +121 +129
Contract jobs requiring a Server Specialist 8 15 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.033% 0.040% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.043% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 5
10th Percentile £266 £262 -
25th Percentile £341 £281 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £350
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +42.86% -28.21%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £383
90th Percentile £635 - £393
UK median daily rate £410 £500 £350
% change year-on-year -18.00% +42.86% -30.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Server Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Specialist in England

Server Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Server Specialist in England

Server Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Server Specialist in England

Server Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Specialist in England

Server Specialist
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 Specialist 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 +30 5 £348 -30.50%
South West - 3 £550 -
Server Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Server Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 7 (87.50%) PowerShell
3 5 (62.50%) Azure
4 4 (50.00%) VMware
4 4 (50.00%) ITIL
4 4 (50.00%) Finance
4 4 (50.00%) DevOps
5 3 (37.50%) Task Automation
5 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
5 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
5 3 (37.50%) AWS
5 3 (37.50%) Migration
6 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (25.00%) NAS
6 2 (25.00%) Marketing
6 2 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (25.00%) Programme Management
6 2 (25.00%) SAN
6 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (25.00%) Linux
6 2 (25.00%) Python
6 2 (25.00%) SMTP
6 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
6 2 (25.00%) Electronics
6 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
6 2 (25.00%) SAP
6 2 (25.00%) ITSM

Server Specialist 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) NAS
1 2 (25.00%) SAN
1 2 (25.00%) SMTP
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Electronics
3 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (25.00%) Marketing
3 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Task Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) ITSM
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Programme Management
3 2 (25.00%) Server Management
3 2 (25.00%) SIEM
3 2 (25.00%) Storage Management
4 1 (12.50%) Network Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Patch Management
4 1 (12.50%) Validation
4 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) SAP
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft