Server Specialist Contracts in England

Server Specialist
UK > England

The median Server Specialist daily rate in England is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 539 641 773
Rank change year-on-year +102 +132 -146
Contract jobs requiring a Server Specialist 15 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.041% 0.008% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.009% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 4
10th Percentile £262 - £458
25th Percentile £281 £175 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £268 £488
Median % change year-on-year +86.92% -45.13% +0.26%
75th Percentile £575 £358 £578
90th Percentile - £373 £674
UK median daily rate £500 £268 £525
% change year-on-year +86.92% -49.05% +5.00%

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 34,147 46,484 67,372
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.64% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,648 32,994 47,972
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 £644 £663 £639
90th Percentile £750 £758 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,382 1,859
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.37
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.45 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 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 - 13 £500 -
Server Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, 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 7 (46.67%) WebSphere Application Server
1 7 (46.67%) WebLogic
1 7 (46.67%) SSL
1 7 (46.67%) IBM
1 7 (46.67%) WebSphere
1 7 (46.67%) IBM UrbanCode
2 6 (40.00%) DataPower
2 6 (40.00%) WebSphere MQ
3 5 (33.33%) Linux
4 4 (26.67%) Windows
4 4 (26.67%) Dell
4 4 (26.67%) OpenStack
4 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) Windows Server
4 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
5 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (20.00%) AWS
5 3 (20.00%) Firmware
5 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (20.00%) Finance
5 3 (20.00%) ITIL
5 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
6 2 (13.33%) SLA
6 2 (13.33%) Python
6 2 (13.33%) VMware
6 2 (13.33%) Citrix
6 2 (13.33%) Time Management
6 2 (13.33%) SCCM
6 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure

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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (46.67%) WebLogic
1 7 (46.67%) WebSphere
1 7 (46.67%) WebSphere Application Server
2 4 (26.67%) OpenStack
3 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
3 1 (6.67%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) SSL
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Electronics
4 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.67%) Marketing
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) DataPower
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (13.33%) Windows 10
4 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (13.33%) Open Source
3 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (13.33%) Server Management
3 2 (13.33%) Time Management
3 2 (13.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 1 (6.67%) Agile
4 1 (6.67%) Agile Project Management
4 1 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (6.67%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (6.67%) Data Migration
4 1 (6.67%) High Availability
4 1 (6.67%) Information Security
4 1 (6.67%) ITSM
4 1 (6.67%) Migration
4 1 (6.67%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (13.33%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (20.00%) Firmware
2 2 (13.33%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Ansible
1 2 (13.33%) Dell DRAC
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (13.33%) Progress Chef
1 2 (13.33%) Puppet
1 2 (13.33%) SCCM
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) IBM
2 4 (26.67%) Dell
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (13.33%) Citrix
4 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
4 2 (13.33%) VMware
5 1 (6.67%) Remedy
5 1 (6.67%) SAP