Server Management Contracts in England

Server Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Server Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Server Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 434 498 625
Rank change year-on-year +64 +127 -100
Contract jobs citing Server Management 107 175 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.35% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.39% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 117 99
10th Percentile £262 £196 £210
25th Percentile £313 £318 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £465 £400
Median % change year-on-year -13.98% +16.25% -3.61%
75th Percentile £608 £588 £498
90th Percentile - £713 £577
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £415
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 3
10th Percentile £22.03 £34.31 £23.78
25th Percentile £22.19 £42.43 £25.70
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.95 £28.90
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +93.60% +24.52%
75th Percentile - £69.48 £36.95
90th Percentile - £77.59 £41.78
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.95 £25.95
% change year-on-year -28.51% +115.61% +11.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Server Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,161 45,385 64,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.56% 90.22% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,078 31,861 45,788
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,252 1,585 1,771
10th Percentile £12.93 £10.91 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £37.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% +53.06% +2.08%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £36.42 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.53% +45.69% -

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 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Server Management in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 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 +76 50 £384 -22.47% 21
South East +32 25 £605 +34.44% 11
South West +1 18 £295 -34.44% 8
West Midlands +22 10 £450 -33.33% 17
Midlands +22 10 £450 -33.33% 22
North of England +12 2 £427 +35.40% 10
Yorkshire +20 1 £325 - 2
North West +16 1 £528 +67.62% 8
East of England +4 1 £425 +8.28% 4
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 12 (11.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (7.48%) Tomcat
3 7 (6.54%) Apache
3 7 (6.54%) JBoss
4 6 (5.61%) nginx
4 6 (5.61%) OpenStack
5 4 (3.74%) IIS
6 3 (2.80%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 3 (2.80%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.93%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.87%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (5.61%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 50 (46.73%) Azure
2 26 (24.30%) AWS
3 13 (12.15%) OCI
4 11 (10.28%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (8.41%) Entra ID
6 7 (6.54%) IaaS
7 5 (4.67%) OpenShift
8 4 (3.74%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (3.74%) GitHub
8 4 (3.74%) Nutanix
9 3 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.80%) SaaS
10 2 (1.87%) Akamai
10 2 (1.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (1.87%) Google Workspace
10 2 (1.87%) Mimecast
10 2 (1.87%) PaaS
10 2 (1.87%) Route 53
10 2 (1.87%) Rubrik
10 2 (1.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 42 (39.25%) DNS
2 37 (34.58%) Firewall
3 30 (28.04%) SAN
4 26 (24.30%) DHCP
5 22 (20.56%) LAN
6 20 (18.69%) WAN
7 14 (13.08%) VPN
8 13 (12.15%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (8.41%) MPLS
10 5 (4.67%) Internet
10 5 (4.67%) SSL
10 5 (4.67%) Wireless
11 4 (3.74%) FTP
12 3 (2.80%) BGP
12 3 (2.80%) Cisco IOS
12 3 (2.80%) Junos
12 3 (2.80%) NAS
12 3 (2.80%) TCP/IP
12 3 (2.80%) WLAN
13 2 (1.87%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (18.69%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.54%) RDBMS
2 7 (6.54%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.87%) Flink
4 2 (1.87%) MySQL
4 2 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.93%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.93%) DB2
5 1 (0.93%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (6.54%) Git
2 3 (2.80%) Hudson
3 2 (1.87%) GitLab
3 2 (1.87%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.87%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.93%) JIRA
4 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 55 (51.40%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.76%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (11.21%) Finance
4 10 (9.35%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.48%) Aerospace
6 6 (5.61%) Mandarin Language
7 4 (3.74%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.74%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.80%) Banking
8 3 (2.80%) Electronics
8 3 (2.80%) Marketing
9 2 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Advertising
10 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Legal
10 1 (0.93%) Local Government
10 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (17.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (12.15%) Support Engineer
3 10 (9.35%) IT Engineer
4 9 (8.41%) IT Support
4 9 (8.41%) Storage Engineer
5 8 (7.48%) Analyst
5 8 (7.48%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 8 (7.48%) IT Analyst
5 8 (7.48%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
6 7 (6.54%) Administrator
6 7 (6.54%) Desktop Support
6 7 (6.54%) Server Engineer
7 6 (5.61%) Operations Engineer
7 6 (5.61%) Server Administrator
8 5 (4.67%) VMware Engineer
8 5 (4.67%) Windows Administrator
8 5 (4.67%) Windows Server Administrator
9 4 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (3.74%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 4 (3.74%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.61%) IBM Integration Bus
2 4 (3.74%) .NET
3 3 (2.80%) Middleware
4 2 (1.87%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.87%) Kafka
4 2 (1.87%) LDAP
4 2 (1.87%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.87%) Software Packaging
4 2 (1.87%) Vue
5 1 (0.93%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.93%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 41 (38.32%) Data Centre
2 10 (9.35%) Clustering
3 9 (8.41%) Client/Server
4 6 (5.61%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (4.67%) Replication
6 3 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.80%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.87%) CCTV
7 2 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.87%) Fat Client
7 2 (1.87%) NHS
7 2 (1.87%) PKI
7 2 (1.87%) Thin Client
8 1 (0.93%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.93%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 74 (69.16%) Windows
2 51 (47.66%) Windows Server
3 42 (39.25%) Linux
4 24 (22.43%) Unix
5 19 (17.76%) Windows 10
6 17 (15.89%) Windows Server 2012
7 15 (14.02%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (13.08%) Windows Server 2019
9 13 (12.15%) Windows XP
10 7 (6.54%) Mac OS
10 7 (6.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (4.67%) VMS
12 2 (1.87%) CentOS
12 2 (1.87%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.93%) OS/390
13 1 (0.93%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (29.91%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (28.97%) ITIL
3 25 (23.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 24 (22.43%) Performance Tuning
5 22 (20.56%) Storage Management
6 21 (19.63%) Disaster Recovery
7 19 (17.76%) Capacity Management
8 18 (16.82%) Migration
9 16 (14.95%) Break/Fix
10 15 (14.02%) Converged Infrastructure
10 15 (14.02%) Performance Monitoring
10 15 (14.02%) Proactive Monitoring
11 14 (13.08%) Project Management
12 13 (12.15%) Application Packaging
13 12 (11.21%) Network Management
14 11 (10.28%) Agile
14 11 (10.28%) Asset Management
14 11 (10.28%) Capacity Planning
14 11 (10.28%) Decision-Making
15 10 (9.35%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 41 (38.32%) PowerShell
2 16 (14.95%) Python
3 7 (6.54%) Shell Script
4 6 (5.61%) Bash
5 5 (4.67%) SQL
6 3 (2.80%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.87%) C#
7 2 (1.87%) Go
7 2 (1.87%) Scala
7 2 (1.87%) VB.NET
7 2 (1.87%) VBA
8 1 (0.93%) Java
8 1 (0.93%) VB
8 1 (0.93%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 28 (26.17%) Degree
2 27 (25.23%) Security Cleared
3 24 (22.43%) SC Cleared
4 17 (15.89%) CCNA
4 17 (15.89%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (14.95%) DV Cleared
6 14 (13.08%) CCNP
7 5 (4.67%) MCSE
7 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.87%) MCP
9 2 (1.87%) MCSA
10 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.93%) CCIE
10 1 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.74%) SLA
2 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.93%) NCSC
2 1 (0.93%) QA
System Software
1 45 (42.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 44 (41.12%) Active Directory
3 26 (24.30%) Hyper-V
4 18 (16.82%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (14.02%) Virtual Servers
6 12 (11.21%) Firmware
7 8 (7.48%) VMware Workstation
8 7 (6.54%) Docker
9 5 (4.67%) VMware NSX
10 4 (3.74%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (3.74%) Virtual Machines
11 3 (2.80%) vSphere
12 2 (1.87%) BitLocker
12 2 (1.87%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (1.87%) PowerDNS
12 2 (1.87%) XenApp
13 1 (0.93%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 36 (33.64%) SCCM
2 24 (22.43%) NetBackup
3 23 (21.50%) SCOM
4 17 (15.89%) WSUS
5 16 (14.95%) vCenter Server
6 14 (13.08%) Terraform
7 13 (12.15%) EMC NetWorker
8 11 (10.28%) Ansible
9 8 (7.48%) Kubernetes
9 8 (7.48%) Microsoft Clustering
9 8 (7.48%) Nagios
9 8 (7.48%) Puppet
9 8 (7.48%) SCVMM
10 7 (6.54%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (5.61%) Dell DRAC
12 5 (4.67%) Progress Chef
13 4 (3.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (3.74%) VxRail
14 2 (1.87%) FortiGate
14 2 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (45.79%) VMware
2 36 (33.64%) Microsoft
3 33 (30.84%) Cisco
4 27 (25.23%) Dell
5 23 (21.50%) Oracle
6 21 (19.63%) Veeam
7 18 (16.82%) Juniper
8 17 (15.89%) EMC
8 17 (15.89%) Palo Alto
9 16 (14.95%) HP
10 13 (12.15%) 3PAR
10 13 (12.15%) Extreme Networks
10 13 (12.15%) Symantec
11 9 (8.41%) NetApp
12 8 (7.48%) Hitachi
13 7 (6.54%) Red Hat
14 6 (5.61%) IBM
14 6 (5.61%) Temenos
14 6 (5.61%) TOWER Software
15 5 (4.67%) SolarWinds