Server Management Contracts in London

Server Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 328 341 418
Rank change year-on-year +13 +77 +105
Contract jobs citing Server Management 25 50 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.20% 0.28% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.32% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 28 41
10th Percentile £306 £262 £190
25th Percentile £413 £309 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £384 £495
Median % change year-on-year +36.81% -22.47% +3.13%
75th Percentile £600 £425 £585
90th Percentile £608 £532 £638
England median daily rate £525 £400 £465
% change year-on-year +31.25% -13.98% +16.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 1
Median hourly rate - £22.23 £83.00
Median % change year-on-year - -73.22% -
England median hourly rate - £40.00 £55.95
% change year-on-year - -28.51% +93.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Server Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Management in London

Server Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Server Management in London

Server Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Server Management in London

Server Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Management in London

Server Management
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +6 6 £600 +54.84% 2
North London - 2 £270 -
South London - 1 £470 - 1
Server Management
England

Server Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) iTrent
1 1 (4.00%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 13 (52.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) AWS
2 5 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (16.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (12.00%) Copilot Studio
4 3 (12.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (12.00%) GCP
4 3 (12.00%) GitHub
4 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (12.00%) PowerApps
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) Firewall
2 3 (12.00%) Cisco ISE
2 3 (12.00%) MPLS
2 3 (12.00%) VoIP
2 3 (12.00%) VPN
3 2 (8.00%) BGP
3 2 (8.00%) DHCP
3 2 (8.00%) DNS
3 2 (8.00%) EIGRP
3 2 (8.00%) Ethernet
3 2 (8.00%) NAS
3 2 (8.00%) OSPF
3 2 (8.00%) SAN
3 2 (8.00%) SDH
3 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) Power BI
1 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.00%) MySQL
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) GitLab
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA Agile
1 1 (4.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (4.00%) ScriptRunner
1 1 (4.00%) Zephyr
General
1 10 (40.00%) Finance
2 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (20.00%) Banking
3 5 (20.00%) Investment Banking
4 4 (16.00%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (16.00%) Telecoms
5 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (8.00%) Electronics
6 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
6 2 (8.00%) Marketing
7 1 (4.00%) Local Government
7 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (4.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Senior
3 5 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Windows Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Consultant
6 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 2 (8.00%) Lead
6 2 (8.00%) Linux Server Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Linux Specialist
6 2 (8.00%) OSS Consultant
6 2 (8.00%) Server Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Server Specialist
6 2 (8.00%) Technical Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Windows Infrastructure Specialist
6 2 (8.00%) Windows Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) YAML
2 2 (8.00%) LDAP
3 1 (4.00%) Classic ASP
3 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Clustering
2 2 (8.00%) Hedge funds
2 2 (8.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (56.00%) Windows
2 12 (48.00%) Linux
3 9 (36.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (16.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (8.00%) Rocky
6 1 (4.00%) Solaris
6 1 (4.00%) Ubuntu
6 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (24.00%) Migration
4 5 (20.00%) Task Automation
5 4 (16.00%) DevOps
5 4 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (12.00%) API Integration
6 3 (12.00%) Break/Fix
6 3 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (12.00%) Data Enrichment
6 3 (12.00%) Data Science
6 3 (12.00%) Fault Management
6 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Management
6 3 (12.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (12.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (12.00%) Product Thinking
6 3 (12.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (12.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (48.00%) PowerShell
2 11 (44.00%) Python
3 5 (20.00%) Bash
4 4 (16.00%) SQL
5 2 (8.00%) Bicep
5 2 (8.00%) Perl
6 1 (4.00%) C#
6 1 (4.00%) Groovy
6 1 (4.00%) Java
6 1 (4.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.00%) CCNA
3 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.00%) Degree
3 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) MCSE
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (8.00%) HIPAA
1 2 (8.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (12.00%) Docker
4 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (4.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Ansible
1 5 (20.00%) Terraform
2 3 (12.00%) Puppet
3 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.00%) Packer
3 2 (8.00%) SELinux
4 1 (4.00%) Opsgenie
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (4.00%) Plesk
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (20.00%) VMware
2 4 (16.00%) Cisco
3 3 (12.00%) EMC
3 3 (12.00%) Google
3 3 (12.00%) Oracle
3 3 (12.00%) Planview
3 3 (12.00%) Salesforce
4 2 (8.00%) SAP
4 2 (8.00%) Splunk
4 2 (8.00%) Sybase
5 1 (4.00%) Atlassian
5 1 (4.00%) Citrix
5 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.00%) SolarWinds