Server Management Contract Job Trends in London

Server Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Server Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 338 332
Rank change year-on-year -78 -6 +84
Contract jobs citing Server Management 28 22 44
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.14% 0.16% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.18% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 15 32
10th Percentile £360 £207 £275
25th Percentile £431 £338 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £513 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +28.13% -19.60%
75th Percentile £566 £663 £481
90th Percentile £594 £704 £613
England median daily rate £475 £518 £450
% change year-on-year -8.21% +15.00% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £23.80
England median hourly rate - - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -71.33%

All Process & 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 17,959 12,532 14,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.08% 92.33% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,377 10,112
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 248 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.15% -13.73%
75th Percentile £56.25 £47.81 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.08 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.78%

Server Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Server Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Server Management job vacancy trend in London

Server Management
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Server Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Management in London over the 6 months to 11 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Server Management in London

Server Management
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

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 11 August 2026. 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 -19 6 £496 +27.18% 1
North London - 2 - -
Server Management
England

Server Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.14%) Apache
1 2 (7.14%) CloudStack
1 2 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) nginx
2 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (3.57%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (3.57%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) Azure
2 8 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
3 7 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 5 (17.86%) Entra ID
4 5 (17.86%) GitHub
4 5 (17.86%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (14.29%) Azure Stack
5 4 (14.29%) PaaS
6 3 (10.71%) AWS
7 2 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (7.14%) Serverless
8 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (3.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.57%) IaaS
8 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.57%) Slack
8 1 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.00%) VPN
2 6 (21.43%) Internet
2 6 (21.43%) TCP/IP
3 5 (17.86%) Firewall
3 5 (17.86%) Network Security
4 4 (14.29%) DHCP
4 4 (14.29%) DNS
4 4 (14.29%) VLAN
5 3 (10.71%) VSAN
6 1 (3.57%) NAS
6 1 (3.57%) OpenVPN
6 1 (3.57%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (3.57%) SAN
6 1 (3.57%) SSH
6 1 (3.57%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (3.57%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) MongoDB
1 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
1 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.57%) Power BI
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Git
1 2 (7.14%) JMeter
2 1 (3.57%) GitLab
2 1 (3.57%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) Subversion
General
1 9 (32.14%) Finance
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Retail
4 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Front Office
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
1 7 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) 1st Line Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) 1st Line Support
2 5 (17.86%) 1st Line Support Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) 1st Line Support Technician
2 5 (17.86%) 1st Line Technical Support
2 5 (17.86%) Junior
2 5 (17.86%) Junior Support Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Junior Support Technician
2 5 (17.86%) Junior Technical Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Junior Technical Support
2 5 (17.86%) Junior Technical Support Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Support Technician
2 5 (17.86%) Technical Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Technical Support
2 5 (17.86%) Technical Support Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Engineering Specialist
3 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) Next.js
1 2 (7.14%) Node.js
1 2 (7.14%) React
2 1 (3.57%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.57%) boto
2 1 (3.57%) cloud-init
2 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (35.71%) Data Centre
2 4 (14.29%) Clustering
2 4 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (10.71%) Replication
4 2 (7.14%) CMDB
4 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.57%) Client/Server
5 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.57%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (42.86%) Windows
2 11 (39.29%) Linux
3 7 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (14.29%) VMS
5 3 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (10.71%) SUSE
6 2 (7.14%) Ubuntu
7 1 (3.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 9 (32.14%) Migration
2 8 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (25.00%) Agile
3 7 (25.00%) DevOps
3 7 (25.00%) High Availability
3 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (21.43%) Business Continuity
4 6 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 5 (17.86%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (17.86%) RBAC
6 4 (14.29%) Cost Management
6 4 (14.29%) ITIL
6 4 (14.29%) Observability
6 4 (14.29%) Validation
7 3 (10.71%) Change Management
7 3 (10.71%) Configuration Management
7 3 (10.71%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (10.71%) Remediation Plan
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (25.00%) Python
3 6 (21.43%) Bash
4 5 (17.86%) Bicep
5 3 (10.71%) Java
6 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 8 (28.57%) Azure Certification
3 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.57%) CCNP
5 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) QA
1 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (21.43%) Hyper-V
2 6 (21.43%) vSphere
3 5 (17.86%) Active Directory
3 5 (17.86%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (10.71%) Firmware
4 3 (10.71%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (10.71%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (3.57%) Ceph
5 1 (3.57%) Docker
5 1 (3.57%) KVM
5 1 (3.57%) NFS
5 1 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (32.14%) Terraform
2 5 (17.86%) Ansible
2 5 (17.86%) vCenter Server
3 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (10.71%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (10.71%) Kubernetes
4 3 (10.71%) SCCM
4 3 (10.71%) VxRail
5 2 (7.14%) Grafana
5 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (7.14%) Prometheus
5 2 (7.14%) Puppet
5 2 (7.14%) SELinux
6 1 (3.57%) Check_MK
6 1 (3.57%) SCOM
6 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
2 10 (35.71%) VMware
3 3 (10.71%) Dell
4 2 (7.14%) Commvault
4 2 (7.14%) New Relic
4 2 (7.14%) Remedy
5 1 (3.57%) Bloomberg
5 1 (3.57%) BMC
5 1 (3.57%) Cisco
5 1 (3.57%) Citrix
5 1 (3.57%) EMC
5 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.57%) FXall
5 1 (3.57%) NetApp
5 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.57%) Tenable
5 1 (3.57%) Veeam