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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 355 364
Rank change year-on-year -12 +9 +135
Contract jobs citing Server Management 21 35 52
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.15% 0.22% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.25% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 26 27
10th Percentile £367 £248 £214
25th Percentile £401 £286 £262
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +24.06% -11.01% -10.10%
75th Percentile £708 £566 £538
90th Percentile £911 £613 £703
England median daily rate £540 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +13.68% +5.56% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.79 - -
Median hourly rate £20.19 £23.80 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.17% +8.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £20.60 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £20.19 £23.80 £22.00
% change year-on-year -15.17% +8.18% -10.93%

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 13,095 14,155 17,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.23% 89.55% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,599 9,136 12,670
10th Percentile £335 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £799 £799
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 171 240
10th Percentile £18.09 £17.25 £18.56
25th Percentile £24.50 £24.15 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% +4.30% -7.81%
75th Percentile £47.63 £55.88 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.62 £80.75 £75.13
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +25.00%

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 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 +12 5 £413 -30.53% 1
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 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.76%) AWS
3 1 (4.76%) Azure AKS
3 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.76%) IaaS
3 1 (4.76%) PaaS
3 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (52.38%) Internet
1 11 (52.38%) TCP/IP
2 2 (9.52%) DNS
2 2 (9.52%) Firewall
2 2 (9.52%) LAN
2 2 (9.52%) Softphone
2 2 (9.52%) Wireless
3 1 (4.76%) DHCP
3 1 (4.76%) HTTPS
3 1 (4.76%) NAS
3 1 (4.76%) SAN
3 1 (4.76%) SSH
3 1 (4.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (4.76%) Git
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Banking
3 4 (19.05%) Finance
4 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
5 2 (9.52%) Front Office
6 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.76%) Electronics
6 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.76%) Marketing
6 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Support Engineer
2 10 (47.62%) 1st Line Engineer
2 10 (47.62%) 1st Line Support
2 10 (47.62%) 1st Line Support Engineer
2 10 (47.62%) 1st Line Support Technician
2 10 (47.62%) 1st Line Technical Support
2 10 (47.62%) Junior
2 10 (47.62%) Junior Support Engineer
2 10 (47.62%) Junior Support Technician
2 10 (47.62%) Junior Technical Engineer
2 10 (47.62%) Junior Technical Support
2 10 (47.62%) Junior Technical Support Engineer
2 10 (47.62%) Support Technician
2 10 (47.62%) Technical Engineer
2 10 (47.62%) Technical Support
2 10 (47.62%) Technical Support Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (9.52%) Swing
3 1 (4.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (52.38%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Algorithms
2 2 (9.52%) Client/Server
2 2 (9.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (9.52%) iPad
2 2 (9.52%) Replication
2 2 (9.52%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (4.76%) Fixed Income
3 1 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Windows
2 7 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 5 (23.81%) Linux
4 2 (9.52%) Ubuntu
4 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (19.05%) Configuration Management
2 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (14.29%) ITIL
4 2 (9.52%) Analytics
4 2 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (9.52%) DevOps
4 2 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (9.52%) Kanban
4 2 (9.52%) Mathematics
4 2 (9.52%) Multithreading
4 2 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (9.52%) Scrum
4 2 (9.52%) Service Management
4 2 (9.52%) Software Engineering
4 2 (9.52%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (9.52%) Unit Testing
4 2 (9.52%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 3 (14.29%) SQL
3 2 (9.52%) Java
4 1 (4.76%) Bash
4 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Degree
2 2 (9.52%) Postgraduate
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Active Directory
2 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (9.52%) Docker
3 2 (9.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.76%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Ansible
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (9.52%) SCCM
1 2 (9.52%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Packer
2 1 (4.76%) yum
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) VMware
3 2 (9.52%) Polycom
3 2 (9.52%) Veeam
4 1 (4.76%) Bloomberg
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco
4 1 (4.76%) Citrix
4 1 (4.76%) FactSet
4 1 (4.76%) SAP
4 1 (4.76%) Tradeweb