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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 340 422
Rank change year-on-year +4 +82 +94
Contract jobs citing Server Management 25 40 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.19% 0.25% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.28% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 28 22
10th Percentile £238 £258 £231
25th Percentile £350 £344 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £400 £463
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% -13.51% -7.55%
75th Percentile £688 £500 £621
90th Percentile £713 £613 £675
England median daily rate £485 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.11% +5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.79 - -
Median hourly rate £20.19 £23.80 £83.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.17% -71.33% +304.88%
75th Percentile £20.60 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £20.19 £23.80 £83.00
% change year-on-year -15.17% -71.33% +304.88%

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 12,257 14,351 20,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.57% 89.23% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,103 9,613 14,599
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 180 230
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.25 £18.15
25th Percentile £25.00 £23.80 £22.00
Median hourly rate £31.75 £35.00 £39.92
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% -12.31% +7.88%
75th Percentile £48.44 £55.00 £64.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £72.19 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.54
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.24% +50.14%

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
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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +7 6 £413 +10.00%
West London -6 1 £300 -25.00%
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%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) Entra ID
2 6 (24.00%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (20.00%) IaaS
3 5 (20.00%) PaaS
4 3 (12.00%) AWS
4 3 (12.00%) Azure AKS
5 2 (8.00%) Google Workspace
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (4.00%) GCP
6 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (44.00%) Firewall
2 7 (28.00%) TCP/IP
3 6 (24.00%) Internet
4 5 (20.00%) DNS
4 5 (20.00%) HTTPS
4 5 (20.00%) SSL
5 4 (16.00%) DHCP
6 2 (8.00%) Softphone
6 2 (8.00%) Wireless
7 1 (4.00%) NAS
7 1 (4.00%) SAN
7 1 (4.00%) SSH
7 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (4.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (4.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Finance
2 5 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (12.00%) Electronics
3 3 (12.00%) Manufacturing
3 3 (12.00%) Marketing
3 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Front Office
5 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Support Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Junior
3 5 (20.00%) 1st Line Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) 1st Line Support
3 5 (20.00%) 1st Line Support Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) 1st Line Support Technician
3 5 (20.00%) 1st Line Technical Support
3 5 (20.00%) Architect
3 5 (20.00%) Junior Support Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Junior Support Technician
3 5 (20.00%) Junior Technical Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Junior Technical Support
3 5 (20.00%) Junior Technical Support Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Support Technician
3 5 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Technical Support
3 5 (20.00%) Technical Support Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Azure Architect
4 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) REST
2 2 (8.00%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (8.00%) LDAP
3 1 (4.00%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (12.00%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (8.00%) iPad
3 2 (8.00%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.00%) Fixed Income
4 1 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (4.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (44.00%) Windows
2 8 (32.00%) Linux
3 7 (28.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (12.00%) Windows 10
5 2 (8.00%) Mac OS X
5 2 (8.00%) Windows 8
5 2 (8.00%) Windows XP
6 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) DevOps
2 7 (28.00%) Configuration Management
3 6 (24.00%) Agile
3 6 (24.00%) Cloud Security
3 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (12.00%) Digital Marketing
6 3 (12.00%) ITIL
6 3 (12.00%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (12.00%) Programme Management
6 3 (12.00%) Release Management
7 2 (8.00%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (8.00%) Customer Service
7 2 (8.00%) Decision-Making
7 2 (8.00%) Mentoring
7 2 (8.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 2 (8.00%) Server Migrations
7 2 (8.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (16.00%) SQL
3 3 (12.00%) Python
4 1 (4.00%) Bash
4 1 (4.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (8.00%) Degree
5 1 (4.00%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (8.00%) vSphere
2 2 (8.00%) XenApp
3 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) Ansible
1 8 (32.00%) Terraform
2 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.00%) McAfee ePO
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.00%) Norton AntiVirus
3 2 (8.00%) SELinux
4 1 (4.00%) Packer
4 1 (4.00%) yum
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) Citrix
3 3 (12.00%) Cisco
3 3 (12.00%) Google
3 3 (12.00%) SAP
3 3 (12.00%) VMware
4 2 (8.00%) Autodesk
4 2 (8.00%) Barracuda Networks
4 2 (8.00%) Draytek
4 2 (8.00%) Kaspersky
4 2 (8.00%) NETGEAR
4 2 (8.00%) Panasonic
4 2 (8.00%) Polycom
4 2 (8.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (8.00%) Sophos
4 2 (8.00%) Symantec
4 2 (8.00%) Toshiba
4 2 (8.00%) WatchGuard
4 2 (8.00%) Webroot
4 2 (8.00%) Wyse