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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 351 421
Rank change year-on-year +13 +70 +111
Contract jobs citing Server Management 27 48 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.20% 0.27% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.31% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 30 36
10th Percentile £285 £262 £301
25th Percentile £376 £353 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £400 £495
Median % change year-on-year +31.02% -19.24% -1.10%
75th Percentile £638 £466 £585
90th Percentile £692 £613 £685
England median daily rate £525 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +16.67% - +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 1
Median hourly rate - £23.05 £83.00
Median % change year-on-year - -72.23% -
England median hourly rate - £40.00 £83.00
% change year-on-year - -51.81% +187.20%

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 12,188 15,591 23,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.19% 88.48% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,144 11,105 16,751
10th Percentile £331 £340 £370
25th Percentile £425 £445 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -5.98% +1.74%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 296 262
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.97 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.02 £22.93
Median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.60 £68.75 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +45.12%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 +9 5 £450 +16.13% 8
West London +8 1 £300 -25.00% 3
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 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.70%) Confluence
2 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (51.85%) Azure
2 7 (25.93%) Entra ID
3 5 (18.52%) AWS
3 5 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (18.52%) IaaS
3 5 (18.52%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (18.52%) PaaS
4 3 (11.11%) Azure AKS
4 3 (11.11%) GCP
4 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.41%) Google Workspace
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.70%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (3.70%) GitHub
6 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (3.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (44.44%) Firewall
2 7 (25.93%) TCP/IP
3 6 (22.22%) Internet
4 5 (18.52%) DNS
4 5 (18.52%) HTTPS
4 5 (18.52%) SSL
5 4 (14.81%) DHCP
6 1 (3.70%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (3.70%) NAS
6 1 (3.70%) SAN
6 1 (3.70%) SSH
6 1 (3.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) SonarQube
2 1 (3.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (3.70%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.70%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) JIRA Agile
2 1 (3.70%) LoadRunner
2 1 (3.70%) ScriptRunner
2 1 (3.70%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Finance
3 3 (11.11%) Banking
3 3 (11.11%) Investment Banking
4 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Electronics
4 2 (7.41%) Manufacturing
4 2 (7.41%) Marketing
4 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.41%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Support Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Junior
2 6 (22.22%) Technical Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) 1st Line Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) 1st Line Support
3 5 (18.52%) 1st Line Support Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) 1st Line Support Technician
3 5 (18.52%) 1st Line Technical Support
3 5 (18.52%) Architect
3 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Junior Support Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Junior Support Technician
3 5 (18.52%) Junior Technical Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Junior Technical Support
3 5 (18.52%) Junior Technical Support Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Support Technician
3 5 (18.52%) Technical Support
3 5 (18.52%) Technical Support Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Azure Architect
4 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) REST
2 2 (7.41%) LDAP
3 1 (3.70%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (3.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 3 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (7.41%) Hedge funds
4 1 (3.70%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.70%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (37.04%) Linux
1 10 (37.04%) Windows
2 6 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 3 (11.11%) Windows 10
4 2 (7.41%) Mac OS X
4 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (7.41%) Rocky
4 2 (7.41%) Windows 8
4 2 (7.41%) Windows XP
5 1 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) DevOps
2 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (22.22%) Agile
3 6 (22.22%) Cloud Security
3 6 (22.22%) Configuration Management
4 5 (18.52%) Migration
5 4 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 3 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (11.11%) Release Management
7 2 (7.41%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (7.41%) Data Modelling
7 2 (7.41%) Digital Marketing
7 2 (7.41%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (7.41%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 2 (7.41%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (7.41%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (7.41%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 12 (44.44%) PowerShell
2 7 (25.93%) Python
3 4 (14.81%) SQL
4 3 (11.11%) Bash
5 1 (3.70%) Groovy
5 1 (3.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.11%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) HIPAA
1 2 (7.41%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.11%) Hyper-V
3 2 (7.41%) Docker
3 2 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (7.41%) vSphere
3 2 (7.41%) XenApp
4 1 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.70%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (40.74%) Terraform
2 10 (37.04%) Ansible
3 5 (18.52%) Kubernetes
4 3 (11.11%) Packer
5 2 (7.41%) McAfee ePO
5 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (7.41%) Norton AntiVirus
5 2 (7.41%) Puppet
5 2 (7.41%) SELinux
6 1 (3.70%) Opsgenie
6 1 (3.70%) yum
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Google
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) Cisco
2 4 (14.81%) Citrix
3 3 (11.11%) VMware
4 2 (7.41%) Adobe
4 2 (7.41%) Autodesk
4 2 (7.41%) Barracuda Networks
4 2 (7.41%) Dell
4 2 (7.41%) HP
4 2 (7.41%) Kaspersky
4 2 (7.41%) McAfee
4 2 (7.41%) NETGEAR
4 2 (7.41%) Panasonic
4 2 (7.41%) Sage
4 2 (7.41%) SAP
4 2 (7.41%) Sophos
4 2 (7.41%) Symantec
4 2 (7.41%) Toshiba
4 2 (7.41%) Wyse