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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 325 350
Rank change year-on-year -84 +25 +68
Contract jobs citing Server Management 17 26 47
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.094% 0.21% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.23% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 22 27
10th Percentile £413 £305 £262
25th Percentile £450 £478 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £388
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +41.94% -21.72%
75th Percentile £563 £628 £425
90th Percentile £668 £690 £503
England median daily rate £475 £550 £425
% change year-on-year -13.64% +29.41% -7.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.08
Median hourly rate - - £22.30
75th Percentile - - £23.80
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £48.72 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -51.81%

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 16,044 11,254 15,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.36% 92.20% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,716 7,590 11,078
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £432 £432 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 180 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £31.17 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +18.69% +11.65% -28.79%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.30 £66.98
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.69% -22.79% -2.46%

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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -12 6 £525 -12.50% 2
North London - 2 - - 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 (5.88%) Apache
1 1 (5.88%) CloudStack
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) Azure Monitor
2 4 (23.53%) Azure Stack
3 3 (17.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) Internet
1 5 (29.41%) TCP/IP
2 4 (23.53%) VLAN
3 3 (17.65%) Firewall
3 3 (17.65%) Network Security
3 3 (17.65%) VPN
3 3 (17.65%) VSAN
4 1 (5.88%) DHCP
4 1 (5.88%) DNS
4 1 (5.88%) LAN
4 1 (5.88%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) 1st Line Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) 1st Line Support
1 5 (29.41%) 1st Line Support Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) 1st Line Support Technician
1 5 (29.41%) 1st Line Technical Support
1 5 (29.41%) Junior
1 5 (29.41%) Junior Support Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Junior Support Technician
1 5 (29.41%) Junior Technical Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Junior Technical Support
1 5 (29.41%) Junior Technical Support Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Support Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Support Technician
1 5 (29.41%) Technical Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Technical Support
1 5 (29.41%) Technical Support Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Migration Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) C++ Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 2 (11.76%) COM
1 2 (11.76%) Qt
1 2 (11.76%) Web Services
2 1 (5.88%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.88%) cloud-init
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Data Centre
2 4 (23.53%) Replication
3 3 (17.65%) Clustering
3 3 (17.65%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (11.76%) Security Posture
5 1 (5.88%) Client/Server
5 1 (5.88%) CMDB
5 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
5 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
5 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
5 1 (5.88%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (47.06%) Linux
2 7 (41.18%) Windows
3 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (17.65%) SUSE
3 3 (17.65%) VMS
4 2 (11.76%) Ubuntu
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
5 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Agile
1 5 (29.41%) Migration
2 4 (23.53%) High Availability
2 4 (23.53%) Validation
3 3 (17.65%) Analytics
3 3 (17.65%) Converged Infrastructure
3 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (17.65%) Remediation Plan
4 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (11.76%) Financial Modelling
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (11.76%) ITIL
4 2 (11.76%) Multithreading
5 1 (5.88%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (5.88%) Functional Testing
5 1 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (5.88%) SIEM
5 1 (5.88%) Test Automation
5 1 (5.88%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) C#
2 2 (11.76%) C++
2 2 (11.76%) VBA
3 1 (5.88%) Bicep
3 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) Azure Certification
3 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) Degree
4 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (23.53%) Hyper-V
3 3 (17.65%) Firmware
3 3 (17.65%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (17.65%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (17.65%) vSphere
4 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
4 2 (11.76%) Docker
4 2 (11.76%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (5.88%) Ceph
5 1 (5.88%) KVM
5 1 (5.88%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Failover Clustering
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Clustering
1 3 (17.65%) vCenter Server
1 3 (17.65%) VxRail
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.88%) SCCM
2 1 (5.88%) SELinux
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
1 5 (29.41%) VMware
2 3 (17.65%) Dell
3 1 (5.88%) Remedy
3 1 (5.88%) Veeam