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

6 months to
28 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 333 414
Rank change year-on-year -16 +81 +141
Contract jobs citing Server Management 23 46 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.17% 0.28% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.31% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 34 33
10th Percentile £223 £266 £267
25th Percentile £344 £353 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £400 £495
Median % change year-on-year +29.38% -19.19% -7.04%
75th Percentile £650 £475 £585
90th Percentile £701 £613 £694
England median daily rate £524 £438 £500
% change year-on-year +19.71% -12.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £83.00
Median % change year-on-year - -71.33% -
England median hourly rate - £23.80 £83.00
% change year-on-year - -71.33% +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 12,513 14,661 22,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.22% 88.81% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,373 10,402 16,092
10th Percentile £327 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 219 236
10th Percentile £16.50 £16.19 £18.63
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.00 £24.06
Median hourly rate £29.75 £34.25 £41.27
Median % change year-on-year -13.14% -17.01% +17.08%
75th Percentile £49.75 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.40 £71.38 £80.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +63.46%

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 28 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 28 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 -1 3 £390 +0.65%
West London -3 1 £300 -25.00% 2
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 (13.04%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) Entra ID
3 5 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (21.74%) IaaS
3 5 (21.74%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (21.74%) PaaS
4 4 (17.39%) AWS
5 3 (13.04%) Azure AKS
6 2 (8.70%) GCP
6 2 (8.70%) Google Workspace
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (47.83%) Firewall
2 7 (30.43%) TCP/IP
3 6 (26.09%) Internet
4 5 (21.74%) DNS
4 5 (21.74%) HTTPS
4 5 (21.74%) SSL
5 4 (17.39%) DHCP
6 1 (4.35%) NAS
6 1 (4.35%) SAN
6 1 (4.35%) Softphone
6 1 (4.35%) SSH
6 1 (4.35%) VPN
6 1 (4.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) SonarQube
2 1 (4.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
4 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Electronics
4 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.70%) Marketing
4 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.35%) Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Support Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Junior
3 5 (21.74%) 1st Line Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) 1st Line Support
3 5 (21.74%) 1st Line Support Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) 1st Line Support Technician
3 5 (21.74%) 1st Line Technical Support
3 5 (21.74%) Architect
3 5 (21.74%) Junior Support Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Junior Support Technician
3 5 (21.74%) Junior Technical Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Junior Technical Support
3 5 (21.74%) Junior Technical Support Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Support Technician
3 5 (21.74%) Technical Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Technical Support
3 5 (21.74%) Technical Support Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Azure Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) REST
2 2 (8.70%) LDAP
3 1 (4.35%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Data Centre
2 3 (13.04%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.35%) Fixed Income
3 1 (4.35%) Hedge funds
3 1 (4.35%) iPad
3 1 (4.35%) PKI
3 1 (4.35%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Linux
1 9 (39.13%) Windows
2 5 (21.74%) Windows Server
3 3 (13.04%) Windows 10
4 2 (8.70%) Mac OS X
4 2 (8.70%) Windows 8
4 2 (8.70%) Windows XP
5 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (4.35%) Rocky
5 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) DevOps
2 6 (26.09%) Cloud Security
2 6 (26.09%) Configuration Management
2 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (21.74%) Agile
3 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (13.04%) Network Monitoring
4 3 (13.04%) Release Management
5 2 (8.70%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (8.70%) CI/CD
5 2 (8.70%) Customer Service
5 2 (8.70%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (8.70%) ITIL
5 2 (8.70%) Migration
5 2 (8.70%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 2 (8.70%) Programme Management
5 2 (8.70%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) PowerShell
2 4 (17.39%) Python
3 3 (13.04%) SQL
4 2 (8.70%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) HIPAA
1 1 (4.35%) NCSC
1 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (8.70%) vSphere
2 2 (8.70%) XenApp
3 1 (4.35%) Docker
3 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.35%) Xen
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Ansible
1 9 (39.13%) Terraform
2 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.70%) McAfee ePO
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.70%) Norton AntiVirus
3 2 (8.70%) Packer
3 2 (8.70%) SELinux
4 1 (4.35%) Puppet
4 1 (4.35%) yum
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Citrix
1 4 (17.39%) Google
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) Cisco
2 3 (13.04%) VMware
3 2 (8.70%) Adobe
3 2 (8.70%) Autodesk
3 2 (8.70%) Dell
3 2 (8.70%) Draytek
3 2 (8.70%) HP
3 2 (8.70%) McAfee
3 2 (8.70%) NETGEAR
3 2 (8.70%) Sage
3 2 (8.70%) SAP
3 2 (8.70%) Sophos
3 2 (8.70%) Symantec
3 2 (8.70%) Toshiba
3 2 (8.70%) WatchGuard
3 2 (8.70%) Webroot
3 2 (8.70%) Wyse