Server Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Server Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Server Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £419 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 146 187
Rank change year-on-year +20 +41 -47
Contract jobs requiring a Server Engineer 4 20 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.15% 0.58% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.61% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 21
10th Percentile - £223 £196
25th Percentile £319 £247 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £413 £300
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% +37.50% +37.14%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £430
90th Percentile - - £520
England median daily rate £431 £440 £375
% change year-on-year -2.05% +17.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.50
Median hourly rate - £26.48 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year - +15.13% -17.86%
75th Percentile - - £23.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £98.00 £26.48 £23.00
% change year-on-year +270.09% +15.13% -19.30%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,509 3,279 4,924
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.01% 94.47% 95.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,697 2,308 3,602
10th Percentile £208 £223 £205
25th Percentile £325 £363 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £459
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% +3.49% +14.75%
75th Percentile £588 £582 £550
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 133 179
10th Percentile £11.95 £12.00 £10.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.25 £13.74
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.11
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +16.92% +12.16%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.50 £22.00
90th Percentile £54.60 £59.50 £32.10
England median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -22.22% +100.00% +0.36%

Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured Server Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Server Engineer in the Midlands

Server Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Server Engineer in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Server Engineer in the Midlands

Server Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Server Engineer in the Midlands

Server Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Server Engineer in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Server Engineer in the Midlands

Server Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Server Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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
West Midlands +26 2 £500 +2.56%
East Midlands +15 2 £338 +51.35%
Server Engineer
England

Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 15 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Server Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Midlands region featuring Server Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Edge Computing

Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Edge Computing
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) VMware