Server Management Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Server Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Server Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 126 122
Rank change year-on-year -12 -4 +73
Contract jobs citing Server Management 2 5 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.077% 0.19% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.088% 0.23% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 16
10th Percentile - - £359
25th Percentile £468 £475 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £609
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -17.86% +107.23%
75th Percentile £503 £525 £731
90th Percentile - - £750
England median daily rate £485 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,278 2,207 2,568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.41% 81.89% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,483 1,432 1,774
10th Percentile £250 £263 £250
25th Percentile £361 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.19% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 73 95
10th Percentile £12.81 £12.75 £13.38
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.00 £18.00
Median hourly rate £21.72 £21.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.43% -23.64% +52.78%
75th Percentile £27.04 £42.25 £51.50
90th Percentile £48.20 £54.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.96%

Server Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Server Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Server Management in the Midlands

Server Management
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Server Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Server Management

Server Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Server Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Server Management

Server Management
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 Management within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 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
West Midlands -12 2 £485 - 3
Server Management
England

Server Management
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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 2 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 2 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Operations Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk