Server Management Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Server Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England 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 176 139 194
Rank change year-on-year -37 +55 +39
Contract jobs citing Server Management 8 20 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.20% 0.49% 0.098%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.58% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 14 5
10th Percentile - £415 -
25th Percentile - £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £508 £190
Median % change year-on-year +8.37% +167.11% -46.48%
75th Percentile - £545 £288
90th Percentile - £622 £468
England median daily rate £485 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,527 3,425 4,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.95% 84.05% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,275 2,009 3,021
10th Percentile £268 £310 £285
25th Percentile £375 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £681 £688
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.19% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 181 202
10th Percentile £13.26 £12.55 £15.72
25th Percentile £17.35 £18.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +27.27% +36.61%
75th Percentile £38.38 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.75 £70.00 £55.77
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Management in the North of England

Server Management
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Server Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Server Management

Server Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Server Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Server Management

Server Management
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
Yorkshire -29 7 £550 +6.80% 2
North West -11 1 - - 4
Server Management
England

Server Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Administrator
1 4 (50.00%) VMWare Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Engineering Specialist
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Asset Management Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Asset Management Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 4 (50.00%) Migration
2 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Microservices
4 2 (25.00%) Security Management
4 2 (25.00%) SOA
5 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
5 1 (12.50%) Data Centre Operations
5 1 (12.50%) IT Asset Management
5 1 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Six Sigma
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (12.50%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Bash
1 6 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) Perl
3 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle
4 1 (12.50%) Meraki
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow