Server Management Contract Job Trends in Reading

Server Management
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Server Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 72 94
Rank change year-on-year -8 +22 -4
Contract jobs citing Server Management 1 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.11% 0.40% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.43% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £376 -
25th Percentile £593 £378 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £380 £605
Median % change year-on-year +59.21% -37.19% +5.22%
75th Percentile £618 £390 £608
90th Percentile - £396 -
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £390 £605
% change year-on-year +28.21% -35.54% +5.22%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 811 705 1,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 88.25% 93.87% 92.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 547 389 629
10th Percentile £310 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £409 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -3.40%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £615
90th Percentile £670 £664 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 5 36
10th Percentile £56.08 £27.35 £20.17
25th Percentile £80.00 £29.00 £52.90
Median hourly rate £83.00 £61.76 £61.62
Median % change year-on-year +34.39% +0.22% -11.97%
75th Percentile £95.00 £64.73 £67.81
90th Percentile £107.00 £72.20 £87.53
Berkshire median hourly rate £81.50 £61.50 £59.00
% change year-on-year +32.53% +4.23% -8.77%

Server Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Server Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Server Management job vacancy trend in Reading

Server Management
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Server Management

Server Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Server Management

Server Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware