Server Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Server Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Server Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £325 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 166 156
Rank change year-on-year +46 -10 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Server Engineer 8 2 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.36% 0.070% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.073% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 16
10th Percentile £225 £234 £328
25th Percentile £263 £285 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £370 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.16% -17.78% +36.36%
75th Percentile £388 £455 £475
90th Percentile £425 £506 £488
UK median daily rate £428 £440 £400
% change year-on-year -2.73% +10.00% +6.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 2,119 2,729 3,441
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 95.15% 96.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,300 1,963 2,447
10th Percentile £200 £250 £208
25th Percentile £378 £402 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £451
Median % change year-on-year - +5.44% +6.00%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £541
90th Percentile £663 £650 £615
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 43 56
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.83 £12.46
25th Percentile £16.31 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £23.86 £25.55
Median % change year-on-year +46.69% -6.60% -36.14%
75th Percentile £60.56 £61.78 £47.97
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.50 £54.03
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -

Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Engineer in Scotland

Server Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Server Engineer in Scotland

Server Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Server Engineer in Scotland

Server Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Engineer in Scotland

Server Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 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
Glasgow +12 6 £450 -16.67%
Edinburgh - 2 £200 -
Server Engineer
UK

Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 19 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 Scotland region featuring Server Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (50.00%) Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Python
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) DHCP
2 3 (37.50%) DNS
2 3 (37.50%) Perl
2 3 (37.50%) VMware
3 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) HP
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Git
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) vSphere
3 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (25.00%) Server Management
4 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Storage Management
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (12.50%) Redfish
4 1 (12.50%) Rubrik
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (12.50%) VSAN

Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) IaaS
1 1 (12.50%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DHCP
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (25.00%) Banking
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Driving Licence
2 1 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Server Management
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
3 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Storage Management
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Perl
3 1 (12.50%) C
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) vSphere
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Firmware
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (12.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (12.50%) Dell
3 1 (12.50%) Veeam