Server Management Contracts in the South East

Server Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Server Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Server Management over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 173 207
Rank change year-on-year +34 +34 +42
Contract jobs citing Server Management 13 25 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.43% 0.45% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.53% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 22 7
10th Percentile £363 £278 £175
25th Percentile £425 £377 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £605 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% +34.44% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £700
90th Percentile £612 - £700
England median daily rate £525 £400 £465
% change year-on-year +31.25% -13.98% +16.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £28.90
England median hourly rate - £40.00 £55.95
% change year-on-year - -28.51% +93.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,758 4,707 5,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.54% 84.81% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,757 2,740 3,571
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 435 221
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.26 £23.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.79
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Server Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Management in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Server Management in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Server Management in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Management in the South East over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Server Management in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Server Management in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Server Management in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Hampshire +27 5 £640 +50.59% 3
Thames Valley +23 4 £525 -13.22% 1
Berkshire +15 2 £513 -15.29%
West Sussex +12 2 £375 +25.00%
Surrey - 2 £500 -
Buckinghamshire +18 1 £600 +140.00% 1
Oxfordshire +4 1 £500 +22.70%
Server Management
England

Server Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (38.46%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.69%) Apache
2 1 (7.69%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (61.54%) Firewall
2 6 (46.15%) Internet
2 6 (46.15%) VPN
3 5 (38.46%) Network Security
4 2 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (7.69%) DHCP
5 1 (7.69%) DNS
5 1 (7.69%) FTP
5 1 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (7.69%) SMTP
5 1 (7.69%) tcpdump
5 1 (7.69%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 3 (23.08%) Military
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) IT Manager
2 5 (38.46%) IT Services Manager
2 5 (38.46%) Service Manager
3 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 3 (23.08%) Senior IT Manager
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Manager
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Service Manager
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) C# Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Citrix Specialist
5 1 (7.69%) DBA
5 1 (7.69%) Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Hardware Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Project Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Unix Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Unix Systems Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
1 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
1 1 (7.69%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.69%) AIX
3 1 (7.69%) CentOS
3 1 (7.69%) HPUX
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Solaris
3 1 (7.69%) Ubuntu
3 1 (7.69%) Unix
3 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (38.46%) Analytics
3 5 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (38.46%) Case Management
3 5 (38.46%) Contract Management
3 5 (38.46%) Penetration Testing
3 5 (38.46%) Security Monitoring
4 4 (30.77%) Antivirus Management
5 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (23.08%) Storage Management
6 2 (15.38%) Design for Test
6 2 (15.38%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
7 1 (7.69%) Risk Management
7 1 (7.69%) Security Hardening
7 1 (7.69%) Server Migrations
7 1 (7.69%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Bash
1 1 (7.69%) C#
1 1 (7.69%) Korn
1 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 1 (7.69%) NFS
2 1 (7.69%) Samba
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) FortiGate
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle ZFS
2 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
2 1 (7.69%) Puppet
2 1 (7.69%) yum
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Citrix
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
2 2 (15.38%) VMware
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) Fortinet