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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 153 192
Rank change year-on-year +4 +39 +62
Contract jobs citing Server Management 16 38 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.45% 0.77% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.94% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 32 18
10th Percentile £363 £278 £394
25th Percentile £413 £359 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +19.44% -11.76%
75th Percentile £618 £608 £581
90th Percentile £684 - £700
England median daily rate £513 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +13.89% -10.00% +11.11%

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 3,189 4,059 4,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.93% 82.75% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,990 2,483 3,350
10th Percentile £250 £255 £253
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% -0.09% +3.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £670 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 323 233
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.30
25th Percentile £15.13 £26.25 £21.05
Median hourly rate £21.50 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.51% +14.70% +100.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.09 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.71 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 +16 10 £680 +51.11% 1
Surrey +12 2 £513 +46.43%
West Sussex +3 2 £375 +25.00% 2
Berkshire -3 2 £550 -9.09%
Thames Valley -9 2 £550 -9.09% 2
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 (31.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (31.25%) Power Platform
4 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 2 (12.50%) Serverless
5 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (50.00%) Firewall
2 6 (37.50%) VPN
3 5 (31.25%) Internet
3 5 (31.25%) Network Security
4 3 (18.75%) DHCP
4 3 (18.75%) DNS
5 2 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (6.25%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Power BI
General
1 3 (18.75%) Military
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) IT Manager
2 5 (31.25%) IT Services Manager
2 5 (31.25%) Service Manager
3 4 (25.00%) Administrator
4 3 (18.75%) Architect
4 3 (18.75%) Senior
4 3 (18.75%) Senior IT Manager
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Manager
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Service Manager
4 3 (18.75%) Server Administrator
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Lead
5 2 (12.50%) Lead Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Hardware Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Linux Administrator
6 1 (6.25%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 1 (6.25%) Project Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (6.25%) Technical Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Middleware
2 2 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Clustering
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (18.75%) Unix
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (12.50%) Linux
5 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
1 6 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
1 6 (37.50%) Storage Management
2 5 (31.25%) Analytics
2 5 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (31.25%) Case Management
2 5 (31.25%) Contract Management
2 5 (31.25%) Penetration Testing
2 5 (31.25%) Security Monitoring
3 4 (25.00%) Antivirus Management
4 3 (18.75%) Agile
4 3 (18.75%) DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Network Design
4 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (12.50%) Kanban
5 2 (12.50%) Microservices
5 2 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) Perl
2 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) NFS
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) GPFS
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (25.00%) Ansible
3 3 (18.75%) Terraform
3 3 (18.75%) WSUS
4 1 (6.25%) BladeLogic
4 1 (6.25%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco
2 1 (6.25%) Citrix
2 1 (6.25%) Dell
2 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
2 1 (6.25%) HP
2 1 (6.25%) IBM
2 1 (6.25%) Mellanox
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
2 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.25%) Solarflare
2 1 (6.25%) Sun
2 1 (6.25%) VMware