Server Management Contracts in the South West

Server Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 139 132
Rank change year-on-year +34 -7 +30
Contract jobs citing Server Management 6 18 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.36% 0.56% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.68% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 30
10th Percentile - £247 £200
25th Percentile £300 £270 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £295 £450
Median % change year-on-year +27.12% -34.44% +71.43%
75th Percentile £575 £375 £594
90th Percentile £665 £444 £669
England median daily rate £525 £400 £465
% change year-on-year +31.25% -13.98% +16.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
England median hourly rate - £40.00 £55.95
% change year-on-year - -28.51% +93.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Server Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Management in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Server Management in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Management in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Server Management in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Management in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Wiltshire +30 2 £625 +111.86% 1
Gloucestershire - 2 £300 - 4
Bristol +17 1 £375 +3.81% 1
Somerset -7 1 - - 1
Server Management
England

Server Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (16.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (33.33%) iSCSI
2 2 (33.33%) LAN
2 2 (33.33%) VLAN
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 2 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) Internet
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Legal
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (33.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Clustering
1 2 (33.33%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) VMS
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 2 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) NsoIT
2 2 (33.33%) Power Management
2 2 (33.33%) Service Management
2 2 (33.33%) System Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Validation
2 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 1 (16.67%) Application Packaging
3 1 (16.67%) Break/Fix
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Network Management
3 1 (16.67%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) MCSE
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (33.33%) CCNA
3 2 (33.33%) CCNP
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (33.33%) Degree
3 2 (33.33%) Master's Degree
3 2 (33.33%) MCSA
3 2 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 2 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (33.33%) VMware NSX
3 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) SCOM
1 2 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Veeam
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix