Server Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Server Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 98 127 145
Rank change year-on-year +29 +18 +19
Contract jobs citing Server Management 4 18 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.26% 0.67% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.77% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 17 4
10th Percentile £483 £415 £420
25th Percentile £494 £603 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £605 £700
Median % change year-on-year -13.22% -13.57% +138.30%
75th Percentile £581 £608 £700
90th Percentile £593 - £701
South East median daily rate £500 £605 £450
% change year-on-year -17.36% +34.44% +12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Server Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Management in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Server Management in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Server Management in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Server Management in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Server Management in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Server Management in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +19 2 £513 -15.29% 2
Buckinghamshire +16 1 £600 +140.00% 3
Oxfordshire +3 1 £500 +22.70% 1
Server Management
South East

Server Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (25.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) FTP
1 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) SMTP
1 1 (25.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (25.00%) Telnet
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) DBA
1 1 (25.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Unix Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Unix DBA
1 1 (25.00%) Unix Systems Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) LDAP
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) AIX
2 1 (25.00%) CentOS
2 1 (25.00%) HPUX
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Solaris
2 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Application Packaging
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (25.00%) Server Migrations
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Korn
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
1 1 (25.00%) NFS
1 1 (25.00%) Samba
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle ZFS
1 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (25.00%) Puppet
1 1 (25.00%) yum
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) VMware