Server Management Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Server Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Server Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 105 133
Rank change year-on-year -34 +28 +21
Contract jobs citing Server Management 5 6 12
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.20% 0.37% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.39% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 10
10th Percentile £450 £378 £302
25th Percentile £469 £385 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £503
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.94% -8.64%
75th Percentile £559 £494 £608
90th Percentile £594 £550 -
South East median daily rate £525 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -

All Process & 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 2,122 1,522 2,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.05% 92.64% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,394 892 1,462
10th Percentile £268 £263 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £649 £663 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 48 158
10th Percentile £15.91 £18.64 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.34 £28.53 £20.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £56.75 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -42.73% +25.51% +0.47%
75th Percentile £83.00 £64.73 £62.54
90th Percentile £97.50 £78.03 £80.78
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £46.87
% change year-on-year -44.11% -3.99% +4.16%

Server Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Server Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Server Management job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Server Management
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Server Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Server Management

Server Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Management in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Server Management in the Thames Valley

Server Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Server Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Server Management

Server Management
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 28 February 2026. 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 -24 4 £500 +28.21% 1
Buckinghamshire -9 1 - - 2
Server Management
South East

Server Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Storage
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) DHCP
2 2 (40.00%) FTP
2 2 (40.00%) SSL
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Publishing
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (20.00%) OpenID
1 1 (20.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (20.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (40.00%) Operational Stability
2 2 (40.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Security Patching
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Dell
3 1 (20.00%) HP