3rd Line Server Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Third Line Server Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Third Line Server Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 394 445 503
Rank change year-on-year +51 +58 -83
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Server Engineer 1 7 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.005% 0.029% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% 0.031% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 9
10th Percentile - - £216
25th Percentile £325 - £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £223 £385
Median % change year-on-year +56.95% -42.08% +57.95%
75th Percentile £375 £346 £430
90th Percentile - £388 £450
UK median daily rate £350 £287 £385
% change year-on-year +22.16% -25.58% +49.51%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,260 22,774 29,857
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 94.07% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,836 15,954 20,879
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £594 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,214 1,200 1,503
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.06
25th Percentile £15.66 £18.12 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%

3rd Line Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured 3rd Line Server Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Server Engineer in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Server Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Server Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Server Engineer in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Server Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Server Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Server Engineer in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Server Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Server Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
South West +18 1 £350 -
3rd Line Server Engineer
UK

3rd Line Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, 3rd Line Server Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring 3rd Line Server Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) BEA
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Compliance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Reduction

3rd Line Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Compliance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Reduction
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Asset Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BEA
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft