Server Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Server Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 287 331 344
Rank change year-on-year +44 +13 +86
Contract jobs citing Server Management 47 63 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.30% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.36% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 33 88
10th Percentile £295 £239 £200
25th Percentile £363 £313 £274
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £465 £390
Median % change year-on-year +10.22% +19.23% +7.59%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £538
90th Percentile £629 - £713
UK median daily rate £500 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +25.06% -11.11% +11.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 1
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £28.90
Median % change year-on-year - +38.41% -
UK median hourly rate - £40.00 £55.95
% change year-on-year - -28.51% +115.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,544 17,537 21,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.36% 84.72% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,245 10,476 14,867
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 827 2,058 1,303
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.31 £15.24 £15.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +6.69% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

Server Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Server Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Server Management in the UK excluding London

Server Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Server Management in the UK excluding London

Server Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Server Management in the UK excluding London

Server Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Management in the UK excluding London

Server Management
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 Server Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
North of England +25 16 £550 +28.96% 13
Yorkshire +22 15 £550 +69.23% 2
South East +24 13 £500 -17.36% 14
Scotland +12 8 £250 -5.21% 5
South West +18 6 £375 +27.12% 4
Midlands +10 2 - - 2
West Midlands +5 2 - - 2
East of England +38 1 £600 +41.18% 4
North East - 1 £350 - 2
Wales - 1 £450 -
Server Management
UK

Server Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (27.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (10.64%) SharePoint
3 4 (8.51%) Confluence
4 2 (4.26%) IIS
5 1 (2.13%) Apache
5 1 (2.13%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 11 (23.40%) Azure
2 10 (21.28%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (10.64%) Power Platform
4 4 (8.51%) AWS
5 1 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.13%) GCP
5 1 (2.13%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 19 (40.43%) DNS
2 15 (31.91%) Firewall
3 10 (21.28%) Internet
4 9 (19.15%) VPN
5 6 (12.77%) SAN
6 5 (10.64%) LAN
6 5 (10.64%) Network Security
6 5 (10.64%) VLAN
7 3 (6.38%) DHCP
7 3 (6.38%) WAN
8 2 (4.26%) HTTP
8 2 (4.26%) iSCSI
8 2 (4.26%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (4.26%) SSL
8 2 (4.26%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (4.26%) WLAN
9 1 (2.13%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (2.13%) SMTP
9 1 (2.13%) tcpdump
9 1 (2.13%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (29.79%) Oracle Database
2 5 (10.64%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (10.64%) Power BI
3 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.13%) MySQL
4 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Git
1 4 (8.51%) JIRA
2 2 (4.26%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.26%) Maven
2 2 (4.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (48.94%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.28%) Public Sector
3 7 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.51%) Telecoms
5 3 (6.38%) Legal
5 3 (6.38%) Military
6 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (23.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (19.15%) IT Engineer
3 8 (17.02%) Engineering Specialist
3 8 (17.02%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 6 (12.77%) IT Manager
5 5 (10.64%) IT Services Manager
5 5 (10.64%) Service Manager
6 4 (8.51%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Senior
7 3 (6.38%) Senior IT Manager
7 3 (6.38%) Senior Manager
7 3 (6.38%) Senior Service Manager
8 2 (4.26%) 3rd Line Support
8 2 (4.26%) Citrix Specialist
8 2 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) IP Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Network Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Support Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.38%) LDAP
2 2 (4.26%) Flash
2 2 (4.26%) YAML
3 1 (2.13%) .NET
3 1 (2.13%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.13%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 13 (27.66%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (10.64%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (6.38%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.38%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.38%) PKI
3 3 (6.38%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.26%) Clustering
4 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 30 (63.83%) Windows
2 25 (53.19%) Linux
3 23 (48.94%) Windows Server
4 6 (12.77%) Unix
5 4 (8.51%) CentOS
5 4 (8.51%) Solaris
5 4 (8.51%) Ubuntu
6 3 (6.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (6.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (4.26%) Debian
7 2 (4.26%) VMS
7 2 (4.26%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (2.13%) AIX
8 1 (2.13%) HPUX
8 1 (2.13%) Windows 10
8 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (46.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (38.30%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (36.17%) Agile
4 13 (27.66%) Microservices
4 13 (27.66%) Security Management
4 13 (27.66%) SOA
5 10 (21.28%) Migration
6 7 (14.89%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (14.89%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (14.89%) ITIL
6 7 (14.89%) Service Management
7 6 (12.77%) Application Packaging
8 5 (10.64%) Analytics
8 5 (10.64%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (10.64%) Case Management
8 5 (10.64%) Contract Management
8 5 (10.64%) Penetration Testing
8 5 (10.64%) Project Management
8 5 (10.64%) Security Monitoring
9 4 (8.51%) Antivirus Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (40.43%) PowerShell
2 17 (36.17%) Bash
3 15 (31.91%) SQL
4 14 (29.79%) PL/SQL
5 12 (25.53%) Perl
6 5 (10.64%) Python
7 4 (8.51%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.13%) C#
8 1 (2.13%) C-shell
8 1 (2.13%) Korn
Qualifications
1 27 (57.45%) Security Cleared
2 21 (44.68%) SC Cleared
3 16 (34.04%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (14.89%) Degree
5 4 (8.51%) MCSE
5 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.26%) CCNA
6 2 (4.26%) CCNP
6 2 (4.26%) Master's Degree
6 2 (4.26%) MCSA
6 2 (4.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.13%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.26%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (40.43%) Active Directory
2 7 (14.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.38%) Hyper-V
3 3 (6.38%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (4.26%) Docker
4 2 (4.26%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (2.13%) Firmware
5 1 (2.13%) NFS
5 1 (2.13%) Samba
5 1 (2.13%) Terminal Services
5 1 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (8.51%) Ansible
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (8.51%) Puppet
2 3 (6.38%) SCOM
2 3 (6.38%) vCenter Server
3 2 (4.26%) Nessus
3 2 (4.26%) SCCM
4 1 (2.13%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.13%) HAProxy
4 1 (2.13%) Nagios
4 1 (2.13%) Oracle ZFS
4 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.13%) Terraform
4 1 (2.13%) WSUS
4 1 (2.13%) yum
Vendors
1 19 (40.43%) Cisco
1 19 (40.43%) Oracle
2 14 (29.79%) Microsoft
3 10 (21.28%) VMware
4 5 (10.64%) Red Hat
5 3 (6.38%) Citrix
5 3 (6.38%) Dell
5 3 (6.38%) Fortinet
6 2 (4.26%) Atlassian
6 2 (4.26%) Avaya
6 2 (4.26%) Extreme Networks
6 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.26%) Sophos
6 2 (4.26%) Veeam
7 1 (2.13%) Commvault
7 1 (2.13%) HP
7 1 (2.13%) SAP
7 1 (2.13%) SonicWALL
7 1 (2.13%) Sun