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 19 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 338 428
Rank change year-on-year -3 +90 -48
Contract jobs citing Server Management 60 92 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.41% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.46% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 74 49
10th Percentile £227 £200 £188
25th Percentile £343 £312 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £413 £375
Median % change year-on-year +43.03% +10.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £608 £538 £444
90th Percentile £611 £713 £506
UK median daily rate £413 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 7
10th Percentile £35.99 - £16.75
25th Percentile - - £19.63
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £28.90
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £35.34
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £83.00 £25.95
% change year-on-year -51.81% +219.85% +88.73%

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 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 19 June 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Server Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 19 June 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 East +34 31 £605 +27.37% 19
South West -5 16 £405 -10.00% 6
West Midlands +8 7 - - 13
Midlands +7 7 - - 18
Scotland +34 4 £264 -30.04% 5
North West +9 1 £528 +82.07% 9
North of England +4 1 £528 +82.07% 18
East of England +2 1 £425 +19.72% 7
Server Management
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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 9 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (3.33%) nginx
3 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.67%) Apache
4 1 (1.67%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (1.67%) JBoss
4 1 (1.67%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.67%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.67%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 27 (45.00%) Azure
2 14 (23.33%) OCI
3 7 (11.67%) AWS
4 6 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (8.33%) Entra ID
6 4 (6.67%) IaaS
7 3 (5.00%) GitHub
7 3 (5.00%) SaaS
8 2 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (3.33%) Google Workspace
8 2 (3.33%) Nutanix
8 2 (3.33%) PaaS
9 1 (1.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 32 (53.33%) DNS
2 28 (46.67%) SAN
3 25 (41.67%) DHCP
4 22 (36.67%) Firewall
5 14 (23.33%) LAN
6 12 (20.00%) WAN
7 10 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (15.00%) MPLS
9 5 (8.33%) Internet
10 4 (6.67%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (5.00%) Junos
11 3 (5.00%) Wireless
12 2 (3.33%) Cisco ISE
12 2 (3.33%) FTP
12 2 (3.33%) PBX
12 2 (3.33%) VPN
12 2 (3.33%) WLAN
13 1 (1.67%) Cisco Wireless
13 1 (1.67%) NX-OS
13 1 (1.67%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.33%) RDBMS
2 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.67%) Flink
3 1 (1.67%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Git
1 3 (5.00%) Hudson
2 2 (3.33%) GitLab
3 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
General
1 39 (65.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (13.33%) Aerospace
3 8 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.67%) Finance
5 3 (5.00%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.00%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.33%) Electronics
6 2 (3.33%) Marketing
7 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (16.67%) Analyst
2 10 (16.67%) IT Analyst
2 10 (16.67%) Storage Engineer
3 8 (13.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 8 (13.33%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 7 (11.67%) Server Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) Support Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) IT Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Network Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) VMware Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Data Centre Technician
7 3 (5.00%) Data Technician
7 3 (5.00%) Desktop Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Desktop Support
7 3 (5.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) PowerShell Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.33%) 802.1X
1 2 (3.33%) ATL
2 1 (1.67%) .NET
2 1 (1.67%) IBM Integration Bus
2 1 (1.67%) Kafka
2 1 (1.67%) Middleware
2 1 (1.67%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.67%) Redfish
2 1 (1.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 32 (53.33%) Data Centre
2 11 (18.33%) Clustering
3 8 (13.33%) Client/Server
4 3 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.00%) Replication
5 2 (3.33%) CCTV
5 2 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.67%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Smart Meter
6 1 (1.67%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (73.33%) Windows
2 29 (48.33%) Windows Server
3 27 (45.00%) Linux
4 17 (28.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 17 (28.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 15 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (23.33%) Windows 10
6 14 (23.33%) Windows XP
7 13 (21.67%) Unix
8 3 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (3.33%) Solaris
10 1 (1.67%) Android
10 1 (1.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (38.33%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (35.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (35.00%) ITIL
3 18 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 18 (30.00%) Storage Management
4 17 (28.33%) Break/Fix
4 17 (28.33%) Performance Tuning
4 17 (28.33%) Project Management
5 16 (26.67%) Proactive Monitoring
6 15 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
7 14 (23.33%) Converged Infrastructure
8 13 (21.67%) Application Packaging
8 13 (21.67%) Network Management
9 11 (18.33%) Capacity Planning
9 11 (18.33%) Decision-Making
10 10 (16.67%) Asset Management
10 10 (16.67%) Data Migration
10 10 (16.67%) Migration
11 9 (15.00%) Capacity Management
12 8 (13.33%) Business Transformation
Programming Languages
1 30 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (13.33%) Python
3 4 (6.67%) Bash
4 2 (3.33%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.67%) C
5 1 (1.67%) C#
5 1 (1.67%) Perl
5 1 (1.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 28 (46.67%) Degree
3 24 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 19 (31.67%) DV Cleared
5 15 (25.00%) CCNA
5 15 (25.00%) CCNP
5 15 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.33%) MCSE
6 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.67%) CCIE
7 1 (1.67%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) SLA
2 2 (3.33%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 37 (61.67%) Active Directory
2 32 (53.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (31.67%) VMware ESXi
4 18 (30.00%) Hyper-V
5 9 (15.00%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (13.33%) VMware Workstation
7 4 (6.67%) VMware NSX
7 4 (6.67%) vSphere
8 2 (3.33%) Firmware
9 1 (1.67%) Docker
9 1 (1.67%) KVM
Systems Management
1 27 (45.00%) SCCM
2 22 (36.67%) NetBackup
3 17 (28.33%) vCenter Server
3 17 (28.33%) WSUS
4 15 (25.00%) SCOM
5 14 (23.33%) EMC NetWorker
6 8 (13.33%) Microsoft Clustering
6 8 (13.33%) Nagios
7 4 (6.67%) Terraform
8 2 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (3.33%) Ansible
8 2 (3.33%) Kubernetes
8 2 (3.33%) VxRail
9 1 (1.67%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (1.67%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.67%) Nessus
9 1 (1.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (1.67%) Packer
9 1 (1.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 34 (56.67%) VMware
2 29 (48.33%) Microsoft
3 23 (38.33%) Cisco
4 19 (31.67%) Dell
4 19 (31.67%) Oracle
5 17 (28.33%) Juniper
5 17 (28.33%) Veeam
6 16 (26.67%) Extreme Networks
6 16 (26.67%) Palo Alto
7 15 (25.00%) EMC
7 15 (25.00%) HP
8 14 (23.33%) 3PAR
8 14 (23.33%) Symantec
9 9 (15.00%) NetApp
10 8 (13.33%) Hitachi
11 3 (5.00%) CheckPoint
11 3 (5.00%) Red Hat
12 2 (3.33%) Avaya
12 2 (3.33%) Meraki
12 2 (3.33%) SAP