3rd Line Server Support Contracts

Third Line Server Support
UK

The median Third Line Server Support daily rate in the UK is £225 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 574 691 852
Rank change year-on-year +117 +161 -185
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Server Support 5 9 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.015% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.016% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 5
10th Percentile - - £182
25th Percentile £213 - £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £223 £375
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% -40.53% +32.74%
75th Percentile £263 - £450
90th Percentile £309 £287 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £225 £223 £338
% change year-on-year +0.90% -33.93% -3.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

3rd Line Server Support
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Server Support in the UK

3rd Line Server Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Server Support.

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Server Support in the UK

3rd Line Server Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Server Support.

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Server Support in the UK

3rd Line Server Support
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Server Support within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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
UK excluding London +68 4 £225 +0.90% 1
England +109 3 £225 +0.90%
South West +25 3 £225 -
Work from Home +118 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £340 - 1

3rd Line Server Support Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 3rd Line Server Support 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 featuring 3rd Line Server Support in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (60.00%) Windows 10
2 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Compliance Management
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Server Management
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Power BI
3 1 (20.00%) Application Packaging
3 1 (20.00%) SCCM
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) RHCE
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (20.00%) Solaris
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) SLA
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Clustering
3 1 (20.00%) KVM
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability

3rd Line Server Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (60.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Application Packaging
1 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Compliance Management
1 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (20.00%) High Availability
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (20.00%) Server Management
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) RHCE
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) KVM
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat