3rd Line Server Engineer Contracts

Third Line Server Engineer
UK

The median Third Line Server Engineer daily rate in the UK 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 580 699 840
Rank change year-on-year +119 +141 -170
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Server Engineer 2 13 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.022% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% 0.023% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 9
10th Percentile - - £216
25th Percentile £325 £223 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £287 £385
Median % change year-on-year +22.16% -25.58% +49.51%
75th Percentile £375 £378 £430
90th Percentile - £388 £450
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £223 £385
% change year-on-year +56.95% -42.08% +57.95%

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 40,476 56,906 85,219
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,420 39,710 59,771
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £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 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,641 1,614 2,118
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.92 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

3rd Line Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

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

3rd Line Server Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

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

3rd Line Server Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

3rd Line Server Engineer
Top 4 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 Engineer within the UK 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
Work from Home +119 1 - -
England +113 1 £350 +22.16%
UK excluding London +51 1 £350 +56.95% 1
South West +18 1 £350 -

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

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 featuring 3rd Line Server Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) Compliance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Server Management
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Application Packaging
2 1 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) MCSE
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) BEA
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL

3rd Line Server Engineer 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 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Application Packaging
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Compliance Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cost Reduction
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Server Management
1 1 (50.00%) Software Asset Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) MCSE
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) BEA
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft