Senior Server Engineer Contracts

Senior Server Engineer
UK

The median Senior Server Engineer daily rate in the UK is £613 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 584 705 816
Rank change year-on-year +121 +111 -143
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Server Engineer 2 17 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.028% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% 0.030% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 12
10th Percentile £576 £456 -
25th Percentile £578 £513 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +31.25% -10.31%
75th Percentile £653 £538 £438
90th Percentile £659 - £899
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £525 £415
% change year-on-year +19.05% +26.51% +44.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
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 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Senior Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Server Engineer in the UK

Senior Server Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Server Engineer in the UK

Senior Server Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Server Engineer in the UK

Senior Server Engineer
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 Senior Server Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
England +115 2 £613 +16.67% 2
London +106 1 £600 -
UK excluding London +65 1 £625 +19.05% 3
North of England - 1 £625 - 2
North West - 1 £625 - 2

Senior Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Server Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Derivative
2 1 (50.00%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (50.00%) MiFID
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) KDB
2 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) webpack
2 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Babel
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Server Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) npm
2 1 (50.00%) Yarn
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD

Senior 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) npm
2 1 (50.00%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) KDB
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Babel
1 1 (50.00%) webpack
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) Derivative
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Equity Derivative
1 1 (50.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (50.00%) Grid Computing
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) OOD
1 1 (50.00%) Server Virtualisation
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) MCSE
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) Dell
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) VMware