Server Administrator Contracts

Server Administrator
UK

The median Server Administrator daily rate in the UK is £380 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 568 704 845
Rank change year-on-year +136 +141 -172
Contract jobs requiring a Server Administrator 14 8 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.013% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.014% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 5
10th Percentile - £313 £388
25th Percentile £375 £369 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.14% -20.45% +31.34%
75th Percentile £425 £497 £600
90th Percentile - £514 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate - £350 £325
% change year-on-year - +7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £81.37 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £81.37 -

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%

Server Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Administrator in the UK

Server Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Server Administrator in the UK

Server Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Administrator in the UK

Server Administrator
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Server Administrator 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
England +131 13 £380 -20.00%
London +112 12 £380 -22.05%
Work from Home +123 3 £380 -24.00%
UK excluding London +53 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -

Server Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Server Administrator 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 Server Administrator in the job title.

1 11 (78.57%) Windows
1 11 (78.57%) Windows Server
2 8 (57.14%) VMware
2 8 (57.14%) Veeam
3 7 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 7 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (50.00%) VMS
4 6 (42.86%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 6 (42.86%) Firmware
4 6 (42.86%) Server Management
5 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
5 5 (35.71%) Performance Improvement
6 4 (28.57%) Azure
7 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
8 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
8 2 (14.29%) DNS
8 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
8 2 (14.29%) Finance
8 2 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
9 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
9 1 (7.14%) Virtual Infrastructure
9 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (7.14%) vCenter Server
9 1 (7.14%) Task Automation
9 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
9 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence

Server Administrator 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) DHCP
2 1 (7.14%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) LAN
2 1 (7.14%) Network Security
2 1 (7.14%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (7.14%) SAN
2 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (7.14%) OLAP
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database 11g
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database 12c
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle OLAP
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
General
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) PKI
1 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (78.57%) Windows
1 11 (78.57%) Windows Server
2 7 (50.00%) VMS
3 1 (7.14%) CentOS
3 1 (7.14%) Linux
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 6 (42.86%) Server Management
2 6 (42.86%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 5 (35.71%) Performance Improvement
4 2 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.14%) Application Packaging
5 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (7.14%) Change Control
5 1 (7.14%) Change Management
5 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (7.14%) Data Modelling
5 1 (7.14%) ETL
5 1 (7.14%) Load Balancing
5 1 (7.14%) Patch Management
5 1 (7.14%) Task Automation
5 1 (7.14%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) VB
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (42.86%) Firmware
3 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
4 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
4 1 (7.14%) VMware Server
4 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.14%) SCCM
2 1 (7.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Veeam
1 8 (57.14%) VMware
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle