Server Management Contracts

Server Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 444 464 504
Rank change year-on-year +20 +40 +158
Contract jobs citing Server Management 76 118 215
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.27% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.31% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 65 141
10th Percentile £278 £262 £200
25th Percentile £363 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +28.75% -11.11% +8.43%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £585
90th Percentile £625 £608 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £465 £400
% change year-on-year +12.90% +16.25% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 15 2
10th Percentile - £22.03 £34.31
25th Percentile - £22.19 £42.43
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £55.95
Median % change year-on-year - -28.51% +115.61%
75th Percentile - - £69.48
90th Percentile - - £77.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £40.00 £28.90
% change year-on-year - +38.41% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Server Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Server Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Server Management in the UK

Server Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Server Management in the UK

Server Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Server Management in the UK

Server Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Management in the UK

Server Management
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +15 65 £525 +31.25% 61
UK excluding London +44 44 £525 +12.90% 42
London +13 25 £525 +36.81% 30
North of England +33 16 £550 +28.96% 11
Yorkshire +22 15 £550 +69.23% 2
South East +34 13 £500 -17.36% 16
Work from Home +29 12 £440 +35.23% 30
South West +34 6 £375 +27.12% 4
Scotland +11 5 £350 +32.70% 4
Midlands +14 2 - - 3
West Midlands +6 2 - - 3
East of England +30 1 £600 +41.18% 5
North East - 1 £350 - 1
Wales - 1 £450 -

Server Management
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 13 (17.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (10.53%) SharePoint
3 5 (6.58%) Confluence
4 3 (3.95%) IIS
5 1 (1.32%) Apache
5 1 (1.32%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) iTrent
1 1 (1.32%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.32%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 26 (34.21%) Azure
2 15 (19.74%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (17.11%) AWS
4 9 (11.84%) Power Platform
5 6 (7.89%) GCP
6 4 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (5.26%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.95%) Copilot Studio
7 3 (3.95%) GitHub
7 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (3.95%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.32%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.32%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.32%) IaaS
9 1 (1.32%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.32%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 22 (28.95%) DNS
1 22 (28.95%) Firewall
2 13 (17.11%) VPN
3 10 (13.16%) Internet
3 10 (13.16%) SAN
4 6 (7.89%) DHCP
4 6 (7.89%) Network Security
5 5 (6.58%) LAN
5 5 (6.58%) VLAN
6 4 (5.26%) NAS
6 4 (5.26%) SSL
6 4 (5.26%) TCP/IP
7 3 (3.95%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (3.95%) MPLS
7 3 (3.95%) VoIP
7 3 (3.95%) WAN
8 2 (2.63%) BGP
8 2 (2.63%) EIGRP
8 2 (2.63%) OSPF
8 2 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.74%) Oracle Database
2 9 (11.84%) Power BI
3 6 (7.89%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.26%) MySQL
5 3 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.63%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (6.58%) JIRA
2 4 (5.26%) Git
3 2 (2.63%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.63%) Maven
3 2 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.32%) GitLab
4 1 (1.32%) JIRA Agile
4 1 (1.32%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.32%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (1.32%) Zephyr
General
1 28 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.11%) Finance
2 13 (17.11%) Public Sector
3 10 (13.16%) Telecoms
4 6 (7.89%) Banking
4 6 (7.89%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (7.89%) Investment Banking
4 6 (7.89%) Manufacturing
5 4 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.26%) Electronics
5 4 (5.26%) Marketing
6 3 (3.95%) Legal
6 3 (3.95%) Military
7 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.32%) Local Government
7 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (32.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (15.79%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 10 (13.16%) Linux Engineer
4 9 (11.84%) Senior
5 8 (10.53%) Engineering Specialist
6 7 (9.21%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (9.21%) Windows Engineer
7 6 (7.89%) IT Engineer
7 6 (7.89%) IT Manager
7 6 (7.89%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) IT Services Manager
8 5 (6.58%) Service Manager
8 5 (6.58%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) Windows Specialist
9 4 (5.26%) Developer
9 4 (5.26%) Linux Server Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Linux Specialist
9 4 (5.26%) Server Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Server Specialist
9 4 (5.26%) Windows Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.58%) LDAP
1 5 (6.58%) YAML
2 2 (2.63%) Flash
3 1 (1.32%) .NET
3 1 (1.32%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.32%) Classic ASP
3 1 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.32%) Redfish
3 1 (1.32%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.11%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (6.58%) Clustering
2 5 (6.58%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.58%) PKI
2 5 (6.58%) Video Conferencing
3 4 (5.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.63%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.63%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.32%) Life Science
5 1 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 47 (61.84%) Windows
2 40 (52.63%) Linux
3 33 (43.42%) Windows Server
4 8 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (6.58%) Ubuntu
6 4 (5.26%) CentOS
6 4 (5.26%) Solaris
6 4 (5.26%) Unix
7 3 (3.95%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.63%) Debian
8 2 (2.63%) Rocky
8 2 (2.63%) VMS
8 2 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.32%) AIX
9 1 (1.32%) HPUX
9 1 (1.32%) Windows 10
9 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (48.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (38.16%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (25.00%) Agile
4 17 (22.37%) Migration
5 14 (18.42%) Disaster Recovery
6 13 (17.11%) Microservices
6 13 (17.11%) Security Management
6 13 (17.11%) SOA
7 10 (13.16%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (11.84%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (11.84%) Task Automation
9 8 (10.53%) ITIL
9 8 (10.53%) Storage Management
10 7 (9.21%) Analytics
10 7 (9.21%) DevOps
10 7 (9.21%) Infrastructure Management
11 6 (7.89%) Service Management
12 5 (6.58%) Penetration Testing
12 5 (6.58%) Programme Management
12 5 (6.58%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (44.74%) PowerShell
2 25 (32.89%) Bash
3 20 (26.32%) Python
4 19 (25.00%) SQL
5 15 (19.74%) PL/SQL
6 14 (18.42%) Perl
7 4 (5.26%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.63%) Bicep
8 2 (2.63%) C#
9 1 (1.32%) C-shell
9 1 (1.32%) Groovy
9 1 (1.32%) Java
9 1 (1.32%) Korn
Qualifications
1 31 (40.79%) Security Cleared
2 24 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 18 (23.68%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (7.89%) Degree
4 6 (7.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (6.58%) MCSE
6 3 (3.95%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.95%) CCNA
6 3 (3.95%) CCNP
7 2 (2.63%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.63%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.63%) MCSA
7 2 (2.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.32%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.32%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.89%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.63%) HIPAA
2 2 (2.63%) NCSC
2 2 (2.63%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.32%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (34.21%) Active Directory
2 10 (13.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (10.53%) Hyper-V
4 5 (6.58%) Docker
5 3 (3.95%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.63%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (2.63%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (1.32%) Firmware
7 1 (1.32%) NFS
7 1 (1.32%) Samba
7 1 (1.32%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.32%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 10 (13.16%) Ansible
2 7 (9.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (9.21%) Puppet
2 7 (9.21%) Terraform
3 3 (3.95%) SCOM
3 3 (3.95%) vCenter Server
4 2 (2.63%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.63%) Nessus
4 2 (2.63%) Packer
4 2 (2.63%) SCCM
4 2 (2.63%) SELinux
5 1 (1.32%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.32%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.32%) Nagios
5 1 (1.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (1.32%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (1.32%) Plesk
5 1 (1.32%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.32%) WSUS
5 1 (1.32%) yum
Vendors
1 24 (31.58%) Cisco
2 21 (27.63%) Microsoft
3 19 (25.00%) Oracle
4 18 (23.68%) VMware
5 7 (9.21%) Red Hat
6 5 (6.58%) Google
6 5 (6.58%) SAP
7 4 (5.26%) Citrix
8 3 (3.95%) Atlassian
8 3 (3.95%) Dell
8 3 (3.95%) EMC
8 3 (3.95%) Fortinet
8 3 (3.95%) Planview
8 3 (3.95%) Salesforce
9 2 (2.63%) Avaya
9 2 (2.63%) Forcepoint
9 2 (2.63%) Sophos
9 2 (2.63%) Splunk
9 2 (2.63%) Sybase
9 2 (2.63%) Veeam