Server Management Contracts

Server Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Server Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Server Management over the 6 months to 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 460 493 676
Rank change year-on-year +33 +183 -78
Contract jobs citing Server Management 116 195 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.35% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.39% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 131 109
10th Percentile £262 £200 £205
25th Percentile £322 £328 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £420
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £608 £585 £540
90th Percentile - £700 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £552 £379 £363
% change year-on-year +45.51% +4.55% -9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 5
10th Percentile £22.08 - £19.05
25th Percentile £22.68 - £22.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £83.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.81% +260.87% +67.27%
75th Percentile - - £28.90
90th Percentile - - £38.56
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - £25.95
% change year-on-year - - +11.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Server Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,593 50,587 79,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.80% 89.68% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,580 35,017 55,732
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +9.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,483 1,675 1,881
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.78 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £37.30 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +45.25% +9.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

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 25 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Server Management over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Server Management in the UK

Server Management
Top 13 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 25 May 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 +45 107 £425 -10.05% 80
UK excluding London +18 63 £552 +45.51% 76
London +65 47 £388 -21.72% 26
South East +36 31 £605 +21.00% 19
Work from Home +56 19 £354 -29.20% 31
South West +1 17 £405 -10.00% 2
Midlands +24 8 £450 -33.33% 18
West Midlands +3 8 £450 -33.33% 13
Scotland +13 4 £264 -29.67% 8
North of England +17 2 £427 +47.07% 16
North West +15 1 £528 +82.07% 5
East of England +6 1 £425 +19.72% 9
Yorkshire +4 1 £325 +32.65% 8

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 12 (10.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (8.62%) JBoss
2 10 (8.62%) nginx
2 10 (8.62%) Tomcat
3 9 (7.76%) Apache
4 6 (5.17%) OpenStack
5 4 (3.45%) SharePoint
6 3 (2.59%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 3 (2.59%) IIS
7 1 (0.86%) Confluence
7 1 (0.86%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.86%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (1.72%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (7.76%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 52 (44.83%) Azure
2 28 (24.14%) AWS
3 14 (12.07%) OCI
4 9 (7.76%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (6.03%) Entra ID
5 7 (6.03%) IaaS
6 5 (4.31%) OpenShift
7 4 (3.45%) GitHub
7 4 (3.45%) Nutanix
7 4 (3.45%) SaaS
8 3 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.59%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.59%) PaaS
8 3 (2.59%) WhatsApp
9 2 (1.72%) Akamai
9 2 (1.72%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.72%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.72%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.72%) Rubrik
10 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 47 (40.52%) DNS
2 43 (37.07%) Firewall
3 30 (25.86%) SAN
4 28 (24.14%) DHCP
5 25 (21.55%) LAN
6 21 (18.10%) WAN
7 15 (12.93%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (9.48%) VPN
9 9 (7.76%) MPLS
10 7 (6.03%) Internet
11 5 (4.31%) SSL
11 5 (4.31%) Wireless
12 4 (3.45%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (3.45%) FTP
13 3 (2.59%) Junos
13 3 (2.59%) NAS
13 3 (2.59%) SNMP
13 3 (2.59%) SSH
13 3 (2.59%) TCP/IP
13 3 (2.59%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (19.83%) SQL Server
2 10 (8.62%) RDBMS
2 10 (8.62%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.72%) Flink
4 2 (1.72%) MySQL
4 2 (1.72%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.86%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.86%) DB2
5 1 (0.86%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.86%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (6.90%) Git
2 3 (2.59%) Hudson
2 3 (2.59%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.72%) GitLab
4 1 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.86%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.86%) JIRA
4 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.86%) Visual Studio
General
1 62 (53.45%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.83%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (12.93%) Finance
4 10 (8.62%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.90%) Aerospace
6 6 (5.17%) Mandarin Language
7 4 (3.45%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.45%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.59%) Banking
8 3 (2.59%) Electronics
8 3 (2.59%) Marketing
9 1 (0.86%) Advertising
9 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.86%) Legal
9 1 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (18.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (12.93%) Support Engineer
3 13 (11.21%) IT Engineer
4 11 (9.48%) Analyst
5 10 (8.62%) IT Analyst
5 10 (8.62%) Storage Engineer
6 8 (6.90%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 8 (6.90%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
6 8 (6.90%) IT Support
6 8 (6.90%) Network Engineer
6 8 (6.90%) Server Engineer
7 7 (6.03%) Applications Support
7 7 (6.03%) Desktop Support
8 6 (5.17%) Administrator
8 6 (5.17%) Linux Support
8 6 (5.17%) Operations Engineer
8 6 (5.17%) Server Administrator
8 6 (5.17%) VMware Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Windows Administrator
9 5 (4.31%) Windows Server Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.76%) IBM Integration Bus
2 6 (5.17%) Middleware
3 3 (2.59%) .NET
3 3 (2.59%) Kafka
3 3 (2.59%) LDAP
4 2 (1.72%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.72%) ATL
4 2 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.72%) Software Packaging
4 2 (1.72%) Vue
5 1 (0.86%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.86%) HTML
5 1 (0.86%) J2EE
5 1 (0.86%) Redfish
5 1 (0.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 39 (33.62%) Data Centre
2 11 (9.48%) Clustering
3 8 (6.90%) Client/Server
4 6 (5.17%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (4.31%) Replication
6 4 (3.45%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.59%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.59%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.72%) CCTV
8 2 (1.72%) Fat Client
8 2 (1.72%) PKI
8 2 (1.72%) Thin Client
9 1 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.86%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.86%) NHS
9 1 (0.86%) Smart Meter
9 1 (0.86%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 81 (69.83%) Windows
2 57 (49.14%) Windows Server
3 44 (37.93%) Linux
4 29 (25.00%) Unix
5 21 (18.10%) Windows Server 2012
5 21 (18.10%) Windows Server 2016
6 20 (17.24%) Windows 10
7 15 (12.93%) Windows Server 2019
8 14 (12.07%) Windows XP
9 11 (9.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (6.03%) Mac OS
11 5 (4.31%) VMS
12 3 (2.59%) Solaris
13 1 (0.86%) Android
13 1 (0.86%) OS/390
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (29.31%) ITIL
2 33 (28.45%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (20.69%) Performance Tuning
4 23 (19.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 22 (18.97%) Storage Management
6 21 (18.10%) Disaster Recovery
7 17 (14.66%) Break/Fix
7 17 (14.66%) Project Management
8 16 (13.79%) Capacity Management
8 16 (13.79%) Converged Infrastructure
8 16 (13.79%) Performance Monitoring
8 16 (13.79%) Proactive Monitoring
9 15 (12.93%) Application Packaging
9 15 (12.93%) Migration
9 15 (12.93%) Network Management
10 12 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (9.48%) Agile
11 11 (9.48%) Asset Management
11 11 (9.48%) Capacity Planning
11 11 (9.48%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 47 (40.52%) PowerShell
2 18 (15.52%) Python
3 10 (8.62%) Shell Script
4 6 (5.17%) Bash
5 4 (3.45%) SQL
6 2 (1.72%) C#
6 2 (1.72%) Go
6 2 (1.72%) Perl
6 2 (1.72%) Scala
6 2 (1.72%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.86%) C
7 1 (0.86%) Java
7 1 (0.86%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.86%) VB
7 1 (0.86%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.86%) VBA
7 1 (0.86%) XPath
Qualifications
1 32 (27.59%) Degree
2 31 (26.72%) Security Cleared
3 25 (21.55%) SC Cleared
4 19 (16.38%) DV Cleared
5 16 (13.79%) CCNA
5 16 (13.79%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (12.93%) CCNP
7 7 (6.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (3.45%) MCSE
9 1 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.86%) CCIE
9 1 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.86%) RHCE
9 1 (0.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.31%) SLA
2 2 (1.72%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.86%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.86%) QA
System Software
1 47 (40.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 43 (37.07%) Active Directory
3 27 (23.28%) Hyper-V
4 20 (17.24%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (12.93%) Virtual Servers
6 14 (12.07%) Firmware
7 8 (6.90%) VMware Workstation
8 7 (6.03%) Docker
9 5 (4.31%) VMware NSX
9 5 (4.31%) vSphere
10 4 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (1.72%) BitLocker
11 2 (1.72%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (1.72%) PowerDNS
11 2 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (1.72%) XenApp
12 1 (0.86%) KVM
Systems Management
1 35 (30.17%) SCCM
2 24 (20.69%) NetBackup
3 23 (19.83%) SCOM
4 18 (15.52%) vCenter Server
5 17 (14.66%) WSUS
6 14 (12.07%) EMC NetWorker
6 14 (12.07%) Terraform
7 9 (7.76%) Ansible
7 9 (7.76%) Kubernetes
8 8 (6.90%) Microsoft Clustering
8 8 (6.90%) Nagios
9 7 (6.03%) SCVMM
10 6 (5.17%) Dell DRAC
10 6 (5.17%) Puppet
11 5 (4.31%) Progress Chef
12 4 (3.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (3.45%) VxRail
13 3 (2.59%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.86%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 51 (43.97%) VMware
2 40 (34.48%) Microsoft
3 33 (28.45%) Cisco
4 29 (25.00%) Oracle
5 28 (24.14%) Dell
6 22 (18.97%) Juniper
6 22 (18.97%) Veeam
7 18 (15.52%) HP
8 17 (14.66%) EMC
9 16 (13.79%) Extreme Networks
9 16 (13.79%) Palo Alto
10 14 (12.07%) 3PAR
10 14 (12.07%) Symantec
11 11 (9.48%) Red Hat
12 9 (7.76%) IBM
12 9 (7.76%) NetApp
12 9 (7.76%) Temenos
13 8 (6.90%) Hitachi
14 6 (5.17%) Commvault
14 6 (5.17%) TOWER Software