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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 440 458 500
Rank change year-on-year +18 +42 +182
Contract jobs citing Server Management 81 116 201
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.27% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.32% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 67 133
10th Percentile £278 £262 £200
25th Percentile £359 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -11.11% +7.14%
75th Percentile £591 £608 £585
90th Percentile £638 - £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £514 £378
% change year-on-year +2.14% +35.98% +4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 14 2
10th Percentile - £22.08 £34.31
25th Percentile - £22.68 £42.43
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £55.95
Median % change year-on-year - -28.51% +143.26%
75th Percentile - - £69.48
90th Percentile - - £77.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £40.00 £28.90
% change year-on-year - +38.41% +11.37%

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 26,555 36,687 51,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.98% 86.22% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,047 23,611 35,552
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,084 2,428 1,693
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.77
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.00 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

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 16 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 15 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 16 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 +26 64 £550 +37.50% 78
UK excluding London +30 47 £525 +2.14% 58
London +5 25 £538 +41.45% 34
North of England +33 17 £550 +28.96% 8
Work from Home +20 17 £440 +31.98% 37
Yorkshire +28 15 £550 +69.23% 1
South East +33 11 £550 -9.09% 17
Scotland +11 9 £250 -5.21% 6
South West +30 6 £375 +19.05% 8
Midlands +8 2 - - 6
West Midlands +5 2 - - 3
East of England +25 1 £600 +41.18% 12
North West +8 1 - - 7
North East - 1 £350 -
Wales - 1 £450 - 2

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 (16.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (9.88%) SharePoint
3 5 (6.17%) Confluence
4 3 (3.70%) IIS
5 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (1.23%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 6 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) iTrent
1 1 (1.23%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.23%) SAP EHS
1 1 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.23%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 29 (35.80%) Azure
2 17 (20.99%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (14.81%) AWS
4 8 (9.88%) Power Platform
5 7 (8.64%) Entra ID
6 6 (7.41%) GCP
7 4 (4.94%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.70%) IaaS
9 2 (2.47%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.47%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.47%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (2.47%) GitHub
9 2 (2.47%) Google Workspace
9 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (2.47%) PaaS
9 2 (2.47%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.23%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.23%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 26 (32.10%) Firewall
2 23 (28.40%) DNS
3 13 (16.05%) Internet
4 12 (14.81%) VPN
5 8 (9.88%) SAN
6 7 (8.64%) DHCP
7 6 (7.41%) Network Security
7 6 (7.41%) SSL
8 5 (6.17%) LAN
8 5 (6.17%) VLAN
9 4 (4.94%) TCP/IP
10 3 (3.70%) HTTPS
10 3 (3.70%) WAN
11 2 (2.47%) HTTP
11 2 (2.47%) iSCSI
11 2 (2.47%) MPLS
11 2 (2.47%) OpenLDAP
11 2 (2.47%) VoIP
11 2 (2.47%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (2.47%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.52%) Oracle Database
2 8 (9.88%) Power BI
3 6 (7.41%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (7.41%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.70%) MySQL
5 1 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (6.17%) JIRA
2 3 (3.70%) Git
3 2 (2.47%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.47%) Maven
3 2 (2.47%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.23%) GitLab
4 1 (1.23%) JIRA Agile
4 1 (1.23%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.23%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (1.23%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.23%) Zephyr
General
1 33 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.28%) Public Sector
3 12 (14.81%) Finance
4 9 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.11%) Telecoms
5 6 (7.41%) Banking
5 6 (7.41%) Investment Banking
5 6 (7.41%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.94%) Electronics
6 4 (4.94%) Marketing
7 3 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.70%) Legal
7 3 (3.70%) Military
8 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (28.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (14.81%) IT Engineer
3 10 (12.35%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 9 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
4 9 (11.11%) Senior
5 8 (9.88%) Engineering Specialist
6 6 (7.41%) IT Manager
6 6 (7.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) IT Services Manager
7 5 (6.17%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Service Manager
7 5 (6.17%) Support Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Windows Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Desktop Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Senior IT Manager
9 3 (3.70%) Senior Service Manager
9 3 (3.70%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Windows Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.17%) LDAP
2 4 (4.94%) YAML
3 3 (3.70%) REST
4 2 (2.47%) Flash
5 1 (1.23%) .NET
5 1 (1.23%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.23%) Classic ASP
5 1 (1.23%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.23%) Redfish
5 1 (1.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.28%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (6.17%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.17%) PKI
2 5 (6.17%) Video Conferencing
3 4 (4.94%) Clustering
4 3 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.47%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.23%) Life Science
6 1 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.23%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 51 (62.96%) Windows
2 40 (49.38%) Linux
3 35 (43.21%) Windows Server
4 7 (8.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (8.64%) Unix
5 6 (7.41%) Solaris
6 4 (4.94%) Ubuntu
6 4 (4.94%) Windows 10
7 3 (3.70%) CentOS
7 3 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.47%) Debian
8 2 (2.47%) Mac OS X
8 2 (2.47%) Rocky
8 2 (2.47%) VMS
8 2 (2.47%) Windows 8
8 2 (2.47%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.47%) Windows XP
9 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (43.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 28 (34.57%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (23.46%) Agile
4 17 (20.99%) Migration
5 13 (16.05%) Microservices
5 13 (16.05%) Security Management
5 13 (16.05%) SOA
6 11 (13.58%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (13.58%) ITIL
7 10 (12.35%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (12.35%) DevOps
8 9 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (9.88%) Service Management
10 7 (8.64%) Application Packaging
10 7 (8.64%) Infrastructure Management
10 7 (8.64%) Project Management
11 6 (7.41%) Analytics
11 6 (7.41%) Kalman Filter
11 6 (7.41%) Storage Management
11 6 (7.41%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 34 (41.98%) PowerShell
2 22 (27.16%) Bash
3 20 (24.69%) SQL
4 17 (20.99%) Python
5 15 (18.52%) PL/SQL
6 13 (16.05%) Perl
7 3 (3.70%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.47%) C#
9 1 (1.23%) ABAP
9 1 (1.23%) Bicep
9 1 (1.23%) C-shell
9 1 (1.23%) Groovy
9 1 (1.23%) Java
Qualifications
1 33 (40.74%) Security Cleared
2 26 (32.10%) SC Cleared
3 18 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (13.58%) Degree
5 6 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (6.17%) MCSE
7 4 (4.94%) Azure Certification
8 3 (3.70%) CCNA
8 3 (3.70%) CCNP
9 2 (2.47%) AWS Certification
9 2 (2.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.47%) Master's Degree
9 2 (2.47%) MCSA
9 2 (2.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (1.23%) Citrix Certification
10 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.23%) DBS Check
10 1 (1.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.17%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.47%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.47%) NCSC
3 2 (2.47%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.23%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (34.57%) Active Directory
2 10 (12.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (9.88%) Hyper-V
4 5 (6.17%) Docker
5 3 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.47%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (2.47%) VMware NSX
6 2 (2.47%) vSphere
6 2 (2.47%) XenApp
7 1 (1.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (1.23%) Firmware
7 1 (1.23%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 12 (14.81%) Ansible
2 9 (11.11%) Terraform
3 8 (9.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (7.41%) Puppet
5 3 (3.70%) Kubernetes
5 3 (3.70%) SCOM
5 3 (3.70%) SELinux
5 3 (3.70%) vCenter Server
6 2 (2.47%) McAfee ePO
6 2 (2.47%) Nessus
6 2 (2.47%) Norton AntiVirus
6 2 (2.47%) Packer
6 2 (2.47%) SCCM
7 1 (1.23%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.23%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.23%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.23%) Nagios
7 1 (1.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (1.23%) Plesk
7 1 (1.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (32.10%) Cisco
2 23 (28.40%) Microsoft
3 22 (27.16%) Oracle
4 17 (20.99%) VMware
5 7 (8.64%) Google
6 6 (7.41%) Citrix
6 6 (7.41%) Red Hat
6 6 (7.41%) SAP
7 5 (6.17%) Dell
8 4 (4.94%) ServiceNow
8 4 (4.94%) Sophos
9 3 (3.70%) Atlassian
9 3 (3.70%) Fortinet
9 3 (3.70%) HP
9 3 (3.70%) SolarWinds
10 2 (2.47%) Barracuda Networks
10 2 (2.47%) Kaspersky
10 2 (2.47%) NETGEAR
10 2 (2.47%) Panasonic
10 2 (2.47%) Veeam