Server Monitoring Contracts

Server Monitoring
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Server Monitoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Server Monitoring over the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 556 688
Rank change year-on-year +43 +132 +155
Contract jobs citing Server Monitoring 5 14 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.033% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.038% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 0
10th Percentile £346 £238 -
25th Percentile £385 £550 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.63% - -
75th Percentile £512 £700 -
90th Percentile £550 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £448 £160 -
% change year-on-year +180.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.95 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £19.95 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Server Monitoring 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 26,275 36,537 50,741
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.01% 85.91% 89.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,842 23,555 35,132
10th Percentile £303 £300 £325
25th Percentile £409 £413 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,070 2,471 1,680
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.00 £15.74
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% - +40.19%
75th Percentile £57.57 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.88 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year -33.38% +7.86% +75.00%

Server Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Monitoring in the UK

Server Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Server Monitoring in the UK

Server Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Monitoring over the 6 months to 24 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Server Monitoring in the UK

Server Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Monitoring in the UK

Server Monitoring
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Server Monitoring within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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 +56 4 £448 -33.63% 8
London +52 2 - - 4
UK excluding London +39 2 £448 +180.00% 9
Work from Home +40 1 - -
North of England - 1 £575 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £575 - 2
South East - 1 £321 - 2

Server Monitoring
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 (20.00%) CMS
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP EHS
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (20.00%) SAP Data Services
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Back Office
2 1 (20.00%) Front Office
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Sybase Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Classic ASP
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Customer Experience
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) Server Management
1 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Coaching
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) ABAP
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Data Guard
1 1 (20.00%) Plesk
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Sybase