Server Specialist Contracts

Server Specialist
UK

The median Server Specialist daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 711 843
Rank change year-on-year +141 +132 -174
Contract jobs requiring a Server Specialist 16 5 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.008% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.009% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 9
10th Percentile £262 - £456
25th Percentile £267 £175 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -30.00% -
75th Percentile £569 £383 £600
90th Percentile £575 £393 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate - £350 £481
% change year-on-year - -27.27% -3.75%

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 40,501 57,364 85,821
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.55% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,442 40,011 60,276
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 £748 £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 2,615 1,620 2,120
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.33 £15.47
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.77 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.12% +117.95% +2.63%

Server Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Specialist in the UK

Server Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Server Specialist in the UK

Server Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Specialist over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Server Specialist in the UK

Server Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Specialist in the UK

Server Specialist
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Server Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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 +126 16 £500 +42.86%
London - 14 £500 -
Work from Home +132 9 £500 +33.33%

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Server Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 7 (43.75%) WebSphere Application Server
1 7 (43.75%) WebLogic
1 7 (43.75%) SSL
1 7 (43.75%) IBM
1 7 (43.75%) WebSphere
1 7 (43.75%) IBM UrbanCode
2 6 (37.50%) DataPower
2 6 (37.50%) WebSphere MQ
2 6 (37.50%) Linux
3 5 (31.25%) Dell
3 5 (31.25%) OpenStack
3 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
4 4 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (25.00%) Firmware
4 4 (25.00%) Windows
5 3 (18.75%) ITIL
5 3 (18.75%) Python
5 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
5 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
5 3 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (18.75%) Finance
5 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (18.75%) Ansible
5 3 (18.75%) Docker
5 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
5 3 (18.75%) AWS
5 3 (18.75%) Open Source
5 3 (18.75%) Puppet

Server Specialist 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 7 (43.75%) WebLogic
1 7 (43.75%) WebSphere
1 7 (43.75%) WebSphere Application Server
2 5 (31.25%) OpenStack
3 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (18.75%) OpenShift
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
2 1 (6.25%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) SSL
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Electronics
4 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.25%) Marketing
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) DataPower
2 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Linux
2 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (12.50%) Windows 10
4 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
2 3 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (18.75%) ITIL
2 3 (18.75%) Open Source
2 3 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (18.75%) Server Management
3 2 (12.50%) Time Management
3 2 (12.50%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 1 (6.25%) Agile
4 1 (6.25%) Agile Project Management
4 1 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (6.25%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (6.25%) Data Migration
4 1 (6.25%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (6.25%) High Availability
4 1 (6.25%) Information Security
4 1 (6.25%) ITSM
4 1 (6.25%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Firmware
2 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (18.75%) Docker
3 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Ansible
1 3 (18.75%) Dell DRAC
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
1 3 (18.75%) Progress Chef
1 3 (18.75%) Puppet
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) SCCM
3 1 (6.25%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) IBM
2 5 (31.25%) Dell
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
4 2 (12.50%) Citrix
4 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
4 2 (12.50%) VMware
5 1 (6.25%) Remedy
5 1 (6.25%) SAP