Server Specialist Contracts

Server Specialist
UK

The median Server Specialist daily rate in the UK is £413, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 537 583 685
Rank change year-on-year +46 +102 +165
Contract jobs requiring a Server Specialist 5 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.012% 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.013% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile £405 - £353
25th Percentile £406 £262 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £350 £365
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% -4.11% -27.00%
75th Percentile £426 £500 £374
90th Percentile £439 - £379
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 - £365
% change year-on-year - - -21.08%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 29,828 39,787 53,178
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.83% 93.04% 94.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,980 25,580 36,870
10th Percentile £287 £288 £310
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.47%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,387 2,721 1,576
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.31 £17.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.75% -5.88% +65.50%
75th Percentile £55.37 £63.41 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £73.75 £77.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% +6.67% +79.36%

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
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 6 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 14 July 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 +31 5 £413 +17.86% 3
Yorkshire - 3 £413 - 3
UK excluding London - 3 £413 - 3
North of England - 3 £413 - 3
London +32 2 £410 +17.14%
Work from Home +29 1 £447 +17.32% 3

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

For the 6 months to 14 July 2025, 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 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (60.00%) Server Migrations
3 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (60.00%) VMware NSX
3 3 (60.00%) GitLab
3 3 (60.00%) vRealize
3 3 (60.00%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (60.00%) vCenter Server
3 3 (60.00%) Kanban
3 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (60.00%) vSphere
3 3 (60.00%) F5
3 3 (60.00%) Git
3 3 (60.00%) NAS
3 3 (60.00%) Scrum
3 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) SAN
3 3 (60.00%) DNS
3 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 3 (60.00%) Python
3 3 (60.00%) Middleware
3 3 (60.00%) Firewall
3 3 (60.00%) Migration

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) NAS
1 3 (60.00%) SAN
2 2 (40.00%) SMTP
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Middleware
2 2 (40.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Kanban
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Server Migrations
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) ITSM
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) SIEM
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (60.00%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (60.00%) VMware NSX
2 3 (60.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
2 3 (60.00%) vCenter Server
2 3 (60.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) F5
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft