Server Engineer Contracts

Server Engineer
UK

The median Server Engineer daily rate in the UK is £428 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 499 573 617
Rank change year-on-year +74 +44 -39
Contract jobs requiring a Server Engineer 87 143 243
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.24% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.25% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 91 187
10th Percentile £256 £223 £210
25th Percentile £300 £321 £283
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £440 £400
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +10.00% +6.67%
75th Percentile £608 £549 £475
90th Percentile £650 £700 £580
UK excluding London median daily rate £428 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +14.13% +7.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £89.20 £21.47 -
25th Percentile £91.00 £23.35 £22.50
Median hourly rate £98.00 £26.48 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +270.09% +15.13% -19.30%
75th Percentile £103.00 £30.74 £23.50
90th Percentile £103.60 £33.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £98.00 £26.48 £23.00
% change year-on-year +270.09% +15.13% -18.58%

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Engineer in the UK

Server Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Server Engineer in the UK

Server Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Server Engineer in the UK

Server Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Engineer in the UK

Server Engineer
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 Engineer 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 +75 74 £425 -1.73% 12
UK excluding London +55 50 £428 +14.13% 9
London +89 32 £425 -27.10% 4
Work from Home +65 23 £350 -33.33% 4
South East +12 18 £500 +42.86% 2
North of England +35 11 £415 +10.67% 3
Scotland +46 8 £325 -12.16%
East of England +22 8 £575 +158.43% 1
North West +24 6 £438 -22.57% 1
Midlands +19 4 £419 +1.52%
Yorkshire +18 3 £400 +23.08%
North East +22 2 £423 +5.75% 2
West Midlands +16 2 £500 +2.56%
East Midlands +10 2 £338 +51.35%
South West +19 1 £350 -12.50% 2

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

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

1 41 (47.13%) Linux
2 39 (44.83%) Windows
3 35 (40.23%) Windows Server
4 33 (37.93%) Security Cleared
5 29 (33.33%) VMware
6 28 (32.18%) DV Cleared
7 27 (31.03%) Data Centre
8 24 (27.59%) Microsoft
8 24 (27.59%) Active Directory
9 21 (24.14%) Social Skills
10 20 (22.99%) VMware Infrastructure
11 18 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 16 (18.39%) HP
12 16 (18.39%) DNS
12 16 (18.39%) PowerShell
13 15 (17.24%) Azure
13 15 (17.24%) Dell
14 14 (16.09%) DHCP
14 14 (16.09%) Jenkins
14 14 (16.09%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (14.94%) CI/CD
15 13 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
15 13 (14.94%) Hyper-V
16 12 (13.79%) Puppet
16 12 (13.79%) Windows Server 2012
16 12 (13.79%) Customer Requirements
17 11 (12.64%) Progress Chef
17 11 (12.64%) SCCM
17 11 (12.64%) Data Protection
17 11 (12.64%) HTTP

Server Engineer 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 4 (4.60%) IIS
1 4 (4.60%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.30%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 15 (17.24%) Azure
2 6 (6.90%) Entra ID
2 6 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (3.45%) AWS
3 3 (3.45%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.30%) IaaS
4 2 (2.30%) OCI
4 2 (2.30%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.15%) Azure Storage
5 1 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.15%) npm
5 1 (1.15%) PaaS
5 1 (1.15%) Rubrik
5 1 (1.15%) SaaS
5 1 (1.15%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 16 (18.39%) DNS
2 14 (16.09%) DHCP
3 11 (12.64%) HTTP
3 11 (12.64%) SSL
3 11 (12.64%) TCP/IP
4 7 (8.05%) SAN
5 4 (4.60%) Firewall
6 3 (3.45%) Kerberos
7 2 (2.30%) AMQP
7 2 (2.30%) DMZ
7 2 (2.30%) Modbus
7 2 (2.30%) MQTT
7 2 (2.30%) Network Security
7 2 (2.30%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.15%) NAS
8 1 (1.15%) VPN
8 1 (1.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.20%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.45%) Power BI
3 2 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.30%) Tableau
4 1 (1.15%) KDB
4 1 (1.15%) MySQL
4 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (16.09%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.75%) JIRA
3 2 (2.30%) Git
4 1 (1.15%) Babel
4 1 (1.15%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.15%) webpack
General
1 21 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.09%) Presentation Skills
3 10 (11.49%) Finance
4 7 (8.05%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.75%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.75%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.60%) Electronics
6 4 (4.60%) Marketing
7 3 (3.45%) Banking
8 2 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.15%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.30%) .NET
1 2 (2.30%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (2.30%) ASP.NET
1 2 (2.30%) JSON
1 2 (2.30%) Web Services
1 2 (2.30%) XML
1 2 (2.30%) XSLT
2 1 (1.15%) LDAP
2 1 (1.15%) Middleware
2 1 (1.15%) Node.js
2 1 (1.15%) Redfish
2 1 (1.15%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (31.03%) Data Centre
2 11 (12.64%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (5.75%) Clustering
4 3 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.45%) PKI
4 3 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.30%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.30%) IoT
5 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.15%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.15%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.15%) Derivative
6 1 (1.15%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.15%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (1.15%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.15%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.15%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.15%) HP Storage
6 1 (1.15%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 41 (47.13%) Linux
2 39 (44.83%) Windows
3 35 (40.23%) Windows Server
4 12 (13.79%) Windows Server 2012
5 10 (11.49%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (6.90%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (4.60%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (2.30%) Windows 10
8 2 (2.30%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (2.30%) Windows XP
9 1 (1.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (14.94%) CI/CD
2 13 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (13.79%) Customer Requirements
4 11 (12.64%) Data Protection
4 11 (12.64%) Migration
5 10 (11.49%) ITIL
6 9 (10.34%) Break/Fix
6 9 (10.34%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (8.05%) Agile
7 7 (8.05%) Server Management
8 5 (5.75%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (5.75%) DevOps
8 5 (5.75%) High Availability
8 5 (5.75%) Problem Management
9 4 (4.60%) Change Management
9 4 (4.60%) Digital Marketing
9 4 (4.60%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (4.60%) Programme Management
10 3 (3.45%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.39%) PowerShell
2 8 (9.20%) Python
3 6 (6.90%) SQL
4 3 (3.45%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.45%) Perl
5 2 (2.30%) VB
6 1 (1.15%) Bash
6 1 (1.15%) C
6 1 (1.15%) C#
6 1 (1.15%) C++
6 1 (1.15%) Java
Qualifications
1 33 (37.93%) Security Cleared
2 28 (32.18%) DV Cleared
3 8 (9.20%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.75%) Degree
4 5 (5.75%) MCSE
4 5 (5.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.45%) MCSA
6 2 (2.30%) CCNA
6 2 (2.30%) CCNP
6 2 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.15%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.15%) MiFID
1 1 (1.15%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (27.59%) Active Directory
2 20 (22.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (14.94%) Hyper-V
4 7 (8.05%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (6.90%) Firmware
6 5 (5.75%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (4.60%) vSphere
8 2 (2.30%) Docker
8 2 (2.30%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (1.15%) VMware NSX
9 1 (1.15%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 12 (13.79%) Puppet
2 11 (12.64%) Progress Chef
2 11 (12.64%) SCCM
3 6 (6.90%) SCOM
4 5 (5.75%) vCenter Server
5 4 (4.60%) WSUS
6 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (2.30%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (2.30%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (2.30%) Grafana
7 2 (2.30%) Kubernetes
7 2 (2.30%) NetBackup
8 1 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.15%) Backup Exec
8 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.15%) Nessus
8 1 (1.15%) SCOrch
8 1 (1.15%) SCVMM
8 1 (1.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (33.33%) VMware
2 24 (27.59%) Microsoft
3 16 (18.39%) HP
4 15 (17.24%) Dell
5 7 (8.05%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.60%) SAP
7 3 (3.45%) Cisco
7 3 (3.45%) Oracle
7 3 (3.45%) Veeam
8 2 (2.30%) 3PAR
8 2 (2.30%) CA
8 2 (2.30%) EMC
8 2 (2.30%) Extreme Networks
8 2 (2.30%) Huawei
8 2 (2.30%) Juniper
8 2 (2.30%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.30%) Remedy
8 2 (2.30%) Symantec
8 2 (2.30%) Trend Micro
8 2 (2.30%) Varonis