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 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 712 850
Rank change year-on-year +127 +138 -156
Contract jobs requiring a Server Specialist 15 4 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.007% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.007% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 10
10th Percentile £262 - £456
25th Percentile £281 £175 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £268 £525
Median % change year-on-year +86.92% -49.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £358 £600
90th Percentile - £373 £681
UK excluding London median daily rate - £268 £481
% change year-on-year - -44.42% -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 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £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 £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 +131 15 £500 +86.92%
London - 13 £500 -
Work from Home +136 9 £500 +42.86%

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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 (46.67%) WebSphere Application Server
1 7 (46.67%) WebLogic
1 7 (46.67%) SSL
1 7 (46.67%) IBM
1 7 (46.67%) WebSphere
1 7 (46.67%) IBM UrbanCode
2 6 (40.00%) DataPower
2 6 (40.00%) WebSphere MQ
3 5 (33.33%) Linux
4 4 (26.67%) Windows
4 4 (26.67%) Dell
4 4 (26.67%) OpenStack
4 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) Windows Server
4 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
5 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (20.00%) AWS
5 3 (20.00%) Firmware
5 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (20.00%) Finance
5 3 (20.00%) ITIL
5 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
6 2 (13.33%) SLA
6 2 (13.33%) Python
6 2 (13.33%) VMware
6 2 (13.33%) Citrix
6 2 (13.33%) Time Management
6 2 (13.33%) SCCM
6 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure

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 (46.67%) WebLogic
1 7 (46.67%) WebSphere
1 7 (46.67%) WebSphere Application Server
2 4 (26.67%) OpenStack
3 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
3 1 (6.67%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) SSL
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Electronics
4 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.67%) Marketing
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) DataPower
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (13.33%) Windows 10
4 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (13.33%) Open Source
3 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (13.33%) Server Management
3 2 (13.33%) Time Management
3 2 (13.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 1 (6.67%) Agile
4 1 (6.67%) Agile Project Management
4 1 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (6.67%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (6.67%) Data Migration
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (6.67%) High Availability
4 1 (6.67%) Information Security
4 1 (6.67%) ITSM
4 1 (6.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (13.33%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (20.00%) Firmware
2 2 (13.33%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Ansible
1 2 (13.33%) Dell DRAC
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (13.33%) Progress Chef
1 2 (13.33%) Puppet
1 2 (13.33%) SCCM
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) IBM
2 4 (26.67%) Dell
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (13.33%) Citrix
4 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
4 2 (13.33%) VMware
5 1 (6.67%) Remedy
5 1 (6.67%) SAP