Server Management Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Server Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Server Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 112 108
Rank change year-on-year -24 -4 +62
Contract jobs citing Server Management 5 1 11
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.23% 0.055% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.065% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 7
10th Percentile - - £384
25th Percentile £203 £353 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £355 £450
Median % change year-on-year +19.72% -21.11% +38.46%
75th Percentile £503 £358 £738
90th Percentile - - £750
England median daily rate £550 £475 £437
% change year-on-year +15.79% +8.63% -7.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Server Management 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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,904 1,528 1,620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.48% 84.14% 85.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,209 947 1,099
10th Percentile £263 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £718 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 51 53
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.88 £17.72
Median hourly rate £20.50 £22.00 £24.60
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -10.57% +38.98%
75th Percentile £30.00 £34.38 £50.00
90th Percentile £40.46 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.14%

Server Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Server Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Server Management job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Server Management
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Server Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Server Management

Server Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Server Management in the West Midlands

Server Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Server Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Server Management

Server Management
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Server Management within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 December 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
Herefordshire - 2 £485 -
Staffordshire - 2 £205 -
Shropshire - 1 £425 -
Server Management
England

Server Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (20.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Server Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) SIEM Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Observability
2 2 (40.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Operations Management
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk