Server Administrator Contracts with Work from Home Options

Server Administrator
UK > Work from Home

The median Server Administrator daily rate in Work from Home is £380 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 469 616
Rank change year-on-year +128 +147 -136
Contract jobs requiring a Server Administrator 3 2 7
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.008% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.008% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £369
25th Percentile - £475 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile - £525 £600
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £380 £438 £550
% change year-on-year -13.14% -20.45% +31.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,262 24,476 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.36% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,547 17,287 30,849
10th Percentile £325 £356 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 563 608
10th Percentile £14.34 £18.50 £13.21
25th Percentile £23.32 £25.98 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

Server Administrator
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Server Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Server Administrator trend for jobs with a WFH option

Server Administrator
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Server Administrator.

Server Administrator daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Server Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Server Administrator.

Server Administrator hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Server Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Server Administrator 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Server Administrator in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Application Packaging
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle OLAP
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (33.33%) SCCM
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VB
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) OLAP
2 1 (33.33%) IIS
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET

Server Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (33.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) OLAP
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database 11g
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database 12c
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle OLAP
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Application Packaging
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Change Management
1 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) VB
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle