Server Management Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Server Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Server Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Server Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 321 391
Rank change year-on-year +29 +70 +149
Contract jobs citing Server Management 12 24 86
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.16% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.18% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 57
10th Percentile £275 £262 £328
25th Percentile £313 £304 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £325 £500
Median % change year-on-year +35.23% -35.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £475 £394 £700
90th Percentile - £523 £731
UK median daily rate £515 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +28.75% -11.11% +8.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Server Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Server Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Server Management trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Server Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Server Management.

Server Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Server Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Server Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Server Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Server Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Server Management.

Server Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Server Management
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 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) iTrent
1 1 (8.33%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (25.00%) AWS
3 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (8.33%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) IaaS
5 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Internet
2 3 (25.00%) Firewall
3 2 (16.67%) DNS
3 2 (16.67%) SSL
3 2 (16.67%) VPN
4 1 (8.33%) DHCP
4 1 (8.33%) Network Security
4 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Power BI
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle Database
3 1 (8.33%) MySQL
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA Agile
1 1 (8.33%) LoadRunner
1 1 (8.33%) ScriptRunner
1 1 (8.33%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) IT Manager
2 2 (16.67%) IT Services Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Service Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) DBA
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) ICT Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (8.33%) Senior IT Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Service Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Life Science
2 1 (8.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Linux
2 5 (41.67%) Windows
3 2 (16.67%) Solaris
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu
4 1 (8.33%) Unix
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 3 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
2 3 (25.00%) Migration
2 3 (25.00%) Storage Management
3 2 (16.67%) Analytics
3 2 (16.67%) Case Management
3 2 (16.67%) Contract Management
3 2 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 2 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (16.67%) Web Filtering
4 1 (8.33%) Conflict Management
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Bash
2 2 (16.67%) PL/SQL
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Groovy
3 1 (8.33%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) Perl
3 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (8.33%) CCNP
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (16.67%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (8.33%) Terminal Services
3 1 (8.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Opsgenie
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (8.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Cisco
2 3 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (25.00%) VMware
3 2 (16.67%) Dell
3 2 (16.67%) Forcepoint
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) Atlassian
4 1 (8.33%) Commvault
4 1 (8.33%) Google
4 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds
4 1 (8.33%) SonicWALL
4 1 (8.33%) Veritas