Server Management Contracts with Work from Home Options

Server Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Server Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Server Management over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 382 542
Rank change year-on-year +54 +160 -119
Contract jobs citing Server Management 24 88 92
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.34% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.38% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 59 59
10th Percentile £262 £329 £204
25th Percentile £304 £389 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £500 £420
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +19.05% +1.82%
75th Percentile £394 £700 £562
90th Percentile £523 £731 £589
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £415
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.43% +0.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.95 £25.95
% change year-on-year -28.51% +115.61% +11.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Server Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,505 23,232 40,651
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.83% 89.84% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,015 16,421 29,503
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.03%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 532 547
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.54 £19.96
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.23 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Server Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Server Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Server Management trend for jobs with a WFH option

Server Management
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 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 a work from home option citing Server Management over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 4 (16.67%) OpenStack
2 3 (12.50%) Apache
2 3 (12.50%) JBoss
2 3 (12.50%) nginx
2 3 (12.50%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) Azure
2 6 (25.00%) AWS
3 4 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 3 (12.50%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.17%) Akamai
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.17%) IaaS
5 1 (4.17%) Route 53
5 1 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) Firewall
2 5 (20.83%) DNS
3 3 (12.50%) VPN
4 2 (8.33%) LAN
4 2 (8.33%) WLAN
5 1 (4.17%) BGP
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (4.17%) DHCP
5 1 (4.17%) Internet
5 1 (4.17%) Network Security
5 1 (4.17%) WAN
5 1 (4.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.50%) RDBMS
2 3 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Git
1 2 (8.33%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Finance
2 6 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Electronics
3 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.17%) Marketing
3 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Applications Support
2 3 (12.50%) IT Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Linux Support
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) DBA
3 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (8.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Server Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Server Specialist
3 2 (8.33%) SQL DBA
4 1 (4.17%) Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) IT Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Support Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (4.17%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) IBM Integration Bus
1 3 (12.50%) Middleware
2 2 (8.33%) .NET
3 1 (4.17%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (8.33%) NHS
2 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.17%) Replication
2 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (58.33%) Linux
2 13 (54.17%) Windows
3 10 (41.67%) Windows Server
4 6 (25.00%) Unix
5 3 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (4.17%) CentOS
7 1 (4.17%) Solaris
7 1 (4.17%) Ubuntu
7 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (16.67%) ITIL
4 4 (16.67%) Open Source
5 3 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 3 (12.50%) Incident Management
5 3 (12.50%) Migration
5 3 (12.50%) Runbook
5 3 (12.50%) Storage Management
6 2 (8.33%) Agile
6 2 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (8.33%) Security Hardening
7 1 (4.17%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (4.17%) Identity Management
7 1 (4.17%) Network Design
7 1 (4.17%) PRINCE2
7 1 (4.17%) Programme Management
7 1 (4.17%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Python
2 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 3 (12.50%) Shell Script
4 2 (8.33%) SQL
4 2 (8.33%) T-SQL
4 2 (8.33%) VB.NET
4 2 (8.33%) VBA
5 1 (4.17%) Bash
5 1 (4.17%) C
5 1 (4.17%) Go
5 1 (4.17%) Perl
5 1 (4.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.17%) CCNA
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (4.17%) MCP
2 1 (4.17%) MCSA
2 1 (4.17%) MCSE
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.67%) Firmware
2 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (12.50%) Docker
3 3 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 2 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (4.17%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 1 (4.17%) PowerDNS
5 1 (4.17%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (4.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Ansible
1 4 (16.67%) Puppet
1 4 (16.67%) Terraform
2 3 (12.50%) Dell DRAC
2 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (12.50%) Progress Chef
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.33%) SCCM
4 1 (4.17%) FortiGate
4 1 (4.17%) Nessus
4 1 (4.17%) SCOM
4 1 (4.17%) SCVMM
4 1 (4.17%) vCenter Server
4 1 (4.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.83%) VMware
3 4 (16.67%) Dell
3 4 (16.67%) Oracle
4 3 (12.50%) IBM
4 3 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 3 (12.50%) Temenos
5 2 (8.33%) Cisco
6 1 (4.17%) Avaya
6 1 (4.17%) Citrix
6 1 (4.17%) Commvault
6 1 (4.17%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (4.17%) F5
6 1 (4.17%) Fortinet
6 1 (4.17%) Okta
6 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.17%) Qualys
6 1 (4.17%) SAP