Server Management Contracts with Work from Home 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 15 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 382 540
Rank change year-on-year +59 +158 -84
Contract jobs citing Server Management 18 75 83
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.31% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.35% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 49 52
10th Percentile £262 £329 £210
25th Percentile £319 £378 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 £423
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +18.34% +5.63%
75th Percentile £500 £700 £573
90th Percentile £638 £731 £600
UK median daily rate £413 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £83.00 £25.95
% change year-on-year -51.81% +219.85% +88.73%

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 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 15 June 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 (22.22%) OpenStack
2 3 (16.67%) Apache
2 3 (16.67%) JBoss
2 3 (16.67%) nginx
2 3 (16.67%) Tomcat
3 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) AWS
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (16.67%) OpenShift
4 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.56%) Akamai
5 1 (5.56%) IaaS
5 1 (5.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) DNS
2 5 (27.78%) Firewall
3 2 (11.11%) DHCP
3 2 (11.11%) LAN
4 1 (5.56%) BGP
4 1 (5.56%) Internet
4 1 (5.56%) Unified Communications
4 1 (5.56%) WAN
4 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (5.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 3 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 4 (22.22%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Electronics
4 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.56%) Marketing
4 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Applications Support
1 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (16.67%) IT Engineer
1 3 (16.67%) Lead
1 3 (16.67%) Linux Support
2 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Server Specialist
2 2 (11.11%) Technical Leader
3 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Server Support
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Administrator
3 1 (5.56%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Network Communications Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Network Team Leader
3 1 (5.56%) Technical Services Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) IBM Integration Bus
1 3 (16.67%) Middleware
2 2 (11.11%) ATL
3 1 (5.56%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.56%) Replication
1 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (55.56%) Linux
1 10 (55.56%) Windows
2 7 (38.89%) Windows Server
3 5 (27.78%) Unix
4 3 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (5.56%) Solaris
6 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (22.22%) Incident Management
2 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (16.67%) Open Source
3 3 (16.67%) Runbook
4 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (11.11%) ITIL
4 2 (11.11%) People Management
4 2 (11.11%) Security Hardening
4 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
5 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (5.56%) Change Management
5 1 (5.56%) PRINCE2
5 1 (5.56%) Programme Management
5 1 (5.56%) Project Management
5 1 (5.56%) Service Delivery
5 1 (5.56%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 3 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) Go
4 1 (5.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Firmware
1 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (16.67%) Docker
2 3 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (5.56%) PowerDNS
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Ansible
1 3 (16.67%) Dell DRAC
1 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 3 (16.67%) Progress Chef
1 3 (16.67%) Puppet
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (11.11%) SCCM
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.56%) Nessus
3 1 (5.56%) SCOM
3 1 (5.56%) SCVMM
3 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
3 1 (5.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Dell
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle
1 4 (22.22%) VMware
2 3 (16.67%) IBM
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 3 (16.67%) Temenos
3 2 (11.11%) Fortinet
3 2 (11.11%) Qualys
4 1 (5.56%) Aruba
4 1 (5.56%) Avaya
4 1 (5.56%) Commvault
4 1 (5.56%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (5.56%) F5
4 1 (5.56%) Juniper
4 1 (5.56%) SAP