Server Management Contracts in the Midlands

Server Management
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 149 171
Rank change year-on-year +22 +22 -27
Contract jobs citing Server Management 9 16 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.33% 0.48% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.54% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 14 17
10th Percentile - £358 £243
25th Percentile - £465 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £675 £350
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +92.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile - £731 £438
90th Percentile - - £470
England median daily rate £400 £473 £420
% change year-on-year -15.34% +12.50% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £17.33
25th Percentile - - £18.19
Median hourly rate £19.95 - £20.75
75th Percentile - - £22.69
90th Percentile - - £23.18
England median hourly rate £40.00 £55.95 £25.95
% change year-on-year -28.51% +115.61% +11.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,230 2,945 4,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.11% 88.25% 88.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,490 2,061 3,212
10th Percentile £235 £248 £250
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% +3.79% +15.85%
75th Percentile £600 £591 £571
90th Percentile £700 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 108 143
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.94 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.71 £14.88 £13.73
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +11.43% +12.90%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.50 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.75 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

Server Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Server Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Server Management in the Midlands

Server Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Server Management in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Server Management in the Midlands

Server Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Server Management in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Server Management in the Midlands

Server Management
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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
West Midlands +9 9 £450 -33.33% 17
Server Management
England

Server Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (11.11%) IIS
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
1 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) LAN
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
1 1 (11.11%) SAN
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (11.11%) Flink
1 1 (11.11%) InterSystems Cache
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (22.22%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Data Centre Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) IT Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Support
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DBA
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) SQL DBA
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (11.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) CCTV
1 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (11.11%) Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) Antivirus Management
2 1 (11.11%) Change Control
2 1 (11.11%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
2 1 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (11.11%) Server Monitoring
2 1 (11.11%) Storage Management
2 1 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) Docker
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) Commvault
3 1 (11.11%) NetApp
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Sophos