Server Management Contracts

Server Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 478 505 652
Rank change year-on-year +27 +147 -80
Contract jobs citing Server Management 120 218 199
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.36% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.41% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 145 120
10th Percentile £262 £194 £210
25th Percentile £313 £325 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £420
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.14% +1.82%
75th Percentile £576 £585 £550
90th Percentile £608 £700 £585
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £400 £363
% change year-on-year +15.63% +10.34% -9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 3
10th Percentile £22.03 £34.31 -
25th Percentile £22.19 £42.43 £22.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.95 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +143.26% -0.90%
75th Percentile - £69.48 £34.25
90th Percentile - £77.59 £40.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £28.90 £34.00
% change year-on-year +38.41% -15.00% +46.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Server Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Management in the UK

Server Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Server Management in the UK

Server Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Server Management in the UK

Server Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Management in the UK

Server Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Server Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Server Management in the UK

Server Management
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +57 109 £400 -13.98% 69
UK excluding London +16 64 £463 +15.63% 56
London +75 51 £394 -20.51% 15
South East +40 25 £605 +34.44% 9
Work from Home +67 24 £325 -35.00% 22
South West +6 19 £288 -36.11% 7
West Midlands +23 10 £450 -33.33% 19
Midlands +16 10 £450 -33.33% 21
Scotland +18 7 £264 -29.76% 2
North of England +15 2 £427 +35.40% 11
Yorkshire +13 1 £325 - 2
East of England +12 1 £425 +8.28% 4
North West +5 1 £528 +67.62% 8

Server Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 13 (10.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (9.17%) Tomcat
3 10 (8.33%) Apache
3 10 (8.33%) JBoss
4 9 (7.50%) nginx
5 6 (5.00%) OpenStack
6 4 (3.33%) IIS
7 3 (2.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 3 (2.50%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.83%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (7.50%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 53 (44.17%) Azure
2 28 (23.33%) AWS
3 13 (10.83%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (10.83%) OCI
4 10 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 8 (6.67%) IaaS
6 5 (4.17%) OpenShift
7 4 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (3.33%) GitHub
7 4 (3.33%) Nutanix
8 3 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.50%) SaaS
9 2 (1.67%) Akamai
9 2 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.67%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.67%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.67%) PaaS
9 2 (1.67%) Route 53
9 2 (1.67%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 48 (40.00%) DNS
2 42 (35.00%) Firewall
3 30 (25.00%) SAN
4 28 (23.33%) DHCP
5 25 (20.83%) LAN
6 21 (17.50%) WAN
7 15 (12.50%) VPN
8 14 (11.67%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (7.50%) MPLS
10 7 (5.83%) Internet
11 5 (4.17%) SSL
11 5 (4.17%) Wireless
11 5 (4.17%) WLAN
12 4 (3.33%) BGP
12 4 (3.33%) FTP
13 3 (2.50%) Cisco IOS
13 3 (2.50%) Junos
13 3 (2.50%) NAS
13 3 (2.50%) TCP/IP
14 2 (1.67%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (19.17%) SQL Server
2 10 (8.33%) RDBMS
2 10 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.67%) Flink
4 2 (1.67%) MySQL
4 2 (1.67%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.83%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.83%) DB2
5 1 (0.83%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (9.17%) Git
2 6 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.50%) Hudson
4 2 (1.67%) GitLab
4 2 (1.67%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.83%) JIRA
5 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 61 (50.83%) Social Skills
2 24 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (13.33%) Finance
4 13 (10.83%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.67%) Aerospace
6 6 (5.00%) Mandarin Language
7 4 (3.33%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.33%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.50%) Banking
8 3 (2.50%) Electronics
8 3 (2.50%) Marketing
9 2 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Advertising
10 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Local Government
10 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (19.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (11.67%) Support Engineer
3 12 (10.00%) IT Engineer
4 9 (7.50%) Analyst
4 9 (7.50%) IT Support
4 9 (7.50%) Server Engineer
4 9 (7.50%) Storage Engineer
5 8 (6.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 8 (6.67%) IT Analyst
5 8 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
6 7 (5.83%) Administrator
6 7 (5.83%) Desktop Support
7 6 (5.00%) Applications Support
7 6 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
7 6 (5.00%) Linux Support
7 6 (5.00%) Operations Engineer
7 6 (5.00%) Server Administrator
7 6 (5.00%) VMware Engineer
8 5 (4.17%) Windows Administrator
8 5 (4.17%) Windows Server Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.50%) IBM Integration Bus
2 6 (5.00%) Middleware
3 4 (3.33%) .NET
4 2 (1.67%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.67%) Kafka
4 2 (1.67%) LDAP
4 2 (1.67%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.67%) Redfish
4 2 (1.67%) Software Packaging
4 2 (1.67%) Vue
5 1 (0.83%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.83%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 41 (34.17%) Data Centre
2 11 (9.17%) Clustering
3 9 (7.50%) Client/Server
4 6 (5.00%) Replication
4 6 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (4.17%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.67%) CCTV
7 2 (1.67%) Fat Client
7 2 (1.67%) NHS
7 2 (1.67%) PKI
7 2 (1.67%) Thin Client
8 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.83%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.83%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.83%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 82 (68.33%) Windows
2 58 (48.33%) Windows Server
3 52 (43.33%) Linux
4 32 (26.67%) Unix
5 19 (15.83%) Windows 10
6 17 (14.17%) Windows Server 2012
7 14 (11.67%) Windows Server 2016
7 14 (11.67%) Windows Server 2019
8 13 (10.83%) Windows XP
9 11 (9.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (5.83%) Mac OS
11 5 (4.17%) VMS
12 3 (2.50%) Solaris
13 2 (1.67%) CentOS
13 2 (1.67%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.83%) OS/390
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (29.17%) ITIL
1 35 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 24 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 22 (18.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 22 (18.33%) Storage Management
5 19 (15.83%) Capacity Management
5 19 (15.83%) Migration
6 16 (13.33%) Application Packaging
6 16 (13.33%) Break/Fix
6 16 (13.33%) Project Management
7 15 (12.50%) Agile
7 15 (12.50%) Converged Infrastructure
7 15 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
7 15 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
8 12 (10.00%) Network Management
9 11 (9.17%) Asset Management
9 11 (9.17%) Capacity Planning
9 11 (9.17%) Data Migration
9 11 (9.17%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 44 (36.67%) PowerShell
2 20 (16.67%) Python
3 10 (8.33%) Shell Script
4 6 (5.00%) Bash
5 5 (4.17%) SQL
6 3 (2.50%) C
6 3 (2.50%) Perl
6 3 (2.50%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.67%) C#
7 2 (1.67%) Go
7 2 (1.67%) Scala
7 2 (1.67%) VB.NET
7 2 (1.67%) VBA
8 1 (0.83%) Java
8 1 (0.83%) VB
8 1 (0.83%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 30 (25.00%) Degree
2 29 (24.17%) Security Cleared
3 26 (21.67%) SC Cleared
4 18 (15.00%) CCNA
4 18 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (13.33%) DV Cleared
6 14 (11.67%) CCNP
7 7 (5.83%) MCSE
7 7 (5.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.50%) MCP
9 3 (2.50%) MCSA
10 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.83%) CCIE
10 1 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.83%) RHCE
10 1 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.17%) SLA
2 2 (1.67%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.83%) NCSC
3 1 (0.83%) QA
System Software
1 47 (39.17%) Active Directory
2 46 (38.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (20.83%) Hyper-V
4 19 (15.83%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
6 12 (10.00%) Firmware
7 9 (7.50%) VMware Workstation
8 7 (5.83%) Docker
9 6 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (4.17%) VMware NSX
11 4 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (3.33%) vSphere
12 2 (1.67%) BitLocker
12 2 (1.67%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (1.67%) PowerDNS
12 2 (1.67%) XenApp
13 1 (0.83%) Citrix Presentation Server
13 1 (0.83%) KVM
Systems Management
1 37 (30.83%) SCCM
2 24 (20.00%) NetBackup
3 23 (19.17%) SCOM
4 17 (14.17%) vCenter Server
4 17 (14.17%) WSUS
5 14 (11.67%) Terraform
6 13 (10.83%) EMC NetWorker
7 11 (9.17%) Ansible
8 8 (6.67%) Kubernetes
8 8 (6.67%) Microsoft Clustering
8 8 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (6.67%) Nagios
8 8 (6.67%) Puppet
8 8 (6.67%) SCVMM
9 6 (5.00%) Dell DRAC
10 5 (4.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (4.17%) Progress Chef
11 4 (3.33%) VxRail
12 2 (1.67%) FortiGate
12 2 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (41.67%) VMware
2 38 (31.67%) Microsoft
3 33 (27.50%) Cisco
4 28 (23.33%) Dell
4 28 (23.33%) Oracle
5 22 (18.33%) Veeam
6 18 (15.00%) HP
6 18 (15.00%) Juniper
7 17 (14.17%) EMC
7 17 (14.17%) Palo Alto
8 15 (12.50%) Extreme Networks
9 13 (10.83%) 3PAR
9 13 (10.83%) Symantec
10 11 (9.17%) Red Hat
11 9 (7.50%) IBM
11 9 (7.50%) NetApp
11 9 (7.50%) Temenos
12 8 (6.67%) Hitachi
13 6 (5.00%) SolarWinds
13 6 (5.00%) TOWER Software