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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 384 540
Rank change year-on-year +59 +156 -111
Contract jobs citing Server Management 22 82 82
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.15% 0.33% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.36% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 55 54
10th Percentile £262 £325 £208
25th Percentile £313 £378 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £329 £500 £418
Median % change year-on-year -34.20% +19.76% +1.21%
75th Percentile £397 £700 £530
90th Percentile £526 £731 £598
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £420
% change year-on-year -11.11% +7.14% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.95 £23.00
% change year-on-year -28.51% +143.26% -0.90%

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 13,242 22,482 39,977
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.03% 89.72% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,878 15,879 28,991
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 516 542
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.66 £13.78
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.29
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

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 10 May 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 (18.18%) OpenStack
2 3 (13.64%) Apache
2 3 (13.64%) JBoss
2 3 (13.64%) nginx
2 3 (13.64%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) Azure
2 6 (27.27%) AWS
3 3 (13.64%) Entra ID
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (13.64%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.55%) Akamai
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.55%) IaaS
4 1 (4.55%) Route 53
4 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) Firewall
2 5 (22.73%) DNS
3 3 (13.64%) VPN
4 2 (9.09%) LAN
4 2 (9.09%) WLAN
5 1 (4.55%) BGP
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (4.55%) DHCP
5 1 (4.55%) Internet
5 1 (4.55%) Network Security
5 1 (4.55%) WAN
5 1 (4.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.64%) RDBMS
2 3 (13.64%) Relational Database
3 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
1 2 (9.09%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Finance
3 5 (22.73%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Electronics
4 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.55%) Marketing
4 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (13.64%) Applications Support
1 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (13.64%) IT Engineer
1 3 (13.64%) Linux Support
2 2 (9.09%) DBA
2 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) Server Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) Server Specialist
2 2 (9.09%) SQL DBA
3 1 (4.55%) Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (4.55%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (4.55%) IT Support
3 1 (4.55%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (4.55%) Technical Support Analyst
3 1 (4.55%) Unix Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) IBM Integration Bus
1 3 (13.64%) Middleware
2 2 (9.09%) .NET
3 1 (4.55%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) NHS
2 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.55%) Replication
2 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (63.64%) Linux
2 13 (59.09%) Windows
3 10 (45.45%) Windows Server
4 6 (27.27%) Unix
5 3 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (4.55%) CentOS
7 1 (4.55%) Solaris
7 1 (4.55%) Ubuntu
7 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (18.18%) Open Source
4 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
4 3 (13.64%) Incident Management
4 3 (13.64%) ITIL
4 3 (13.64%) Migration
4 3 (13.64%) Runbook
4 3 (13.64%) Storage Management
5 2 (9.09%) Agile
5 2 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (9.09%) Security Hardening
6 1 (4.55%) Application Packaging
6 1 (4.55%) Computer Science
6 1 (4.55%) Load Balancing
6 1 (4.55%) Network Design
6 1 (4.55%) Programme Management
6 1 (4.55%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) Python
2 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 3 (13.64%) Shell Script
4 2 (9.09%) SQL
4 2 (9.09%) T-SQL
4 2 (9.09%) VB.NET
4 2 (9.09%) VBA
5 1 (4.55%) Bash
5 1 (4.55%) C
5 1 (4.55%) Go
5 1 (4.55%) Perl
5 1 (4.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.55%) CCNA
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (4.55%) MCP
2 1 (4.55%) MCSA
2 1 (4.55%) MCSE
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Active Directory
2 4 (18.18%) Firmware
2 4 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (13.64%) Docker
3 3 (13.64%) Hyper-V
4 2 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (4.55%) PowerDNS
5 1 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (4.55%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (4.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Ansible
1 4 (18.18%) Puppet
1 4 (18.18%) Terraform
2 3 (13.64%) Dell DRAC
2 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.64%) Progress Chef
3 2 (9.09%) SCCM
4 1 (4.55%) FortiGate
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.55%) Nessus
4 1 (4.55%) SCOM
4 1 (4.55%) SCVMM
4 1 (4.55%) vCenter Server
4 1 (4.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) VMware
2 4 (18.18%) Dell
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) Oracle
3 3 (13.64%) IBM
3 3 (13.64%) Red Hat
3 3 (13.64%) Temenos
4 2 (9.09%) Cisco
5 1 (4.55%) Avaya
5 1 (4.55%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (4.55%) F5
5 1 (4.55%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.55%) Qualys
5 1 (4.55%) SAP