Server Engineer Contracts in London

Server Engineer
England > London

The median Server Engineer daily rate in London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 435 547
Rank change year-on-year +67 +112 -72
Contract jobs requiring a Server Engineer 32 47 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.20% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 37 38
10th Percentile £250 £324 £324
25th Percentile £370 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% +7.60% +21.21%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £638
90th Percentile - - £800
England median daily rate £500 £440 £375
% change year-on-year +13.64% +17.33% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £27.85 -
England median hourly rate £96.00 £26.48 £23.00
% change year-on-year +262.54% +15.13% -36.99%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Server Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Server Engineer in London

Server Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Server Engineer in London

Server Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Engineer in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Server Engineer in London

Server Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Engineer in London

Server Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Server Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Central London +40 4 £555 -20.71%
West London +20 2 £159 -57.73%
North London - 2 £250 - 1
Server Engineer
England

Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Server Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Server Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (62.50%) Linux
2 14 (43.75%) Data Centre
2 14 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 13 (40.63%) Jenkins
3 13 (40.63%) Security Cleared
4 12 (37.50%) DV Cleared
4 12 (37.50%) Windows
5 11 (34.38%) HTTP
5 11 (34.38%) TCP/IP
5 11 (34.38%) SSL
5 11 (34.38%) Puppet
5 11 (34.38%) Progress Chef
6 10 (31.25%) Active Directory
6 10 (31.25%) Windows Server
7 8 (25.00%) Azure
7 8 (25.00%) PowerShell
8 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
9 6 (18.75%) Finance
9 6 (18.75%) VMware
9 6 (18.75%) Entra ID
10 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
10 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
11 4 (12.50%) SQL
11 4 (12.50%) Clustering
11 4 (12.50%) Migration
11 4 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
11 4 (12.50%) SCCM
11 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 4 (12.50%) Public Sector

Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.25%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (6.25%) IIS
2 2 (6.25%) OpenStack
2 2 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.00%) Azure
2 6 (18.75%) Entra ID
3 3 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.25%) AWS
4 2 (6.25%) IaaS
4 2 (6.25%) SaaS
5 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Storage
5 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.13%) Mimecast
5 1 (3.13%) npm
5 1 (3.13%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.13%) PaaS
5 1 (3.13%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 11 (34.38%) HTTP
1 11 (34.38%) SSL
1 11 (34.38%) TCP/IP
2 3 (9.38%) DNS
2 3 (9.38%) SAN
3 2 (6.25%) NAS
3 2 (6.25%) Network Security
4 1 (3.13%) Firewall
4 1 (3.13%) Internet
4 1 (3.13%) Kerberos
4 1 (3.13%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
2 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.25%) MySQL
4 1 (3.13%) KDB
4 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (40.63%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.13%) Artifactory
2 1 (3.13%) Babel
2 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.13%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (3.13%) webpack
General
1 6 (18.75%) Finance
2 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.38%) Electronics
4 3 (9.38%) Manufacturing
4 3 (9.38%) Marketing
4 3 (9.38%) Telecoms
5 2 (6.25%) Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Front Office
6 1 (3.13%) Legal
6 1 (3.13%) Local Government
6 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) .NET
1 2 (6.25%) ASP.NET
1 2 (6.25%) LDAP
2 1 (3.13%) Middleware
2 1 (3.13%) Node.js
2 1 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (43.75%) Data Centre
2 4 (12.50%) Clustering
3 2 (6.25%) PKI
3 2 (6.25%) Replication
4 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.13%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.13%) Derivative
4 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (3.13%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.13%) Grid Computing
4 1 (3.13%) Hedge funds
4 1 (3.13%) HP Storage
4 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (62.50%) Linux
2 12 (37.50%) Windows
3 10 (31.25%) Windows Server
4 3 (9.38%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (9.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) CI/CD
2 4 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (12.50%) Migration
3 3 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (9.38%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (9.38%) Programme Management
4 2 (6.25%) High Availability
4 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (6.25%) Network Load Balancing
4 2 (6.25%) Security Hardening
4 2 (6.25%) Task Automation
5 1 (3.13%) Agile
5 1 (3.13%) DevOps
5 1 (3.13%) E-business
5 1 (3.13%) Identity Management
5 1 (3.13%) Microservices
5 1 (3.13%) TDD
5 1 (3.13%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (12.50%) SQL
3 2 (6.25%) VB
4 1 (3.13%) C#
4 1 (3.13%) C++
4 1 (3.13%) Java
4 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (40.63%) Security Cleared
2 12 (37.50%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) MCSE
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.13%) Degree
4 1 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) MiFID
1 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (6.25%) Firmware
3 2 (6.25%) Hyper-V
3 2 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (34.38%) Progress Chef
1 11 (34.38%) Puppet
2 4 (12.50%) SCCM
3 2 (6.25%) Backup Exec
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.25%) SCOM
4 1 (3.13%) Ansible
4 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.75%) VMware
3 3 (9.38%) CA
3 3 (9.38%) Dell
3 3 (9.38%) HP
3 3 (9.38%) SAP
4 2 (6.25%) Huawei
4 2 (6.25%) Trend Micro
5 1 (3.13%) Citrix
5 1 (3.13%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.13%) Okta
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle
5 1 (3.13%) Sun