Server Management Contracts in the South West

Server Management
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 138 149
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 -16
Contract jobs citing Server Management 17 24 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.52% 0.71% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.79% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 20 10
10th Percentile £259 - £183
25th Percentile £302 £200 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £450 £223
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +102.25% +1.14%
75th Percentile £558 £538 £334
90th Percentile £681 £623 £426
England median daily rate £425 £473 £423
% change year-on-year -10.05% +11.83% +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 2
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £28.90
England median hourly rate £40.00 £83.00 £25.95
% change year-on-year -51.81% +219.85% +88.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,669 3,041 3,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.20% 89.41% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,686 2,207 2,346
10th Percentile £225 £313 £300
25th Percentile £401 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +5.37%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 361 314 205
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.29 £21.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £59.90 £48.48
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +23.56% +7.73%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.07 £68.81
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Server Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Management in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Server Management in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Management in the South West over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Server Management in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Management in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 3 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
Somerset - 11 - - 1
Bristol +8 3 £361 +80.63%
Wiltshire +4 3 £538 -12.60% 1
Server Management
England

Server Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 8 (47.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (17.65%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 10 (58.82%) SAN
2 9 (52.94%) DNS
3 8 (47.06%) DHCP
3 8 (47.06%) LAN
3 8 (47.06%) MPLS
3 8 (47.06%) WAN
3 8 (47.06%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (17.65%) Firewall
4 3 (17.65%) Internet
5 2 (11.76%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (11.76%) FTP
6 1 (5.88%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (5.88%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (5.88%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (5.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (5.88%) NX-OS
6 1 (5.88%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
1 1 (5.88%) Git
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 14 (82.35%) Social Skills
2 9 (52.94%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (47.06%) Aerospace
4 2 (11.76%) Electronics
4 2 (11.76%) Finance
4 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
4 2 (11.76%) Marketing
4 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Analyst
1 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 8 (47.06%) IT Analyst
1 8 (47.06%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Desktop Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Desktop Support
2 3 (17.65%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Network Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support Technician
4 1 (5.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Deployment Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
4 1 (5.88%) Server Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) 802.1X
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 11 (64.71%) Data Centre
2 9 (52.94%) Clustering
3 8 (47.06%) Client/Server
4 2 (11.76%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (11.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (88.24%) Windows
2 8 (47.06%) Unix
3 4 (23.53%) Windows Server
4 3 (17.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Application Packaging
1 11 (64.71%) Decision-Making
1 11 (64.71%) Network Management
2 9 (52.94%) Asset Management
3 8 (47.06%) Business Transformation
3 8 (47.06%) Capacity Management
3 8 (47.06%) Capacity Planning
3 8 (47.06%) Data Migration
3 8 (47.06%) Data Protection
3 8 (47.06%) Migration
4 4 (23.53%) ITIL
4 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) Break/Fix
5 3 (17.65%) Creative Thinking
5 3 (17.65%) Customer Experience
5 3 (17.65%) Software Deployment
6 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (11.76%) Compliance Management
6 2 (11.76%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (11.76%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Degree
2 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
4 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.88%) MCSE
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (70.59%) Active Directory
2 11 (64.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (47.06%) Virtual Servers
3 8 (47.06%) VMware Workstation
4 3 (17.65%) VMware NSX
5 2 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Microsoft Clustering
1 8 (47.06%) Nagios
1 8 (47.06%) NetBackup
1 8 (47.06%) SCCM
2 2 (11.76%) vCenter Server
3 1 (5.88%) Ansible
3 1 (5.88%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (5.88%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (5.88%) FortiGate
3 1 (5.88%) PowerCLI
3 1 (5.88%) Puppet
3 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) VMware
2 8 (47.06%) Hitachi
2 8 (47.06%) NetApp
3 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
4 3 (17.65%) CheckPoint
4 3 (17.65%) Cisco
4 3 (17.65%) Dell
5 2 (11.76%) Palo Alto
5 2 (11.76%) SAP
5 2 (11.76%) Veeam
6 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
6 1 (5.88%) BEA
6 1 (5.88%) F5
6 1 (5.88%) HP
6 1 (5.88%) Infoblox