Server Management Contracts

Server Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Server Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Server Management over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 470 518 666
Rank change year-on-year +48 +148 -56
Contract jobs citing Server Management 114 180 182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.32% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.36% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 119 107
10th Percentile £262 £200 £205
25th Percentile £335 £350 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £608 £585 £550
90th Percentile £613 £700 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £590 £413 £375
% change year-on-year +43.03% +10.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 8
10th Percentile £22.08 - £16.75
25th Percentile £23.05 - £21.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £83.00 £25.95
Median % change year-on-year -51.81% +219.85% +88.73%
75th Percentile - - £28.90
90th Percentile - - £33.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - £28.90
% change year-on-year - - +24.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Server Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 12 June 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 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Server Management in the UK

Server Management
Top 12 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 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
England +47 105 £425 -10.05% 70
UK excluding London -3 60 £590 +43.03% 71
London +63 48 £394 -20.51% 10
South East +34 31 £605 +27.37% 22
Work from Home +59 18 £375 -25.00% 26
South West -5 16 £405 -10.00% 3
West Midlands +8 7 - - 14
Midlands +7 7 - - 19
Scotland +34 4 £264 -30.04% 6
North West +9 1 £528 +82.07% 4
North of England +4 1 £528 +82.07% 13
East of England +2 1 £425 +19.72% 6

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 (11.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (8.77%) JBoss
2 10 (8.77%) nginx
3 9 (7.89%) Apache
3 9 (7.89%) Tomcat
4 6 (5.26%) SharePoint
5 5 (4.39%) OpenStack
6 3 (2.63%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 3 (2.63%) IIS
7 1 (0.88%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.88%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (1.75%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (7.89%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 56 (49.12%) Azure
2 29 (25.44%) AWS
3 14 (12.28%) OCI
4 10 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (7.02%) Entra ID
6 7 (6.14%) IaaS
7 5 (4.39%) Nutanix
8 4 (3.51%) GitHub
8 4 (3.51%) OpenShift
8 4 (3.51%) SaaS
9 3 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.63%) Mimecast
9 3 (2.63%) PaaS
9 3 (2.63%) Rubrik
9 3 (2.63%) WhatsApp
10 2 (1.75%) Akamai
10 2 (1.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.75%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 49 (42.98%) DNS
2 44 (38.60%) Firewall
3 31 (27.19%) SAN
4 29 (25.44%) DHCP
5 26 (22.81%) LAN
6 21 (18.42%) WAN
7 16 (14.04%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (9.65%) VPN
9 9 (7.89%) MPLS
10 8 (7.02%) Internet
11 6 (5.26%) Wireless
12 5 (4.39%) SSL
13 4 (3.51%) Cisco IOS
13 4 (3.51%) FTP
13 4 (3.51%) NAS
14 3 (2.63%) DKIM
14 3 (2.63%) DMARC
14 3 (2.63%) Junos
14 3 (2.63%) SSH
14 3 (2.63%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 10 (8.77%) RDBMS
2 10 (8.77%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.75%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (1.75%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 2 (1.75%) Flink
4 2 (1.75%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.75%) Power BI
4 2 (1.75%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (1.75%) Tableau
4 2 (1.75%) Tableau Server
5 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.88%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.88%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (6.14%) Git
2 3 (2.63%) Hudson
3 2 (1.75%) GitLab
3 2 (1.75%) Jenkins
General
1 58 (50.88%) Social Skills
2 22 (19.30%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (12.28%) Finance
4 10 (8.77%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.02%) Aerospace
6 6 (5.26%) Mandarin Language
7 4 (3.51%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.51%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.63%) Banking
8 3 (2.63%) Electronics
8 3 (2.63%) Marketing
9 1 (0.88%) Advertising
9 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Legal
9 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (19.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (12.28%) Support Engineer
3 13 (11.40%) IT Engineer
4 12 (10.53%) Analyst
5 10 (8.77%) IT Analyst
5 10 (8.77%) Storage Engineer
6 9 (7.89%) IT Support
7 8 (7.02%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 8 (7.02%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
7 8 (7.02%) Network Engineer
7 8 (7.02%) Server Engineer
8 7 (6.14%) Administrator
8 7 (6.14%) Desktop Support
8 7 (6.14%) Server Administrator
9 6 (5.26%) Applications Support
9 6 (5.26%) Linux Support
9 6 (5.26%) Operations Engineer
9 6 (5.26%) VMware Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) Developer
10 5 (4.39%) Windows Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.89%) IBM Integration Bus
2 6 (5.26%) Middleware
3 3 (2.63%) Kafka
3 3 (2.63%) LDAP
3 3 (2.63%) Software Packaging
4 2 (1.75%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.75%) ATL
4 2 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.75%) Vue
5 1 (0.88%) .NET
5 1 (0.88%) HTML
5 1 (0.88%) J2EE
5 1 (0.88%) Redfish
5 1 (0.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 40 (35.09%) Data Centre
2 11 (9.65%) Clustering
3 8 (7.02%) Client/Server
4 6 (5.26%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (4.39%) Replication
6 4 (3.51%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.63%) Fat Client
7 3 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.63%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.63%) PKI
7 3 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.63%) Thin Client
8 2 (1.75%) CCTV
9 1 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.88%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.88%) Smart Meter
9 1 (0.88%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 79 (69.30%) Windows
2 55 (48.25%) Windows Server
3 41 (35.96%) Linux
4 29 (25.44%) Unix
5 21 (18.42%) Windows Server 2016
6 20 (17.54%) Windows 10
6 20 (17.54%) Windows Server 2012
7 15 (13.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 14 (12.28%) Windows XP
9 11 (9.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (6.14%) Mac OS
11 5 (4.39%) VMS
12 2 (1.75%) Solaris
13 1 (0.88%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (30.70%) ITIL
2 29 (25.44%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (20.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 22 (19.30%) Disaster Recovery
4 22 (19.30%) Performance Tuning
5 21 (18.42%) Storage Management
6 17 (14.91%) Break/Fix
6 17 (14.91%) Capacity Management
6 17 (14.91%) Converged Infrastructure
6 17 (14.91%) Project Management
7 16 (14.04%) Application Packaging
7 16 (14.04%) Performance Monitoring
7 16 (14.04%) Proactive Monitoring
8 15 (13.16%) Network Management
9 14 (12.28%) Migration
10 12 (10.53%) Agile
11 11 (9.65%) Capacity Planning
11 11 (9.65%) Decision-Making
11 11 (9.65%) Incident Management
11 11 (9.65%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 47 (41.23%) PowerShell
2 16 (14.04%) Python
3 10 (8.77%) Shell Script
4 6 (5.26%) Bash
5 2 (1.75%) C#
5 2 (1.75%) Go
5 2 (1.75%) Perl
5 2 (1.75%) Scala
6 1 (0.88%) C
6 1 (0.88%) Java
6 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.88%) SQL
6 1 (0.88%) XPath
Qualifications
1 31 (27.19%) Degree
2 30 (26.32%) Security Cleared
3 24 (21.05%) SC Cleared
4 19 (16.67%) DV Cleared
5 16 (14.04%) CCNA
5 16 (14.04%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (13.16%) CCNP
7 7 (6.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (3.51%) MCSE
9 3 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.88%) CCIE
10 1 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.88%) RHCE
10 1 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.26%) SLA
2 2 (1.75%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.75%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.88%) QA
System Software
1 47 (41.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 43 (37.72%) Active Directory
3 27 (23.68%) Hyper-V
4 20 (17.54%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (13.16%) Virtual Servers
6 13 (11.40%) Firmware
7 8 (7.02%) VMware Workstation
8 6 (5.26%) Docker
9 5 (4.39%) vSphere
10 4 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (3.51%) VMware NSX
11 3 (2.63%) BitLocker
11 3 (2.63%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (1.75%) PowerDNS
12 2 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (1.75%) XenApp
13 1 (0.88%) KVM
Systems Management
1 36 (31.58%) SCCM
2 25 (21.93%) NetBackup
3 24 (21.05%) SCOM
4 18 (15.79%) vCenter Server
5 17 (14.91%) WSUS
6 14 (12.28%) EMC NetWorker
7 12 (10.53%) Terraform
8 8 (7.02%) Kubernetes
8 8 (7.02%) Microsoft Clustering
8 8 (7.02%) Nagios
8 8 (7.02%) SCVMM
9 7 (6.14%) Ansible
10 6 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (4.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (4.39%) VxRail
12 4 (3.51%) Dell DRAC
12 4 (3.51%) Progress Chef
12 4 (3.51%) Puppet
13 3 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.88%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 50 (43.86%) VMware
2 40 (35.09%) Microsoft
3 33 (28.95%) Cisco
4 28 (24.56%) Oracle
5 27 (23.68%) Dell
6 23 (20.18%) Juniper
7 22 (19.30%) Veeam
8 18 (15.79%) EMC
8 18 (15.79%) HP
9 16 (14.04%) Extreme Networks
9 16 (14.04%) Palo Alto
10 14 (12.28%) 3PAR
10 14 (12.28%) Symantec
11 11 (9.65%) Red Hat
12 9 (7.89%) IBM
12 9 (7.89%) NetApp
12 9 (7.89%) Temenos
13 8 (7.02%) Hitachi
14 7 (6.14%) Commvault
15 6 (5.26%) TOWER Software