Server Management Contracts in the South East

Server Management
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 203 254
Rank change year-on-year +35 +51 -46
Contract jobs citing Server Management 31 11 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.56% 0.20% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.22% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 9 7
10th Percentile £250 £400 £306
25th Percentile £424 £425 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +21.00% +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £608 £700 £441
90th Percentile £610 £700 £521
England median daily rate £425 £461 £405
% change year-on-year -7.86% +13.89% -1.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,666 4,990 6,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.55% 89.04% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,714 3,437 4,712
10th Percentile £255 £250 £231
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 214 276
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.24 £12.28
25th Percentile £18.23 £22.16 £15.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.95
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +127.79% -20.18%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.91 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.93 £75.00 £63.25
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +11.11%

Server Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Management in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Server Management in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Management in the South East over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Server Management in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Management in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Thames Valley +31 22 £605 -13.57% 5
Berkshire +7 17 £605 -13.57% 3
Hampshire - 5 £425 - 2
Buckinghamshire - 3 £338 - 2
West Sussex - 3 £300 -
Oxfordshire - 2 £465 -
Surrey +13 1 £200 -55.56% 2
Server Management
England

Server Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (3.23%) Exchange Server 2013
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.23%) nginx
1 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
1 1 (3.23%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 20 (64.52%) Azure
2 14 (45.16%) OCI
3 5 (16.13%) AWS
4 4 (12.90%) IaaS
5 3 (9.68%) Entra ID
5 3 (9.68%) SaaS
6 2 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (6.45%) GitHub
6 2 (6.45%) Google Workspace
6 2 (6.45%) Nutanix
6 2 (6.45%) PaaS
7 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.23%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 21 (67.74%) DNS
2 16 (51.61%) DHCP
2 16 (51.61%) Firewall
2 16 (51.61%) SAN
3 4 (12.90%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (9.68%) Junos
4 3 (9.68%) LAN
4 3 (9.68%) WAN
5 2 (6.45%) VPN
5 2 (6.45%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (6.45%) Wireless
6 1 (3.23%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (3.23%) MPLS
6 1 (3.23%) PBX
6 1 (3.23%) Skype
6 1 (3.23%) VPLS
6 1 (3.23%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.23%) MySQL
1 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.23%) RDBMS
1 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
1 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Hudson
2 2 (6.45%) GitLab
3 1 (3.23%) Git
General
1 18 (58.06%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (48.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (32.26%) Storage Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Server Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Data Centre Technician
4 3 (9.68%) Data Technician
4 3 (9.68%) PowerShell Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Support Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) VMware Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) IT Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) IT Security Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Lead
5 2 (6.45%) Security Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Technical Leader
6 1 (3.23%) Applications Support
6 1 (3.23%) Applications Support Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Consultant
6 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) ATL
2 1 (3.23%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 18 (58.06%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.23%) Clustering
2 1 (3.23%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.23%) Replication
2 1 (3.23%) Smart Meter
2 1 (3.23%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 23 (74.19%) Windows
2 22 (70.97%) Windows Server
3 19 (61.29%) Linux
4 17 (54.84%) Windows Server 2012
4 17 (54.84%) Windows Server 2016
5 15 (48.39%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (45.16%) Windows 10
6 14 (45.16%) Windows XP
7 1 (3.23%) Android
7 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (3.23%) Unix
7 1 (3.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (51.61%) Disaster Recovery
1 16 (51.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 16 (51.61%) Performance Tuning
1 16 (51.61%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (48.39%) Proactive Monitoring
2 15 (48.39%) Storage Management
3 14 (45.16%) Break/Fix
3 14 (45.16%) Converged Infrastructure
3 14 (45.16%) ITIL
3 14 (45.16%) Performance Monitoring
3 14 (45.16%) Project Management
4 3 (9.68%) Agile
4 3 (9.68%) Data Centre Operations
4 3 (9.68%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (9.68%) Server Building
4 3 (9.68%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 2 (6.45%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (6.45%) People Management
5 2 (6.45%) Software Engineering
5 2 (6.45%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (67.74%) PowerShell
2 6 (19.35%) Python
3 4 (12.90%) Bash
4 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (70.97%) Security Cleared
2 19 (61.29%) SC Cleared
3 16 (51.61%) DV Cleared
4 15 (48.39%) Degree
5 14 (45.16%) CCNA
5 14 (45.16%) CCNP
5 14 (45.16%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 22 (70.97%) Active Directory
2 20 (64.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (54.84%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (51.61%) Hyper-V
5 4 (12.90%) vSphere
6 2 (6.45%) Firmware
6 2 (6.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (58.06%) SCCM
2 17 (54.84%) WSUS
3 15 (48.39%) SCOM
3 15 (48.39%) vCenter Server
4 14 (45.16%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (45.16%) NetBackup
5 3 (9.68%) Terraform
6 2 (6.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (6.45%) Ansible
6 2 (6.45%) VxRail
7 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
7 1 (3.23%) Nessus
7 1 (3.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (3.23%) Packer
7 1 (3.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 22 (70.97%) VMware
2 21 (67.74%) Microsoft
3 19 (61.29%) Cisco
4 17 (54.84%) Juniper
5 16 (51.61%) Dell
6 15 (48.39%) EMC
6 15 (48.39%) Oracle
6 15 (48.39%) Veeam
7 14 (45.16%) 3PAR
7 14 (45.16%) Extreme Networks
7 14 (45.16%) HP
7 14 (45.16%) Palo Alto
7 14 (45.16%) Symantec
8 2 (6.45%) Google
8 2 (6.45%) Meraki
8 2 (6.45%) SolarWinds
9 1 (3.23%) Qualys
9 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
9 1 (3.23%) Veritas
9 1 (3.23%) WatchGuard