Server Management Contracts

Server Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 458 500 682
Rank change year-on-year +42 +182 -105
Contract jobs citing Server Management 116 201 175
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.35% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.39% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 133 103
10th Percentile £262 £200 £206
25th Percentile £313 £325 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £420
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.14% +1.20%
75th Percentile £608 £585 £545
90th Percentile - £701 £593
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £378 £363
% change year-on-year +35.98% +4.28% -9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 5
10th Percentile £22.08 £34.31 £19.05
25th Percentile £22.68 £42.43 £22.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.95 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +143.26% +24.46%
75th Percentile - £69.48 £28.90
90th Percentile - £77.59 £38.56
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £28.90 £25.95
% change year-on-year +38.41% +11.37% +11.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,687 51,295 79,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 89.83% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,611 35,552 55,630
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £476
% change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,428 1,693 1,906
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 15 May 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 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Server Management in the UK

Server Management
Top 13 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 15 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
England +41 105 £400 -15.34% 71
UK excluding London +10 64 £514 +35.98% 54
London +76 47 £380 -23.23% 21
South East +39 29 £605 +34.44% 7
Work from Home +66 22 £333 -33.40% 28
South West +4 17 £315 -30.00% 4
Midlands +24 8 £450 -33.33% 24
West Midlands +11 8 £450 -33.33% 19
Scotland +31 7 £264 -29.67% 3
North of England +6 2 £427 +44.58% 8
Yorkshire +14 1 £325 +8.33% 2
North West +10 1 £528 +82.07% 5
East of England +9 1 £425 +19.72% 7

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 11 (9.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (8.62%) JBoss
2 10 (8.62%) Tomcat
3 9 (7.76%) Apache
3 9 (7.76%) nginx
4 6 (5.17%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.59%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 3 (2.59%) IIS
5 3 (2.59%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.72%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (7.76%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 51 (43.97%) Azure
2 27 (23.28%) AWS
3 14 (12.07%) OCI
4 9 (7.76%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (6.03%) Entra ID
5 7 (6.03%) IaaS
6 5 (4.31%) OpenShift
7 4 (3.45%) GitHub
7 4 (3.45%) Nutanix
8 3 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.59%) SaaS
9 2 (1.72%) Akamai
9 2 (1.72%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.72%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.72%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.72%) PaaS
9 2 (1.72%) Rubrik
9 2 (1.72%) WhatsApp
10 1 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 46 (39.66%) DNS
2 41 (35.34%) Firewall
3 30 (25.86%) SAN
4 28 (24.14%) DHCP
5 24 (20.69%) LAN
6 20 (17.24%) WAN
7 14 (12.07%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (10.34%) VPN
9 9 (7.76%) MPLS
10 7 (6.03%) Internet
11 5 (4.31%) SSL
12 4 (3.45%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (3.45%) FTP
13 3 (2.59%) Junos
13 3 (2.59%) NAS
13 3 (2.59%) TCP/IP
13 3 (2.59%) Wireless
14 2 (1.72%) Cisco ISE
14 2 (1.72%) DKIM
14 2 (1.72%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (20.69%) SQL Server
2 10 (8.62%) RDBMS
2 10 (8.62%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.72%) Flink
4 2 (1.72%) MySQL
4 2 (1.72%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.86%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.86%) DB2
5 1 (0.86%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.86%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (9.48%) Git
2 6 (5.17%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.59%) Hudson
4 2 (1.72%) GitLab
4 2 (1.72%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.86%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.86%) JIRA
5 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 62 (53.45%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.83%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (13.79%) Finance
4 11 (9.48%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.90%) Aerospace
6 6 (5.17%) Mandarin Language
7 4 (3.45%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.45%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.59%) Banking
8 3 (2.59%) Electronics
8 3 (2.59%) Marketing
9 1 (0.86%) Advertising
9 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.86%) Legal
9 1 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (19.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (12.93%) Support Engineer
3 13 (11.21%) IT Engineer
4 11 (9.48%) Server Engineer
5 10 (8.62%) Storage Engineer
6 9 (7.76%) Analyst
7 8 (6.90%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 8 (6.90%) IT Analyst
7 8 (6.90%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
7 8 (6.90%) IT Support
8 7 (6.03%) Desktop Support
9 6 (5.17%) Administrator
9 6 (5.17%) Applications Support
9 6 (5.17%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (5.17%) Linux Support
9 6 (5.17%) Network Engineer
9 6 (5.17%) Operations Engineer
9 6 (5.17%) Server Administrator
9 6 (5.17%) VMware Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Windows Server Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.76%) IBM Integration Bus
2 6 (5.17%) Middleware
3 4 (3.45%) .NET
4 3 (2.59%) Kafka
5 2 (1.72%) 802.1X
5 2 (1.72%) ATL
5 2 (1.72%) LDAP
5 2 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.72%) Redfish
5 2 (1.72%) Software Packaging
5 2 (1.72%) Vue
6 1 (0.86%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.86%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 39 (33.62%) Data Centre
2 11 (9.48%) Clustering
3 8 (6.90%) Client/Server
4 6 (5.17%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (4.31%) Replication
5 5 (4.31%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.59%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.59%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.72%) CCTV
7 2 (1.72%) Fat Client
7 2 (1.72%) NHS
7 2 (1.72%) PKI
7 2 (1.72%) Thin Client
8 1 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.86%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.86%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.86%) Smart Meter
8 1 (0.86%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 81 (69.83%) Windows
2 58 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 48 (41.38%) Linux
4 31 (26.72%) Unix
5 20 (17.24%) Windows 10
6 19 (16.38%) Windows Server 2012
6 19 (16.38%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (12.93%) Windows Server 2019
8 14 (12.07%) Windows XP
9 11 (9.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (6.03%) Mac OS
11 5 (4.31%) VMS
12 3 (2.59%) Solaris
13 1 (0.86%) Android
13 1 (0.86%) OS/390
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (29.31%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (28.45%) ITIL
3 27 (23.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 25 (21.55%) Performance Tuning
5 22 (18.97%) Storage Management
6 21 (18.10%) Disaster Recovery
7 17 (14.66%) Break/Fix
7 17 (14.66%) Project Management
8 16 (13.79%) Capacity Management
8 16 (13.79%) Converged Infrastructure
8 16 (13.79%) Performance Monitoring
8 16 (13.79%) Proactive Monitoring
9 15 (12.93%) Application Packaging
9 15 (12.93%) Migration
10 14 (12.07%) Agile
11 12 (10.34%) Network Management
12 11 (9.48%) Asset Management
12 11 (9.48%) Capacity Planning
12 11 (9.48%) Decision-Making
12 11 (9.48%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 44 (37.93%) PowerShell
2 20 (17.24%) Python
3 10 (8.62%) Shell Script
4 6 (5.17%) Bash
5 5 (4.31%) SQL
6 3 (2.59%) C
6 3 (2.59%) Perl
6 3 (2.59%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.72%) C#
7 2 (1.72%) Go
7 2 (1.72%) Scala
7 2 (1.72%) VB.NET
7 2 (1.72%) VBA
8 1 (0.86%) Java
8 1 (0.86%) VB
Qualifications
1 31 (26.72%) Degree
2 29 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 24 (20.69%) SC Cleared
4 19 (16.38%) DV Cleared
5 17 (14.66%) CCNA
5 17 (14.66%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (12.93%) CCNP
7 8 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (5.17%) MCSE
9 4 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.72%) MCP
10 2 (1.72%) MCSA
11 1 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.86%) CCIE
11 1 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.86%) RHCE
11 1 (0.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.31%) SLA
2 2 (1.72%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.86%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.86%) QA
System Software
1 47 (40.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 43 (37.07%) Active Directory
3 26 (22.41%) Hyper-V
4 20 (17.24%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (12.93%) Virtual Servers
6 12 (10.34%) Firmware
7 8 (6.90%) VMware Workstation
8 7 (6.03%) Docker
9 5 (4.31%) VMware NSX
10 4 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (3.45%) vSphere
11 2 (1.72%) BitLocker
11 2 (1.72%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (1.72%) PowerDNS
11 2 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (1.72%) XenApp
12 1 (0.86%) KVM
Systems Management
1 36 (31.03%) SCCM
2 24 (20.69%) NetBackup
3 23 (19.83%) SCOM
4 18 (15.52%) vCenter Server
4 18 (15.52%) WSUS
5 14 (12.07%) EMC NetWorker
6 13 (11.21%) Terraform
7 9 (7.76%) Ansible
7 9 (7.76%) Kubernetes
8 8 (6.90%) Microsoft Clustering
8 8 (6.90%) Nagios
9 7 (6.03%) SCVMM
10 6 (5.17%) Dell DRAC
10 6 (5.17%) Puppet
11 5 (4.31%) Progress Chef
12 4 (3.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (3.45%) VxRail
13 2 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.86%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 51 (43.97%) VMware
2 38 (32.76%) Microsoft
3 32 (27.59%) Cisco
4 29 (25.00%) Oracle
5 28 (24.14%) Dell
6 23 (19.83%) Veeam
7 21 (18.10%) Juniper
8 19 (16.38%) HP
9 17 (14.66%) EMC
10 16 (13.79%) Extreme Networks
10 16 (13.79%) Palo Alto
11 14 (12.07%) 3PAR
11 14 (12.07%) Symantec
12 11 (9.48%) Red Hat
13 9 (7.76%) IBM
13 9 (7.76%) NetApp
13 9 (7.76%) Temenos
14 8 (6.90%) Hitachi
15 6 (5.17%) TOWER Software
16 5 (4.31%) Commvault