Server Building Contracts in England

Server Building
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Server Building skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Server Building over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 517 614 675
Rank change year-on-year +97 +61 -99
Contract jobs citing Server Building 26 34 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.070% 0.067% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.081% 0.075% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 27 76
10th Percentile £310 £190 £290
25th Percentile £412 £205 £349
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.29% +42.00%
75th Percentile £582 £625 £700
90th Percentile £605 £745 £710
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +21.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £16.50
75th Percentile - - £16.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £16.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Server Building 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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,201 45,536 64,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.24% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,119 31,974 45,794
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,240 1,592 1,770
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Server Building
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Server Building as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Server Building in England

Server Building
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Server Building in England.

Daily rate trend for Server Building in England

Server Building
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Building in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Server Building in England

Server Building
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Server Building in England.

Hourly rate trend for Server Building in England

Server Building
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Server Building within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
London +101 12 £500 -9.09% 5
North of England +32 10 £582 +66.29% 2
North West +28 8 £582 +38.57% 1
South East +19 3 £310 - 2
North East - 2 £423 - 1
West Midlands +28 1 £250 -
Midlands +28 1 £250 -
Server Building
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Server Building
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.85%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (50.00%) Azure
2 10 (38.46%) AWS
3 5 (19.23%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon Glacier
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 2 (7.69%) Cohesity
4 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 2 (7.69%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.85%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.85%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (34.62%) Firewall
2 7 (26.92%) DNS
2 7 (26.92%) DSL
3 5 (19.23%) DHCP
4 3 (11.54%) iSCSI
4 3 (11.54%) VLAN
5 2 (7.69%) AMQP
5 2 (7.69%) BGP
5 2 (7.69%) DMZ
5 2 (7.69%) Modbus
5 2 (7.69%) MQTT
5 2 (7.69%) PBX
5 2 (7.69%) PSTN
5 2 (7.69%) VoIP
5 2 (7.69%) VPN
6 1 (3.85%) LAN
6 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
6 1 (3.85%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Tableau
2 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (30.77%) JIRA
2 7 (26.92%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 9 (34.62%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (34.62%) Finance
3 6 (23.08%) Public Sector
4 3 (11.54%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 2 (7.69%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.85%) Advertising
6 1 (3.85%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Windows Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Build Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Senior
3 3 (11.54%) Windows Build Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Linux Build Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Linux Server Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Network Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 2 (7.69%) Server Build Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Server Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Telecoms Specialist
4 2 (7.69%) Windows Server Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Administrator
5 1 (3.85%) Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (7.69%) JSON
1 2 (7.69%) LDAP
1 2 (7.69%) SAML
1 2 (7.69%) Web Services
1 2 (7.69%) XML
1 2 (7.69%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Public Cloud
1 7 (26.92%) Virtual Team
2 4 (15.38%) PKI
3 2 (7.69%) IoT
4 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.85%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 21 (80.77%) Windows
2 10 (38.46%) Windows Server
3 9 (34.62%) Linux
4 7 (26.92%) Unix
5 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Platform Engineering
2 11 (42.31%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (26.92%) CI/CD
3 7 (26.92%) DevOps
3 7 (26.92%) Knowledge Transfer
3 7 (26.92%) Project Delivery
4 5 (19.23%) Validation
5 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (11.54%) Change Management
6 3 (11.54%) Configuration Management
6 3 (11.54%) Software Distribution
6 3 (11.54%) Vulnerability Management
7 2 (7.69%) CRUD
7 2 (7.69%) Data Analysis
7 2 (7.69%) Data Engineering
7 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 2 (7.69%) Operational Acceptance Testing
7 2 (7.69%) Project Management
7 2 (7.69%) Security Hardening
7 2 (7.69%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) Ruby
2 6 (23.08%) SQL
3 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
System Software
1 11 (42.31%) Active Directory
2 5 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (11.54%) VMware NSX
3 3 (11.54%) XenApp
3 3 (11.54%) XenDesktop
4 2 (7.69%) Docker
4 2 (7.69%) NFS
5 1 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Ansible
1 7 (26.92%) CFEngine
1 7 (26.92%) PowerBroker
1 7 (26.92%) Progress Chef
1 7 (26.92%) Puppet
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (11.54%) SCCM
4 2 (7.69%) FortiGate
4 2 (7.69%) Grafana
4 2 (7.69%) vRealize
5 1 (3.85%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (3.85%) vCenter Server
5 1 (3.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Atlassian
1 7 (26.92%) VMware
2 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
3 4 (15.38%) Aruba
4 3 (11.54%) Citrix
4 3 (11.54%) FireEye
4 3 (11.54%) ServiceNow
4 3 (11.54%) Tanium
5 2 (7.69%) Barracuda Networks
5 2 (7.69%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (3.85%) Cisco
6 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.85%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.85%) Symantec
6 1 (3.85%) Veeam