Server Engineer Contract Job Trends in Crewe

Server Engineer
Cheshire > Crewe

The median Server Engineer daily rate in Crewe is £338, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Server Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Crewe 9.38% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 10.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £333 - -
25th Percentile £334 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 - -
75th Percentile £339 - -
90th Percentile £340 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £335 £475 -
% change year-on-year -29.47% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Crewe

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Crewe. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Crewe with a recognized job title 28 20 7
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.50% 64.52% 70.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 7
10th Percentile - £291 -
25th Percentile £163 £476 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £625 £250
Median % change year-on-year -56.00% +150.00% -38.65%
75th Percentile £347 £650 £413
90th Percentile £453 £684 £523
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £27.20 - -
25th Percentile £28.25 - -
Median hourly rate £32.00 £23.48 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.29% - -
75th Percentile £37.00 - -
90th Percentile £38.80 - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £24.33 £22.09 £23.61
% change year-on-year +10.12% -6.44% +33.69%

Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Crewe

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Server Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Crewe.

Server Engineer job vacancy trend in Crewe

Server Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Crewe

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Server Engineer job vacancies in Crewe.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Server Engineer job vacancies in Crewe

Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 13 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Crewe

For the 6 months to 17 December 2025, Server Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Crewe region featuring Server Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 3 (100.00%) Nagios
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared

Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Crewe by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 3 (100.00%) Nagios
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) SolarWinds
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