Server Building Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Server Building
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Server Building skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 54 62
Rank change year-on-year -27 +8 -
Contract jobs citing Server Building 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.10% 0.18% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.21% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £473
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.82% -
75th Percentile - - £484
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £381 £475 £560
% change year-on-year -19.74% -15.18% +13.36%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Server Building 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 in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 811 487 650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.66% 86.50% 82.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 295 447
10th Percentile £190 £250 £188
25th Percentile £353 £350 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £430 £445
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% -3.37% -1.11%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £550
90th Percentile £610 £606 £664
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 20 62
10th Percentile £14.96 £16.81 £11.26
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £23.34 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -23.44% +32.58% +4.60%
75th Percentile £24.36 £30.44 £32.13
90th Percentile £25.15 £41.21 £51.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -0.71% +0.71%

Server Building
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Server Building relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Server Building job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Server Building
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Server Building.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Server Building

Server Building
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Server Building.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Server Building

Server Building
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 February 2026. 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
Leicestershire - 1 £550 -
Server Building
England

Server Building
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Wintel Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Energy Management
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Intel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft