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 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 64 69
Rank change year-on-year -15 +5 +12
Contract jobs citing Server Building 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.18% 0.28% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.32% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £443 - -
25th Percentile £461 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% +5.26% +80.95%
75th Percentile £523 - £488
90th Percentile £539 - -
England median daily rate £414 £465 £425
% change year-on-year -11.08% +9.41% -19.05%

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 868 622 685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 76.75% 86.87% 78.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 476 419 451
10th Percentile £213 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £332 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £410 £445
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% -7.87% -6.32%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £565
90th Percentile £650 £589 £623
England median daily rate £523 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 53 61
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.97 £11.75
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.35 £12.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 £19.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -35.80%
75th Percentile £25.75 £25.15 £26.15
90th Percentile £35.69 - £50.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Building in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 4 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Server Building in the East Midlands

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 July 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 - 2 £494 -
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 (50.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Software Packaging
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Energy Management
1 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Stability
1 1 (50.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Intel