Server Engineer Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Server Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Server Engineer daily rate in the East Midlands is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 64 68
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Server Engineer 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.27% 0.15% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.16% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £353 - -
25th Percentile £380 - £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £338
Median % change year-on-year - - +51.35%
75th Percentile £500 - £356
90th Percentile £515 - -
England median daily rate £425 £424 £500
% change year-on-year +0.24% -15.20% +17.65%

All Contract IT Job Roles
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 the East Midlands with a recognized job title 987 607 827
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.24% 89.40% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 417 523
10th Percentile £200 £201 £186
25th Percentile £400 £325 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £415 £425
Median % change year-on-year +14.46% -2.35% -8.11%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £550
90th Percentile £650 £588 £622
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 48 95
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.69 £11.83
25th Percentile £14.26 £17.87 £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.20 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -18.90% +25.25% -18.23%
75th Percentile £25.38 £25.15 £27.50
90th Percentile £51.25 £37.60 £51.91
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £39.55
% change year-on-year +56.52% -27.31% -10.11%

Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Server Engineer job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Server Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Server Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Server Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands

Server Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 22 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Server Engineer in the East Midlands

Server Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Server Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Server Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands

Server Engineer
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 Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
Derbyshire - 1 £340 - 1
Lincolnshire - 1 £500 - 2
Server Engineer
England

Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 22 June 2026, 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 East Midlands region featuring Server Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Firmware
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) MCSA
3 1 (33.33%) MCSE
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) Nutanix
3 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP

Server Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) MCSA
2 1 (33.33%) MCSE
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) Firmware
3 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds