Server Building Contract Job Trends in England

Server Building
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Server Building skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 477 526
Rank change year-on-year -39 +49 +138
Contract jobs citing Server Building 11 32 55
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.039% 0.10% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.042% 0.12% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 22 36
10th Percentile £392 £360 £223
25th Percentile £401 £376 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £463 £573
Median % change year-on-year -11.57% -19.21% +15.66%
75th Percentile £500 £516 £656
90th Percentile £515 £603 £688
UK median daily rate £409 £463 £560
% change year-on-year -11.57% -17.41% +13.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £36.17 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -53.63% +202.91%
UK median hourly rate - £36.17 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -53.63% +202.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25,908 27,348 36,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.84% 86.61% 88.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,426 16,672 25,043
10th Percentile £298 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,651 1,044 1,475
10th Percentile £14.63 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% -9.38% +27.14%
75th Percentile £44.80 £66.53 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.48 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.82% -10.59% +26.87%

Server Building
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Server Building job vacancy trend in England

Server Building
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Server Building.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Server Building

Server Building
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Building in England over the 6 months to 24 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Server Building in England

Server Building
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Server Building.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Server Building

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 24 October 2025. 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
North of England -30 6 £409 -13.89% 2
North West -17 4 £403 -15.21% 2
London +4 2 £525 - 1
Yorkshire -23 2 £500 -
South West +11 1 - -
East of England - 1 £383 -
Server Building
UK

Server Building
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) Apache
2 2 (18.18%) Confluence
3 1 (9.09%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
2 1 (9.09%) Mimecast
2 1 (9.09%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) Firewall
2 4 (36.36%) SNMP
2 4 (36.36%) VPN
3 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
4 1 (9.09%) DHCP
4 1 (9.09%) DNS
4 1 (9.09%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) MariaDB
1 2 (18.18%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
1 2 (18.18%) Vagrant
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Fire and Rescue
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Military
3 1 (9.09%) Police
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Network Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Administrator
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (18.18%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) LAMP
1 2 (18.18%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (9.09%) Replication
3 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Windows
2 6 (54.55%) Linux
3 4 (36.36%) Windows Server
4 2 (18.18%) CentOS
4 2 (18.18%) Debian
4 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (18.18%) Ubuntu
5 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
1 4 (36.36%) Dashboard Development
1 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (36.36%) Load Balancing
1 4 (36.36%) Performance Monitoring
1 4 (36.36%) Security Hardening
2 3 (27.27%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) User Experience
3 2 (18.18%) Build Automation
3 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (18.18%) Server Patching
3 2 (18.18%) Software Deployment
4 1 (9.09%) Change Management
4 1 (9.09%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Bash
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) Perl
3 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
4 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 2 (18.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) CCNA
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (54.55%) Docker
3 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
3 2 (18.18%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (18.18%) VirtualBox
4 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (9.09%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) Icinga
2 2 (18.18%) Nagios
2 2 (18.18%) Progress Chef
2 2 (18.18%) Puppet
2 2 (18.18%) Salt
2 2 (18.18%) vRealize
2 2 (18.18%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) VMware
2 5 (45.45%) Cisco
3 4 (36.36%) Juniper
4 2 (18.18%) New Relic
4 2 (18.18%) Rackspace
4 2 (18.18%) Zend
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
5 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds