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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 611 512 511
Rank change year-on-year -99 -1 +47
Contract jobs citing Server Building 26 8 24
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.056% 0.029% 0.073%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.067% 0.032% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 5 14
10th Percentile £181 £410 £349
25th Percentile £244 £456 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £463 £438
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% +5.71% -21.17%
75th Percentile £561 £500 £525
90th Percentile £686 £523 £609
UK median daily rate £447 £463 £438
% change year-on-year -3.35% +5.71% -21.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £35.58
Median hourly rate - - £36.17
75th Percentile - - £36.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £36.17
% change year-on-year - - -53.63%

All Process & 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 38,989 25,060 28,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.56% 90.87% 86.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,802 15,892 17,554
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £627 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,803 1,513 1,284
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.74 £17.69 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.27%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.71 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +0.58%

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 21 September 2026.

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 21 September 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
London -75 11 £425 -19.05% 4
North of England -59 9 £440 -12.00% 2
North East - 7 £200 -
East of England -26 2 £469 +22.55%
Yorkshire -38 2 £700 +40.00% 1
South West -40 2 - - 1
South East - 1 - - 8
East Midlands - 1 £438 - 3
Midlands - 1 £438 - 3
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 5 (19.23%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.69%) IIS
3 1 (3.85%) Apache
3 1 (3.85%) Camunda
3 1 (3.85%) nginx
3 1 (3.85%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) Azure
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (11.54%) AWS
3 3 (11.54%) Entra ID
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Stack
4 2 (7.69%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.85%) Cloudflare
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 13 (50.00%) DNS
2 9 (34.62%) DHCP
3 7 (26.92%) Firewall
4 4 (15.38%) Network Security
5 3 (11.54%) SAN
5 3 (11.54%) TCP/IP
6 2 (7.69%) NAS
7 1 (3.85%) BIG-IP
7 1 (3.85%) Kerberos
7 1 (3.85%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) MySQL
1 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Git
1 2 (7.69%) MSI
2 1 (3.85%) GitLab
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) JUnit
2 1 (3.85%) Mockito
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (19.23%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (15.38%) Legal
5 3 (11.54%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (11.54%) Finance
5 3 (11.54%) Manufacturing
5 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
6 2 (7.69%) German Language
7 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) Administrator
2 3 (11.54%) Server Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) Support Technician
2 3 (11.54%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (7.69%) Architect
3 2 (7.69%) Consultant
3 2 (7.69%) Project Manager
3 2 (7.69%) Security Consultant
3 2 (7.69%) Security Specialist
3 2 (7.69%) Service Desk Support
3 2 (7.69%) Service Desk Technician
3 2 (7.69%) Technical Architect
3 2 (7.69%) Technical Manager
3 2 (7.69%) Technical Project Manager
3 2 (7.69%) Technical Security Specialist
3 2 (7.69%) Technical Specialist
3 2 (7.69%) Windows Administrator
3 2 (7.69%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Windows Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) Terraform
2 2 (7.69%) JSON
2 2 (7.69%) LDAP
2 2 (7.69%) REST
2 2 (7.69%) Software Packaging
3 1 (3.85%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.85%) Jest
3 1 (3.85%) Kafka
3 1 (3.85%) LAMP
3 1 (3.85%) LEMP Stack
3 1 (3.85%) React
3 1 (3.85%) Redux
3 1 (3.85%) RESTful
3 1 (3.85%) Spring
3 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.85%) Spring MVC
3 1 (3.85%) Spring Security
3 1 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Operational Technology
2 5 (19.23%) SCADA
3 4 (15.38%) CMDB
3 4 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (11.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (11.54%) PKI
5 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
5 2 (7.69%) Security Posture
6 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
6 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
6 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (3.85%) Life Science
6 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (65.38%) Windows
2 14 (53.85%) Linux
2 14 (53.85%) Windows Server
3 3 (11.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (7.69%) CentOS
4 2 (7.69%) Ubuntu
5 1 (3.85%) AIX
5 1 (3.85%) Rocky
5 1 (3.85%) Solaris
5 1 (3.85%) SUSE
5 1 (3.85%) Unix
5 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) ITIL
1 10 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (34.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (26.92%) Migration
4 6 (23.08%) ITSM
4 6 (23.08%) Security Hardening
4 6 (23.08%) Vulnerability Management
5 5 (19.23%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (19.23%) Patch Management
5 5 (19.23%) RBAC
5 5 (19.23%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 4 (15.38%) High Availability
6 4 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
6 4 (15.38%) Roadmaps
6 4 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (15.38%) Service Management
6 4 (15.38%) Storage Management
6 4 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (15.38%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.69%) Bash
2 2 (7.69%) Python
3 1 (3.85%) Bicep
3 1 (3.85%) Java
3 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 12 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 4 (15.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (7.69%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.85%) Degree
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.85%) RHCE
5 1 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) NIST
2 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (57.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (34.62%) Active Directory
3 8 (30.77%) Hyper-V
3 8 (30.77%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (19.23%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (11.54%) Docker
5 3 (11.54%) NFS
5 3 (11.54%) vSphere
6 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (3.85%) Dovecot
7 1 (3.85%) KVM
7 1 (3.85%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (3.85%) Postfix
7 1 (3.85%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (3.85%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (38.46%) SCCM
2 5 (19.23%) Ansible
2 5 (19.23%) VxRail
3 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (11.54%) McAfee ePO
4 3 (11.54%) Nessus
5 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
5 2 (7.69%) Puppet
5 2 (7.69%) SCOM
6 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (3.85%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (3.85%) Grafana
6 1 (3.85%) HAProxy
6 1 (3.85%) Nagios
6 1 (3.85%) NetBackup
6 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.85%) Salt
6 1 (3.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (57.69%) VMware
2 13 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (23.08%) Dell
4 5 (19.23%) Fortinet
4 5 (19.23%) ServiceNow
5 4 (15.38%) Citrix
6 3 (11.54%) Carbon Black
6 3 (11.54%) McAfee
6 3 (11.54%) Red Hat
6 3 (11.54%) Tenable
7 2 (7.69%) NetApp
7 2 (7.69%) Siebel
7 2 (7.69%) Tanium
8 1 (3.85%) Cadence
8 1 (3.85%) Cisco
8 1 (3.85%) F5
8 1 (3.85%) Juniper
8 1 (3.85%) Oracle
8 1 (3.85%) Synopsys
8 1 (3.85%) Veritas