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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 598 485 519
Rank change year-on-year -113 +34 +73
Contract jobs citing Server Building 21 19 18
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.046% 0.069% 0.053%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.054% 0.076% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 16 13
10th Percentile £302 £436 £269
25th Percentile £345 £456 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £465 £380
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% +22.37% -27.62%
75th Percentile £447 £500 £607
90th Percentile £535 £519 £609
UK median daily rate £442 £465 £380
% change year-on-year -4.89% +22.37% -27.62%
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

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 38,823 25,045 28,976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.31% 90.74% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,257 16,045 18,963
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,475 1,380 1,752
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.87 £17.80
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.03
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.16% -1.11%
75th Percentile £68.75 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -62 13 £436 -16.95% 4
Midlands -49 4 £335 -33.00%
East Midlands -15 1 £438 -12.50%
East of England -17 1 £425 +11.11% 1
South West -44 1 - -
South East -66 1 - - 2
North of England -73 1 £500 +7.53% 1
West Midlands - 1 £300 -
Yorkshire - 1 £500 -
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 2 (9.52%) IIS
2 1 (4.76%) Apache
2 1 (4.76%) Camunda
2 1 (4.76%) nginx
2 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.76%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Stack
3 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
3 2 (9.52%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.76%) Cloudflare
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (33.33%) DNS
2 3 (14.29%) DHCP
2 3 (14.29%) Firewall
3 2 (9.52%) NAS
3 2 (9.52%) SAN
3 2 (9.52%) VSAN
4 1 (4.76%) BIG-IP
4 1 (4.76%) Kerberos
4 1 (4.76%) SSH
4 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) MySQL
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
1 1 (4.76%) GitLab
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.76%) JUnit
1 1 (4.76%) Mockito
1 1 (4.76%) MSI
General
1 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) German Language
4 1 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (23.81%) Windows Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Server Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Administrator
3 3 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (14.29%) Windows Server Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Project Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Technical Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Technical Project Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Windows Administrator
4 2 (9.52%) Windows Systems Administrator
4 2 (9.52%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Deployment Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Software Packaging
2 1 (4.76%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.76%) Jest
2 1 (4.76%) JSON
2 1 (4.76%) Kafka
2 1 (4.76%) LAMP
2 1 (4.76%) LDAP
2 1 (4.76%) LEMP Stack
2 1 (4.76%) React
2 1 (4.76%) Redux
2 1 (4.76%) REST
2 1 (4.76%) RESTful
2 1 (4.76%) Spring
2 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.76%) Spring MVC
2 1 (4.76%) Spring Security
2 1 (4.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) CMDB
1 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.76%) Life Science
3 1 (4.76%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (66.67%) Windows
2 12 (57.14%) Windows Server
3 7 (33.33%) Linux
4 2 (9.52%) CentOS
4 2 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (9.52%) Ubuntu
4 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (4.76%) Rocky
5 1 (4.76%) SUSE
5 1 (4.76%) VMS
5 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (23.81%) Migration
3 4 (19.05%) ITIL
3 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (19.05%) RBAC
3 4 (19.05%) Roadmaps
3 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (19.05%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 3 (14.29%) Agile
4 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (14.29%) High Availability
4 3 (14.29%) Security Hardening
4 3 (14.29%) Server Migrations
4 3 (14.29%) Service Management
4 3 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
4 3 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (9.52%) Project Governance
5 2 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (9.52%) SIEM
5 2 (9.52%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.52%) Bash
2 2 (9.52%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) Bicep
3 1 (4.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (47.62%) Security Cleared
2 8 (38.10%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.76%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) NIST
2 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (52.38%) Active Directory
2 8 (38.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (14.29%) Hyper-V
4 2 (9.52%) Docker
4 2 (9.52%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (9.52%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (9.52%) vSphere
5 1 (4.76%) Dovecot
5 1 (4.76%) KVM
5 1 (4.76%) NFS
5 1 (4.76%) Postfix
5 1 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) SCCM
2 4 (19.05%) Ansible
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (14.29%) Terraform
4 2 (9.52%) Backup Exec
4 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
4 2 (9.52%) SCOM
4 2 (9.52%) VxRail
5 1 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (4.76%) Grafana
5 1 (4.76%) HAProxy
5 1 (4.76%) Nagios
5 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.76%) WSUS
5 1 (4.76%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) VMware
2 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 3 (14.29%) HP
3 3 (14.29%) McAfee
3 3 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 3 (14.29%) ServiceNow
4 2 (9.52%) Siebel
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco
5 1 (4.76%) Dell
5 1 (4.76%) F5
5 1 (4.76%) Juniper
5 1 (4.76%) NetApp
5 1 (4.76%) Splunk
5 1 (4.76%) Tanium
5 1 (4.76%) Trend Micro