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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 572 439 502
Rank change year-on-year -133 +63 +118
Contract jobs citing Server Building 22 36 33
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.056% 0.15% 0.088%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.066% 0.16% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 33 26
10th Percentile £331 £313 £310
25th Percentile £346 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% -11.90% -2.33%
75th Percentile £469 £500 £582
90th Percentile £550 £520 £610
UK median daily rate £381 £464 £525
% change year-on-year -17.79% -11.67% +6.06%

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 33,552 22,163 32,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.57% 90.95% 86.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,495 14,584 21,337
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,072 874 2,199
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.84 £12.91
25th Percentile £19.98 £18.51 £15.85
Median hourly rate £40.54 £32.00 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +26.69% -6.46% -8.77%
75th Percentile £66.00 £64.50 £58.70
90th Percentile £78.70 £75.43 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £30.81 £34.00
% change year-on-year +20.11% -9.40% -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 12 April 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 12 April 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
East of England -35 6 £363 -27.50% 1
Midlands -61 6 £349 -30.25%
London -71 5 £550 +22.22%
North of England -74 5 £406 -12.72%
North West -36 4 £403 -13.39%
West Midlands - 3 £363 -
East Midlands -35 1 £550 +10.00%
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 5 (22.73%) Apache
1 5 (22.73%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Entra ID
2 3 (13.64%) Mimecast
2 3 (13.64%) Nutanix
3 2 (9.09%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 12 (54.55%) Firewall
2 7 (31.82%) DNS
3 4 (18.18%) SNMP
3 4 (18.18%) VPN
4 3 (13.64%) DHCP
4 3 (13.64%) TCP/IP
5 2 (9.09%) VSAN
6 1 (4.55%) BGP
6 1 (4.55%) iSCSI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Network Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Switch Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Firewall Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Server Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Network Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Network Support
5 2 (9.09%) Network Support Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Network Technical Architect
5 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Support Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Support Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (18.18%) Data Centre
3 3 (13.64%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.55%) Life Science
4 1 (4.55%) PKI
4 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (77.27%) Windows
2 13 (59.09%) Windows Server
3 6 (27.27%) Linux
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.55%) VMS
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (31.82%) Agile
2 7 (31.82%) Load Balancing
3 6 (27.27%) ITIL
4 5 (22.73%) PRINCE2
5 4 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 4 (18.18%) Dashboard Development
5 4 (18.18%) Performance Monitoring
6 3 (13.64%) Migration
6 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
6 3 (13.64%) Technology Roadmap
6 3 (13.64%) User Experience
7 2 (9.09%) Architectural Design
7 2 (9.09%) Configuration Management
7 2 (9.09%) Mentoring
7 2 (9.09%) Network Design
7 2 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (9.09%) Technical Analysis
7 2 (9.09%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 2 (9.09%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) PowerShell
2 4 (18.18%) Bash
2 4 (18.18%) Python
3 3 (13.64%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 7 (31.82%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (9.09%) Degree
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (45.45%) Active Directory
1 10 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (18.18%) Docker
2 4 (18.18%) Hyper-V
3 2 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.55%) VMware NSX
4 1 (4.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) Ansible
2 3 (13.64%) SCCM
3 2 (9.09%) Backup Exec
3 2 (9.09%) VxRail
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.55%) vRealize
4 1 (4.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (45.45%) VMware
2 9 (40.91%) Cisco
3 5 (22.73%) Palo Alto
3 5 (22.73%) SolarWinds
4 4 (18.18%) Juniper
5 3 (13.64%) HP
5 3 (13.64%) McAfee
6 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
6 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
7 1 (4.55%) Dell
7 1 (4.55%) Intel
7 1 (4.55%) NetApp
7 1 (4.55%) Trend Micro