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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 504 543
Rank change year-on-year 0 +39 +148
Contract jobs citing Server Building 8 24 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.029% 0.073% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.032% 0.085% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 32
10th Percentile £410 £349 £190
25th Percentile £456 £360 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £438 £555
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -21.17% +5.71%
75th Percentile £500 £525 £656
90th Percentile £523 £609 £675
UK median daily rate £463 £438 £555
% change year-on-year +5.71% -21.17% +5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £36.17 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -53.63% -
UK median hourly rate - £36.17 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -53.63% -

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 25,260 28,349 37,379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.90% 86.08% 89.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,060 17,666 25,846
10th Percentile £300 £313 £319
25th Percentile £405 £420 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £645 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,499 1,306 1,419
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.92 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%
75th Percentile £50.00 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% - +48.28%

Server Building
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Server Building as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Server Building 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 18 September 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 18 September 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
South West - 3 £463 - 1
London +15 2 £525 -7.24% 2
North of England -14 1 £500 -
Yorkshire -15 1 £500 -
East of England - 1 £383 -
Server Building
UK

Server Building
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) Apache
2 2 (25.00%) Confluence
3 1 (12.50%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) Mimecast
2 1 (12.50%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MariaDB
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
1 2 (25.00%) Vagrant
General
1 3 (37.50%) Military
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Fire and Rescue
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Police
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Administrator
1 2 (25.00%) Build Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
1 2 (25.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 2 (25.00%) Server Build Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Server Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Switch Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) LAMP
1 2 (25.00%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
1 1 (12.50%) Replication
1 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 2 (25.00%) CentOS
3 2 (25.00%) Debian
3 2 (25.00%) Linux
3 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (25.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Agile
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (37.50%) Security Hardening
2 2 (25.00%) Build Automation
2 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Server Patching
2 2 (25.00%) Software Deployment
3 1 (12.50%) Change Management
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
3 1 (12.50%) Project Management
3 1 (12.50%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Bash
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (25.00%) Perl
1 2 (25.00%) PHP
1 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) CCNA
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (25.00%) VirtualBox
3 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Icinga
2 2 (25.00%) Nagios
2 2 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 2 (25.00%) Puppet
2 2 (25.00%) Salt
3 1 (12.50%) vRealize
3 1 (12.50%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) New Relic
2 2 (25.00%) Rackspace
2 2 (25.00%) Zend
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
3 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds