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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 458 535
Rank change year-on-year -119 +77 +72
Contract jobs citing Server Building 22 25 16
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.053% 0.10% 0.044%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.062% 0.11% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 23 14
10th Percentile £314 £383 £268
25th Percentile £335 £453 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £465 £403
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +15.53% -23.33%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £525
90th Percentile £550 £536 £607
UK median daily rate £414 £468 £431
% change year-on-year -11.55% +8.47% -17.90%

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 35,523 21,911 31,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.02% 91.34% 85.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,505 14,200 20,503
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% -0.36% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,228 974 2,317
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.83
25th Percentile £20.69 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.53 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.77% -23.93% +0.54%
75th Percentile £68.00 £59.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.71 £27.64 £36.50
% change year-on-year +54.50% -24.27% +1.39%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -68 9 £451 -14.91% 4
Midlands -57 6 £349 -30.25%
East of England -29 4 £363 -5.23% 2
East Midlands -25 2 £494 -1.25%
West Midlands - 2 £331 -
South West -37 1 - -
South East -67 1 - - 2
North of England -76 1 £500 +7.53% 6
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 4 (18.18%) Apache
1 4 (18.18%) IIS
2 1 (4.55%) Camunda
2 1 (4.55%) nginx
2 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.55%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) Entra ID
3 3 (13.64%) AWS
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Stack
4 2 (9.09%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.55%) Cloudflare
5 1 (4.55%) Mimecast
5 1 (4.55%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 7 (31.82%) DNS
1 7 (31.82%) Firewall
2 3 (13.64%) DHCP
3 2 (9.09%) NAS
3 2 (9.09%) SAN
3 2 (9.09%) VSAN
4 1 (4.55%) BGP
4 1 (4.55%) BIG-IP
4 1 (4.55%) iSCSI
4 1 (4.55%) Kerberos
4 1 (4.55%) SSH
4 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) MySQL
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Git
1 1 (4.55%) GitLab
1 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
1 1 (4.55%) JUnit
1 1 (4.55%) Mockito
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 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Administrator
2 3 (13.64%) Network Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Server Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Switch Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (13.64%) Windows Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Wintel Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Network Support
3 2 (9.09%) Network Support Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Network Support Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Support Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Support Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Windows Administrator
3 2 (9.09%) Windows Server Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Windows Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) Software Packaging
2 1 (4.55%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.55%) Jest
2 1 (4.55%) Kafka
2 1 (4.55%) LAMP
2 1 (4.55%) LDAP
2 1 (4.55%) LEMP Stack
2 1 (4.55%) React
2 1 (4.55%) Redux
2 1 (4.55%) RESTful
2 1 (4.55%) Spring
2 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.55%) Spring MVC
2 1 (4.55%) Spring Security
2 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Life Science
2 1 (4.55%) PKI
2 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (72.73%) Windows
2 15 (68.18%) Windows Server
3 5 (22.73%) Linux
4 2 (9.09%) CentOS
4 2 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (9.09%) Ubuntu
5 1 (4.55%) Rocky
5 1 (4.55%) SUSE
5 1 (4.55%) VMS
5 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (22.73%) ITIL
3 4 (18.18%) Agile
4 3 (13.64%) High Availability
4 3 (13.64%) Migration
4 3 (13.64%) PRINCE2
4 3 (13.64%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 2 (9.09%) Change Management
5 2 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 2 (9.09%) Configuration Management
5 2 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (9.09%) Load Balancing
5 2 (9.09%) RBAC
5 2 (9.09%) Roadmaps
5 2 (9.09%) Security Hardening
5 2 (9.09%) Server Management
5 2 (9.09%) Task Automation
5 2 (9.09%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (9.09%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 2 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.09%) Bash
2 2 (9.09%) Python
3 1 (4.55%) Bicep
3 1 (4.55%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.55%) Degree
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) NIST
2 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (18.18%) Hyper-V
4 2 (9.09%) Docker
4 2 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (4.55%) Dovecot
5 1 (4.55%) KVM
5 1 (4.55%) NFS
5 1 (4.55%) Postfix
5 1 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (4.55%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (4.55%) VMware NSX
5 1 (4.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) Ansible
2 5 (22.73%) SCCM
3 2 (9.09%) Backup Exec
3 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 2 (9.09%) SCOM
3 2 (9.09%) Terraform
3 2 (9.09%) VxRail
4 1 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (4.55%) Grafana
4 1 (4.55%) HAProxy
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.55%) Nagios
4 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.55%) vRealize
4 1 (4.55%) WSUS
4 1 (4.55%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) VMware
2 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
3 4 (18.18%) Cisco
4 3 (13.64%) HP
4 3 (13.64%) McAfee
4 3 (13.64%) Palo Alto
4 3 (13.64%) Red Hat
4 3 (13.64%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.55%) Dell
5 1 (4.55%) F5
5 1 (4.55%) Intel
5 1 (4.55%) Juniper
5 1 (4.55%) NetApp
5 1 (4.55%) Splunk
5 1 (4.55%) Trend Micro