Server Building Contracts in England

Server Building
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Server Building skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Server Building over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 468 544 601
Rank change year-on-year +76 +57 +79
Contract jobs citing Server Building 27 15 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.040% 0.073%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.047% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 11 28
10th Percentile £383 £250 -
25th Percentile £453 £352 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% -19.05% -
75th Percentile £500 £572 £600
90th Percentile £530 £607 £743
UK median daily rate £468 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -19.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £36.17 -
UK median hourly rate - £36.17 -

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 23,975 31,937 42,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.99% 85.52% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,423 20,731 29,966
10th Percentile £300 £306 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,196 2,302 1,555
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.85 £16.06 £16.62
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +45.12%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £75.94
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £37.42
% change year-on-year -32.93% +0.21% +43.92%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Server Building in England.

Daily rate trend for Server Building in England

Server Building
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Building in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Server Building in England

Server Building
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Server Building in England.

Hourly rate trend for Server Building in England

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 July 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 East +42 8 £500 +38.89% 11
London +34 6 £525 - 21
South West - 6 £463 - 8
North of England +11 4 £465 -19.13% 3
North West +8 4 £465 -19.13% 1
Midlands +8 2 £500 +37.93% 2
East Midlands +5 2 £500 +5.26%
East of England - 1 £383 - 5
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 (11.11%) Apache
2 2 (7.41%) Confluence
3 1 (3.70%) IIS
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) AWS
2 7 (25.93%) Azure
3 6 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (18.52%) GitHub
5 2 (7.41%) Mimecast
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.70%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) DHCP
1 5 (18.52%) Firewall
2 3 (11.11%) DMZ
3 1 (3.70%) DKIM
3 1 (3.70%) DMARC
3 1 (3.70%) DNS
3 1 (3.70%) Extranet
3 1 (3.70%) HTTP
3 1 (3.70%) Internet
3 1 (3.70%) IPv4
3 1 (3.70%) Multicast
3 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) Big Data
2 2 (7.41%) MariaDB
2 2 (7.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (33.33%) Git
1 9 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.81%) GitLab
3 2 (7.41%) Bitbucket
3 2 (7.41%) JIRA
3 2 (7.41%) Vagrant
General
1 11 (40.74%) Finance
2 6 (22.22%) Military
2 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Police
4 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Build Engineer
1 6 (22.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 6 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
1 6 (22.22%) Server Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Server Build Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Windows Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Windows Build Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Administrator
4 2 (7.41%) Citrix Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Lead
4 2 (7.41%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (7.41%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 2 (7.41%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (3.70%) Citrix Specialist
5 1 (3.70%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) LAMP
1 2 (7.41%) Zend Framework
2 1 (3.70%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (7.41%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (3.70%) CESG
3 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.70%) Handset
3 1 (3.70%) PKI
3 1 (3.70%) Replication
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (74.07%) Windows
2 17 (62.96%) Windows Server
3 9 (33.33%) Linux
4 8 (29.63%) Ubuntu
5 6 (22.22%) Windows 10
6 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (7.41%) CentOS
8 2 (7.41%) Debian
9 1 (3.70%) VMS
9 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) DevOps
2 9 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 7 (25.93%) High Availability
4 6 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
4 6 (22.22%) Customer-Centric Approach
4 6 (22.22%) Customer-Centricity
4 6 (22.22%) Open Source
4 6 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (18.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (14.81%) Agile
6 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
7 3 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (7.41%) Build Automation
8 2 (7.41%) Change Management
8 2 (7.41%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (7.41%) Security Hardening
8 2 (7.41%) Server Patching
8 2 (7.41%) Software Deployment
9 1 (3.70%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) PowerShell
2 9 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (11.11%) Bash
4 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.41%) Perl
4 2 (7.41%) PHP
4 2 (7.41%) VBScript
5 1 (3.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 6 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) CCNA
3 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.70%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) JSP 440
System Software
1 9 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (11.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 2 (7.41%) Docker
4 2 (7.41%) Hyper-V
4 2 (7.41%) VirtualBox
5 1 (3.70%) BitLocker
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (3.70%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (3.70%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (3.70%) XenApp
5 1 (3.70%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (37.04%) Ansible
2 7 (25.93%) Terraform
3 4 (14.81%) Dell DRAC
4 3 (11.11%) Puppet
4 3 (11.11%) SCCM
5 2 (7.41%) Icinga
5 2 (7.41%) Nagios
5 2 (7.41%) Progress Chef
5 2 (7.41%) Salt
6 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (3.70%) PowerCLI
6 1 (3.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 6 (22.22%) Databricks
2 6 (22.22%) VMware
3 5 (18.52%) Citrix
4 4 (14.81%) Dell
5 3 (11.11%) CyberArk
6 2 (7.41%) New Relic
6 2 (7.41%) Rackspace
6 2 (7.41%) Zend
7 1 (3.70%) Avaya
7 1 (3.70%) Cisco
7 1 (3.70%) Mitel
7 1 (3.70%) MobileIron
7 1 (3.70%) Palo Alto
7 1 (3.70%) Proofpoint
7 1 (3.70%) SolarWinds