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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 526 482 518
Rank change year-on-year -44 +36 +150
Contract jobs citing Server Building 9 35 63
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.030% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% 0.13% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 24 42
10th Percentile £401 £360 £300
25th Percentile £404 £379 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £463 £571
Median % change year-on-year -1.73% -19.00% +15.82%
75th Percentile £500 £525 £622
90th Percentile £519 £588 £675
UK median daily rate £455 £463 £560
% change year-on-year -1.73% -17.41% +13.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £36.17 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -53.63% +202.91%
UK median hourly rate - £36.17 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -53.63% +202.91%

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 27,129 27,014 35,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.29% 86.78% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,216 16,502 24,361
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £642 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,789 972 1,496
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.10 £14.42
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.28 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%
75th Percentile £46.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.72 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.33
% change year-on-year -28.14% -19.22% +23.80%

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
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 16 November 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
North of England -33 6 £409 -13.89% 3
North West -21 4 £403 -15.21% 3
London -15 2 £525 +6.06%
Yorkshire -38 2 £500 -
Server Building
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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 (22.22%) Apache
1 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Firewall
1 4 (44.44%) SNMP
1 4 (44.44%) VPN
2 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MariaDB
1 2 (22.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Bitbucket
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
1 2 (22.22%) Vagrant
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) LAMP
1 2 (22.22%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
3 1 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 6 (66.67%) Linux
3 2 (22.22%) CentOS
3 2 (22.22%) Debian
3 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (22.22%) Ubuntu
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
1 4 (44.44%) Dashboard Development
1 4 (44.44%) Load Balancing
1 4 (44.44%) Performance Monitoring
1 4 (44.44%) Security Hardening
2 3 (33.33%) User Experience
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Build Automation
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Server Patching
3 2 (22.22%) Software Deployment
4 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Bash
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) Perl
3 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
4 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 2 (22.22%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) CCNA
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (66.67%) Docker
3 2 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (22.22%) VirtualBox
4 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (11.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
1 2 (22.22%) Icinga
1 2 (22.22%) Nagios
1 2 (22.22%) Progress Chef
1 2 (22.22%) Puppet
1 2 (22.22%) Salt
1 2 (22.22%) vRealize
1 2 (22.22%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (44.44%) Cisco
2 4 (44.44%) Juniper
3 2 (22.22%) New Relic
3 2 (22.22%) Rackspace
3 2 (22.22%) Zend
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft