Server Engineer Contracts in England

Server Engineer
UK > England

The median Server Engineer daily rate in England is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 449 467 536
Rank change year-on-year +18 +69 +67
Contract jobs requiring a Server Engineer 37 69 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.19% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.20% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 57 73
10th Percentile £168 £285 £306
25th Percentile £313 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £469 £608 £575
90th Percentile £575 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £400 £475 £483
% change year-on-year -15.79% -1.55% +20.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £89.20 £21.47
25th Percentile £181.24 £91.00 £23.35
Median hourly rate £182.48 £98.00 £26.48
Median % change year-on-year +86.20% +270.09% +15.13%
75th Percentile £183.71 £103.00 £30.74
90th Percentile - £103.60 £33.30
UK median hourly rate £182.48 £98.00 £26.48
% change year-on-year +86.20% +270.09% +15.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,374 34,092 44,934
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.74% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,795 22,500 31,965
10th Percentile £293 £285 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 931 2,543 1,312
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -16.67% +89.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.60 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.89% -16.67% +87.50%

Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Server Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Server Engineer in England

Server Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Server Engineer in England

Server Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Engineer in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Server Engineer in England

Server Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Engineer in England

Server Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 31 May 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 +37 12 £182 -64.82% 2
London +29 12 £428 +0.71% 5
South West +50 6 £469 +33.93%
North of England +11 4 £383 -15.56%
Yorkshire +13 2 £320 -20.00%
Midlands +11 2 - - 2
North West +5 2 £445 -8.72%
East of England +24 1 £325 -45.83% 1
West Midlands +12 1 - - 2
East Midlands +8 1 - -
Server Engineer
UK

Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, Server Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Server Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (45.95%) Windows
1 17 (45.95%) Windows Server
2 15 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 15 (40.54%) Dell
3 12 (32.43%) HP
3 12 (32.43%) Data Centre
4 11 (29.73%) SLA
4 11 (29.73%) IBM
5 9 (24.32%) VMware
5 9 (24.32%) Break/Fix
5 9 (24.32%) Customer Service
6 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (18.92%) Security Cleared
6 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
6 7 (18.92%) Active Directory
7 6 (16.22%) PowerShell
7 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (16.22%) Server Building
8 5 (13.51%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (13.51%) VMware Infrastructure
8 5 (13.51%) Azure
8 5 (13.51%) QA
8 5 (13.51%) Finance
8 5 (13.51%) Python
9 4 (10.81%) Linux
9 4 (10.81%) SAN
9 4 (10.81%) Migration
9 4 (10.81%) Military
9 4 (10.81%) Firewall

Server Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.70%) nginx
2 1 (2.70%) SAS
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.70%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.51%) Azure
2 4 (10.81%) AWS
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (8.11%) Nutanix
4 2 (5.41%) Apigee
4 2 (5.41%) Datadog
4 2 (5.41%) Serverless
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.70%) GCP
5 1 (2.70%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) Firewall
1 4 (10.81%) SAN
2 3 (8.11%) DHCP
2 3 (8.11%) NAS
3 2 (5.41%) DNS
3 2 (5.41%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.41%) VLAN
4 1 (2.70%) Broadband
4 1 (2.70%) DKIM
4 1 (2.70%) DMARC
4 1 (2.70%) Extranet
4 1 (2.70%) VPN
4 1 (2.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Git
1 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (2.70%) GitLab
General
1 15 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (13.51%) Finance
3 4 (10.81%) Military
4 3 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.41%) Banking
5 2 (5.41%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.70%) Front Office
6 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (32.43%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.11%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.70%) CESG
4 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.70%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.70%) Grid Computing
4 1 (2.70%) HP Storage
4 1 (2.70%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (45.95%) Windows
1 17 (45.95%) Windows Server
2 5 (13.51%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (10.81%) Linux
4 2 (5.41%) Windows 10
4 2 (5.41%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.70%) CentOS
5 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.70%) Rocky
5 1 (2.70%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.70%) VMS
5 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (24.32%) Break/Fix
1 9 (24.32%) Customer Service
2 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (16.22%) Server Building
4 4 (10.81%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (10.81%) CI/CD
4 4 (10.81%) DevOps
4 4 (10.81%) Migration
4 4 (10.81%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (10.81%) Server Migrations
4 4 (10.81%) Time Management
5 3 (8.11%) Agile
5 3 (8.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (8.11%) Scrum
5 3 (8.11%) Software Engineering
6 2 (5.41%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (5.41%) Performance Analysis
6 2 (5.41%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.22%) PowerShell
2 5 (13.51%) Python
3 3 (8.11%) SQL
4 2 (5.41%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.70%) Bash
5 1 (2.70%) C#
5 1 (2.70%) C++
5 1 (2.70%) Java
5 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.70%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (29.73%) SLA
2 5 (13.51%) QA
3 1 (2.70%) JSP 440
System Software
1 7 (18.92%) Active Directory
2 5 (13.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (8.11%) Firmware
3 3 (8.11%) Hyper-V
3 3 (8.11%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (5.41%) Docker
4 2 (5.41%) vSphere
5 1 (2.70%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Dell DRAC
1 3 (8.11%) SCCM
2 2 (5.41%) Ansible
3 1 (2.70%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.70%) Grafana
3 1 (2.70%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (2.70%) Kibana
3 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.70%) Nagios
3 1 (2.70%) PowerCLI
3 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (40.54%) Dell
2 12 (32.43%) HP
3 11 (29.73%) IBM
4 9 (24.32%) VMware
5 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
6 2 (5.41%) Splunk
7 1 (2.70%) Avaya
7 1 (2.70%) Cisco
7 1 (2.70%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.70%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (2.70%) Mitel
7 1 (2.70%) MobileIron
7 1 (2.70%) Proofpoint
7 1 (2.70%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.70%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.70%) Sun
7 1 (2.70%) TIBCO
7 1 (2.70%) Veeam