Senior Server Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Server Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Server Engineer daily rate in London is £424, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 389 493
Rank change year-on-year +37 +104 +107
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Server Engineer 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.016% 0.006% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.006% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £420 - -
25th Percentile £421 £575 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £600 £325
Median % change year-on-year -29.33% +84.62% -32.64%
75th Percentile £429 £625 £338
90th Percentile £431 - -
England median daily rate £424 £613 £525
% change year-on-year -30.78% +16.67% +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
England median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,667 16,313 24,641
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 93.44% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,987 11,793 17,910
10th Percentile £343 £325 £363
25th Percentile £426 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 318 281
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.42 £20.07 £22.63
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.64% -21.43% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £46.05 £62.68
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.32 £80.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.31% -17.38% +93.72%

Senior Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Server Engineer in London

Senior Server Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Server Engineer in London

Senior Server Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Server Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, Senior 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 London region featuring Senior Server Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Datadog
1 2 (100.00%) Apigee
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership

Senior Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Apigee
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Datadog
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Management
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk