Server Engineer Contracts in London

Server Engineer
England > London

The median Server Engineer daily rate in London is £363, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 359 437
Rank change year-on-year +18 +78 +92
Contract jobs requiring a Server Engineer 12 32 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.096% 0.18% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.19% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 25 43
10th Percentile £269 £250 £323
25th Percentile £332 £300 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% -22.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £469 £650 £700
90th Percentile £583 - -
England median daily rate £388 £431 £425
% change year-on-year -10.09% +1.41% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £21.70
25th Percentile - - £23.92
Median hourly rate - - £27.85
75th Percentile - - £31.55
90th Percentile - - £33.62
England median hourly rate £24.18 £98.00 £26.48
% change year-on-year -75.33% +270.09% +15.13%

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Engineer in London

Server Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Server Engineer in London

Server Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Server Engineer in London

Server Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Engineer in London

Server Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 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
North London -4 2 £270 +8.00%
West London +11 1 £450 +183.91%
Central London +2 1 £713 +29.64% 1
Server Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 London region featuring Server Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (50.00%) Dell
1 6 (50.00%) VMware
1 6 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (41.67%) Windows Server
2 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
2 5 (41.67%) Windows
3 4 (33.33%) Python
3 4 (33.33%) IBM
3 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 4 (33.33%) SAN
3 4 (33.33%) NAS
3 4 (33.33%) HP
3 4 (33.33%) Break/Fix
3 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (25.00%) Bash
4 3 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (25.00%) Linux
5 2 (16.67%) SAP
5 2 (16.67%) ITIL
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
5 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (16.67%) SLA
5 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
5 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (16.67%) Management Information System

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (8.33%) nginx
2 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.33%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) NAS
1 4 (33.33%) SAN
2 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (16.67%) VLAN
3 1 (8.33%) DKIM
3 1 (8.33%) DMARC
3 1 (8.33%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Electronics
2 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 2 (16.67%) Marketing
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
1 5 (41.67%) Windows Server
2 3 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Break/Fix
1 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 2 (16.67%) Data Centre Operations
3 2 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (16.67%) Performance Analysis
3 2 (16.67%) Programme Management
3 2 (16.67%) Server Management
3 2 (16.67%) Storage Management
3 2 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (25.00%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) C#
4 1 (8.33%) C++
4 1 (8.33%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 2 (16.67%) SLA
2 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (16.67%) vSphere
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (8.33%) Docker
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Dell DRAC
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (8.33%) Kibana
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (8.33%) Nagios
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Dell
1 6 (50.00%) VMware
2 4 (33.33%) HP
2 4 (33.33%) IBM
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) SAP
4 1 (8.33%) Avaya
4 1 (8.33%) Mitel
4 1 (8.33%) MobileIron
4 1 (8.33%) Proofpoint
4 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds
4 1 (8.33%) TIBCO