Server Building Contracts in the North of England

Server Building
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 175 213
Rank change year-on-year +13 +38 +13
Contract jobs citing Server Building 4 10 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.12% 0.21% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.24% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 7
10th Percentile £433 £426 -
25th Percentile £449 £538 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £582 £350
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% +66.29% -11.11%
75th Percentile £474 - £514
90th Percentile £478 £589 £593
England median daily rate £464 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -7.25% -9.09% +3.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Server Building
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Server Building as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Server Building in the North of England

Server Building
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Server Building in the North of England

Server Building
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Building in the North of England

Server Building
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England 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 West +13 4 £465 -20.10%
Server Building
England

Server Building
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
2 3 (75.00%) DMZ
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Build Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Build Engineer
3 2 (50.00%) Lead
4 1 (25.00%) Server Build Engineer
4 1 (25.00%) Server Engineer
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Dell
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) CyberArk