Server Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Server Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Server Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £425, 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 110 120 162
Rank change year-on-year +10 +42 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Server Engineer 6 9 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% 0.41% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.43% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £228 -
25th Percentile £413 £270 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £340 £540
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -37.04% +20.00%
75th Percentile £438 £395 -
90th Percentile - £428 -
UK median daily rate £363 £431 £445
% change year-on-year -15.89% -3.15% +11.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 1,529 2,099 2,722
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 94.68% 95.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,281 1,953
10th Percentile £263 £205 £238
25th Percentile £370 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £553
90th Percentile £610 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 114 44
10th Percentile £15.98 £12.50 £12.86
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £16.91
Median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
Median % change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%
75th Percentile £24.66 £60.00 £59.41
90th Percentile £42.58 £66.00 £67.22
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Engineer in Scotland

Server Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Server Engineer in Scotland

Server Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Engineer in Scotland

Server Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh +6 4 £425 +57.41%
Glasgow -1 2 - - 1
Server Engineer
UK

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

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 Scotland region featuring Server Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) ITIL
2 4 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 4 (66.67%) Problem Management
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 4 (66.67%) Technical Debt
2 4 (66.67%) Service-Level Objective
2 4 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
3 3 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 3 (50.00%) Law
4 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
4 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Kafka
4 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (16.67%) Low Latency
4 1 (16.67%) Ansible
4 1 (16.67%) Java EE
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Multithreading
4 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (66.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) DB2
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JUnit
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (50.00%) Law
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Java EE
1 1 (16.67%) JMS
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) Equities
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) ITIL
1 4 (66.67%) Problem Management
1 4 (66.67%) Project Delivery
1 4 (66.67%) Service-Level Objective
1 4 (66.67%) Technical Debt
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Break/Fix
3 1 (16.67%) Concurrent Programming
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Low Latency
3 1 (16.67%) Multithreading
3 1 (16.67%) OO
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Dell
2 1 (16.67%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) Sybase
2 1 (16.67%) Tanium