Server Engineer Contract Job Trends in the South East

Server Engineer
England > South East

The median Server Engineer daily rate in the South East is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 190 157 195
Rank change year-on-year -33 +38 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Server Engineer 2 12 15
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.046% 0.32% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.34% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 11
10th Percentile £528 £150 -
25th Percentile £531 £152 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +26.47% - -13.27%
75th Percentile £544 £488 £456
90th Percentile £548 £503 £488
England median daily rate £400 £380 £400
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -17.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £24.18 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £100.00
% change year-on-year +4.01% -75.82% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 3,946 3,482 4,724
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.32% 92.78% 93.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,557 2,177 3,081
10th Percentile £220 £235 £206
25th Percentile £400 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £510
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% - +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £610
90th Percentile £675 £675 £680
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 369 132 236
10th Percentile £13.75 £18.52 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £24.18 £24.84
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.69 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.09% -19.45% +50.53%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.00 £66.06
90th Percentile £81.20 £73.56 £76.53
England median hourly rate £26.78 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.61% -20.00% +38.46%

Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Server Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Server Engineer job vacancy trend in the South East

Server Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Server Engineer job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Server Engineer job vacancies in the South East

Server Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Server Engineer job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Server Engineer job vacancies in the South East

Server Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Hampshire -20 2 £538 +13.16% 1
Server Engineer
England

Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, Server Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region featuring Server Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) EMC
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
1 2 (100.00%) VxRail
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Firmware
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) NAS
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Server
2 1 (50.00%) VSAN
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server

Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) VSAN
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Converged Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Stability
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Firmware
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) VxRail
2 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) EMC
1 2 (100.00%) VMware