Server Building Contracts in the UK excluding London

Server Building
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 384 430
Rank change year-on-year +68 +46 +14
Contract jobs citing Server Building 23 15 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.072% 0.071%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.085% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 14 12
10th Percentile £340 £310 £190
25th Percentile £417 £334 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.51% -4.65% +34.38%
75th Percentile £500 £582 £550
90th Percentile - £583 -
UK median daily rate £465 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -9.27% -6.82% +3.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Server Building
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Server Building as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Server Building in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Server Building in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Server Building in the UK excluding London

Server Building
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Building in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Server Building in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Server Building in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Server Building in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East +51 8 £500 +61.29% 6
South West - 8 £463 - 4
North of England +17 4 £465 -20.10%
North West +10 4 £465 -20.10%
Midlands +19 2 £500 +37.93% 1
East Midlands +15 2 £500 +5.26%
East of England - 2 £441 -
Scotland - 1 - -
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.35%) Apache
2 1 (4.35%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (4.35%) Exchange Server 2013
2 1 (4.35%) IIS
2 1 (4.35%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) AWS
1 5 (21.74%) Azure
1 5 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (17.39%) GitHub
3 1 (4.35%) Cohesity
3 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (4.35%) Mimecast
3 1 (4.35%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) DHCP
1 5 (21.74%) Firewall
2 3 (13.04%) DMZ
2 3 (13.04%) DNS
3 2 (8.70%) SSL
3 2 (8.70%) VPN
4 1 (4.35%) IMAP
4 1 (4.35%) SAN
4 1 (4.35%) Skype
4 1 (4.35%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Git
1 5 (21.74%) Jenkins
2 4 (17.39%) GitLab
General
1 8 (34.78%) Finance
2 6 (26.09%) Military
3 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (4.35%) Police
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Build Engineer
1 6 (26.09%) Server Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Windows Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Server Build Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Windows Build Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Citrix Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Lead
5 2 (8.70%) Windows Server Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Citrix Specialist
6 1 (4.35%) Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Hardware Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.35%) Blackberry
2 1 (4.35%) CESG
2 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.35%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (82.61%) Windows
2 17 (73.91%) Windows Server
3 7 (30.43%) Windows 10
4 6 (26.09%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (21.74%) Linux
5 5 (21.74%) Ubuntu
6 1 (4.35%) VMS
6 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) DevOps
2 5 (21.74%) Configuration Management
2 5 (21.74%) Continuous Delivery
2 5 (21.74%) Customer-Centric Approach
2 5 (21.74%) Customer-Centricity
2 5 (21.74%) High Availability
2 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (21.74%) Open Source
2 5 (21.74%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
3 4 (17.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (13.04%) Change Management
4 3 (13.04%) ITIL
5 2 (8.70%) Agile
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (8.70%) ITSM
5 2 (8.70%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (8.70%) Service Delivery
5 2 (8.70%) Software Deployment
5 2 (8.70%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) PowerShell
2 5 (21.74%) Python
3 1 (4.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) SC Cleared
1 8 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) JSP 440
System Software
1 8 (34.78%) Active Directory
2 4 (17.39%) Hyper-V
3 3 (13.04%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.35%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Ansible
2 5 (21.74%) Terraform
3 4 (17.39%) Dell DRAC
4 3 (13.04%) SCCM
5 1 (4.35%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) Microsoft
2 5 (21.74%) Databricks
3 4 (17.39%) Dell
4 3 (13.04%) Citrix
4 3 (13.04%) CyberArk
4 3 (13.04%) VMware
5 2 (8.70%) HP
5 2 (8.70%) Remedy
6 1 (4.35%) Cisco
6 1 (4.35%) Fujitsu
6 1 (4.35%) NetApp
6 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.35%) Salesforce
6 1 (4.35%) SolarWinds