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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 356 379
Rank change year-on-year -7 +23 +78
Contract jobs citing Server Building 10 13 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.065% 0.071% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.073% 0.086% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 17
10th Percentile £409 £240 £190
25th Percentile £448 - £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £360 £473
Median % change year-on-year +28.47% -23.81% +2.16%
75th Percentile £472 £450 £550
90th Percentile £482 £535 £615
UK median daily rate £463 £403 £525
% change year-on-year +14.91% -23.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £36.17 -
UK median hourly rate - £36.17 -

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 13,741 15,179 19,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.32% 83.10% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,237 9,121 12,951
10th Percentile £240 £250 £260
25th Percentile £368 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,363 1,547 1,182
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.84 £17.30
Median hourly rate £22.63 £42.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.75% +13.33% +70.45%
75th Percentile £44.78 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £76.09
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £41.80
% change year-on-year -39.40% -0.72% +57.74%

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

Server Building
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
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

Server Building
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 15 August 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 West - 6 £463 - 1
North of England -20 2 £458 -
North West - 2 £458 -
East of England - 1 £383 -
Scotland - 1 - -
Server Building
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Server Building
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 1 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) IIS
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (10.00%) Mimecast
1 1 (10.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) DHCP
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) DMZ
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 6 (60.00%) Military
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Fire and Rescue
3 1 (10.00%) Police
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Build Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Server Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Server Build Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Build Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Lead
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Switch Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Windows Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) CESG
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (10.00%) PKI
1 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 5 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (20.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (10.00%) VMS
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Agile
2 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
3 1 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (10.00%) Project Management
3 1 (10.00%) Release Management
3 1 (10.00%) Scrum
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) JSP 440
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Dell DRAC
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) PowerCLI
2 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Dell
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds