Server Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Server Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Server Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £400, 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 301 350 400
Rank change year-on-year +49 +50 -37
Contract jobs requiring a Server Engineer 35 49 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.24% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.25% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 31 45
10th Percentile £152 £300 £223
25th Percentile £180 £322 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £431 £400
Median % change year-on-year -7.19% +7.75% +18.52%
75th Percentile £469 £525 £525
90th Percentile £488 £608 £538
UK median daily rate £363 £431 £445
% change year-on-year -15.89% -3.15% +11.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile - £89.20 -
25th Percentile - £91.00 -
Median hourly rate £24.18 £98.00 £26.48
Median % change year-on-year -75.33% +270.09% +15.13%
75th Percentile - £103.00 -
90th Percentile £103.95 £103.60 -
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £98.00 £26.48
% change year-on-year -75.33% +270.09% +15.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Engineer in the UK excluding London

Server Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Server Engineer in the UK excluding London

Server Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Server Engineer in the UK excluding London

Server Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Engineer in the UK excluding London

Server Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Server Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Server Engineer in the UK excluding London

Server Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London 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
South East +46 17 £180 -64.44% 21
South West +52 7 £463 +32.14% 9
Scotland +10 6 £425 +25.00% 4
North of England +12 4 £383 -9.57% 19
North West +13 2 £445 -6.32% 7
Yorkshire +7 2 £320 -20.00% 10
Midlands +19 1 - - 17
East Midlands +9 1 - - 8
Server Engineer
UK

Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Server Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (45.71%) Windows
1 16 (45.71%) HP
1 16 (45.71%) Dell
1 16 (45.71%) Windows Server
2 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 14 (40.00%) IBM
4 12 (34.29%) SLA
4 12 (34.29%) Break/Fix
4 12 (34.29%) Data Centre
5 11 (31.43%) Customer Service
6 8 (22.86%) Security Cleared
7 6 (17.14%) Linux
7 6 (17.14%) Finance
7 6 (17.14%) VMware
7 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (17.14%) Server Building
8 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared
8 5 (14.29%) QA
8 5 (14.29%) Time Management
8 5 (14.29%) ITIL
8 5 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (11.43%) Project Delivery
9 4 (11.43%) Server Migrations
9 4 (11.43%) Active Directory
9 4 (11.43%) Red Hat
9 4 (11.43%) Problem Management
9 4 (11.43%) Military
9 4 (11.43%) Migration
9 4 (11.43%) AWS

Server Engineer Skill Set
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 (2.86%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.43%) AWS
2 3 (8.57%) Nutanix
3 2 (5.71%) Azure
4 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) DHCP
1 2 (5.71%) DNS
1 2 (5.71%) Firewall
1 2 (5.71%) VPN
2 1 (2.86%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) DB2
1 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) GitLab
1 1 (2.86%) JUnit
General
1 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Finance
3 4 (11.43%) Military
4 3 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (8.57%) Law
5 1 (2.86%) Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Front Office
5 1 (2.86%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) Java EE
1 1 (2.86%) JMS
1 1 (2.86%) Kafka
1 1 (2.86%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (34.29%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.57%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.86%) CESG
3 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.86%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.86%) Equities
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) PKI
3 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (45.71%) Windows
1 16 (45.71%) Windows Server
2 6 (17.14%) Linux
3 5 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (11.43%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (5.71%) Windows 10
5 2 (5.71%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.86%) CentOS
6 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.86%) Rocky
6 1 (2.86%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.86%) Unix
6 1 (2.86%) VMS
6 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (34.29%) Break/Fix
2 11 (31.43%) Customer Service
3 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (17.14%) Server Building
4 5 (14.29%) ITIL
4 5 (14.29%) Time Management
5 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (11.43%) Migration
5 4 (11.43%) Problem Management
5 4 (11.43%) Project Delivery
5 4 (11.43%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (11.43%) Server Migrations
5 4 (11.43%) Service-Level Objective
5 4 (11.43%) Technical Debt
6 3 (8.57%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (8.57%) Mentoring
7 2 (5.71%) Agile
7 2 (5.71%) Proactive Monitoring
7 2 (5.71%) Service Delivery
7 2 (5.71%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.86%) Java
2 1 (2.86%) Python
2 1 (2.86%) SQL
2 1 (2.86%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.71%) Dell Certification
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (34.29%) SLA
2 5 (14.29%) QA
3 1 (2.86%) JSP 440
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.71%) Firmware
2 2 (5.71%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Ansible
1 2 (5.71%) SCCM
2 1 (2.86%) Dell DRAC
2 1 (2.86%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.86%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 16 (45.71%) Dell
1 16 (45.71%) HP
2 14 (40.00%) IBM
3 6 (17.14%) VMware
4 4 (11.43%) Red Hat
5 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.86%) Cisco
6 1 (2.86%) Remedy
6 1 (2.86%) Sybase
6 1 (2.86%) Tanium