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 £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 July 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
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 356 384
Rank change year-on-year +13 +28 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Server Engineer 21 31 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.15% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.16% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 26 36
10th Percentile £170 £319 £223
25th Percentile £181 £391 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £506 £400
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% +26.56% +6.67%
75th Percentile £469 £608 £441
90th Percentile £484 - £538
UK median daily rate £437 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -12.70% +25.00% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £181.24 £88.00 -
Median hourly rate £182.48 £96.00 £26.48
Median % change year-on-year +90.08% +262.54% +15.13%
75th Percentile £183.71 £104.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £182.48 £96.00 £26.48
% change year-on-year +90.08% +262.54% +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 13,465 18,815 21,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.63% 92.23% 94.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,290 11,399 14,989
10th Percentile £220 £213 £233
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,134 2,218 1,185
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.88 £13.80
25th Percentile £16.50 £16.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £38.35
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% +5.15% +82.62%
75th Percentile £56.44 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £25.30 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -36.75% -5.88% +65.50%

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 17 July 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
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 17 July 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 +24 6 £180 -68.14% 2
Scotland +1 5 £425 +57.41% 1
South West +50 4 £463 +32.14% 2
North of England 0 3 £388 -18.42% 2
Midlands +3 2 - -
North West 0 2 £388 -20.51% 1
East of England +15 1 £325 -45.83% 1
East Midlands 0 1 - -
Yorkshire -8 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 - -
Server Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 July 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 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 9 (42.86%) Windows Server
2 9 (42.86%) Windows
3 8 (38.10%) Dell
3 8 (38.10%) Break/Fix
4 7 (33.33%) HP
4 7 (33.33%) SLA
4 7 (33.33%) VMware
5 6 (28.57%) Finance
5 6 (28.57%) IBM
5 6 (28.57%) Linux
5 6 (28.57%) Data Centre
6 5 (23.81%) Server Building
6 5 (23.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (23.81%) Customer Service
7 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
7 4 (19.05%) Problem Management
7 4 (19.05%) Military
7 4 (19.05%) Firewall
7 4 (19.05%) Red Hat
7 4 (19.05%) ITIL
7 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
7 4 (19.05%) Technical Debt
7 4 (19.05%) Service-Level Objective
7 4 (19.05%) Project Delivery
7 4 (19.05%) AWS
7 4 (19.05%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
8 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (14.29%) Mentoring

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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) AWS
2 2 (9.52%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) Firewall
2 3 (14.29%) DHCP
3 2 (9.52%) DNS
4 1 (4.76%) Broadband
4 1 (4.76%) LAN
4 1 (4.76%) NAS
4 1 (4.76%) SAN
4 1 (4.76%) SD-WAN
4 1 (4.76%) VPN
4 1 (4.76%) WAN
4 1 (4.76%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) GitLab
General
1 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Finance
3 5 (23.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (19.05%) Military
5 3 (14.29%) Law
6 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (4.76%) Banking
7 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
7 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 3 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) CESG
3 1 (4.76%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.76%) PKI
3 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (42.86%) Windows
1 9 (42.86%) Windows Server
2 6 (28.57%) Linux
3 4 (19.05%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (9.52%) Windows 10
5 1 (4.76%) CentOS
5 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (4.76%) Rocky
5 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
5 1 (4.76%) Unix
5 1 (4.76%) VMS
5 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Break/Fix
2 5 (23.81%) Customer Service
2 5 (23.81%) Server Building
3 4 (19.05%) ITIL
3 4 (19.05%) Problem Management
3 4 (19.05%) Project Delivery
3 4 (19.05%) Service-Level Objective
3 4 (19.05%) Technical Debt
4 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (9.52%) Time Management
6 1 (4.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (4.76%) DevOps
6 1 (4.76%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (4.76%) Kalman Filter
6 1 (4.76%) Process Improvement
6 1 (4.76%) Security Management
6 1 (4.76%) Service Delivery
6 1 (4.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.76%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.76%) CCNA
3 1 (4.76%) CCNP
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.76%) DBS Check
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) SLA
2 2 (9.52%) QA
3 1 (4.76%) JSP 440
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (9.52%) Firmware
2 2 (9.52%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Ansible
1 3 (14.29%) SCCM
2 1 (4.76%) Dell DRAC
2 1 (4.76%) FortiGate
2 1 (4.76%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Dell
2 7 (33.33%) HP
2 7 (33.33%) VMware
3 6 (28.57%) IBM
4 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
4 4 (19.05%) Red Hat
5 2 (9.52%) Cisco
6 1 (4.76%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (4.76%) Tanium
6 1 (4.76%) Veeam