Server Building Contracts

Server Building
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 550 681
Rank change year-on-year +62 +131 +53
Contract jobs citing Server Building 32 32 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.073% 0.062%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.085% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 26 28
10th Percentile £333 £310 £190
25th Percentile £400 £425 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.27% -6.82% +3.29%
75th Percentile £500 £583 £600
90th Percentile £509 £650 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £464 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -9.51% -4.65% +34.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Server Building
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Server Building as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Server Building in the UK

Server Building
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Server Building.

Daily rate trend for Server Building in the UK

Server Building
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Building over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Server Building in the UK

Server Building
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Server Building.

Hourly rate trend for Server Building in the UK

Server Building
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 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
England +60 30 £464 -7.25% 10
UK excluding London +70 22 £464 -9.51% 8
Work from Home +36 10 £463 -20.53% 5
South East +51 8 £500 +61.29% 5
London +34 8 £450 -10.00%
South West - 7 £463 - 3
North West +13 4 £465 -20.10%
North of England +13 4 £465 -20.10%
Midlands +22 2 £500 +37.93% 1
East Midlands +11 2 £500 +5.26%
East of England - 2 £441 -
Scotland - 1 - -

Server Building
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.13%) Apache
2 1 (3.13%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (3.13%) Exchange Server 2013
2 1 (3.13%) IIS
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.13%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (31.25%) Azure
2 9 (28.13%) AWS
3 7 (21.88%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (18.75%) GitHub
5 3 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
6 2 (6.25%) Mimecast
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.13%) Cohesity
7 1 (3.13%) IaaS
7 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (3.13%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.75%) Firewall
2 5 (15.63%) DHCP
3 3 (9.38%) DMZ
3 3 (9.38%) DNS
4 2 (6.25%) SSL
4 2 (6.25%) VPN
5 1 (3.13%) DKIM
5 1 (3.13%) DMARC
5 1 (3.13%) Extranet
5 1 (3.13%) HTTP
5 1 (3.13%) IMAP
5 1 (3.13%) IPv4
5 1 (3.13%) Multicast
5 1 (3.13%) PBX
5 1 (3.13%) PSTN
5 1 (3.13%) SAN
5 1 (3.13%) Skype
5 1 (3.13%) SMTP
5 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 8 (25.00%) Git
1 8 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 12 (37.50%) Finance
2 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Military
4 4 (12.50%) Banking
5 3 (9.38%) Investment Banking
6 2 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.13%) Local Government
7 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 7 (21.88%) Platform Engineer
1 7 (21.88%) Server Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) AWS Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Build Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Windows Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Server Build Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Support Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Windows Build Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Citrix Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Desktop Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Desktop Support
6 2 (6.25%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Lead
6 2 (6.25%) SCCM Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) LDAP
1 1 (3.13%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (9.38%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (6.25%) Handset
4 1 (3.13%) Blackberry
4 1 (3.13%) CESG
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.13%) PKI
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (75.00%) Windows
2 20 (62.50%) Windows Server
3 8 (25.00%) Linux
4 7 (21.88%) Ubuntu
4 7 (21.88%) Windows 10
5 6 (18.75%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (3.13%) VMS
6 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) DevOps
2 9 (28.13%) High Availability
3 8 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 7 (21.88%) Continuous Delivery
4 7 (21.88%) Customer-Centric Approach
4 7 (21.88%) Customer-Centricity
4 7 (21.88%) Open Source
4 7 (21.88%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 4 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (9.38%) Change Management
7 3 (9.38%) ITIL
7 3 (9.38%) Patch Management
7 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (6.25%) Agile
8 2 (6.25%) ITSM
8 2 (6.25%) Migration
8 2 (6.25%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 14 (43.75%) PowerShell
2 8 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (6.25%) VBScript
4 1 (3.13%) Bash
4 1 (3.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) SC Cleared
1 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.13%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) JSP 440
System Software
1 12 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 3 (9.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 3 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.13%) BitLocker
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.13%) XenApp
4 1 (3.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (28.13%) Ansible
2 8 (25.00%) Terraform
3 6 (18.75%) SCCM
4 4 (12.50%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (3.13%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.13%) PowerCLI
5 1 (3.13%) Puppet
5 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 7 (21.88%) Databricks
3 6 (18.75%) Citrix
4 4 (12.50%) Dell
5 3 (9.38%) CyberArk
5 3 (9.38%) VMware
6 2 (6.25%) Cisco
6 2 (6.25%) HP
6 2 (6.25%) Remedy
7 1 (3.13%) Avaya
7 1 (3.13%) Fujitsu
7 1 (3.13%) Google
7 1 (3.13%) Mitel
7 1 (3.13%) MobileIron
7 1 (3.13%) NetApp
7 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto
7 1 (3.13%) Proofpoint
7 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
7 1 (3.13%) SolarWinds