Server Building Contracts

Server Building
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Server Building skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Server Building over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 554 685 708
Rank change year-on-year +131 +23 -83
Contract jobs citing Server Building 32 37 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.073% 0.062% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.085% 0.069% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 28 85
10th Percentile £310 £190 £305
25th Percentile £425 £213 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +31.71%
75th Percentile £583 £600 £700
90th Percentile £650 £743 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £538 £400
% change year-on-year +2.33% +34.38% +6.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £16.50
75th Percentile - - £16.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £16.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Server Building is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,653 53,977 80,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,313 37,392 56,301
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,779 1,937
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.98 £35.90 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.21% +79.50% -8.09%

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 25 April 2024.

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 10 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 25 April 2024. 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 +113 27 £500 -9.09% 12
Work from Home +126 15 £582 +5.82% 3
UK excluding London +67 14 £550 +2.33% 8
London +101 13 £500 -9.09% 4
North of England +36 10 £582 +66.29% 2
North West +20 8 £582 +38.57% 1
South East +13 3 £310 - 3
North East - 2 £423 - 1
West Midlands +28 1 £250 - 1
Midlands +26 1 £250 - 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%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) IIS
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (43.75%) Azure
2 11 (34.38%) AWS
3 5 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (9.38%) Amazon Glacier
4 3 (9.38%) Amazon S3
4 3 (9.38%) Cohesity
5 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 2 (6.25%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.13%) OneDrive
6 1 (3.13%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (34.38%) Firewall
2 8 (25.00%) DNS
3 7 (21.88%) DSL
4 5 (15.63%) DHCP
5 4 (12.50%) iSCSI
6 3 (9.38%) BGP
6 3 (9.38%) VLAN
7 2 (6.25%) AMQP
7 2 (6.25%) DMZ
7 2 (6.25%) Modbus
7 2 (6.25%) MQTT
7 2 (6.25%) PBX
7 2 (6.25%) PSTN
7 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
7 2 (6.25%) VoIP
7 2 (6.25%) VPN
8 1 (3.13%) LAN
8 1 (3.13%) Network Security
8 1 (3.13%) VSAN
8 1 (3.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Tableau
2 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (25.00%) JIRA
2 7 (21.88%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 9 (28.13%) Finance
3 6 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.13%) Advertising
6 1 (3.13%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Windows Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Build Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Lead
3 3 (9.38%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Senior
3 3 (9.38%) Windows Build Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Active Directory Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Linux Build Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Linux Server Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Network Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 2 (6.25%) Server Build Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Server Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Telecoms Specialist
4 2 (6.25%) Windows Server Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) SAML
2 2 (6.25%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (6.25%) JSON
2 2 (6.25%) LDAP
2 2 (6.25%) Web Services
2 2 (6.25%) XML
2 2 (6.25%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Public Cloud
1 7 (21.88%) Virtual Team
2 5 (15.63%) PKI
3 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.25%) IoT
4 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.13%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 24 (75.00%) Windows
2 11 (34.38%) Windows Server
3 10 (31.25%) Linux
4 7 (21.88%) Unix
5 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (3.13%) CentOS
6 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (3.13%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
1 12 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (21.88%) CI/CD
2 7 (21.88%) DevOps
2 7 (21.88%) Knowledge Transfer
2 7 (21.88%) Project Delivery
3 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (15.63%) Validation
5 4 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
6 3 (9.38%) Change Management
6 3 (9.38%) Configuration Management
6 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 3 (9.38%) Load Balancing
6 3 (9.38%) Network Management
6 3 (9.38%) Operational Acceptance Testing
6 3 (9.38%) Reverse Engineering
6 3 (9.38%) Security Hardening
6 3 (9.38%) Security Management
6 3 (9.38%) Software Distribution
7 2 (6.25%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.88%) Ruby
2 6 (18.75%) SQL
3 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (12.50%) VMware NSX
4 3 (9.38%) NFS
4 3 (9.38%) XenApp
4 3 (9.38%) XenDesktop
5 2 (6.25%) Docker
6 1 (3.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) Ansible
1 7 (21.88%) CFEngine
1 7 (21.88%) PowerBroker
1 7 (21.88%) Progress Chef
1 7 (21.88%) Puppet
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (9.38%) FortiGate
3 3 (9.38%) SCCM
3 3 (9.38%) vRealize
4 2 (6.25%) Grafana
5 1 (3.13%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (3.13%) vCenter Server
5 1 (3.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) VMware
2 7 (21.88%) Atlassian
3 6 (18.75%) Aruba
4 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
5 4 (12.50%) Citrix
6 3 (9.38%) FireEye
6 3 (9.38%) Nimble Storage
6 3 (9.38%) ServiceNow
6 3 (9.38%) Tanium
7 2 (6.25%) Barracuda Networks
7 2 (6.25%) CyberArk
8 1 (3.13%) Cisco
8 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto
8 1 (3.13%) SolarWinds
8 1 (3.13%) Symantec
8 1 (3.13%) Veeam