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 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 535 552 609
Rank change year-on-year +17 +57 +138
Contract jobs citing Server Building 16 21 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.054% 0.090%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.054% 0.063% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 32
10th Percentile £423 £278 £190
25th Percentile £453 £360 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £403 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.91% -23.33% -
75th Percentile £484 £577 £681
90th Percentile £538 £609 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £360 £473
% change year-on-year +28.47% -23.81% +2.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £36.17 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £36.17 -

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 29,873 33,197 46,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.51% 85.47% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,595 21,230 31,887
10th Percentile £300 £310 £320
25th Percentile £403 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,718 1,827 1,499
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.35 £18.60
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £41.80
Median % change year-on-year -39.40% -0.72% +57.74%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.92 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £42.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -46.75% +13.33% +70.45%

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 15 August 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 9 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 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
England +16 14 £463 +14.91% 16
UK excluding London -7 10 £463 +28.47% 7
Work from Home +27 9 £463 -23.81% 2
South West - 6 £463 - 1
London +11 4 £525 -13.51% 10
North of England -20 2 £458 -
North West - 2 £458 -
Scotland - 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 £383 -

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 (18.75%) Apache
2 2 (12.50%) Confluence
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (6.25%) IIS
3 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (12.50%) Mimecast
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.25%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (6.25%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) DHCP
1 3 (18.75%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) DKIM
2 1 (6.25%) DMARC
2 1 (6.25%) DMZ
2 1 (6.25%) DNS
2 1 (6.25%) Extranet
2 1 (6.25%) Internet
2 1 (6.25%) IPv4
2 1 (6.25%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) MariaDB
1 2 (12.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
1 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 2 (12.50%) GitLab
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) Vagrant
General
1 6 (37.50%) Military
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.25%) Police
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Server Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Build Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Server Build Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Administrator
5 2 (12.50%) Consultant
5 2 (12.50%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (12.50%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (12.50%) Windows Build Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Lead
6 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
6 1 (6.25%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) PowerShell Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) SharePoint Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Splunk Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) LAMP
1 2 (12.50%) Zend Framework
2 1 (6.25%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) CESG
1 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (6.25%) PKI
1 1 (6.25%) Replication
1 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Windows
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Server
3 3 (18.75%) Linux
3 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (12.50%) CentOS
4 2 (12.50%) Debian
4 2 (12.50%) Ubuntu
4 2 (12.50%) Windows 10
5 1 (6.25%) Unix
5 1 (6.25%) VMS
5 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Agile
1 4 (25.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (25.00%) DevOps
2 3 (18.75%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (12.50%) Build Automation
3 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (12.50%) Security Hardening
3 2 (12.50%) Server Patching
3 2 (12.50%) Software Deployment
4 1 (6.25%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (6.25%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (6.25%) Data Integration
4 1 (6.25%) Data Transformation
4 1 (6.25%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (6.25%) Release Management
4 1 (6.25%) SIEM
4 1 (6.25%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) Bash
2 3 (18.75%) Perl
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) PHP
4 1 (6.25%) Ruby
4 1 (6.25%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (6.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) CCNA
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) JSP 440
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (12.50%) Docker
3 2 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 2 (12.50%) VirtualBox
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (6.25%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Ansible
2 3 (18.75%) Puppet
3 2 (12.50%) Dell DRAC
3 2 (12.50%) Icinga
3 2 (12.50%) Nagios
3 2 (12.50%) Progress Chef
3 2 (12.50%) Salt
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (6.25%) PowerCLI
4 1 (6.25%) SCCM
4 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) VMware
3 2 (12.50%) Dell
3 2 (12.50%) New Relic
3 2 (12.50%) Rackspace
3 2 (12.50%) Zend
4 1 (6.25%) Avaya
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco
4 1 (6.25%) CyberArk
4 1 (6.25%) Mitel
4 1 (6.25%) MobileIron
4 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.25%) Proofpoint
4 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
4 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds
4 1 (6.25%) Splunk