Server Building Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Server Building
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 294 330 462
Rank change year-on-year +36 +132 +130
Contract jobs citing Server Building 10 15 15
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.098% 0.058%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.11% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 11
10th Percentile £375 £310 -
25th Percentile £414 £530 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £582 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.53% +5.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £488 £607 £738
90th Percentile £500 £688 -
UK median daily rate £465 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -9.27% -6.82% +3.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Server Building
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Server Building as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Server Building trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Server Building.

Server Building daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Server Building
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Server Building daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Server Building
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Server Building.

Server Building hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Server Building
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) Mimecast
3 1 (10.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) DHCP
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) SSL
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (40.00%) Military
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Server Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Build Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Server Build Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Citrix Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Switch Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
1 6 (60.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (20.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (30.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 3 (30.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
1 3 (30.00%) Customer-Centricity
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps
1 3 (30.00%) High Availability
1 3 (30.00%) Open Source
1 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Agile
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (10.00%) ITSM
3 1 (10.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (30.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
2 3 (30.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) Citrix
2 1 (10.00%) HP
2 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (10.00%) Remedy
2 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds