Server Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Server Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Server Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 322 393
Rank change year-on-year +36 +71 +138
Contract jobs requiring a Server Engineer 18 23 84
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.15% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.16% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 51
10th Percentile £328 £231 £325
25th Percentile £376 £291 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £375 £525
Median % change year-on-year +23.33% -28.57% +25.75%
75th Percentile £469 £456 £700
90th Percentile £491 £486 -
UK median daily rate £363 £431 £445
% change year-on-year -15.89% -3.15% +11.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £98.00 £26.48
% change year-on-year -75.33% +270.09% +15.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Server Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Server Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

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

Server Engineer
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 Engineer.

Server Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Server Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Server Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Server Engineer
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 Engineer.

Server Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Server Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (50.00%) Windows
1 9 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 6 (33.33%) Linux
2 6 (33.33%) HP
3 5 (27.78%) Dell
3 5 (27.78%) Red Hat
3 5 (27.78%) VMware
3 5 (27.78%) ITIL
3 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
3 5 (27.78%) Break/Fix
3 5 (27.78%) AWS
3 5 (27.78%) Data Centre
4 4 (22.22%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (22.22%) Technical Debt
4 4 (22.22%) Service-Level Objective
4 4 (22.22%) Project Delivery
4 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 4 (22.22%) Server Building
4 4 (22.22%) Problem Management
4 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 4 (22.22%) Finance
5 3 (16.67%) Law
5 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
5 3 (16.67%) Military
5 3 (16.67%) SLA
5 3 (16.67%) IBM
5 3 (16.67%) Customer Service
5 3 (16.67%) Product Ownership
5 3 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (16.67%) Mentoring

Server Engineer Skill Set
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 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.56%) nginx
1 1 (5.56%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.56%) GCP
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) DNS
1 1 (5.56%) SSL
1 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) DB2
1 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) JUnit
General
1 4 (22.22%) Finance
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (16.67%) Law
2 3 (16.67%) Military
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.56%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Java EE
1 1 (5.56%) JMS
1 1 (5.56%) Kafka
1 1 (5.56%) Node.js
1 1 (5.56%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Data Centre
2 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 3 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.56%) Equities
3 1 (5.56%) IoT
3 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Windows
1 9 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 6 (33.33%) Linux
3 4 (22.22%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (5.56%) Unix
5 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Break/Fix
1 5 (27.78%) ITIL
2 4 (22.22%) Problem Management
2 4 (22.22%) Project Delivery
2 4 (22.22%) Server Building
2 4 (22.22%) Service-Level Objective
2 4 (22.22%) Technical Debt
3 3 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) Low Latency
5 1 (5.56%) CI/CD
5 1 (5.56%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (5.56%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (5.56%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (5.56%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.56%) Security Monitoring
5 1 (5.56%) Server Virtualisation
5 1 (5.56%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) Bash
2 1 (5.56%) Java
2 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) SLA
2 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Firmware
2 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Nagios
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (5.56%) SCCM
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) HP
2 5 (27.78%) Dell
2 5 (27.78%) Red Hat
2 5 (27.78%) VMware
3 3 (16.67%) IBM
4 1 (5.56%) Remedy
4 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.56%) Sybase
4 1 (5.56%) Tanium