Hybrid/Remote Server Engineer Contract Job Trends

Server Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Server Engineer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 306 347
Rank change year-on-year -1 +41 +91
Contract jobs requiring a Server Engineer 13 14 30
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.13% 0.12% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.13% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 27
10th Percentile £263 £256 £310
25th Percentile £334 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -20.00%
75th Percentile £453 £425 £438
90th Percentile £583 £474 £473
UK median daily rate £425 £374 £400
% change year-on-year +13.64% -6.50% -15.79%

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 remote/hybrid work 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 9,548 10,943 16,040
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 93.12% 94.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,224 6,938 11,001
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 199 358
10th Percentile £15.26 £18.30 £17.49
25th Percentile £20.66 £23.50 £27.06
Median hourly rate £45.46 £37.28 £53.25
Median % change year-on-year +21.94% -29.99% -3.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £88.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.52 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.97% -25.51% +50.00%

Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Server Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Server Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Server Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Server Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Server Engineer job vacancies

Server Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Server Engineer over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Server Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Server Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Server Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Server Engineer job vacancies

Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 17 December 2025, Server Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Server Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (76.92%) Windows
2 8 (61.54%) Windows Server
3 7 (53.85%) Hyper-V
4 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
5 5 (38.46%) Azure
5 5 (38.46%) Firewall
5 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
6 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
6 4 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (30.77%) Migration
6 4 (30.77%) VMware
6 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (23.08%) AWS
7 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
7 3 (23.08%) Terraform
7 3 (23.08%) vSphere
8 2 (15.38%) Ansible
8 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
8 2 (15.38%) CheckPoint
8 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
8 2 (15.38%) DHCP
8 2 (15.38%) DNS
8 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
8 2 (15.38%) GDPR
8 2 (15.38%) Information Security
8 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
8 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune

Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (23.08%) AWS
4 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
4 2 (15.38%) Nutanix
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.69%) PaaS
5 1 (7.69%) SaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Firewall
2 2 (15.38%) DHCP
2 2 (15.38%) DNS
2 2 (15.38%) Network Security
2 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
2 2 (15.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) NUnit
General
1 1 (7.69%) Banking
1 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (7.69%) Finance
1 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
1 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
1 1 (7.69%) AWS CDK
1 1 (7.69%) gRPC
1 1 (7.69%) JWT
1 1 (7.69%) OAuth
1 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
1 1 (7.69%) REST
1 1 (7.69%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Clustering
2 2 (15.38%) PKI
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.69%) FMCG
3 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
3 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.69%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) Windows
2 8 (61.54%) Windows Server
3 2 (15.38%) Windows 10
4 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
4 1 (7.69%) VMS
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Migration
2 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 2 (15.38%) Information Security
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (15.38%) Security Operations
3 2 (15.38%) Server Migrations
3 2 (15.38%) SIEM
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (7.69%) Microservices
4 1 (7.69%) Patch Management
4 1 (7.69%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (7.69%) Secure Coding
4 1 (7.69%) Server-Driven UI
4 1 (7.69%) User Experience
4 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) C#
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Hyper-V
2 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
3 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (23.08%) vSphere
5 2 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Clustering
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (15.38%) Nagios
2 2 (15.38%) QRadar
2 2 (15.38%) SCCM
2 2 (15.38%) SCOM
3 1 (7.69%) Grafana
3 1 (7.69%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
1 4 (30.77%) VMware
2 2 (15.38%) CheckPoint
2 2 (15.38%) Qualys
2 2 (15.38%) SolarWinds
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) Dell
3 1 (7.69%) Isilon
3 1 (7.69%) Varonis