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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 557 646 729
Rank change year-on-year +89 +83 -70
Contract jobs citing Server Building 22 38 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.067% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.060% 0.075% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 28 78
10th Percentile £292 - £307
25th Percentile £318 £190 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.10% - +23.53%
75th Percentile £607 £575 £621
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £310 £525 £363
% change year-on-year -40.95% +44.83% -6.75%
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 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

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 2 June 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 11 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 2 June 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 +79 17 £425 -19.05% 8
Work from Home +106 12 £566 +2.91% 2
UK excluding London +40 10 £310 -40.95% 8
London +90 7 £488 -9.30% 3
South East +12 6 £310 -40.95% 2
Midlands +25 2 £363 +38.10% 1
North of England +24 2 £503 +164.74% 1
West Midlands +15 1 £250 - 1
North West +14 1 £575 +64.29% 1
East Midlands +10 1 £475 +80.95%
North East - 1 £431 -

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 2 (9.09%) IIS
2 1 (4.55%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.55%) AWS
3 1 (4.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Storage
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (4.55%) OneDrive
3 1 (4.55%) Rubrik
3 1 (4.55%) ShareGate
3 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (36.36%) DNS
2 6 (27.27%) DHCP
2 6 (27.27%) Firewall
3 2 (9.09%) LAN
3 2 (9.09%) PBX
3 2 (9.09%) PSTN
3 2 (9.09%) VLAN
3 2 (9.09%) VoIP
3 2 (9.09%) Wireless
4 1 (4.55%) AMQP
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (4.55%) DMZ
4 1 (4.55%) DSL
4 1 (4.55%) iSCSI
4 1 (4.55%) Modbus
4 1 (4.55%) Network Security
4 1 (4.55%) SAN
4 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.55%) VPN
4 1 (4.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (13.64%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (13.64%) Finance
1 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.55%) Advertising
3 1 (4.55%) Banking
3 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Analyst
2 3 (13.64%) Senior
3 2 (9.09%) Active Directory Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Data Centre Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) IT Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) IT Security Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Migration Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Security Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 2 (9.09%) Telecoms Specialist
3 2 (9.09%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Build Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Linux Server Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Security Manager
4 1 (4.55%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) LDAP
2 1 (4.55%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (4.55%) JSON
2 1 (4.55%) Web Services
2 1 (4.55%) XML
2 1 (4.55%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.55%) IoT
2 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.55%) PKI
2 1 (4.55%) Smartphone
2 1 (4.55%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 13 (59.09%) Windows
2 10 (45.45%) Windows Server
3 3 (13.64%) Linux
4 2 (9.09%) CentOS
4 2 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (9.09%) Rocky
4 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (4.55%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (13.64%) Change Management
3 3 (13.64%) Configuration Management
3 3 (13.64%) Migration
3 3 (13.64%) Reverse Engineering
3 3 (13.64%) Server Management
3 3 (13.64%) Software Distribution
4 2 (9.09%) E-Commerce
4 2 (9.09%) Identity Management
4 2 (9.09%) Network Management
4 2 (9.09%) Password Management
4 2 (9.09%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (9.09%) Project Management
4 2 (9.09%) Security Management
4 2 (9.09%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 1 (4.55%) CRUD
5 1 (4.55%) Data Engineering
5 1 (4.55%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 2 (9.09%) SQL
2 1 (4.55%) C#
2 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.55%) Python
2 1 (4.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (59.09%) Active Directory
2 6 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (13.64%) XenApp
3 3 (13.64%) XenDesktop
4 2 (9.09%) Firmware
5 1 (4.55%) Docker
5 1 (4.55%) VMware NSX
5 1 (4.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) SCCM
2 1 (4.55%) FortiGate
2 1 (4.55%) Grafana
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
2 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (4.55%) vCenter Server
2 1 (4.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) VMware
2 5 (22.73%) Citrix
2 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.64%) FireEye
3 3 (13.64%) ServiceNow
3 3 (13.64%) Tanium
4 2 (9.09%) CyberArk
4 2 (9.09%) Veeam
5 1 (4.55%) Aruba
5 1 (4.55%) Atlassian
5 1 (4.55%) Barracuda Networks
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco
5 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.55%) Symantec
5 1 (4.55%) WatchGuard