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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 548 646 729
Rank change year-on-year +98 +83 -80
Contract jobs citing Server Building 23 41 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.054% 0.072% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.063% 0.080% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 31 80
10th Percentile £310 £190 £302
25th Percentile £380 £238 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -3.23% +20.56%
75th Percentile £607 £575 £677
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £310 £525 £400
% change year-on-year -40.95% +31.25% -5.33%
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 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +90 19 £450 -16.28% 9
Work from Home +103 11 £595 +8.09% 2
London +90 10 £500 -9.09% 2
UK excluding London +48 9 £310 -40.95% 10
South East +33 4 £310 -40.95% 2
North of England +29 3 £575 +64.29% 1
Midlands +23 2 £363 +38.10% 2
North West +19 2 £579 +37.74% 1
West Midlands +23 1 £250 - 2
East Midlands +14 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 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) IIS
2 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Azure
2 5 (21.74%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (8.70%) AWS
3 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (4.35%) OneDrive
4 1 (4.35%) Rubrik
4 1 (4.35%) ShareGate
4 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (30.43%) DNS
2 6 (26.09%) DHCP
2 6 (26.09%) Firewall
3 3 (13.04%) VLAN
4 2 (8.70%) DSL
4 2 (8.70%) LAN
4 2 (8.70%) PBX
4 2 (8.70%) PSTN
4 2 (8.70%) VoIP
4 2 (8.70%) VPN
5 1 (4.35%) AMQP
5 1 (4.35%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (4.35%) DMZ
5 1 (4.35%) iSCSI
5 1 (4.35%) Modbus
5 1 (4.35%) MQTT
5 1 (4.35%) Network Security
5 1 (4.35%) SAN
5 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
5 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) JIRA
2 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (17.39%) Finance
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.35%) Advertising
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Senior
2 3 (13.04%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Active Directory Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Network Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 2 (8.70%) Telecoms Specialist
4 1 (4.35%) Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Information Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Information Security Manager
4 1 (4.35%) IT Administrator
4 1 (4.35%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Project Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Security Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Server Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) LDAP
2 1 (4.35%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (4.35%) JSON
2 1 (4.35%) Web Services
2 1 (4.35%) XML
2 1 (4.35%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.35%) IoT
2 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.35%) PKI
2 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Smartphone
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
2 1 (4.35%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 15 (65.22%) Windows
2 9 (39.13%) Windows Server
3 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (13.04%) Linux
4 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (4.35%) Android
5 1 (4.35%) CentOS
5 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (4.35%) Rocky
5 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (26.09%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (21.74%) Validation
3 4 (17.39%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (13.04%) Change Management
4 3 (13.04%) Configuration Management
4 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (13.04%) Software Distribution
5 2 (8.70%) CI/CD
5 2 (8.70%) DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) Identity Management
5 2 (8.70%) Password Management
5 2 (8.70%) Project Management
5 2 (8.70%) Reverse Engineering
5 2 (8.70%) Security Management
6 1 (4.35%) CRUD
6 1 (4.35%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (4.35%) Data Engineering
6 1 (4.35%) Fintech
6 1 (4.35%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) SQL
2 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.70%) Ruby
3 1 (4.35%) C#
3 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (65.22%) Active Directory
2 6 (26.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (13.04%) XenApp
3 3 (13.04%) XenDesktop
4 1 (4.35%) Docker
4 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
4 1 (4.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (17.39%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (13.04%) SCCM
3 2 (8.70%) FortiGate
3 2 (8.70%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.35%) Ansible
4 1 (4.35%) CFEngine
4 1 (4.35%) Grafana
4 1 (4.35%) PowerBroker
4 1 (4.35%) Puppet
4 1 (4.35%) SolarWinds Orion
4 1 (4.35%) vCenter Server
4 1 (4.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) VMware
2 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
3 4 (17.39%) Citrix
4 3 (13.04%) FireEye
4 3 (13.04%) ServiceNow
4 3 (13.04%) Tanium
5 2 (8.70%) Aruba
5 2 (8.70%) Atlassian
5 2 (8.70%) Barracuda Networks
5 2 (8.70%) CyberArk
5 2 (8.70%) Veeam
6 1 (4.35%) Cisco
6 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.35%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.35%) Symantec
6 1 (4.35%) WatchGuard