Windows Server Contracts in Birmingham

Microsoft Windows Server
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for Windows Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 34 50
Rank change year-on-year -15 +16 -5
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 19 42 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.48% 4.65% 3.49%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.03% 36.84% 27.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 28 29
10th Percentile £190 £346 £185
25th Percentile £225 £374 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £453 £425
Median % change year-on-year -22.65% +6.47% +33.86%
75th Percentile £379 £713 £618
90th Percentile £630 £731 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £363 £475 £375
% change year-on-year -23.68% +26.67% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.50
Median hourly rate - - £17.00
75th Percentile - - £17.50
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate - - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - -48.72%

All Operating Systems
Birmingham

Windows Server is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 73 114 165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.53% 12.61% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 59 116
10th Percentile £190 £185 £165
25th Percentile £250 £304 £194
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% -5.88% +21.43%
75th Percentile £486 £563 £533
90th Percentile £733 £731 £625
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £505 £405
% change year-on-year -15.84% +24.69% +11.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile £14.35 £15.54 £14.40
25th Percentile £15.04 £15.98 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.80 £17.49 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.97% +2.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £18.45 £27.50 £20.00
90th Percentile £19.08 £43.25 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £16.94 £16.50
% change year-on-year +32.86% +2.64% -

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Birmingham

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Birmingham

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Birmingham over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Birmingham

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Birmingham

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 11 (57.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (42.11%) SharePoint
3 2 (10.53%) IIS
3 2 (10.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (84.21%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (78.95%) Azure
3 9 (47.37%) Entra ID
4 8 (42.11%) OneDrive
5 6 (31.58%) Power Automate
5 6 (31.58%) Power Platform
5 6 (31.58%) PowerApps
6 2 (10.53%) AWS
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Storage
7 1 (5.26%) IaaS
7 1 (5.26%) Nutanix
7 1 (5.26%) PaaS
7 1 (5.26%) Route 53
7 1 (5.26%) SaaS
7 1 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (42.11%) VPN
2 7 (36.84%) DNS
2 7 (36.84%) Firewall
3 6 (31.58%) Unified Communications
4 4 (21.05%) DHCP
4 4 (21.05%) LAN
4 4 (21.05%) WAN
5 3 (15.79%) VLAN
5 3 (15.79%) VoIP
5 3 (15.79%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (10.53%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (10.53%) iSCSI
6 2 (10.53%) NAS
6 2 (10.53%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (10.53%) SAN
6 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
6 2 (10.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) Power BI
2 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.26%) MySQL
General
1 14 (73.68%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 5 (26.32%) 2nd Line Support
3 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Support Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) 1st/2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Network Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Service Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Service Desk Support
5 2 (10.53%) Service Desk Support Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) LAMP
2 1 (5.26%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Digital Signage
1 6 (31.58%) PKI
2 3 (15.79%) Clustering
2 3 (15.79%) Driving Licence
3 2 (10.53%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (10.53%) Replication
4 1 (5.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Windows
2 14 (73.68%) Windows Server 2019
3 10 (52.63%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (26.32%) Windows 10
4 5 (26.32%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (15.79%) Mac OS
6 2 (10.53%) Linux
6 2 (10.53%) Ubuntu
6 2 (10.53%) VMS
6 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Customer Service
2 6 (31.58%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (31.58%) ITIL
2 6 (31.58%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 6 (31.58%) Service Delivery
3 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.79%) Decision-Making
4 3 (15.79%) Mobile Device Management
4 3 (15.79%) Quality Management
5 1 (5.26%) Agile
5 1 (5.26%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (5.26%) DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (5.26%) High Availability
5 1 (5.26%) Mentoring
5 1 (5.26%) Migration
5 1 (5.26%) Privileged Access Management
5 1 (5.26%) Project Management
5 1 (5.26%) Server Patching
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.53%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 16 (84.21%) Active Directory
2 6 (31.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (21.05%) Hyper-V
4 2 (10.53%) Terminal Services
4 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (10.53%) vSphere
5 1 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (57.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (36.84%) SCCM
3 6 (31.58%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (15.79%) Autotask
4 3 (15.79%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (15.79%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (5.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 14 (73.68%) Microsoft
2 9 (47.37%) VMware
3 6 (31.58%) Oracle
4 3 (15.79%) Apple
4 3 (15.79%) Datto
5 2 (10.53%) Aruba
5 2 (10.53%) Palo Alto
5 2 (10.53%) ProCurve
5 2 (10.53%) Synology
5 2 (10.53%) Veeam
5 2 (10.53%) Zerto
6 1 (5.26%) Google