Windows Server Contracts in England

Microsoft Windows Server
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 88 111
Rank change year-on-year 0 +23 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 901 1,418 1,762
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.44% 2.81% 2.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 17.86% 17.17% 15.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 648 1,055 1,312
10th Percentile £205 £213 £185
25th Percentile £313 £358 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £429
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% +16.69% +7.13%
75th Percentile £594 £613 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £465 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -7.00% +14.29% +6.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 58 58
10th Percentile £15.76 £20.00 £16.24
25th Percentile £16.25 £25.00 £18.88
Median hourly rate £38.50 £29.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.85% +31.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £61.60 £49.49 £45.87
90th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £29.30 £23.00
% change year-on-year +31.40% +27.39% -8.00%

All Operating Systems
England

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 England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,045 8,260 11,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.65% 16.34% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,433 5,890 7,674
10th Percentile £181 £190 £170
25th Percentile £285 £325 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £470 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -6.93% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 367 390 559
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £14.95 £17.73 £15.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.33% +74.42% +19.44%
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.75 £22.28
% change year-on-year -43.23% +73.92% +23.78%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in England

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in England

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in England

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in England

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Server in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows Server in England

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +14 344 £450 -10.00% 112
South East +13 215 £550 +4.76% 149
North of England +1 142 £475 +9.51% 126
Midlands -13 79 £350 -17.65% 120
North West -18 74 £800 +60.00% 66
South West -30 73 £500 -9.09% 58
West Midlands +11 54 £363 -23.68% 82
Yorkshire +12 51 £325 -14.75% 43
East of England -36 31 £240 -43.53% 75
East Midlands -13 22 £325 - 38
North East +20 17 £500 +93.24% 20
Windows Server
UK

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 178 (19.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 71 (7.88%) SharePoint
3 30 (3.33%) Confluence
3 30 (3.33%) IIS
4 26 (2.89%) Exchange Server 2013
5 25 (2.77%) Exchange Server 2010
6 12 (1.33%) Skype for Business
7 10 (1.11%) Apache
7 10 (1.11%) Exchange Server 2003
7 10 (1.11%) Exchange Server 2007
7 10 (1.11%) Tomcat
8 9 (1.00%) nginx
9 6 (0.67%) JBoss
10 3 (0.33%) WordPress
11 2 (0.22%) IBM Domino
11 2 (0.22%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 50 (5.55%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.22%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 7 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.67%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.67%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.22%) Remedy AR System
4 1 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.11%) Eikon
4 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.11%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 1 (0.11%) RMDS
4 1 (0.11%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.11%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 301 (33.41%) Azure
2 281 (31.19%) Microsoft 365
3 113 (12.54%) AWS
4 101 (11.21%) Entra ID
5 47 (5.22%) IaaS
6 38 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (2.89%) OneDrive
8 25 (2.77%) Azure Monitor
9 22 (2.44%) GCP
10 21 (2.33%) Azure Storage
10 21 (2.33%) PaaS
11 18 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
12 16 (1.78%) SaaS
13 14 (1.55%) Nutanix
13 14 (1.55%) OCI
14 12 (1.33%) GitHub
15 10 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (1.00%) Power Platform
16 9 (1.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 243 (26.97%) DNS
2 229 (25.42%) Firewall
3 154 (17.09%) DHCP
4 113 (12.54%) VPN
5 84 (9.32%) SAN
6 71 (7.88%) LAN
7 70 (7.77%) WAN
8 43 (4.77%) TCP/IP
9 34 (3.77%) NAS
10 25 (2.77%) VLAN
11 22 (2.44%) Skype
12 21 (2.33%) Wireless
13 19 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
14 15 (1.66%) MPLS
15 12 (1.33%) Network Security
16 11 (1.22%) Internet
16 11 (1.22%) Kerberos
16 11 (1.22%) NetScaler
16 11 (1.22%) Unified Communications
16 11 (1.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (12.76%) SQL Server
2 17 (1.89%) MySQL
3 15 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (1.11%) RDBMS
5 10 (1.11%) Relational Database
6 8 (0.89%) Power BI
7 4 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (0.44%) Big Data
7 4 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.44%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.33%) Tableau
9 2 (0.22%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.22%) Looker
9 2 (0.22%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.11%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.11%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 50 (5.55%) JIRA
2 31 (3.44%) Jenkins
3 26 (2.89%) Git
4 20 (2.22%) Robot Framework
5 15 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
6 13 (1.44%) GitLab
6 13 (1.44%) Subversion
7 11 (1.22%) Artifactory
7 11 (1.22%) TeamCity
8 8 (0.89%) Selenium
9 7 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (0.44%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.44%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.22%) JMeter
11 2 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.22%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.11%) Burp Suite
12 1 (0.11%) Gradle
12 1 (0.11%) Katalon Studio
12 1 (0.11%) Liquibase
General
1 238 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 92 (10.21%) Finance
3 86 (9.54%) Public Sector
4 75 (8.32%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
6 20 (2.22%) Military
7 19 (2.11%) Telecoms
8 18 (2.00%) Legal
9 14 (1.55%) Mandarin Language
9 14 (1.55%) Manufacturing
10 13 (1.44%) Banking
11 11 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (0.89%) Marketing
13 7 (0.78%) Front Office
13 7 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.67%) Electronics
15 5 (0.55%) French Language
15 5 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.55%) Law
16 4 (0.44%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 174 (19.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 87 (9.66%) Architect
3 86 (9.54%) Support Engineer
4 68 (7.55%) Senior
5 63 (6.99%) Windows Engineer
6 58 (6.44%) Administrator
7 54 (5.99%) Analyst
8 46 (5.11%) Technical Architect
9 45 (4.99%) Wintel Engineer
10 44 (4.88%) IT Support
11 43 (4.77%) Lead
12 39 (4.33%) IT Engineer
13 37 (4.11%) Integration Engineer
13 37 (4.11%) Systems Administrator
14 34 (3.77%) Lead Architect
14 34 (3.77%) Technical Leader
15 33 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
16 28 (3.11%) Server Engineer
17 25 (2.77%) Build Engineer
18 24 (2.66%) Active Directory Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (5.33%) Node.js
2 34 (3.77%) .NET
3 20 (2.22%) LDAP
4 19 (2.11%) ARM Templates
5 18 (2.00%) Middleware
6 7 (0.78%) ASP.NET
6 7 (0.78%) XML
7 6 (0.67%) CSS
7 6 (0.67%) IBM Integration Bus
7 6 (0.67%) Itk
7 6 (0.67%) Web Services
7 6 (0.67%) YAML
8 5 (0.55%) HTML
8 5 (0.55%) JSON
8 5 (0.55%) REST
8 5 (0.55%) XSLT
9 4 (0.44%) .NET Core
9 4 (0.44%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (0.44%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (0.44%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 89 (9.88%) PKI
2 50 (5.55%) Data Centre
3 46 (5.11%) Public Cloud
4 43 (4.77%) Replication
5 40 (4.44%) Clustering
6 27 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
7 24 (2.66%) Client/Server
8 23 (2.55%) NHS
9 22 (2.44%) Video Conferencing
10 19 (2.11%) Management Information System
11 15 (1.66%) Product Ownership
12 14 (1.55%) Driving Licence
13 13 (1.44%) Onboarding
14 10 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (1.11%) Fat Client
14 10 (1.11%) Thin Client
15 9 (1.00%) CCTV
15 9 (1.00%) Mobile App
16 8 (0.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 8 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 897 (99.56%) Windows
2 194 (21.53%) Linux
3 180 (19.98%) Windows Server 2012
4 166 (18.42%) Windows 10
5 162 (17.98%) Windows Server 2019
6 140 (15.54%) Windows Server 2016
7 62 (6.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 55 (6.10%) Apple iOS
9 52 (5.77%) Android
10 44 (4.88%) Windows Server 2008
11 29 (3.22%) Unix
12 27 (3.00%) Windows 7
13 25 (2.77%) VMS
14 21 (2.33%) Windows NT
15 17 (1.89%) Mac OS
16 16 (1.78%) Ubuntu
17 14 (1.55%) Windows Server 2003
17 14 (1.55%) Windows XP
18 10 (1.11%) Oracle Linux
18 10 (1.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (24.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 157 (17.43%) ITIL
3 143 (15.87%) DevOps
4 138 (15.32%) Agile
5 109 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
6 108 (11.99%) Migration
7 91 (10.10%) Customer Service
8 87 (9.66%) CI/CD
9 78 (8.66%) Mobile Device Management
10 67 (7.44%) Disaster Recovery
11 65 (7.21%) Service Management
12 61 (6.77%) Change Management
13 57 (6.33%) Release Management
14 52 (5.77%) Server Management
15 51 (5.66%) Infrastructure as Code
15 51 (5.66%) Security Architecture
16 46 (5.11%) Risk Management
17 45 (4.99%) High Availability
18 43 (4.77%) Zero Trust
19 41 (4.55%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 261 (28.97%) PowerShell
2 126 (13.98%) SQL
3 103 (11.43%) Python
4 44 (4.88%) C#
5 35 (3.88%) Bash
6 33 (3.66%) VBScript
7 22 (2.44%) Java
8 21 (2.33%) VB
9 19 (2.11%) Bicep
10 13 (1.44%) C++
11 12 (1.33%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.00%) F#
13 7 (0.78%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.67%) Ruby
15 5 (0.55%) C
15 5 (0.55%) Korn
16 4 (0.44%) Perl
16 4 (0.44%) PHP
17 3 (0.33%) JavaScript
17 3 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 317 (35.18%) Security Cleared
2 171 (18.98%) DV Cleared
3 143 (15.87%) SC Cleared
4 103 (11.43%) Degree
5 66 (7.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 35 (3.88%) MCSE
7 25 (2.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 24 (2.66%) MCSA
9 23 (2.55%) CCNA
9 23 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
10 20 (2.22%) Azure Certification
11 19 (2.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 18 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
13 16 (1.78%) CCNP
14 9 (1.00%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
16 5 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
17 3 (0.33%) ECDL
18 2 (0.22%) A+ Certification
18 2 (0.22%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (4.11%) QA
2 23 (2.55%) SLA
3 12 (1.33%) GDPR
3 12 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.11%) NIST
5 8 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (0.78%) RMADS
7 6 (0.67%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.22%) NCSC
9 1 (0.11%) COBIT
9 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.11%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 535 (59.38%) Active Directory
2 258 (28.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 84 (9.32%) Hyper-V
4 66 (7.33%) VMware ESXi
5 41 (4.55%) vSphere
6 38 (4.22%) VMware NSX
7 37 (4.11%) Virtual Machines
8 34 (3.77%) Docker
8 34 (3.77%) Virtual Desktop
9 27 (3.00%) Firmware
10 23 (2.55%) XenApp
11 17 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
12 14 (1.55%) XenDesktop
13 8 (0.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 8 (0.89%) VMware Workstation
14 7 (0.78%) Terminal Services
15 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.44%) BitLocker
17 3 (0.33%) KVM
17 3 (0.33%) NFS
Systems Management
1 171 (18.98%) SCCM
2 89 (9.88%) WSUS
3 73 (8.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 62 (6.88%) Ansible
5 57 (6.33%) SCOM
6 56 (6.22%) vCenter Server
7 53 (5.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 52 (5.77%) Kubernetes
9 51 (5.66%) Terraform
10 25 (2.77%) EMC NetWorker
11 21 (2.33%) Sysprep
12 16 (1.78%) NetBackup
13 14 (1.55%) Puppet
14 11 (1.22%) Nessus
15 10 (1.11%) Autotask
15 10 (1.11%) Failover Clustering
15 10 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
16 9 (1.00%) Grafana
16 9 (1.00%) ITRS Geneos
16 9 (1.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 415 (46.06%) Microsoft
2 378 (41.95%) VMware
3 89 (9.88%) Veeam
4 83 (9.21%) Citrix
5 71 (7.88%) Cisco
6 51 (5.66%) Oracle
7 47 (5.22%) Dell
8 42 (4.66%) HP
9 39 (4.33%) ServiceNow
10 36 (4.00%) Red Hat
11 33 (3.66%) Palo Alto
12 31 (3.44%) EMC
13 25 (2.77%) Splunk
14 22 (2.44%) Juniper
15 21 (2.33%) Qualys
16 20 (2.22%) Apple
17 19 (2.11%) Google
18 17 (1.89%) IBM
19 16 (1.78%) NetApp
19 16 (1.78%) Symantec