Windows Server Contracts in Leeds

Microsoft Windows Server
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 33 63 67
Rank change year-on-year +30 +4 -11
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 32 31 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 4.06% 2.33% 2.66%
As % of the Operating Systems category 27.12% 23.31% 21.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 19 35
10th Percentile £270 £208 £151
25th Percentile £313 £313 £169
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £425 £375
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% +13.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £569 £525 £481
90th Percentile £653 £565 £688
West Yorkshire median daily rate £380 £381 £340
% change year-on-year -0.33% +12.13% -18.56%

All Operating Systems
Leeds

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 Leeds with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 118 133 195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 14.96% 9.98% 12.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 95 151
10th Percentile £258 £190 £163
25th Percentile £313 £308 £234
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £569 £594 £547
90th Percentile £629 £683 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £470 £425
% change year-on-year -14.89% +10.59% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile - - £16.00
25th Percentile £13.87 - £17.13
Median hourly rate £16.07 £80.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -79.91% +338.36% +39.10%
75th Percentile £19.19 - £22.92
90th Percentile £20.86 - £29.52
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.17 £15.44 £17.57
% change year-on-year -1.75% -12.12% +24.17%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Leeds

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Leeds

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Leeds

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Leeds

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 8 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (18.75%) IIS
3 1 (3.13%) Apache
3 1 (3.13%) nginx
3 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.75%) Azure
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (12.50%) AWS
3 2 (6.25%) IaaS
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.13%) Serverless
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (34.38%) LAN
2 9 (28.13%) SAN
3 6 (18.75%) WAN
4 5 (15.63%) DNS
4 5 (15.63%) Firewall
4 5 (15.63%) Internet
4 5 (15.63%) VPN
4 5 (15.63%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (12.50%) DHCP
6 2 (6.25%) NAS
6 2 (6.25%) VLAN
7 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
7 1 (3.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Big Data
2 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (3.13%) Health Technology
3 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Wintel Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Data Centre Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Data Migration Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) IT Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) IT Support
4 4 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Migration Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (9.38%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) IT Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Project Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) ADSI
1 2 (6.25%) LDAP
1 2 (6.25%) XML
1 2 (6.25%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Clustering
1 4 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (3.13%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 32 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (25.00%) VMS
3 5 (15.63%) Linux
3 5 (15.63%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (9.38%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (6.25%) Unix
6 2 (6.25%) Windows 10
6 2 (6.25%) zOS
7 1 (3.13%) CentOS
7 1 (3.13%) Fedora
7 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (3.13%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.00%) Migration
2 7 (21.88%) Customer Service
2 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (18.75%) Kalman Filter
4 5 (15.63%) Email Filtering
4 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (6.25%) Architectural Design
5 2 (6.25%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (6.25%) Computer Science
5 2 (6.25%) High Availability
5 2 (6.25%) Network Design
5 2 (6.25%) Parallel Processing
5 2 (6.25%) RBAC
5 2 (6.25%) SOA
6 1 (3.13%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (3.13%) Data Modelling
6 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (3.13%) ITIL
6 1 (3.13%) Project Management
6 1 (3.13%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 5 (15.63%) SQL
3 2 (6.25%) Java
4 1 (3.13%) Bash
4 1 (3.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (6.25%) A+ Certification
2 2 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.25%) CCENT
2 2 (6.25%) CCNA
2 2 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (6.25%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) MCSA
2 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 16 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (34.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (15.63%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (6.25%) SCCM
2 1 (3.13%) Graylog
2 1 (3.13%) HAProxy
2 1 (3.13%) Proxmox
2 1 (3.13%) Rsyslog
2 1 (3.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (50.00%) VMware
2 9 (28.13%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.38%) Cisco
4 1 (3.13%) Brio
4 1 (3.13%) Citrix
4 1 (3.13%) NetApp
4 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow