Windows Server Contracts in the North East

Microsoft Windows Server
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 21 41 30
Rank change year-on-year +20 -11 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 17 17 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 5.03% 4.01% 5.09%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.48% 20.48% 24.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 18
10th Percentile £411 £140 £350
25th Percentile £431 £190 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £259 £450
Median % change year-on-year +93.24% -42.50% +12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £635 £650
90th Percentile £650 £700 £691
England median daily rate £464 £500 £429
% change year-on-year -7.25% +16.69% +7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.25 - £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £15.00
75th Percentile £18.75 - £16.34
90th Percentile - - £16.54
England median hourly rate £38.50 £29.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +29.85% +31.78% -10.00%

All Operating Systems
North East

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 the North East with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 42 83 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 12.43% 19.58% 20.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 64 78
10th Percentile £146 £205 £127
25th Percentile £190 £231 £146
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £275
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +90.91% -31.25%
75th Percentile £550 £747 £497
90th Percentile £650 £775 £615
England median daily rate £463 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £31.25 £13.12
Median hourly rate £17.50 £32.50 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% +116.67% +3.20%
75th Percentile £18.75 £33.75 £16.51
90th Percentile - - £16.84
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -41.33% +74.42% +19.44%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the North East

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in the North East

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in the North East

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in the North East

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East 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
Tyne and Wear +25 16 £500 +128.57% 11
Durham +1 1 - - 3
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Snowflake
3 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.88%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) Firewall
2 3 (17.65%) AMQP
2 3 (17.65%) MQTT
3 2 (11.76%) DHCP
3 2 (11.76%) DMZ
3 2 (11.76%) DNS
3 2 (11.76%) Modbus
4 1 (5.88%) SMTP
4 1 (5.88%) VoIP
4 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.76%) Tableau
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) GitLab
1 1 (5.88%) Gradle
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.88%) Liquibase
1 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
1 1 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Banking
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) DBA
1 3 (17.65%) Senior
1 3 (17.65%) SQL DBA
2 2 (11.76%) Build Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) IT Technician
2 2 (11.76%) Linux Build Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Linux Server Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Senior IT Technician
2 2 (11.76%) Senior Technician
2 2 (11.76%) Server Build Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Server Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Build Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Server Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) NOC Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) JSON
1 4 (23.53%) Web Services
2 3 (17.65%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (17.65%) XML
2 3 (17.65%) XSLT
3 1 (5.88%) jQuery
3 1 (5.88%) Keycloak
3 1 (5.88%) LDAP
3 1 (5.88%) Middleware
3 1 (5.88%) Node.js
3 1 (5.88%) RESTful
3 1 (5.88%) SOAP
3 1 (5.88%) Spring
3 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Clustering
1 4 (23.53%) PKI
2 2 (11.76%) IoT
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (23.53%) Linux
3 3 (17.65%) Windows 10
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (5.88%) Ubuntu
5 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) High Availability
1 4 (23.53%) ITIL
1 4 (23.53%) Server Patching
2 3 (17.65%) CRUD
2 3 (17.65%) Data Encryption
2 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (17.65%) Service Management
2 3 (17.65%) Task Automation
3 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis
3 2 (11.76%) Data Engineering
3 2 (11.76%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (11.76%) Performance Management
3 2 (11.76%) Problem Management
3 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (11.76%) Reverse Engineering
3 2 (11.76%) Security Management
3 2 (11.76%) Server Building
3 2 (11.76%) Use Case
3 2 (11.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) PowerShell
1 6 (35.29%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.76%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) DV Cleared
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (23.53%) MCSE
4 3 (17.65%) Degree
5 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Active Directory
2 4 (23.53%) Docker
2 4 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (11.76%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.88%) BitLocker
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (5.88%) Terminal Services
4 1 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Grafana
2 1 (5.88%) Anchore
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (5.88%) Kibana
2 1 (5.88%) Packer
2 1 (5.88%) vCenter Server
2 1 (5.88%) vMotion
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 5 (29.41%) VMware
3 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.88%) Citrix
4 1 (5.88%) Google
4 1 (5.88%) HP
4 1 (5.88%) Infoblox
4 1 (5.88%) Symantec