Windows Server Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Windows Server
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 66 58
Rank change year-on-year +2 -8 +7
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 141 184 277
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.03% 3.22% 3.88%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.14% 20.47% 20.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 123 203
10th Percentile £210 £190 £150
25th Percentile £280 £300 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £430 £325
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% +32.31% -10.34%
75th Percentile £825 £550 £474
90th Percentile £850 £620 £631
England median daily rate £450 £500 £436
% change year-on-year -10.00% +14.61% +9.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 23 17
10th Percentile - £26.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £29.30 £16.23
Median hourly rate £17.50 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.82% +112.50% +9.19%
75th Percentile £18.75 £49.46 £25.00
90th Percentile - £51.61 £34.13
England median hourly rate £46.75 £34.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +37.50% +51.11% -10.00%

All Operating Systems
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 700 899 1,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.02% 15.75% 18.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 638 962
10th Percentile £165 £167 £150
25th Percentile £275 £256 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £475 £420
Median % change year-on-year -11.84% +13.10% +12.00%
75th Percentile £524 £588 £538
90th Percentile £650 £688 £638
England median daily rate £465 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.27% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 59 76
10th Percentile - £13.80 £12.26
25th Percentile £10.95 £17.61 £14.88
Median hourly rate £16.00 £26.50 £17.57
Median % change year-on-year -39.62% +50.83% +8.26%
75th Percentile £20.00 £43.75 £20.25
90th Percentile £36.45 £49.52 £41.85
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.42 £22.00
% change year-on-year -41.21% +70.09% +23.80%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the North of England

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in the North of England

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the North of England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in the North of England

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in the North of England

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 7 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
North West -12 73 £800 +64.10% 55
Yorkshire +22 51 £325 -14.75% 42
North East +16 17 £500 +93.24% 17
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 18 (12.77%) Microsoft Exchange
1 18 (12.77%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.26%) IIS
3 2 (1.42%) Apache
3 2 (1.42%) nginx
4 1 (0.71%) JBoss
4 1 (0.71%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (7.09%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.71%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 39 (27.66%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (13.48%) Azure
3 11 (7.80%) AWS
4 5 (3.55%) Entra ID
4 5 (3.55%) IaaS
5 2 (1.42%) GCP
5 2 (1.42%) OneDrive
5 2 (1.42%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.71%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.71%) Azure AKS
6 1 (0.71%) Azure Stack
6 1 (0.71%) Cohesity
6 1 (0.71%) OCI
6 1 (0.71%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.71%) Serverless
6 1 (0.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 67 (47.52%) Firewall
2 62 (43.97%) VPN
3 15 (10.64%) LAN
4 11 (7.80%) DNS
4 11 (7.80%) SAN
5 10 (7.09%) WAN
6 9 (6.38%) DHCP
6 9 (6.38%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (4.96%) Internet
8 5 (3.55%) VLAN
9 4 (2.84%) VoIP
10 3 (2.13%) AMQP
10 3 (2.13%) MQTT
11 2 (1.42%) DMZ
11 2 (1.42%) Modbus
11 2 (1.42%) NAS
12 1 (0.71%) NetScaler
12 1 (0.71%) SMTP
12 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
12 1 (0.71%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.22%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.84%) Big Data
3 3 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.42%) Tableau
5 1 (0.71%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.71%) Power BI
5 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (0.71%) GitLab
1 1 (0.71%) Gradle
1 1 (0.71%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.71%) JIRA
1 1 (0.71%) Liquibase
1 1 (0.71%) SonarQube
1 1 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (19.15%) Social Skills
2 10 (7.09%) Public Sector
3 7 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (4.96%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (4.96%) Finance
4 6 (4.26%) Legal
5 4 (2.84%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.13%) Aviation
6 3 (2.13%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.42%) Banking
8 1 (0.71%) Back Office
8 1 (0.71%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.71%) Military
8 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (34.04%) Architect
2 40 (28.37%) Technical Architect
3 30 (21.28%) Lead
3 30 (21.28%) Lead Architect
3 30 (21.28%) Technical Leader
4 20 (14.18%) IT Support
5 19 (13.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 15 (10.64%) Support Engineer
7 12 (8.51%) Senior
8 11 (7.80%) 3rd Line Support
9 9 (6.38%) Analyst
10 8 (5.67%) Server Engineer
11 7 (4.96%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
11 7 (4.96%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 7 (4.96%) Cloud Architect
11 7 (4.96%) Wintel Engineer
12 6 (4.26%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 6 (4.26%) Linux Engineer
12 6 (4.26%) Migration Engineer
12 6 (4.26%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (30.50%) Node.js
2 5 (3.55%) XML
2 5 (3.55%) XSLT
3 4 (2.84%) JSON
3 4 (2.84%) Web Services
4 3 (2.13%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (1.42%) ADSI
5 2 (1.42%) LDAP
5 2 (1.42%) Middleware
5 2 (1.42%) React Native
6 1 (0.71%) IBM Integration Bus
6 1 (0.71%) jQuery
6 1 (0.71%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.71%) RESTful
6 1 (0.71%) SOAP
6 1 (0.71%) Spring
6 1 (0.71%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.71%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 31 (21.99%) Public Cloud
2 14 (9.93%) Clustering
3 9 (6.38%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.67%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (4.96%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.96%) Mobile App
6 5 (3.55%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.84%) PKI
8 3 (2.13%) iPad
9 2 (1.42%) IoT
10 1 (0.71%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.71%) Freedom of Information
10 1 (0.71%) Freedom of Information Act
10 1 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.71%) LIMS
10 1 (0.71%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.71%) NHS
10 1 (0.71%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.71%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 141 (100.00%) Windows
2 46 (32.62%) Apple iOS
3 45 (31.91%) Android
4 20 (14.18%) Windows 10
5 18 (12.77%) Windows Server 2012
6 15 (10.64%) Linux
7 14 (9.93%) Windows Server 2016
8 10 (7.09%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (4.96%) VMS
10 4 (2.84%) Unix
11 3 (2.13%) Mac OS
11 3 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (1.42%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (1.42%) zOS
13 1 (0.71%) CentOS
13 1 (0.71%) Fedora
13 1 (0.71%) Rocky
13 1 (0.71%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (41.13%) Mobile Device Management
2 43 (30.50%) CI/CD
2 43 (30.50%) Risk Management
3 42 (29.79%) Security Architecture
3 42 (29.79%) Zero Trust
4 40 (28.37%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 40 (28.37%) Threat Intelligence
5 35 (24.82%) Agile
6 33 (23.40%) DevOps
7 27 (19.15%) Design Patterns
8 25 (17.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 17 (12.06%) ITIL
10 16 (11.35%) Customer Service
11 14 (9.93%) Roadmaps
12 12 (8.51%) Microservices
12 12 (8.51%) Migration
12 12 (8.51%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (8.51%) Product Strategy
12 12 (8.51%) Strategic Roadmap
13 10 (7.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 16 (11.35%) PowerShell
1 16 (11.35%) SQL
2 3 (2.13%) Java
2 3 (2.13%) Python
3 2 (1.42%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.42%) Kotlin
4 1 (0.71%) Bash
4 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (24.11%) Security Cleared
2 26 (18.44%) SC Cleared
3 17 (12.06%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (9.22%) Degree
5 10 (7.09%) MCSE
6 7 (4.96%) DV Cleared
7 5 (3.55%) CCNA
7 5 (3.55%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (3.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (2.13%) MCSA
9 2 (1.42%) A+ Certification
9 2 (1.42%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.42%) CCENT
10 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.71%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 53 (37.59%) Active Directory
2 28 (19.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (8.51%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.84%) Docker
5 3 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.13%) VMware Workstation
5 3 (2.13%) vSphere
6 2 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.71%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.71%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.71%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.71%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.71%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (5.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (3.55%) SCCM
3 3 (2.13%) Autotask
3 3 (2.13%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (2.13%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (2.13%) vCenter Server
4 2 (1.42%) Grafana
5 1 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.71%) Anchore
5 1 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.71%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.71%) Packer
5 1 (0.71%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.71%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (0.71%) Terraform
5 1 (0.71%) vMotion
5 1 (0.71%) VxRail
5 1 (0.71%) WSUS
5 1 (0.71%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 49 (34.75%) Microsoft
2 38 (26.95%) VMware
3 8 (5.67%) Apple
4 7 (4.96%) Cisco
5 6 (4.26%) Google
6 5 (3.55%) Dell
7 4 (2.84%) Citrix
7 4 (2.84%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.13%) Datto
8 3 (2.13%) HP
9 2 (1.42%) Adobe
9 2 (1.42%) Autodesk
9 2 (1.42%) MEDITECH
9 2 (1.42%) NetApp
9 2 (1.42%) Oracle
9 2 (1.42%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.42%) Symantec
9 2 (1.42%) Wyse
10 1 (0.71%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.71%) Veeam