Windows Server Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Windows Server
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 48 66 41
Rank change year-on-year +18 -25 +25
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 105 87 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.92% 2.96% 4.79%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.85% 19.64% 27.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 70 134
10th Percentile £355 £211 £156
25th Percentile £501 £401 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £434
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +26.80% +8.98%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £623
90th Percentile - £701 £693
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £450
% change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £56.50 £55.39 -
25th Percentile £57.78 £59.72 £62.50
Median hourly rate £61.60 £68.19 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +4.90% +160.00%
75th Percentile - £75.40 £67.50
90th Percentile £63.30 £78.98 -
South East median hourly rate £59.80 £60.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -0.33% +26.32% +90.00%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 391 443 604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.61% 15.08% 17.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 317 440
10th Percentile £191 £223 £145
25th Percentile £213 £350 £199
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £608 £675 £650
South East median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 16 22
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.08 £12.25
25th Percentile £19.13 £19.52 £12.63
Median hourly rate £38.75 £48.70 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.43% +143.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £57.13 £62.97 £42.50
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.19 £67.38
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -9.52% +162.50% +5.26%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the Thames Valley

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in the Thames Valley

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in the Thames Valley

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in the Thames Valley

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +25 94 £575 -6.12% 16
Buckinghamshire +14 6 £250 -48.05% 12
Oxfordshire -6 5 £375 +30.43% 19
Windows Server
South East

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 20 (19.05%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 6 (5.71%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 56 (53.33%) Azure
2 20 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (16.19%) Entra ID
4 15 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 15 (14.29%) Azure Storage
5 13 (12.38%) OCI
6 8 (7.62%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.76%) IaaS
8 3 (2.86%) AWS
9 2 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.90%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.90%) PaaS
9 2 (1.90%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (40.95%) DNS
2 40 (38.10%) DHCP
3 37 (35.24%) Firewall
4 17 (16.19%) SAN
5 6 (5.71%) WAN
6 5 (4.76%) LAN
7 4 (3.81%) NAS
7 4 (3.81%) Skype
7 4 (3.81%) VPN
8 2 (1.90%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.90%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.95%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.62%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.81%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (3.81%) MySQL
2 4 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.86%) JIRA
1 3 (2.86%) Robot Framework
1 3 (2.86%) Selenium
1 3 (2.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 60 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (0.95%) Law
Job Titles
1 31 (29.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 21 (20.00%) Build Engineer
2 21 (20.00%) Windows Build Engineer
2 21 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
3 15 (14.29%) Active Directory Support
4 14 (13.33%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (13.33%) Administrator
4 14 (13.33%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (13.33%) Support Specialist
4 14 (13.33%) Systems Administrator
5 13 (12.38%) Senior
6 10 (9.52%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 9 (8.57%) Storage Engineer
8 8 (7.62%) Support Engineer
9 6 (5.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) Analyst
10 4 (3.81%) Solutions Analyst
11 3 (2.86%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 3 (2.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (2.86%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.29%) ARM Templates
2 6 (5.71%) Itk
3 1 (0.95%) .NET
3 1 (0.95%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 19 (18.10%) PKI
2 15 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (12.38%) Data Centre
4 7 (6.67%) Client/Server
5 4 (3.81%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.81%) Fat Client
5 4 (3.81%) Thin Client
6 3 (2.86%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.95%) CCTV
7 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.95%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 105 (100.00%) Windows
2 64 (60.95%) Windows Server 2019
3 62 (59.05%) Windows Server 2016
4 46 (43.81%) Linux
5 37 (35.24%) Windows 10
6 34 (32.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 21 (20.00%) Windows NT
8 13 (12.38%) Windows XP
9 8 (7.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (3.81%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (49.52%) ITIL
2 40 (38.10%) Release Management
3 36 (34.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 36 (34.29%) Service Management
4 29 (27.62%) DevOps
5 25 (23.81%) Customer Service
6 24 (22.86%) Agile
6 24 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (22.86%) User Acceptance Testing
7 21 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
8 17 (16.19%) Server Management
9 15 (14.29%) Analytics
9 15 (14.29%) CI/CD
9 15 (14.29%) Identity Management
9 15 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (14.29%) Log Analytics
9 15 (14.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 15 (14.29%) Privileged Identity Management
9 15 (14.29%) Project Management
9 15 (14.29%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 48 (45.71%) PowerShell
2 22 (20.95%) VBScript
3 18 (17.14%) C#
4 15 (14.29%) Bicep
4 15 (14.29%) VB
5 9 (8.57%) Python
6 4 (3.81%) C
6 4 (3.81%) C++
6 4 (3.81%) SQL
7 3 (2.86%) F#
8 1 (0.95%) Java
Qualifications
1 76 (72.38%) Security Cleared
2 69 (65.71%) DV Cleared
3 37 (35.24%) Degree
4 34 (32.38%) SC Cleared
5 15 (14.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 13 (12.38%) CCNA
6 13 (12.38%) CCNP
6 13 (12.38%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.90%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.95%) CEH
8 1 (0.95%) CISSP
8 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (23.81%) QA
2 3 (2.86%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.95%) COBIT
4 1 (0.95%) SLA
System Software
1 76 (72.38%) Active Directory
2 36 (34.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (20.00%) Firmware
4 19 (18.10%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (17.14%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (14.29%) Hyper-V
6 15 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (4.76%) XenApp
8 4 (3.81%) Docker
9 3 (2.86%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 60 (57.14%) SCCM
2 58 (55.24%) WSUS
3 36 (34.29%) SCOM
4 21 (20.00%) Sysprep
5 20 (19.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 20 (19.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (19.05%) vCenter Server
6 17 (16.19%) EMC NetWorker
7 15 (14.29%) Kubernetes
8 13 (12.38%) NetBackup
9 6 (5.71%) Nessus
10 4 (3.81%) Ansible
10 4 (3.81%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (3.81%) ZABBIX
11 2 (1.90%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 2 (1.90%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.95%) Terraform
Vendors
1 74 (70.48%) Microsoft
2 44 (41.90%) VMware
3 19 (18.10%) Cisco
4 18 (17.14%) Oracle
5 17 (16.19%) EMC
5 17 (16.19%) Veeam
6 15 (14.29%) HP
7 13 (12.38%) 3PAR
7 13 (12.38%) Dell
7 13 (12.38%) Extreme Networks
7 13 (12.38%) Juniper
7 13 (12.38%) Palo Alto
7 13 (12.38%) Symantec
8 10 (9.52%) Citrix
9 7 (6.67%) ServiceNow
10 5 (4.76%) Red Hat
11 3 (2.86%) Ariba
11 3 (2.86%) FireEye
11 3 (2.86%) Meraki
11 3 (2.86%) SAP