Windows Server Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Windows Server Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Windows Server Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £428 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 378 436 484
Rank change year-on-year +58 +48 -60
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Server Engineer 10 11 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.048% 0.046% 0.084%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.049% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 15
10th Percentile £319 £225 £220
25th Percentile £346 £325 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £350 £338
Median % change year-on-year +22.29% +3.70% -0.74%
75th Percentile £488 £400 £400
90th Percentile £503 £430 £447
UK median daily rate £425 £445 £425
% change year-on-year -4.49% +4.71% +6.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,104 22,515 29,589
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 94.27% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,669 15,787 20,737
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £397 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,253 1,161 1,465
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £43.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Windows Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Windows Server Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server Engineer in the UK excluding London

Windows Server Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server Engineer in the UK excluding London

Windows Server Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server Engineer in the UK excluding London

Windows Server Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server Engineer in the UK excluding London

Windows Server Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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 of England +28 4 £453 -
South East +21 3 £500 +42.86%
Midlands +32 2 £338 -
East Midlands +20 2 £338 -
North East +18 2 £423 -
South West +21 1 £350 -12.50%
Yorkshire +20 1 £475 -
North West - 1 £475 -
Windows Server Engineer
UK

Windows Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Windows Server Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Windows Server Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (50.00%) VMware
3 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (40.00%) Hyper-V
4 4 (40.00%) Azure
4 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (30.00%) Python
5 3 (30.00%) DHCP
5 3 (30.00%) DNS
5 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (30.00%) SCCM
6 2 (20.00%) Performance Management
6 2 (20.00%) Use Case
6 2 (20.00%) Reverse Engineering
6 2 (20.00%) AMQP
6 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
6 2 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (20.00%) Tableau
6 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (20.00%) Modbus
6 2 (20.00%) Docker
6 2 (20.00%) IoT
6 2 (20.00%) MQTT
6 2 (20.00%) CRUD

Windows Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (20.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) DHCP
1 3 (30.00%) DNS
2 2 (20.00%) AMQP
2 2 (20.00%) DMZ
2 2 (20.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) Modbus
2 2 (20.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (20.00%) JSON
1 2 (20.00%) Web Services
1 2 (20.00%) XML
1 2 (20.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (20.00%) IoT
1 2 (20.00%) PKI
2 1 (10.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (20.00%) Linux
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Change Management
3 2 (20.00%) CRUD
3 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Patch Management
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Management
3 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Reverse Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Scrum
3 2 (20.00%) Security Management
3 2 (20.00%) Server Building
3 2 (20.00%) Server Management
3 2 (20.00%) Use Case
3 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) MCSE
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (40.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (20.00%) Docker
5 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) SCCM
2 2 (20.00%) Grafana
3 1 (10.00%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (10.00%) Nessus
3 1 (10.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (10.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) VMware
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) BEA
3 1 (10.00%) Qualys