Windows Server Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows Server
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 56 67
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 607 919 1,105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.96% 3.92% 3.64%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.81% 20.35% 18.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 660 807
10th Percentile £196 £188 £166
25th Percentile £298 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £408
Median % change year-on-year +2.26% +13.99% +8.31%
75th Percentile £595 £588 £500
90th Percentile £709 £681 £638
UK median daily rate £460 £500 £429
% change year-on-year -8.00% +16.67% +3.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 45 48
10th Percentile £13.73 £19.40 £15.36
25th Percentile £16.25 £25.75 £16.59
Median hourly rate £58.00 £37.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.67% +70.45% -2.22%
75th Percentile £61.60 £49.52 £38.13
90th Percentile £69.38 £60.33 £57.88
UK median hourly rate £46.75 £30.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year +55.83% +30.43% -8.00%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,227 4,516 5,850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.75% 19.25% 19.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,150 3,132 3,814
10th Percentile £175 £163 £150
25th Percentile £258 £250 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £675 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £468 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -8.24% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 335 454
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.60
25th Percentile £14.27 £17.27 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £29.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +46.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £62.00 £60.66 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.74 £63.38
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% +67.39% +29.58%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the UK excluding London

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in the UK excluding London

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in the UK excluding London

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in the UK excluding London

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Server in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows Server in the UK excluding London

Windows Server
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +11 220 £550 +7.32% 143
North of England +9 141 £450 +5.63% 118
Midlands -3 84 £350 -15.15% 107
North West -10 74 £800 +64.10% 57
South West -41 68 £500 -9.09% 70
West Midlands +3 52 £350 -26.32% 64
Yorkshire +15 50 £325 -14.75% 47
Scotland +1 49 £475 +2.48% 26
East of England -32 34 £250 -40.30% 78
East Midlands -4 29 £338 +3.85% 43
North East +14 17 £500 +85.19% 15
Wales -3 14 £225 -47.06% 10
Windows Server
UK

Windows Server
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:

Application Platforms
1 114 (18.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 53 (8.73%) SharePoint
3 25 (4.12%) IIS
4 18 (2.97%) Confluence
5 5 (0.82%) SAS
6 4 (0.66%) Apache
6 4 (0.66%) nginx
6 4 (0.66%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.33%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.33%) WordPress
8 1 (0.16%) JBoss
8 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 36 (5.93%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.33%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.16%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 6 (0.99%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.49%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.16%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 1 (0.16%) RMDS
4 1 (0.16%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.16%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 182 (29.98%) Azure
2 180 (29.65%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (8.24%) Entra ID
4 41 (6.75%) AWS
5 24 (3.95%) Azure Monitor
6 22 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (2.97%) OCI
8 17 (2.80%) OneDrive
9 16 (2.64%) Azure Storage
10 15 (2.47%) IaaS
11 12 (1.98%) OpenShift
12 11 (1.81%) Power Platform
13 6 (0.99%) Power Automate
13 6 (0.99%) PowerApps
14 5 (0.82%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (0.82%) PaaS
15 4 (0.66%) Amazon EC2
15 4 (0.66%) SaaS
16 3 (0.49%) GitHub
16 3 (0.49%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 171 (28.17%) Firewall
2 157 (25.86%) DNS
3 125 (20.59%) DHCP
4 88 (14.50%) VPN
5 73 (12.03%) SAN
6 52 (8.57%) LAN
7 46 (7.58%) WAN
8 24 (3.95%) TCP/IP
9 15 (2.47%) SMTP
9 15 (2.47%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (2.31%) Fibre Channel
10 14 (2.31%) VLAN
10 14 (2.31%) Wireless
11 12 (1.98%) NAS
11 12 (1.98%) NetScaler
12 11 (1.81%) Remote Desktop
13 10 (1.65%) Internet
14 9 (1.48%) Unified Communications
14 9 (1.48%) VoIP
15 8 (1.32%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (8.73%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (1.48%) MySQL
4 7 (1.15%) Power BI
5 6 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (0.99%) Oracle Database
6 5 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (0.66%) Big Data
7 4 (0.66%) DB2
7 4 (0.66%) RDBMS
7 4 (0.66%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.33%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.33%) Tableau
9 1 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 31 (5.11%) JIRA
2 20 (3.29%) Robot Framework
3 15 (2.47%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (1.32%) Git
4 8 (1.32%) Selenium
5 7 (1.15%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.66%) GitLab
6 4 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.49%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.33%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.33%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.33%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.33%) JMeter
9 1 (0.16%) AppScan
9 1 (0.16%) Gradle
9 1 (0.16%) MSI
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.16%) Subversion
9 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 183 (30.15%) Social Skills
2 53 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (6.92%) Public Sector
4 21 (3.46%) Finance
5 19 (3.13%) Military
6 18 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (1.65%) Banking
7 10 (1.65%) Legal
8 9 (1.48%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.15%) Telecoms
10 5 (0.82%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.49%) Aviation
11 3 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.33%) Advertising
12 2 (0.33%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.33%) Automotive
12 2 (0.33%) Electronics
12 2 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.33%) Law
12 2 (0.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 108 (17.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 85 (14.00%) Architect
3 60 (9.88%) Support Engineer
4 43 (7.08%) Windows Engineer
5 42 (6.92%) Technical Architect
6 40 (6.59%) IT Support
7 37 (6.10%) Lead
8 34 (5.60%) Lead Architect
9 31 (5.11%) Senior
10 30 (4.94%) Integration Engineer
10 30 (4.94%) Technical Leader
11 28 (4.61%) 3rd Line Support
11 28 (4.61%) Wintel Engineer
12 25 (4.12%) Analyst
12 25 (4.12%) IT Engineer
13 24 (3.95%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 23 (3.79%) Active Directory Support
14 23 (3.79%) Administrator
15 22 (3.62%) Build Engineer
15 22 (3.62%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (7.25%) Node.js
2 17 (2.80%) ARM Templates
3 8 (1.32%) REST
4 7 (1.15%) .NET
4 7 (1.15%) LDAP
5 6 (0.99%) Itk
5 6 (0.99%) Web Services
5 6 (0.99%) XML
6 5 (0.82%) Flash
6 5 (0.82%) POSIX
6 5 (0.82%) XSLT
7 4 (0.66%) JSON
8 3 (0.49%) .NET Core
8 3 (0.49%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (0.49%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.49%) RESTful
9 2 (0.33%) 802.1X
9 2 (0.33%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.33%) Kafka
9 2 (0.33%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 86 (14.17%) PKI
2 38 (6.26%) Public Cloud
3 34 (5.60%) Clustering
3 34 (5.60%) Data Centre
4 24 (3.95%) Client/Server
5 23 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (2.64%) NHS
7 14 (2.31%) Driving Licence
8 12 (1.98%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.81%) Replication
10 10 (1.65%) Product Ownership
11 8 (1.32%) Fat Client
11 8 (1.32%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.32%) Thin Client
11 8 (1.32%) Video Conferencing
12 6 (0.99%) Digital Signage
13 5 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.82%) iPad
13 5 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
14 4 (0.66%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 606 (99.84%) Windows
2 144 (23.72%) Linux
3 137 (22.57%) Windows Server 2012
4 129 (21.25%) Windows Server 2019
5 122 (20.10%) Windows 10
6 112 (18.45%) Windows Server 2016
7 51 (8.40%) Apple iOS
8 49 (8.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 48 (7.91%) Android
10 25 (4.12%) Unix
11 20 (3.29%) Windows NT
12 19 (3.13%) Windows Server 2008
13 14 (2.31%) Windows XP
14 13 (2.14%) Ubuntu
14 13 (2.14%) VMS
15 12 (1.98%) CentOS
16 9 (1.48%) Mac OS
17 7 (1.15%) Windows 7
17 7 (1.15%) Windows Server 2003
18 6 (0.99%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (23.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 117 (19.28%) Agile
3 113 (18.62%) ITIL
4 89 (14.66%) DevOps
5 81 (13.34%) Problem-Solving
6 71 (11.70%) CI/CD
7 69 (11.37%) Customer Service
8 68 (11.20%) Mobile Device Management
9 58 (9.56%) Service Management
10 52 (8.57%) Release Management
11 50 (8.24%) Security Architecture
12 49 (8.07%) Change Management
13 47 (7.74%) Migration
14 43 (7.08%) Risk Management
15 42 (6.92%) Zero Trust
16 40 (6.59%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
16 40 (6.59%) Threat Intelligence
17 36 (5.93%) Project Management
18 35 (5.77%) Disaster Recovery
19 32 (5.27%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 166 (27.35%) PowerShell
2 76 (12.52%) SQL
3 57 (9.39%) Python
4 35 (5.77%) VBScript
5 27 (4.45%) C#
6 16 (2.64%) Bicep
6 16 (2.64%) Java
6 16 (2.64%) VB
7 12 (1.98%) Bash
8 8 (1.32%) Perl
9 4 (0.66%) C
9 4 (0.66%) C++
10 3 (0.49%) F#
11 2 (0.33%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.33%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.33%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.16%) PHP
12 1 (0.16%) Ruby
12 1 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 254 (41.85%) Security Cleared
2 144 (23.72%) DV Cleared
3 120 (19.77%) SC Cleared
4 89 (14.66%) Degree
5 64 (10.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 44 (7.25%) MCSE
7 25 (4.12%) CCNA
7 25 (4.12%) Cisco Certification
7 25 (4.12%) MCSA
8 23 (3.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 20 (3.29%) CCNP
10 19 (3.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 12 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (1.81%) Azure Certification
13 7 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (1.15%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.99%) RHCT
15 5 (0.82%) MCITP
15 5 (0.82%) MCTS
16 4 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.12%) QA
2 9 (1.48%) SLA
3 7 (1.15%) Disclosure Scotland
3 7 (1.15%) NIST
3 7 (1.15%) RMADS
4 3 (0.49%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.16%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.16%) COBIT
6 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 376 (61.94%) Active Directory
2 202 (33.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 79 (13.01%) Hyper-V
4 76 (12.52%) VMware ESXi
5 33 (5.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 29 (4.78%) VMware NSX
7 26 (4.28%) Virtual Machines
8 25 (4.12%) XenApp
9 24 (3.95%) vSphere
10 21 (3.46%) Firmware
11 16 (2.64%) Docker
12 14 (2.31%) XenDesktop
13 11 (1.81%) Terminal Services
14 9 (1.48%) BitLocker
15 8 (1.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 7 (1.15%) Microsoft App-V
16 7 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
17 6 (0.99%) KVM
17 6 (0.99%) VMware Workstation
18 5 (0.82%) NFS
Systems Management
1 129 (21.25%) SCCM
2 94 (15.49%) WSUS
3 63 (10.38%) vCenter Server
4 54 (8.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 42 (6.92%) SCOM
6 38 (6.26%) Kubernetes
7 29 (4.78%) Ansible
8 26 (4.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 26 (4.28%) Terraform
9 20 (3.29%) Sysprep
10 19 (3.13%) NetBackup
11 16 (2.64%) EMC NetWorker
12 10 (1.65%) Autotask
13 9 (1.48%) Nessus
14 8 (1.32%) Failover Clustering
15 7 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
16 6 (0.99%) Grafana
16 6 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
16 6 (0.99%) MAILsweeper
16 6 (0.99%) vMotion
Vendors
1 311 (51.24%) Microsoft
2 281 (46.29%) VMware
3 54 (8.90%) Citrix
4 52 (8.57%) Cisco
4 52 (8.57%) Veeam
5 38 (6.26%) Oracle
6 28 (4.61%) Dell
7 25 (4.12%) EMC
7 25 (4.12%) Palo Alto
8 24 (3.95%) HP
9 21 (3.46%) Red Hat
10 18 (2.97%) Symantec
11 17 (2.80%) Juniper
12 16 (2.64%) Extreme Networks
13 15 (2.47%) Apple
13 15 (2.47%) NetApp
14 14 (2.31%) 3PAR
14 14 (2.31%) Google
15 13 (2.14%) ServiceNow
16 11 (1.81%) Veritas