Windows Server Engineer Contracts

Windows Server Engineer
UK

The median Windows Server Engineer daily rate in the UK is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 659 786
Rank change year-on-year +100 +127 -141
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Server Engineer 20 41 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.068% 0.083%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.072% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 25 52
10th Percentile £319 £325 £275
25th Percentile £370 £400 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £490 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.27% +15.29% +6.25%
75th Percentile £473 £575 £502
90th Percentile £493 £700 £635
UK excluding London median daily rate £431 £425 £338
% change year-on-year +1.41% +25.93% +2.27%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Windows Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server Engineer in the UK

Windows Server Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server Engineer in the UK

Windows Server Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server Engineer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server Engineer in the UK

Windows Server Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server Engineer in the UK

Windows Server Engineer
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 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
England +95 15 £420 -16.00% 1
UK excluding London +68 12 £431 +1.41% 1
Work from Home +105 9 £438 -0.57% 1
London +94 4 £385 -23.00%
North of England +27 4 £453 -
South East +24 4 £500 +11.11%
Midlands +29 2 £338 -
East Midlands +23 2 £338 -
North East +21 2 £423 -
South West +21 1 £350 -12.50% 1
Yorkshire +19 1 £475 -
North West - 1 £475 -
Scotland - 1 £450 -

Windows Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 featuring Windows Server Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Windows
1 20 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 12 (60.00%) Active Directory
3 7 (35.00%) VMware
3 7 (35.00%) PowerShell
4 6 (30.00%) SCCM
4 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (30.00%) Azure
4 6 (30.00%) DHCP
4 6 (30.00%) DNS
4 6 (30.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 5 (25.00%) Hyper-V
5 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
6 4 (20.00%) Change Management
6 4 (20.00%) Migration
6 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
7 3 (15.00%) Power BI
7 3 (15.00%) Degree
7 3 (15.00%) Python
7 3 (15.00%) SQL
7 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
7 3 (15.00%) vSphere
7 3 (15.00%) AWS
7 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared

Windows Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (10.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (15.00%) AWS
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (10.00%) Snowflake
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Storage
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.00%) IaaS
5 1 (5.00%) PaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Rubrik
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) DHCP
1 6 (30.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) AMQP
2 2 (10.00%) DMZ
2 2 (10.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) Modbus
2 2 (10.00%) MQTT
2 2 (10.00%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (5.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Power BI
1 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) Tableau
General
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (10.00%) JSON
1 2 (10.00%) Web Services
1 2 (10.00%) XML
1 2 (10.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Clustering
1 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (10.00%) IoT
1 2 (10.00%) PKI
2 1 (5.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (5.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (100.00%) Windows
1 20 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 6 (30.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (20.00%) Change Management
2 4 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (10.00%) Agile
3 2 (10.00%) CRUD
3 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (10.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (10.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (10.00%) Due Diligence
3 2 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (10.00%) Performance Management
3 2 (10.00%) Reverse Engineering
3 2 (10.00%) Scrum
3 2 (10.00%) Security Management
3 2 (10.00%) Server Management
3 2 (10.00%) Use Case
3 2 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.00%) Python
2 3 (15.00%) SQL
3 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) MCSE
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (15.00%) vSphere
5 2 (10.00%) Docker
6 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (5.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) SCCM
2 2 (10.00%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (10.00%) Grafana
2 2 (10.00%) SCOM
2 2 (10.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (10.00%) WSUS
3 1 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.00%) Nessus
3 1 (5.00%) SCOrch
3 1 (5.00%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) VMware
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (10.00%) HP
3 2 (10.00%) Varonis
4 1 (5.00%) BEA
4 1 (5.00%) CA
4 1 (5.00%) Qualys
4 1 (5.00%) Remedy
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.00%) UiPath