Windows Server Contracts in Basingstoke

Microsoft Windows Server
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Basingstoke requiring Windows Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 30 10
Rank change year-on-year +18 -20 +23
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 15 25 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Basingstoke 11.11% 5.84% 15.98%
As % of the Operating Systems category 35.71% 34.25% 46.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 15
10th Percentile £550 £475 £456
25th Percentile £563 £500 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% +26.32%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £625
90th Percentile £650 £555 £675
Hampshire median daily rate £575 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +6.98% -2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £20.35
25th Percentile - - £24.25
Median hourly rate - - £31.13
75th Percentile - - £37.63
90th Percentile - - £41.30
Hampshire median hourly rate - £21.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - -65.00% +166.67%

All Operating Systems
Basingstoke

Windows Server falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Basingstoke.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 42 73 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 31.11% 17.06% 34.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 36 34
10th Percentile £490 £500 £463
25th Percentile £550 £525 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +26.32%
75th Percentile £625 £825 £675
90th Percentile £650 - £713
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £16.18
25th Percentile - - £17.19
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year - +86.67% +1.35%
75th Percentile - - £25.56
90th Percentile - - £36.48
Hampshire median hourly rate £60.50 £60.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year +0.83% +8.11% +226.47%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Basingstoke

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Basingstoke

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Basingstoke

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Basingstoke

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basingstoke 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 8 (53.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
1 8 (53.33%) GCP
1 8 (53.33%) IaaS
1 8 (53.33%) OpenShift
1 8 (53.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) DHCP
1 8 (53.33%) DNS
1 8 (53.33%) Firewall
1 8 (53.33%) SMTP
1 8 (53.33%) VPN
2 4 (26.67%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (26.67%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (53.33%) Big Data
1 8 (53.33%) Elasticsearch
General
1 6 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 8 (53.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (53.33%) 3rd Line Support
2 8 (53.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 8 (53.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (53.33%) Support Engineer
3 7 (46.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure Support
3 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 4 (26.67%) Architect
4 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Architect
4 4 (26.67%) VMware Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Clustering
1 8 (53.33%) Data Centre
1 8 (53.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (53.33%) Linux
3 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) DevOps
1 8 (53.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 8 (53.33%) Machine Learning
1 8 (53.33%) Software Deployment
2 4 (26.67%) Edge Virtualization
2 4 (26.67%) Performance Analysis
3 3 (20.00%) ITSM
3 3 (20.00%) Service Management
4 2 (13.33%) Patch Management
4 2 (13.33%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) PowerShell
2 7 (46.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 15 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (53.33%) Degree
3 4 (26.67%) MCSE
3 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (26.67%) VCP5
3 4 (26.67%) VCP6
3 4 (26.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 12 (80.00%) VMware ESXi
1 12 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (73.33%) Active Directory
3 8 (53.33%) BitLocker
3 8 (53.33%) Docker
3 8 (53.33%) Hyper-V
3 8 (53.33%) Microsoft App-V
3 8 (53.33%) Terminal Services
4 4 (26.67%) NFS
4 4 (26.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (73.33%) vCenter Server
2 8 (53.33%) Ansible
2 8 (53.33%) Kubernetes
2 8 (53.33%) Nagios
2 8 (53.33%) Puppet
2 8 (53.33%) vMotion
3 3 (20.00%) SCCM
3 3 (20.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 12 (80.00%) VMware
2 8 (53.33%) Citrix
2 8 (53.33%) Google
2 8 (53.33%) HP
2 8 (53.33%) Symantec
3 4 (26.67%) NetApp
3 4 (26.67%) Splunk
3 4 (26.67%) Veeam
4 3 (20.00%) SolarWinds
5 2 (13.33%) McAfee