Windows Server Contracts in Bedfordshire

Microsoft Windows Server
East of England > Bedfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire 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 26 27 22
Rank change year-on-year +1 -5 +1
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 7 6 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 2.88% 3.28% 5.71%
As % of the Operating Systems category 38.89% 15.00% 45.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 10
10th Percentile £175 £125 £185
25th Percentile £188 £152 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £155 £363
Median % change year-on-year +69.49% -57.28% +70.59%
75th Percentile £288 £160 £400
90th Percentile £419 £175 £416
East of England median daily rate £240 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -43.53% - +30.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £52.50
75th Percentile £53.75 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £14.31 £22.97 £28.41
% change year-on-year -37.69% -19.17% -5.89%

All Operating Systems
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 18 40 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 7.41% 21.86% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 32 21
10th Percentile £174 £156 £95
25th Percentile £181 £163 £135
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £225 £338
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -33.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile £363 £520 £400
90th Percentile £404 £598 £450
East of England median daily rate £344 £419 £400
% change year-on-year -17.91% +4.69% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £44.25
25th Percentile £51.25 - £46.88
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +238.71%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £17.00 £17.75 £20.20
% change year-on-year -4.23% -12.13% +22.42%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Bedfordshire

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Bedfordshire

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Bedfordshire

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Bedfordshire

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire 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
Bedford 0 5 £250 +61.88% 1
Dunstable -3 1 - -
Luton - 1 £550 - 1
Windows Server
East of England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Kerberos
1 1 (14.29%) VLAN
1 1 (14.29%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
1 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) IT Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) IT Support
2 2 (28.57%) IT Support Technician
2 2 (28.57%) IT Technician
2 2 (28.57%) Support Technician
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
3 1 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (14.29%) IT Manager
3 1 (14.29%) IT Operations Manager
3 1 (14.29%) IT Technical Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Operations Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Operations Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) LDAP
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) Windows 10
3 1 (14.29%) AIX
3 1 (14.29%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Solaris
3 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) ITIL
1 2 (28.57%) Tech Ops
2 1 (14.29%) Change Management
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (14.29%) High Availability
2 1 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (14.29%) Patch Management
2 1 (14.29%) Security Management
2 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) Korn
1 1 (14.29%) Python
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) SAP
3 3 (42.86%) Ariba
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (14.29%) Qualys
4 1 (14.29%) VMware