Windows Server Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft Windows Server
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 55 36 61
Rank change year-on-year -19 +25 +1
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 38 95 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.24% 4.79% 2.99%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.90% 34.93% 22.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 71 43
10th Percentile £333 £386 £363
25th Percentile £488 £525 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% -6.12% +2.08%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £688
90th Percentile £646 - £748
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
10th Percentile - £56.50 £55.39
25th Percentile - £57.78 £59.72
Median hourly rate - £61.60 £68.19
Median % change year-on-year - -9.66% +4.90%
75th Percentile - - £75.40
90th Percentile - £63.30 £78.98
South East median hourly rate - £59.80 £60.00
% change year-on-year - -0.33% +26.32%

All Operating Systems
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 159 272 239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.55% 13.71% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 194 162
10th Percentile £250 £205 £271
25th Percentile £400 £244 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £514
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -17.27% +4.31%
75th Percentile £661 £575 £623
90th Percentile £700 £608 £699
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 11
10th Percentile - £56.40 £21.65
25th Percentile - £56.50 £37.25
Median hourly rate £24.66 £61.60 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.97% +12.00% -16.03%
75th Percentile - £63.30 £72.50
90th Percentile - £66.50 £81.37
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -10.38% +165.00%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Berkshire

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Berkshire

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Berkshire

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Berkshire

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Wokingham +2 15 £525 +69.35% 2
Maidenhead - 9 - - 6
Reading -24 7 £563 -2.17% 21
Windsor - 5 £500 - 2
Windows Server
South East

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 6 (15.79%) IIS
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (47.37%) Azure
2 9 (23.68%) AWS
3 6 (15.79%) Entra ID
4 5 (13.16%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (10.53%) GitHub
6 3 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (5.26%) GCP
7 2 (5.26%) SaaS
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Storage
8 1 (2.63%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 13 (34.21%) DNS
2 8 (21.05%) DHCP
3 7 (18.42%) SMTP
4 6 (15.79%) NetScaler
5 5 (13.16%) TCP/IP
6 3 (7.89%) Firewall
6 3 (7.89%) Network Security
7 2 (5.26%) FTP
7 2 (5.26%) NGFW
7 2 (5.26%) SSL
7 2 (5.26%) Telnet
7 2 (5.26%) VPN
8 1 (2.63%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) Big Data
2 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Git
1 5 (13.16%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.63%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 7 (18.42%) Finance
2 4 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.63%) Legal
3 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (15.79%) Architect
3 5 (13.16%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Security Architect
4 4 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Lead
4 4 (10.53%) Support Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Applications Architect
5 3 (7.89%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (2.63%) Applications Support
7 1 (2.63%) Applications Support Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Cloud Specialist
7 1 (2.63%) Coordinator
7 1 (2.63%) IT Manager
7 1 (2.63%) Project Coordinator
7 1 (2.63%) Technical Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) Apache Axis
2 2 (5.26%) SAML
3 1 (2.63%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.95%) Onboarding
2 7 (18.42%) PKI
3 5 (13.16%) Clustering
3 5 (13.16%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (10.53%) Data Centre
4 4 (10.53%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 38 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (28.95%) Linux
3 10 (26.32%) Windows 10
4 7 (18.42%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (13.16%) Ubuntu
5 5 (13.16%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (10.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (36.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (26.32%) High Availability
2 10 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (21.05%) ITIL
4 7 (18.42%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (15.79%) DevOps
6 5 (13.16%) Configuration Management
6 5 (13.16%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (13.16%) Customer-Centric Approach
6 5 (13.16%) Customer-Centricity
6 5 (13.16%) Open Source
6 5 (13.16%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (13.16%) Server Building
7 4 (10.53%) DevSecOps
7 4 (10.53%) Microservices
7 4 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (7.89%) Application Security
8 3 (7.89%) Migration
8 3 (7.89%) RBAC
8 3 (7.89%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 24 (63.16%) PowerShell
2 8 (21.05%) Python
3 5 (13.16%) Shell Script
4 4 (10.53%) C#
5 3 (7.89%) Java
5 3 (7.89%) SQL
6 2 (5.26%) Ruby
7 1 (2.63%) Bicep
7 1 (2.63%) VB
7 1 (2.63%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 13 (34.21%) SC Cleared
3 10 (26.32%) DV Cleared
4 4 (10.53%) CISSP
5 3 (7.89%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (5.26%) CISM
6 2 (5.26%) Degree
7 1 (2.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (2.63%) MCSE
7 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.63%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (63.16%) Active Directory
2 10 (26.32%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (15.79%) XenApp
3 6 (15.79%) XenDesktop
4 5 (13.16%) vSphere
5 4 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (5.26%) NFS
6 2 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
7 1 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (15.79%) Terraform
2 6 (15.79%) WSUS
3 5 (13.16%) Ansible
3 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Clustering
4 4 (10.53%) NetBackup
5 3 (7.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.63%) FortiGate
7 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
7 1 (2.63%) SCCM
7 1 (2.63%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (57.89%) VMware
2 18 (47.37%) Dell
3 14 (36.84%) Microsoft
4 9 (23.68%) HP
4 9 (23.68%) Wyse
5 6 (15.79%) Citrix
6 5 (13.16%) Databricks
7 4 (10.53%) 3PAR
7 4 (10.53%) Red Hat
7 4 (10.53%) Veritas
8 1 (2.63%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.63%) Intel