Windows Server Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft Windows Server
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 61 56
Rank change year-on-year +26 -5 +5
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 94 53 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 4.74% 2.92% 2.96%
As % of the Operating Systems category 34.43% 21.90% 22.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 42 52
10th Percentile £384 £413 £323
25th Percentile £528 £525 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +2.08% +41.18%
75th Percentile £608 £688 £655
90th Percentile - £751 £701
South East median daily rate £550 £548 £450
% change year-on-year +0.46% +21.67% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £56.50 £55.39 -
25th Percentile £57.78 £59.72 £62.50
Median hourly rate £61.60 £68.19 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +4.90% -
75th Percentile - £75.40 £67.50
90th Percentile £63.30 £78.98 -
South East median hourly rate £59.80 £60.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -0.33% +26.32% +90.00%

All Operating Systems
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 273 242 315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.77% 13.36% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 163 230
10th Percentile £205 £275 £140
25th Percentile £220 £363 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £515 £488
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% +5.64% +14.71%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £615
90th Percentile £608 £699 £653
South East median daily rate £450 £478 £450
% change year-on-year -5.76% +6.11% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 5
10th Percentile £56.40 £21.65 £34.75
25th Percentile £56.50 £37.25 £62.50
Median hourly rate £61.60 £55.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -16.03% +63.75%
75th Percentile £63.30 £72.50 £68.25
90th Percentile £66.50 £81.37 £79.80
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -9.52% +162.50% +14.29%

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 26 April 2024.

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 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
Reading +13 68 £575 -8.00% 10
Bracknell - 12 £386 - 4
Wokingham - 3 £310 -
Newbury -1 2 £550 +243.75% 1
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 19 (20.21%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 6 (6.38%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 49 (52.13%) Azure
2 18 (19.15%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (18.09%) Entra ID
4 15 (15.96%) Azure Monitor
4 15 (15.96%) Azure Storage
5 13 (13.83%) OCI
6 8 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.19%) IaaS
8 1 (1.06%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (43.62%) DNS
2 40 (42.55%) DHCP
3 33 (35.11%) Firewall
4 17 (18.09%) SAN
5 4 (4.26%) NAS
5 4 (4.26%) Skype
6 3 (3.19%) LAN
6 3 (3.19%) WAN
7 2 (2.13%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.06%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.51%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (4.26%) MySQL
2 4 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.19%) JIRA
1 3 (3.19%) Robot Framework
1 3 (3.19%) Selenium
1 3 (3.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 58 (61.70%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.45%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.06%) Law
Job Titles
1 28 (29.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 21 (22.34%) Build Engineer
2 21 (22.34%) Windows Build Engineer
2 21 (22.34%) Windows Engineer
3 15 (15.96%) Active Directory Support
4 14 (14.89%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (14.89%) Administrator
4 14 (14.89%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (14.89%) Support Specialist
4 14 (14.89%) Systems Administrator
5 13 (13.83%) Senior
6 10 (10.64%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 9 (9.57%) Storage Engineer
8 7 (7.45%) Support Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) Analyst
9 4 (4.26%) Solutions Analyst
10 3 (3.19%) PowerShell Engineer
10 3 (3.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 3 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.96%) ARM Templates
2 6 (6.38%) Itk
3 1 (1.06%) .NET
3 1 (1.06%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 19 (20.21%) PKI
2 15 (15.96%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (13.83%) Data Centre
4 7 (7.45%) Client/Server
5 4 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (4.26%) Fat Client
5 4 (4.26%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.06%) CCTV
6 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 94 (100.00%) Windows
2 64 (68.09%) Windows Server 2019
3 62 (65.96%) Windows Server 2016
4 43 (45.74%) Linux
5 34 (36.17%) Windows 10
5 34 (36.17%) Windows Server 2012
6 21 (22.34%) Windows NT
7 13 (13.83%) Windows XP
8 7 (7.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (4.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (54.26%) ITIL
2 40 (42.55%) Release Management
3 36 (38.30%) Service Management
4 31 (32.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 29 (30.85%) DevOps
6 25 (26.60%) Customer Service
7 24 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (25.53%) User Acceptance Testing
8 23 (24.47%) Agile
9 21 (22.34%) Deployment Automation
10 15 (15.96%) Analytics
10 15 (15.96%) CI/CD
10 15 (15.96%) Identity Management
10 15 (15.96%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (15.96%) Log Analytics
10 15 (15.96%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 15 (15.96%) Privileged Identity Management
10 15 (15.96%) Project Management
10 15 (15.96%) RBAC
11 14 (14.89%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 46 (48.94%) PowerShell
2 22 (23.40%) VBScript
3 18 (19.15%) C#
4 15 (15.96%) Bicep
4 15 (15.96%) VB
5 8 (8.51%) Python
6 4 (4.26%) C
6 4 (4.26%) C++
6 4 (4.26%) SQL
7 3 (3.19%) F#
8 1 (1.06%) Java
Qualifications
1 74 (78.72%) Security Cleared
2 67 (71.28%) DV Cleared
3 37 (39.36%) Degree
4 33 (35.11%) SC Cleared
5 15 (15.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 13 (13.83%) CCNA
6 13 (13.83%) CCNP
6 13 (13.83%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.13%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.06%) CEH
8 1 (1.06%) CISSP
8 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (26.60%) QA
2 2 (2.13%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 69 (73.40%) Active Directory
2 34 (36.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (22.34%) Firmware
4 18 (19.15%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (18.09%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (15.96%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (14.89%) Hyper-V
8 5 (5.32%) XenApp
9 4 (4.26%) Docker
10 3 (3.19%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 57 (60.64%) WSUS
2 56 (59.57%) SCCM
3 36 (38.30%) SCOM
4 21 (22.34%) Sysprep
5 20 (21.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 20 (21.28%) vCenter Server
6 19 (20.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 17 (18.09%) EMC NetWorker
8 15 (15.96%) Kubernetes
9 13 (13.83%) NetBackup
10 6 (6.38%) Nessus
11 4 (4.26%) Ansible
11 4 (4.26%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (4.26%) ZABBIX
12 2 (2.13%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 2 (2.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 1 (1.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 67 (71.28%) Microsoft
2 40 (42.55%) VMware
3 17 (18.09%) Cisco
3 17 (18.09%) EMC
3 17 (18.09%) Oracle
3 17 (18.09%) Veeam
4 13 (13.83%) 3PAR
4 13 (13.83%) Dell
4 13 (13.83%) Extreme Networks
4 13 (13.83%) HP
4 13 (13.83%) Juniper
4 13 (13.83%) Palo Alto
4 13 (13.83%) Symantec
5 9 (9.57%) Citrix
6 7 (7.45%) ServiceNow
7 4 (4.26%) Red Hat
8 3 (3.19%) FireEye
8 3 (3.19%) Tanium
9 2 (2.13%) CheckPoint
9 2 (2.13%) Splunk