Windows Server Contract Job Trends in Bracknell

Microsoft Windows Server
Berkshire > Bracknell

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bracknell requiring Windows Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 18 29
Rank change year-on-year -5 +11 -4
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2 1 9
As % of all contract jobs in Bracknell 1.80% 1.56% 3.06%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.00% 16.67% 24.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £456 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £380
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +21.71% -26.03%
75th Percentile - £469 £409
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £423 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -21.47% -6.43% -6.69%

All Operating Systems
Bracknell

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 Bracknell.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 20 6 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bracknell 18.02% 9.38% 12.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 9
10th Percentile - £455 £136
25th Percentile £140 £456 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £463 £363
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +27.59% -29.61%
75th Percentile £525 £480 £409
90th Percentile £600 £481 £580
Berkshire median daily rate £414 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -17.20% +25.00% -23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £18.95
Median % change year-on-year - - -56.81%
Berkshire median hourly rate £21.40 £40.70 £61.60
% change year-on-year -47.44% -33.92% +8.31%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Bracknell

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bracknell.

Windows Server job vacancy trend in Bracknell

Windows Server
Daily Rate Trend in Bracknell

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bracknell citing Windows Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bracknell citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Bracknell

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bracknell citing Windows Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bracknell citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bracknell by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Fiddler
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Support
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) SCOM
1 1 (50.00%) SCSM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Trend Micro
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam
2 1 (50.00%) VMware