Windows Server Contracts in Bristol

Microsoft Windows Server
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 50 56 52
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +20
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 5 18 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.93% 1.70% 3.90%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.72% 16.51% 25.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 43
10th Percentile £320 £275 £203
25th Percentile £500 £353 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +35.29%
75th Percentile £606 £532 £690
90th Percentile £655 £588 £720
South West median daily rate £575 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £72.75 -
South West median hourly rate - £72.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +21.25% -13.11%

All Operating Systems
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 106 109 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 19.74% 10.31% 15.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 46 115
10th Percentile £188 £185 £163
25th Percentile £213 £215 £245
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £397 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -24.38% +31.25%
75th Percentile £600 £500 £669
90th Percentile £663 £593 £719
South West median daily rate £538 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.50% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 44 48
10th Percentile £18.13 £48.00 £19.27
25th Percentile £18.51 £59.94 £53.75
Median hourly rate £66.50 £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +6.87% +0.77%
75th Percentile £68.00 - £70.30
90th Percentile - £70.88 £71.71
South West median hourly rate £66.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.83% -7.69% +21.51%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Bristol

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Bristol

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Bristol

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Bristol

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Legal
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Server Specialist
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server Specialist
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Specialist
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) IT Support
3 1 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Infrastructure Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
1 1 (20.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Veritas