Windows Server Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Microsoft Windows Server
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Windows Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 46 63
Rank change year-on-year -15 +17 -13
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 9 18 17
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 1.08% 2.55% 1.73%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.20% 13.14% 15.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 14
10th Percentile £513 £325 £275
25th Percentile £522 £425 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £603
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -21.16% +33.89%
75th Percentile £575 £531 £630
90th Percentile £616 £738 -
South West median daily rate £550 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +15.79% -2.56% +3.72%

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 125 137 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 15.02% 19.43% 10.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 66 71
10th Percentile £68 £140 £170
25th Percentile £225 £213 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £440 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -7.37% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £562 £628
90th Percentile £633 £725 £675
South West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 26 12
10th Percentile £17.69 £65.00 £47.88
25th Percentile £18.87 £65.75 £61.25
Median hourly rate £51.57 £67.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.60% -3.57% +7.28%
75th Percentile £67.84 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £68.00 £72.00 -
South West median hourly rate £38.94 £67.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -42.31% +8.00% -3.85%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Windows Server job vacancy trend in Bristol

Windows Server
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Bristol over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Bristol

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 6 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (55.56%) SharePoint
2 5 (55.56%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) DHCP
2 5 (55.56%) DNS
2 5 (55.56%) Skype
2 5 (55.56%) Unified Communications
3 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
3 1 (11.11%) VPN
3 1 (11.11%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Artifactory
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 5 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Electronics
4 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 1 (11.11%) Marketing
4 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre Architect
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Network Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (11.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) PKI
2 2 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) ITIL
2 5 (55.56%) Computer Science
2 5 (55.56%) Critical Thinking
2 5 (55.56%) Service Management
2 5 (55.56%) System Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity
4 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) Change Management
4 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
4 1 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
4 1 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Observability
4 1 (11.11%) Programme Management
4 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
4 1 (11.11%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) PowerShell
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) SC Cleared
1 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) CCNA
2 5 (55.56%) CCNP
2 5 (55.56%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (55.56%) Degree
2 5 (55.56%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (55.56%) Master's Degree
2 5 (55.56%) MCSE
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (77.78%) Active Directory
3 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 5 (55.56%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
5 1 (11.11%) Docker
5 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) SCCM
2 5 (55.56%) WSUS
3 1 (11.11%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (11.11%) Grafana
3 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 1 (11.11%) Rancher
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) VMware
2 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
3 6 (66.67%) Cisco
4 5 (55.56%) SolarWinds
4 5 (55.56%) Splunk
4 5 (55.56%) Veeam
5 1 (11.11%) Brocade
5 1 (11.11%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (11.11%) Google
5 1 (11.11%) NetApp
5 1 (11.11%) SAP