Windows Server Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Microsoft Windows Server
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 31 48 62
Rank change year-on-year +17 +14 -44
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 7 6 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 2.97% 1.26% 2.06%
As % of the Operating Systems category 21.88% 8.11% 14.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 14
10th Percentile £364 - £328
25th Percentile £400 £175 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £250 £481
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -48.05% +20.31%
75th Percentile £550 £480 £542
90th Percentile £580 £522 £557
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +16.67%

All Operating Systems
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 32 74 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 13.56% 15.55% 14.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 52 108
10th Percentile £195 £178 £230
25th Percentile £325 £225 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.56% -10.00% +20.48%
75th Percentile £536 £541 £550
90th Percentile - £550 £592
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 0
Median hourly rate £14.20 £23.17 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.70% - -
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 Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Buckinghamshire

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Buckinghamshire

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Buckinghamshire

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Buckinghamshire

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire 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
Milton Keynes +13 6 £475 +90.00% 17
Aylesbury - 1 £450 -
Windows Server
South East

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 2 (28.57%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (28.57%) IIS
2 1 (14.29%) WinCC
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) FTP
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
1 1 (14.29%) Modbus
1 1 (14.29%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Citrix Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Citrix Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) BizTalk Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) BizTalk Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Siemens Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
2 1 (14.29%) EDI
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) MSMQ
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) SOAP
2 1 (14.29%) WCF
2 1 (14.29%) XML
2 1 (14.29%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Driving Licence
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (14.29%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2019
3 4 (57.14%) Windows 10
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (42.86%) Security Hardening
1 3 (42.86%) Server Building
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (14.29%) Application Packaging
3 1 (14.29%) B2B
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Server Management
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) ActionScript
2 1 (14.29%) ActionScript 2.0
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Citrix
2 2 (28.57%) Dynatrace
2 2 (28.57%) IBM
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow
3 1 (14.29%) Rockwell
3 1 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (14.29%) Siemens
3 1 (14.29%) VMware