Windows Server 2012 Contracts in Cheshire

Microsoft Windows Server 2012
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Windows Server 2012 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server 2012 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 52 57 62
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 -15
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2012 6 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.34% 0.20% 0.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.34% 1.30% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 £385 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £390 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% - -
75th Percentile - £395 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £350 £290 £475
% change year-on-year +20.69% -38.95% +173.38%

All Operating Systems
Cheshire

Windows Server 2012 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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 58 77 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 12.92% 15.28% 21.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 43 85
10th Percentile £258 £126 £200
25th Percentile £343 £200 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £389 £390 £326
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% +19.63% -18.50%
75th Percentile £469 £487 £563
90th Percentile £515 £582 £611
North West median daily rate £393 £438 £476
% change year-on-year -10.17% -7.99% +11.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 5
10th Percentile - £14.00 £12.35
25th Percentile - £16.54 £14.00
Median hourly rate - £17.72 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year - -5.84% -5.90%
75th Percentile - - £22.41
90th Percentile - £17.73 £48.41
North West median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £29.30
% change year-on-year +9.00% -45.39% +62.78%

Windows Server 2012
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Windows Server 2012 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2012 in Cheshire

Windows Server 2012
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2012 in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2012 in Cheshire

Windows Server 2012
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2012 in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2012 in Cheshire

Windows Server 2012
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2012 within the Cheshire 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
Warrington +2 6 £350 -10.26% 1
Windows Server 2012
North West

Windows Server 2012
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 3 (50.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DHCP
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Administrator
1 6 (100.00%) VMWare Administrator
1 6 (100.00%) Wintel Administrator
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 6 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) High Availability
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (50.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) Line Management
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 6 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) vCenter Server
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (50.00%) NetApp OnCommand
2 3 (50.00%) vMotion
2 3 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft