Windows Server Contracts in Cheshire

Microsoft Windows Server
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 44 51 46
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 +1
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 14 7 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 3.12% 1.39% 3.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.14% 9.09% 15.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 12
10th Percentile £313 - £492
25th Percentile £316 £126 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £132 £565
Median % change year-on-year +165.15% -76.65% +8.71%
75th Percentile £470 £225 £578
90th Percentile £480 £395 £600
North West median daily rate £445 £800 £500
% change year-on-year -44.38% +60.00% +53.85%

All Operating Systems
Cheshire

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 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
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Cheshire

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Cheshire

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Cheshire

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Cheshire

Windows Server
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 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 +4 8 £350 -39.13% 2
Knutsford - 2 £478 - 1
Windows Server
North West

Windows Server
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 4 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 3 (21.43%) IIS
3 2 (14.29%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (7.14%) Confluence
4 1 (7.14%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) DHCP
2 8 (57.14%) DNS
3 2 (14.29%) DMZ
3 2 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) GIS
1 2 (14.29%) MSDE
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.14%) DTS
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Selenium
2 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Military
2 1 (7.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Administrator
2 6 (42.86%) VMWare Administrator
2 6 (42.86%) Wintel Administrator
3 3 (21.43%) Build Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Windows Build Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) DBA
4 2 (14.29%) SQL DBA
4 2 (14.29%) SQL Server DBA
5 1 (7.14%) Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Server Build Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Server Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Windows Server Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Wintel Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Wintel Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
1 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Clustering
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (57.14%) Windows Server 2019
3 7 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (42.86%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (7.14%) Android
5 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
5 1 (7.14%) Mac OS
5 1 (7.14%) VMS
5 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 6 (42.86%) Patch Management
3 5 (35.71%) DevOps
3 5 (35.71%) High Availability
3 5 (35.71%) Migration
4 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 4 (28.57%) ITIL
5 3 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (21.43%) Resource Management
5 3 (21.43%) Server Building
6 2 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (14.29%) CRM
6 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (14.29%) Quality Management
6 2 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (7.14%) BCP
7 1 (7.14%) Configuration Management
7 1 (7.14%) ETL
7 1 (7.14%) GAP Analysis
7 1 (7.14%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) T-SQL
3 1 (7.14%) Bash
3 1 (7.14%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) Ruby
3 1 (7.14%) VB
3 1 (7.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) MCP
2 1 (7.14%) MCSA
2 1 (7.14%) MCSE
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) SLA
2 1 (7.14%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 8 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (42.86%) Hyper-V
3 6 (42.86%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (21.43%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (7.14%) BitLocker
5 1 (7.14%) Docker
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) vCenter Server
2 4 (28.57%) WSUS
3 3 (21.43%) Dell DRAC
3 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (21.43%) NetApp OnCommand
3 3 (21.43%) vMotion
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (7.14%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
5 1 (7.14%) Perfmon
5 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
5 1 (7.14%) SCCM
5 1 (7.14%) SCOM
5 1 (7.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 9 (64.29%) VMware
3 3 (21.43%) Dell
4 2 (14.29%) CyberArk
5 1 (7.14%) McAfee
5 1 (7.14%) Symantec