Windows Server Contracts in Cheshire

Microsoft Windows Server
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for Windows Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 43 50
Rank change year-on-year -9 +7 -7
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 6 18 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.19% 3.33% 1.57%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.89% 14.75% 6.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 3
10th Percentile - £493 £253
25th Percentile £126 £513 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £130 £565 £540
Median % change year-on-year -77.04% +4.63% +67.44%
75th Percentile £183 £570 £586
90th Percentile £406 £600 £614
North West median daily rate £800 £503 £325
% change year-on-year +59.20% +54.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
North West median hourly rate - £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +112.50% -53.49%

All Operating Systems
Cheshire

Windows Server is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 76 122 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 15.05% 22.55% 24.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 92 67
10th Percentile £126 £200 £161
25th Percentile £200 £214 £191
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £326 £363
Median % change year-on-year +19.63% -10.07% -5.84%
75th Percentile £534 £561 £558
90th Percentile £582 £622 £630
North West median daily rate £438 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -7.89% +11.76% +18.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 2
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.35 £16.84
25th Percentile £16.54 £14.00 £17.37
Median hourly rate £17.72 £18.82 £18.41
Median % change year-on-year -5.84% +2.21% +6.31%
75th Percentile - £22.41 £19.29
90th Percentile £17.73 £48.41 £19.72
North West median hourly rate £16.00 £29.30 £17.91
% change year-on-year -45.39% +63.60% +5.35%

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 19 April 2024.

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 19 April 2024. 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
Runcorn - 3 £128 - 3
Warrington +3 1 £575 -4.17% 8
Chester - 1 £200 - 1
Macclesfield - 1 £132 -
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 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Internet
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
1 1 (16.67%) VSAN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) IT Support
2 3 (50.00%) Desktop Support
2 3 (50.00%) Desktop Support Technician
2 3 (50.00%) Desktop Technician
2 3 (50.00%) IT Support Technician
2 3 (50.00%) IT Technician
2 3 (50.00%) Support Technician
3 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (16.67%) Driving Licence
2 1 (16.67%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (16.67%) Server Building
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
1 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds Orion
1 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
1 1 (16.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Autodesk
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco
1 1 (16.67%) Dell
1 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
1 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds
1 1 (16.67%) Symantec
1 1 (16.67%) Veeam
1 1 (16.67%) VMware
1 1 (16.67%) Wyse