Windows Server Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Microsoft Windows Server
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring Windows Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 24 20
Rank change year-on-year -20 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 3 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 1.02% 2.22% 2.02%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.29% 13.04% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - £226
25th Percentile £258 £263 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £265 £275 £306
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -10.20% -23.44%
75th Percentile £273 £288 £355
90th Percentile - - £382
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £488 £350
% change year-on-year -12.82% +39.29% -7.89%

All Operating Systems
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 21 23 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 7.14% 17.04% 19.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 16 13
10th Percentile - £180 £183
25th Percentile £213 £220 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £271 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% -39.72% +28.57%
75th Percentile £475 £458 £675
90th Percentile £506 £681 -
West Midlands median daily rate £459 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.00% - +12.50%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Windows Server job vacancy trend in Coventry

Windows Server
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

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

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Coventry

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

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

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Identity Management
1 2 (66.67%) Patch Management
1 2 (66.67%) RBAC
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) MCSE
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 1 (33.33%) VMware