Windows Server Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

Microsoft Windows Server
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cumbria requiring Windows Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 29 40
Rank change year-on-year +5 +11 -22
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 4 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cumbria 2.78% 2.51% 0.47%
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.00% 35.71% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £457 - -
25th Percentile £459 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.99%
75th Percentile £476 - £425
90th Percentile £488 - -
North West median daily rate £379 £380 £413
% change year-on-year -0.33% -7.88% -8.33%

All Operating Systems
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 25 14 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 17.36% 7.04% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 1 7
10th Percentile £216 - £299
25th Percentile £401 - £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £110 £470
Median % change year-on-year +318.18% -76.60% +10.07%
75th Percentile £486 - £471
90th Percentile £538 - £473
North West median daily rate £358 £390 £438
% change year-on-year -8.21% -10.86% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.59 -
North West median hourly rate £20.73 £21.80 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.89% +1.37% -18.36%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

Windows Server job vacancy trend in Cumbria

Windows Server
Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

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

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

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

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

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 Cumbria region over the 6 months to 24 December 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
Barrow-in-Furness +1 3 £469 - 1
Windows Server
North West

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria 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:

Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Clustering
1 4 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 4 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
1 4 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) MCSA
1 4 (100.00%) MCSE
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) VCAP
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) VMware