Windows Server Contract Job Trends in Devon

Microsoft Windows Server
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Devon requiring Windows Server skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 28 31
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Devon 1.25% 2.21% 0.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.76% 8.47% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £153 £389 -
25th Percentile £156 £476 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £165 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -70.00% -8.33% +39.86%
75th Percentile £171 £575 -
90th Percentile £174 - -
South West median daily rate £525 £546 £495
% change year-on-year -3.89% +10.35% +4.98%

All Operating Systems
Devon

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 Devon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 17 59 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 10.63% 26.11% 17.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 44 29
10th Percentile £158 £142 £150
25th Percentile £200 £150 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -43.66% -2.38% -1.23%
75th Percentile - £600 £575
90th Percentile £430 - £615
South West median daily rate £425 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -19.05% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
South West median hourly rate £28.83 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -58.82% +7.69% -

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Devon

Windows Server
Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

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

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Devon

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

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

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in Devon

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 Devon region over the 6 months to 21 September 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
Exeter +9 2 £165 -50.00% 3
Windows Server
South West

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Service Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) VMware