Windows Server Contracts in the East Midlands

Microsoft Windows Server
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 48 43 32
Rank change year-on-year -5 -11 0
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 8 23 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.49% 2.98% 5.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.43% 13.53% 26.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 22 34
10th Percentile - £145 £223
25th Percentile - £153 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £325 £325
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% - -
75th Percentile - £384 £388
90th Percentile - £596 £526
England median daily rate £540 £468 £500
% change year-on-year +15.51% -6.50% +17.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £21.30
25th Percentile - - £23.24
Median hourly rate - - £26.48
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £18.75 £38.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -51.30% +28.33% +33.33%

All Operating Systems
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 70 170 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.06% 21.99% 20.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 102 148
10th Percentile £173 £122 £125
25th Percentile £200 £150 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £391 £325 £350
Median % change year-on-year +20.15% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £476 £504 £538
90th Percentile £530 £575 £675
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 26 29
10th Percentile £14.29 £12.75 £11.69
25th Percentile £15.09 £14.27 £12.70
Median hourly rate £18.77 £17.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +10.38% -4.06% -4.22%
75th Percentile £23.75 £20.00 £20.00
90th Percentile £24.59 £21.88 £29.23
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the East Midlands

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in the East Midlands

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in the East Midlands

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands 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
Nottinghamshire +8 7 £500 +138.10% 11
Northamptonshire -1 1 - - 8
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (25.00%) DHCP
2 2 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (37.50%) Linux
3 3 (37.50%) Ubuntu
4 1 (12.50%) CentOS
4 1 (12.50%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) High Availability
3 2 (25.00%) Open Source
3 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Server Building
4 1 (12.50%) Coaching
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
1 5 (62.50%) Hyper-V
1 5 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Firmware
2 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) SCCM
2 3 (37.50%) Ansible
3 2 (25.00%) Terraform
4 1 (12.50%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco
2 5 (62.50%) VMware
3 2 (25.00%) Databricks
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft