Windows Server Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Windows Server
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Windows Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 44 62
Rank change year-on-year +1 +18 -9
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 75 49 37
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.23% 3.78% 2.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.51% 19.52% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 35 30
10th Percentile £244 £334 £247
25th Percentile £413 £525 £332
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +29.41%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £484 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.90% +5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 2
10th Percentile £16.25 - £19.18
25th Percentile £28.81 £12.97 £24.32
Median hourly rate £70.50 £13.94 £32.88
Median % change year-on-year +405.74% -57.60% +105.50%
75th Percentile £72.63 £14.91 £41.44
90th Percentile £74.00 - £46.58
England median hourly rate £63.14 £22.03 £50.00
% change year-on-year +186.65% -55.95% +3.31%

All Operating Systems
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 306 251 247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.17% 19.37% 16.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 130 119
10th Percentile £163 £170 £213
25th Percentile £190 £200 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% - +2.27%
75th Percentile £515 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 - -
England median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 60 38
10th Percentile £16.25 £16.81 £35.88
25th Percentile £48.84 £22.23 £52.35
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% -3.08% +209.52%
75th Percentile £72.63 £65.56 -
90th Percentile £81.70 £67.00 £65.75
England median hourly rate £36.36 £25.15 £56.75
% change year-on-year +44.55% -55.68% +23.68%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Windows Server job vacancy trend in the East of England

Windows Server
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Windows Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the East of England over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in the East of England

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Windows Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Server in the East of England over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows Server in the East of England

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 13 September 2026. 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
Hertfordshire -1 49 £550 - 37
Essex -8 11 £425 +26.87% 7
Cambridgeshire +6 8 £510 +33.33% 8
Norfolk -17 3 £223 - 5
Suffolk -15 2 £438 +40.00%
Bedfordshire - 2 £510 - 4
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 9 (12.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.67%) Confluence
3 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.00%) Azure
2 10 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (9.33%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (9.33%) AWS
4 6 (8.00%) Entra ID
5 5 (6.67%) Cohesity
6 2 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.67%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (2.67%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.33%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (1.33%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.33%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.33%) Datadog
7 1 (1.33%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.33%) IaaS
7 1 (1.33%) Serverless
7 1 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (29.33%) DNS
2 17 (22.67%) Firewall
3 13 (17.33%) SAN
4 11 (14.67%) WAN
5 9 (12.00%) LAN
6 8 (10.67%) DHCP
7 7 (9.33%) VPN
8 6 (8.00%) TCP/IP
8 6 (8.00%) VLAN
9 5 (6.67%) Skype
10 4 (5.33%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (4.00%) Network Security
12 2 (2.67%) iSCSI
12 2 (2.67%) NAS
13 1 (1.33%) SSL
13 1 (1.33%) VoIP
13 1 (1.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (1.33%) Git
2 1 (1.33%) GitLab
2 1 (1.33%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (30.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.67%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.33%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.33%) Telecoms
4 3 (4.00%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.67%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.33%) Law
6 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (14.67%) Senior
2 11 (14.67%) Windows Engineer
3 7 (9.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (8.00%) NetApp Engineer
4 6 (8.00%) Storage Engineer
5 5 (6.67%) Backup Specialist
5 5 (6.67%) IT Support
5 5 (6.67%) NetApp Specialist
5 5 (6.67%) Security Engineer
5 5 (6.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 5 (6.67%) Senior Technical Specialist
5 5 (6.67%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
5 5 (6.67%) Technical Specialist
6 4 (5.33%) Consultant
6 4 (5.33%) Infrastructure Technician
6 4 (5.33%) Senior Infrastructure Technician
6 4 (5.33%) Senior Technician
7 3 (4.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.67%) LDAP
2 3 (4.00%) Terraform
3 1 (1.33%) OAuth
3 1 (1.33%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.33%) OpenID
3 1 (1.33%) REST
3 1 (1.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.67%) Replication
2 9 (12.00%) Security Posture
3 5 (6.67%) PKI
3 5 (6.67%) Smartcard
3 5 (6.67%) YubiKey
4 4 (5.33%) Driving Licence
4 4 (5.33%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.00%) NHS
6 1 (1.33%) Clustering
6 1 (1.33%) FMCG
6 1 (1.33%) Life Science
6 1 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 75 (100.00%) Windows
2 31 (41.33%) Linux
3 15 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (16.00%) CentOS
4 12 (16.00%) Rocky
5 4 (5.33%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.33%) Android
6 1 (1.33%) VMS
6 1 (1.33%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (34.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (16.00%) ITIL
3 12 (16.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 10 (13.33%) Configuration Management
4 10 (13.33%) Migration
5 9 (12.00%) Incident Management
5 9 (12.00%) Incident Response
5 9 (12.00%) Network Management
6 7 (9.33%) Change Management
6 7 (9.33%) Storage Management
7 6 (8.00%) High Availability
7 6 (8.00%) Server Migrations
8 5 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (6.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 4 (5.33%) Agile
9 4 (5.33%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (5.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (28.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (5.33%) Bash
2 4 (5.33%) Python
3 1 (1.33%) Groovy
3 1 (1.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (52.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 19 (25.33%) DV Cleared
4 6 (8.00%) Degree
5 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (2.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.33%) CCNA
7 1 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.33%) MCSE
7 1 (1.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.33%) SLA
2 1 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.33%) NCSC
2 1 (1.33%) NIST
System Software
1 39 (52.00%) Active Directory
2 13 (17.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (13.33%) Hyper-V
3 10 (13.33%) vSphere
4 4 (5.33%) VMware NSX
5 3 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.33%) Squid
6 1 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (20.00%) Ansible
2 12 (16.00%) NetBackup
3 9 (12.00%) SCCM
4 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (6.67%) Nessus
5 5 (6.67%) vCenter Server
5 5 (6.67%) WSUS
6 2 (2.67%) SCOM
7 1 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.33%) Packer
7 1 (1.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (29.33%) Microsoft
2 21 (28.00%) VMware
3 14 (18.67%) NetApp
4 12 (16.00%) Veeam
5 5 (6.67%) Tenable
6 4 (5.33%) Citrix
7 3 (4.00%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.67%) Cisco
9 1 (1.33%) Apple
9 1 (1.33%) Barracuda Networks
9 1 (1.33%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (1.33%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.33%) Dell
9 1 (1.33%) Google
9 1 (1.33%) McAfee
9 1 (1.33%) Meraki
9 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.33%) SOTI
9 1 (1.33%) Trend Micro
9 1 (1.33%) Wyse