Windows Server Contracts in the East of England

Microsoft Windows Server
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for Windows Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 46 70
Rank change year-on-year -36 +24 -5
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 31 92 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.64% 4.43% 3.30%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.84% 18.66% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 77 63
10th Percentile £177 £175 £185
25th Percentile £197 £286 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £240 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -43.53% - +30.77%
75th Percentile £394 £600 £461
90th Percentile £560 £788 £488
England median daily rate £464 £500 £429
% change year-on-year -7.25% +16.69% +7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 7
10th Percentile - £21.30 £23.25
25th Percentile £12.86 £21.31 -
Median hourly rate £14.31 £22.97 £28.41
Median % change year-on-year -37.69% -19.17% -5.89%
75th Percentile £25.26 £24.62 £49.38
90th Percentile £42.35 - £53.75
England median hourly rate £38.50 £29.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +29.85% +31.78% -10.00%

All Operating Systems
East of England

Windows Server is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 224 493 572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.81% 23.74% 22.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 334 317
10th Percentile £175 £160 £158
25th Percentile £235 £210 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £344 £419 £400
Median % change year-on-year -17.91% +4.69% +6.67%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £494
90th Percentile £650 £700 £618
England median daily rate £463 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 65 90
10th Percentile £13.57 - £13.25
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.29 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.00 £17.75 £20.20
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% -12.13% +22.42%
75th Percentile £62.50 £53.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £66.25 £65.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -41.33% +74.42% +19.44%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the East of England

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in the East of England

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 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in the East of England

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in the East of England

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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
Essex +1 8 £231 -29.50% 10
Hertfordshire -34 8 £388 -29.55% 22
Bedfordshire +1 7 £263 +69.49% 6
Cambridgeshire -11 6 £220 -32.31% 33
Suffolk +10 1 £185 -17.78% 1
Norfolk +4 1 - - 3
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (22.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (16.13%) IIS
3 3 (9.68%) Tomcat
4 1 (3.23%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.45%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) Azure
1 9 (29.03%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.23%) AWS
3 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) WAN
2 3 (9.68%) LAN
2 3 (9.68%) Structured Cabling
2 3 (9.68%) VPN
2 3 (9.68%) Wireless
3 2 (6.45%) SMTP
4 1 (3.23%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (3.23%) DHCP
4 1 (3.23%) Ethernet
4 1 (3.23%) Firewall
4 1 (3.23%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (3.23%) Kerberos
4 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.23%) Unified Communications
4 1 (3.23%) VLAN
4 1 (3.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) JIRA
General
1 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
1 3 (9.68%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Banking
3 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Support Engineer
2 4 (12.90%) Analyst
2 4 (12.90%) IT Engineer
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 4 (12.90%) Windows Engineer
2 4 (12.90%) Windows Support Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) IT Support
3 3 (9.68%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Linux Support
3 3 (9.68%) Linux Support Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Service Analyst
3 3 (9.68%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Applications Support
4 2 (6.45%) Applications Support Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) IT Support Technician
4 2 (6.45%) Messaging Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Support Technician
4 2 (6.45%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) .NET
1 2 (6.45%) Web Services
2 1 (3.23%) LDAP
2 1 (3.23%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Onboarding
2 3 (9.68%) Clustering
3 2 (6.45%) iPad
3 2 (6.45%) iPhone
3 2 (6.45%) NHS
4 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (35.48%) Windows 10
3 5 (16.13%) Linux
4 3 (9.68%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (6.45%) Android
5 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (3.23%) AIX
6 1 (3.23%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (3.23%) Solaris
6 1 (3.23%) Unix
6 1 (3.23%) Windows 7
6 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (29.03%) ITIL
2 5 (16.13%) Release Management
3 4 (12.90%) High Availability
4 3 (9.68%) Change Management
4 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (6.45%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (6.45%) DevOps
5 2 (6.45%) Load Balancing
5 2 (6.45%) Problem Management
5 2 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (6.45%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (6.45%) Security Patching
5 2 (6.45%) Tech Ops
6 1 (3.23%) Coaching
6 1 (3.23%) Data Protection
6 1 (3.23%) Information Assurance
6 1 (3.23%) Network Monitoring
6 1 (3.23%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (3.23%) Time Management
6 1 (3.23%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.90%) SQL
2 3 (9.68%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.23%) Bash
3 1 (3.23%) Korn
3 1 (3.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) DV Cleared
1 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.68%) Degree
2 3 (9.68%) ECDL
2 3 (9.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (90.32%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.68%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (9.68%) VMware Workstation
3 2 (6.45%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (19.35%) SCCM
2 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (9.68%) SCOM
3 2 (6.45%) MAILsweeper
4 1 (3.23%) Ansible
4 1 (3.23%) Autotask
4 1 (3.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (38.71%) Microsoft
2 7 (22.58%) VMware
3 5 (16.13%) SAP
4 3 (9.68%) Ariba
4 3 (9.68%) Cisco
5 2 (6.45%) Citrix
5 2 (6.45%) F5
5 2 (6.45%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.45%) Sophos
5 2 (6.45%) Trend Micro
6 1 (3.23%) Apple
6 1 (3.23%) Google
6 1 (3.23%) Oracle
6 1 (3.23%) Qualys
6 1 (3.23%) Remedy