Windows Server Contracts in the East of England

Microsoft Windows Server
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 59 80 42
Rank change year-on-year +21 -38 +24
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 23 32 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.45% 1.68% 4.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.53% 14.10% 18.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 28 77
10th Percentile £278 £177 £175
25th Percentile £414 £198 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £245 £425
Median % change year-on-year +83.67% -42.35% -
75th Percentile £499 £447 £600
90th Percentile £600 £575 £788
England median daily rate £540 £468 £500
% change year-on-year +15.51% -6.50% +17.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile £20.92 - £21.30
25th Percentile £29.31 £12.86 £21.31
Median hourly rate £43.92 £14.31 £22.97
Median % change year-on-year +206.88% -37.69% -19.17%
75th Percentile £59.15 £25.26 £24.62
90th Percentile £67.91 £42.35 -
England median hourly rate £18.75 £38.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -51.30% +28.33% +33.33%

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 170 227 491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 18.12% 11.89% 23.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 127 333
10th Percentile £178 £175 £160
25th Percentile £208 £238 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% -17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £500 £570 £575
90th Percentile £561 £650 £700
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 47 65
10th Percentile £16.95 £13.72 -
25th Percentile £19.22 £14.00 £13.29
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.18 £17.75
Median % change year-on-year +108.50% +41.86% -12.99%
75th Percentile £65.38 £64.38 £53.75
90th Percentile £84.75 £66.25 £65.00
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 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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Cambridgeshire +14 10 £430 +95.45% 12
Hertfordshire +27 8 £500 +17.65% 22
Essex +6 2 £600 +159.46% 10
Norfolk +5 2 £115 - 2
Suffolk -7 1 £751 +305.95%
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 (30.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.70%) WebSphere
3 1 (4.35%) Apache
3 1 (4.35%) IIS
3 1 (4.35%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) Cohesity
1 4 (17.39%) Nutanix
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (8.70%) Azure
3 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
3 2 (8.70%) IaaS
4 1 (4.35%) AWS
4 1 (4.35%) Azure AKS
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.35%) GCP
4 1 (4.35%) Mimecast
4 1 (4.35%) PaaS
4 1 (4.35%) SaaS
4 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) DNS
1 6 (26.09%) SAN
2 5 (21.74%) LAN
2 5 (21.74%) TCP/IP
2 5 (21.74%) WAN
3 4 (17.39%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (17.39%) NAS
4 3 (13.04%) Firewall
4 3 (13.04%) Skype
5 1 (4.35%) DHCP
5 1 (4.35%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (4.35%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (4.35%) VSAN
5 1 (4.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) DB2
1 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) GitLab
General
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Law
3 1 (4.35%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Administrator
2 4 (17.39%) Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) DevOps Administrator
2 4 (17.39%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (13.04%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Information Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Information Systems Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Solutions Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Network Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Switch Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) VMware Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) LDAP
2 1 (4.35%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Clustering
1 4 (17.39%) Distributed Computing
1 4 (17.39%) Replication
2 2 (8.70%) Driving Licence
2 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.70%) Smartcard
2 2 (8.70%) YubiKey
3 1 (4.35%) Blackberry
3 1 (4.35%) CMDB
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.35%) PKI
3 1 (4.35%) Reinsurance
3 1 (4.35%) RSA SecurID
3 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (34.78%) Linux
3 4 (17.39%) Ubuntu
4 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (8.70%) Unix
4 2 (8.70%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (8.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 9 (39.13%) ITIL
2 8 (34.78%) Problem Management
2 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (21.74%) Capacity Management
3 5 (21.74%) DevOps
3 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Management
4 4 (17.39%) Change Management
4 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
4 4 (17.39%) Customer Service
4 4 (17.39%) Incident Management
4 4 (17.39%) Proactive Maintenance
4 4 (17.39%) Proactive Management
4 4 (17.39%) Resource Management
4 4 (17.39%) Virtual Environments
5 2 (8.70%) High Availability
5 2 (8.70%) Information Management
5 2 (8.70%) Network Management
5 2 (8.70%) Systems Engineering
5 2 (8.70%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) PowerShell
2 4 (17.39%) Shell Script
3 3 (13.04%) SQL
4 1 (4.35%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) DV Cleared
1 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 4 (17.39%) DBS Check
3 3 (13.04%) Degree
3 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.35%) ECDL
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) GDPR
1 1 (4.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (78.26%) Active Directory
2 7 (30.43%) Hyper-V
2 7 (30.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (21.74%) Docker
4 4 (17.39%) VMware NSX
5 3 (13.04%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (8.70%) vSphere
7 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (4.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Ansible
2 5 (21.74%) SCCM
2 5 (21.74%) WSUS
3 4 (17.39%) Failover Clustering
3 4 (17.39%) Podman
4 2 (8.70%) Nessus
5 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (4.35%) SCOM
5 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) VMware
2 7 (30.43%) Red Hat
3 6 (26.09%) NetApp
4 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
5 4 (17.39%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (13.04%) Tenable
7 2 (8.70%) Cisco
7 2 (8.70%) Oracle
7 2 (8.70%) Splunk
8 1 (4.35%) Apple
8 1 (4.35%) Google
8 1 (4.35%) HP
8 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
8 1 (4.35%) SolarWinds