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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 74 50
Rank change year-on-year +31 -24 +13
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 43 37 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 4.47% 1.96% 4.06%
As % of the Operating Systems category 21.61% 16.59% 18.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 34 69
10th Percentile £414 £180 £172
25th Percentile £450 £206 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £275 £413
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -33.33% -2.94%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile - - £740
England median daily rate £540 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +13.68% -5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £13.99 - £21.30
25th Percentile £14.49 - £21.31
Median hourly rate £15.33 £12.86 £22.97
Median % change year-on-year +19.21% -44.00% -19.17%
75th Percentile £44.54 £14.31 £24.62
90th Percentile £62.07 £15.18 -
England median hourly rate £17.04 £46.75 £34.00
% change year-on-year -63.55% +37.50% +38.78%

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 199 223 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.71% 11.79% 22.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 134 298
10th Percentile £178 £176 £163
25th Percentile £225 £236 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £560 £575 £550
90th Percentile £575 £650 £700
England median daily rate £467 £470 £513
% change year-on-year -0.74% -8.29% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 43 55
10th Percentile £16.26 £13.43 -
25th Percentile £17.16 £14.00 £13.29
Median hourly rate £23.61 £55.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.07% +223.53% -21.84%
75th Percentile £64.69 £65.00 £26.51
90th Percentile £80.63 £66.00 £58.50
England median hourly rate £21.28 £22.15 £38.50
% change year-on-year -3.93% -42.47% +77.91%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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
Hertfordshire +41 28 £550 - 51
Cambridgeshire +16 10 £430 +95.45% 20
Norfolk 0 3 £115 - 3
Essex +8 1 - - 7
Suffolk -11 1 £751 +305.95% 7
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 8 (18.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.65%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.33%) Apache
3 1 (2.33%) IIS
3 1 (2.33%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (55.81%) Cohesity
2 4 (9.30%) Nutanix
3 3 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.65%) Azure
4 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
4 2 (4.65%) IaaS
5 1 (2.33%) AWS
5 1 (2.33%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.33%) GCP
5 1 (2.33%) Mimecast
5 1 (2.33%) PaaS
5 1 (2.33%) SaaS
5 1 (2.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 25 (58.14%) DNS
1 25 (58.14%) SAN
2 5 (11.63%) LAN
2 5 (11.63%) TCP/IP
2 5 (11.63%) WAN
3 4 (9.30%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (9.30%) NAS
3 4 (9.30%) Skype
4 3 (6.98%) Firewall
5 1 (2.33%) DHCP
5 1 (2.33%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.33%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (2.33%) VSAN
5 1 (2.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) DB2
1 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.33%) GitLab
General
1 5 (11.63%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.65%) Law
3 1 (2.33%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.33%) Finance
3 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (18.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (9.30%) Administrator
2 4 (9.30%) Analyst
2 4 (9.30%) DevOps Administrator
2 4 (9.30%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (6.98%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (6.98%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (6.98%) Architect
4 2 (4.65%) Information Analyst
4 2 (4.65%) Information Systems Analyst
4 2 (4.65%) Solutions Analyst
4 2 (4.65%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (2.33%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (2.33%) Network Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (2.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.33%) Senior Architect
5 1 (2.33%) Senior Cloud Architect
5 1 (2.33%) Service Desk Technician
5 1 (2.33%) VMware Architect
5 1 (2.33%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) LDAP
2 1 (2.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.33%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Clustering
1 4 (9.30%) Distributed Computing
1 4 (9.30%) Replication
2 3 (6.98%) Smartcard
2 3 (6.98%) YubiKey
3 2 (4.65%) Driving Licence
3 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.33%) Blackberry
4 1 (2.33%) CMDB
4 1 (2.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.33%) PKI
4 1 (2.33%) Reinsurance
4 1 (2.33%) RSA SecurID
4 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 43 (100.00%) Windows
2 21 (48.84%) Windows Server 2016
2 21 (48.84%) Windows Server 2019
3 7 (16.28%) Linux
4 4 (9.30%) Ubuntu
5 2 (4.65%) Unix
6 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (48.84%) SIEM
2 20 (46.51%) Build Automation
2 20 (46.51%) Deployment Automation
2 20 (46.51%) Operations Management
3 9 (20.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (20.93%) ITIL
3 9 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (18.60%) Problem Management
5 5 (11.63%) Capacity Management
5 5 (11.63%) Customer Service
5 5 (11.63%) DevOps
6 4 (9.30%) Change Management
6 4 (9.30%) CI/CD
6 4 (9.30%) Incident Management
6 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure Management
6 4 (9.30%) Proactive Maintenance
6 4 (9.30%) Proactive Management
6 4 (9.30%) Resource Management
6 4 (9.30%) Virtual Environments
7 2 (4.65%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 24 (55.81%) PowerShell
2 4 (9.30%) Shell Script
3 3 (6.98%) SQL
4 1 (2.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 26 (60.47%) DV Cleared
1 26 (60.47%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.30%) DBS Check
2 4 (9.30%) Degree
3 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.33%) ECDL
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) GDPR
1 1 (2.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (86.05%) Active Directory
2 26 (60.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (46.51%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 20 (46.51%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (18.60%) Hyper-V
5 4 (9.30%) Docker
5 4 (9.30%) VMware NSX
6 3 (6.98%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (4.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (58.14%) SCCM
1 25 (58.14%) WSUS
2 24 (55.81%) Ansible
3 4 (9.30%) Failover Clustering
3 4 (9.30%) Podman
4 3 (6.98%) Nessus
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.33%) SCOM
5 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (65.12%) VMware
2 25 (58.14%) NetApp
3 24 (55.81%) Microsoft
4 21 (48.84%) Splunk
5 6 (13.95%) Red Hat
6 4 (9.30%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (9.30%) Tenable
7 2 (4.65%) Cisco
7 2 (4.65%) Oracle
8 1 (2.33%) Apple
8 1 (2.33%) Google
8 1 (2.33%) HP
8 1 (2.33%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.33%) SolarWinds