Windows Server Engineer Contracts in England

Windows Server Engineer
UK > England

The median Windows Server Engineer daily rate in England is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 475 529 620
Rank change year-on-year +54 +91 +108
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Server Engineer 10 13 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.041% 0.035% 0.065%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.038% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 22
10th Percentile £337 £320 £328
25th Percentile £372 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £451 £488 £575
90th Percentile £575 £498 £700
UK median daily rate £400 £428 £470
% change year-on-year -6.54% -8.94% +10.59%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Windows Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Windows Server Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server Engineer in England

Windows Server Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server Engineer in England

Windows Server Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server Engineer in England

Windows Server Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server Engineer in England

Windows Server Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server Engineer within the 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
South East +47 4 £400 -20.00% 2
South West +48 3 £550 +57.14%
North of England +17 2 £383 -15.56%
London +36 1 £375 -6.25% 4
North West +17 1 £445 -6.32%
Yorkshire +8 1 £320 -32.63%
Windows Server Engineer
UK

Windows Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Windows Server Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Windows Server Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (40.00%) Server Migrations
3 4 (40.00%) Migration
3 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (30.00%) Nutanix
5 2 (20.00%) Server Building
5 2 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (20.00%) VMware
6 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
6 1 (10.00%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (10.00%) SCCM
6 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
6 1 (10.00%) HP
6 1 (10.00%) Dell
6 1 (10.00%) Remedy
6 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
6 1 (10.00%) Change Management
6 1 (10.00%) DHCP
6 1 (10.00%) VPN
6 1 (10.00%) DNS
6 1 (10.00%) SSL

Windows Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Nutanix
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DHCP
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) SSL
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Migration
1 4 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (40.00%) Server Migrations
2 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (20.00%) Server Building
3 1 (10.00%) Build Automation
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
3 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (10.00%) ITSM
3 1 (10.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (10.00%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (10.00%) Server Virtualisation
3 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (10.00%) Software Deployment
3 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Dell DRAC
1 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Dell
2 1 (10.00%) HP
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Remedy