Windows Server Contracts in England

Microsoft Windows Server
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 97 80
Rank change year-on-year -44 -17 +39
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 526 885 1,380
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.00% 2.37% 2.90%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.35% 17.01% 18.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 647 1,010
10th Percentile £340 £220 £213
25th Percentile £435 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £484 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -3.20% +11.73%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £624
90th Percentile £688 £675 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 19 55
10th Percentile £14.32 £15.18 £21.27
25th Percentile £15.33 £16.13 £25.36
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.08% +28.33% +31.87%
75th Percentile £32.77 £61.60 £47.92
90th Percentile £59.61 £70.00 £62.70
UK median hourly rate £17.75 £38.50 £29.30
% change year-on-year -53.90% +31.40% +28.79%

All Operating Systems
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,665 5,202 7,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.91% 13.93% 16.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,453 3,431 5,367
10th Percentile £200 £192 £193
25th Percentile £313 £313 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 393 368
10th Percentile £15.25 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.33 £16.00 £18.47
Median hourly rate £20.00 £24.86 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.53% -41.52% +88.89%
75th Percentile £49.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.70 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £22.53 £24.86 £42.50
% change year-on-year -9.35% -41.52% +88.89%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in England

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in England

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in England

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in England

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Server in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows Server in England

Windows Server
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
London -45 173 £525 +16.67% 508
South East -16 114 £550 - 330
North of England -18 92 £505 +6.32% 330
South West +31 68 £575 +6.98% 164
North West -9 56 £478 -40.31% 179
East of England +26 44 £550 +22.22% 166
Yorkshire -8 31 £525 +61.54% 128
Midlands -49 31 £450 +20.00% 154
West Midlands -12 23 £400 +14.29% 78
East Midlands -31 8 £500 +30.55% 76
North East -4 5 £500 +5.26% 26
Windows Server
UK

Windows Server
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:

Application Platforms
1 76 (14.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (7.60%) SharePoint
3 28 (5.32%) IIS
4 18 (3.42%) Confluence
5 14 (2.66%) Apache
5 14 (2.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 11 (2.09%) WebSphere
7 9 (1.71%) Skype for Business
8 5 (0.95%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.76%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (0.76%) SharePoint 2010
10 3 (0.57%) JBoss
11 2 (0.38%) Documentum
11 2 (0.38%) IBM Notes
12 1 (0.19%) DataSynapse
12 1 (0.19%) nginx
12 1 (0.19%) WinCC
Applications
1 28 (5.32%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (0.95%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.76%) InfoPath
4 2 (0.38%) ProjectWise
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.14%) Maximo
2 5 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 203 (38.59%) Azure
2 95 (18.06%) Microsoft 365
3 91 (17.30%) Entra ID
4 83 (15.78%) AWS
5 41 (7.79%) IaaS
6 26 (4.94%) GCP
6 26 (4.94%) PaaS
7 24 (4.56%) Cohesity
8 19 (3.61%) SaaS
9 18 (3.42%) GitHub
9 18 (3.42%) OpenShift
10 15 (2.85%) Nutanix
11 12 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (2.28%) Cloud Computing
12 11 (2.09%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (1.71%) Power Automate
13 9 (1.71%) Power Platform
14 8 (1.52%) OneDrive
14 8 (1.52%) Serverless
15 7 (1.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 160 (30.42%) DNS
2 88 (16.73%) DHCP
2 88 (16.73%) Firewall
3 57 (10.84%) SAN
4 48 (9.13%) VPN
5 43 (8.17%) TCP/IP
6 31 (5.89%) LAN
7 22 (4.18%) WAN
8 20 (3.80%) SMTP
9 19 (3.61%) NAS
10 18 (3.42%) Network Security
11 17 (3.23%) Skype
12 16 (3.04%) Fibre Channel
13 15 (2.85%) iSCSI
14 12 (2.28%) HTTP
15 10 (1.90%) Intrusion Detection
15 10 (1.90%) NetScaler
15 10 (1.90%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (1.52%) MPLS
17 7 (1.33%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (11.79%) SQL Server
2 24 (4.56%) Oracle Database
3 20 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
4 18 (3.42%) Big Data
5 10 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (1.33%) DB2
6 7 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (1.14%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.95%) Power BI
9 4 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.76%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.57%) Neo4j
10 3 (0.57%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.38%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.38%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.19%) InterSystems Cache
12 1 (0.19%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 39 (7.41%) Git
2 31 (5.89%) Jenkins
3 26 (4.94%) JIRA
4 18 (3.42%) Bitbucket
5 17 (3.23%) GitLab
6 11 (2.09%) MSI
7 7 (1.33%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.76%) Robot Framework
8 4 (0.76%) Selenium
9 3 (0.57%) JUnit
9 3 (0.57%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.38%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.19%) Fiddler
11 1 (0.19%) NUnit
11 1 (0.19%) Postman
11 1 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
General
1 124 (23.57%) Social Skills
2 65 (12.36%) Finance
3 50 (9.51%) Public Sector
4 29 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (5.13%) Banking
6 17 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (3.04%) Legal
7 16 (3.04%) Manufacturing
8 12 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.28%) Military
8 12 (2.28%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.71%) Law
10 7 (1.33%) Local Government
11 6 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.76%) Front Office
13 4 (0.76%) Police
13 4 (0.76%) Spanish Language
14 3 (0.57%) Fire and Rescue
14 3 (0.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 131 (24.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 46 (8.75%) Architect
3 41 (7.79%) Senior
4 39 (7.41%) Support Engineer
5 36 (6.84%) Analyst
6 29 (5.51%) Windows Engineer
7 28 (5.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 21 (3.99%) Infrastructure Architect
8 21 (3.99%) IT Engineer
9 20 (3.80%) Azure Engineer
10 18 (3.42%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (3.04%) Cloud Engineer
12 15 (2.85%) Consultant
12 15 (2.85%) Infrastructure Specialist
12 15 (2.85%) Lead
13 14 (2.66%) Developer
13 14 (2.66%) Linux Engineer
13 14 (2.66%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (2.66%) Wintel Engineer
14 13 (2.47%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.42%) REST
2 17 (3.23%) .NET
2 17 (3.23%) SOAP
3 9 (1.71%) Middleware
4 8 (1.52%) LDAP
4 8 (1.52%) Web Services
4 8 (1.52%) XML
5 6 (1.14%) .NET Framework
5 6 (1.14%) HTML
6 5 (0.95%) ARM Templates
6 5 (0.95%) ASP.NET
6 5 (0.95%) CSS
7 4 (0.76%) Apache Axis
7 4 (0.76%) Azure Blueprints
8 3 (0.57%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.57%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (0.57%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.57%) jQuery
8 3 (0.57%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (0.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 57 (10.84%) PKI
2 39 (7.41%) Data Centre
3 27 (5.13%) Clustering
4 22 (4.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 22 (4.18%) Linux Command Line
4 22 (4.18%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.09%) Legacy Applications
7 10 (1.90%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.71%) Replication
9 7 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.33%) Enterprise Storage
9 7 (1.33%) Private Cloud
10 5 (0.95%) Driving Licence
10 5 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (0.95%) Grid Computing
10 5 (0.95%) Public Cloud
10 5 (0.95%) Security Posture
10 5 (0.95%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 524 (99.62%) Windows
2 156 (29.66%) Linux
3 84 (15.97%) Windows Server 2019
4 81 (15.40%) Windows Server 2016
5 73 (13.88%) Windows 10
6 40 (7.60%) Windows Server 2012
7 36 (6.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 23 (4.37%) Ubuntu
9 22 (4.18%) Windows Server 2003
10 18 (3.42%) Unix
11 15 (2.85%) CentOS
12 11 (2.09%) VMS
13 7 (1.33%) Windows Server 2008
14 6 (1.14%) Solaris
15 5 (0.95%) Android
15 5 (0.95%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.95%) Debian
15 5 (0.95%) Windows 8
15 5 (0.95%) Windows XP
16 3 (0.57%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (32.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 103 (19.58%) Problem-Solving
3 86 (16.35%) ITIL
4 80 (15.21%) Agile
5 78 (14.83%) DevOps
6 74 (14.07%) Migration
7 46 (8.75%) Disaster Recovery
8 44 (8.37%) High Availability
9 41 (7.79%) Service Management
10 39 (7.41%) Deployment Automation
11 38 (7.22%) SIEM
12 33 (6.27%) CI/CD
13 31 (5.89%) Change Management
13 31 (5.89%) Configuration Management
14 29 (5.51%) ITSM
15 28 (5.32%) Cybersecurity
15 28 (5.32%) Project Delivery
16 27 (5.13%) Cloud Security
16 27 (5.13%) Infrastructure as Code
17 26 (4.94%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 233 (44.30%) PowerShell
2 103 (19.58%) SQL
3 80 (15.21%) Python
4 48 (9.13%) Bash
5 33 (6.27%) C#
6 23 (4.37%) Java
7 19 (3.61%) PL/SQL
8 17 (3.23%) JavaScript
9 15 (2.85%) Perl
10 12 (2.28%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.90%) VB
12 5 (0.95%) Bicep
12 5 (0.95%) C++
12 5 (0.95%) VBScript
13 4 (0.76%) PHP
13 4 (0.76%) Ruby
14 2 (0.38%) C
14 2 (0.38%) Formula Language
14 2 (0.38%) LotusScript
15 1 (0.19%) VB6
Qualifications
1 221 (42.02%) Security Cleared
2 129 (24.52%) SC Cleared
3 100 (19.01%) DV Cleared
4 50 (9.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 49 (9.32%) Degree
6 33 (6.27%) Cisco Certification
7 30 (5.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 25 (4.75%) MCSE
9 13 (2.47%) Azure Certification
10 12 (2.28%) CCNP
11 10 (1.90%) OCA
11 10 (1.90%) Oracle Certification
11 10 (1.90%) VCP5
11 10 (1.90%) VCP6
12 9 (1.71%) AWS Certification
12 9 (1.71%) CISSP
12 9 (1.71%) RHCA
12 9 (1.71%) RHCE
13 7 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
13 7 (1.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.85%) QA
2 14 (2.66%) GDPR
3 12 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.09%) SLA
5 8 (1.52%) NCSC
6 6 (1.14%) NIST
7 4 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.76%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.38%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.38%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.38%) IEC 61131
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.19%) HL7
9 1 (0.19%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.19%) RMADS
9 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 304 (57.79%) Active Directory
2 161 (30.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 76 (14.45%) Hyper-V
4 61 (11.60%) VMware ESXi
5 43 (8.17%) vSphere
6 37 (7.03%) Docker
7 33 (6.27%) Virtual Machines
8 31 (5.89%) Virtual Servers
9 27 (5.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 18 (3.42%) Virtual Desktop
11 17 (3.23%) NFS
12 14 (2.66%) BitLocker
13 13 (2.47%) Microsoft App-V
14 12 (2.28%) Terminal Services
14 12 (2.28%) VMware NSX
15 11 (2.09%) XenDesktop
16 8 (1.52%) XenApp
17 4 (0.76%) Citrix Hypervisor
17 4 (0.76%) Platform Symphony
17 4 (0.76%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 89 (16.92%) Ansible
2 78 (14.83%) SCCM
3 68 (12.93%) WSUS
4 60 (11.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 57 (10.84%) Terraform
6 47 (8.94%) vCenter Server
7 37 (7.03%) Kubernetes
8 28 (5.32%) Puppet
9 14 (2.66%) Progress Chef
10 13 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (2.28%) Nagios
11 12 (2.28%) SCOM
11 12 (2.28%) vMotion
12 8 (1.52%) Grafana
12 8 (1.52%) Kibana
12 8 (1.52%) Microsoft Clustering
13 7 (1.33%) FortiGate
13 7 (1.33%) Nessus
13 7 (1.33%) NetBackup
14 6 (1.14%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 256 (48.67%) Microsoft
2 232 (44.11%) VMware
3 63 (11.98%) Cisco
4 55 (10.46%) Citrix
5 46 (8.75%) Oracle
6 42 (7.98%) NetApp
7 37 (7.03%) Splunk
8 36 (6.84%) Dell
8 36 (6.84%) Red Hat
9 30 (5.70%) Veeam
10 29 (5.51%) HP
11 22 (4.18%) SolarWinds
12 21 (3.99%) IBM
13 17 (3.23%) Google
14 15 (2.85%) ServiceNow
14 15 (2.85%) Symantec
15 13 (2.47%) CyberArk
16 12 (2.28%) Atlassian
17 11 (2.09%) Wyse
17 11 (2.09%) Zscaler