Windows Server Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Windows Server
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Windows Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
21 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 122 73
Rank change year-on-year -48 -49 +33
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 502 640 1,171
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.64% 2.06% 2.98%
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.81% 14.52% 19.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 423 766
10th Percentile £238 £248 £206
25th Percentile £388 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £638 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 8 38
10th Percentile £12.97 £42.17 £21.03
25th Percentile £15.50 £48.75 £31.25
Median hourly rate £19.25 £61.19 £49.07
Median % change year-on-year -68.54% +24.71% +96.26%
75th Percentile £30.69 £103.00 £68.63
90th Percentile £74.58 £112.00 £76.97
UK median hourly rate £19.25 £51.50 £49.07
% change year-on-year -62.62% +4.96% +96.26%

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 4,250 4,407 6,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.92% 14.19% 15.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,788 2,712 4,201
10th Percentile £185 £203 £185
25th Percentile £263 £325 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% -5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £613
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £480
% change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 181 325
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.35
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.10 £18.93
Median hourly rate £23.25 £58.49 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -60.25% +53.30% +52.62%
75th Percentile £55.58 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -52.00% +42.86% +40.00%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Windows Server job vacancy trend in England

Windows Server
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Windows Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in England over the 6 months to 21 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in England

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Windows Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Server in England over the 6 months to 21 November 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 21 November 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 -57 164 £500 +11.11% 189
South East -29 98 £505 -4.27% 201
South West -8 72 £550 +15.79% 75
North of England -26 66 £423 +5.63% 96
Midlands -50 51 £525 +40.00% 75
North West +10 46 £453 +3.54% 56
East of England +6 46 £500 +0.05% 57
West Midlands -22 41 £525 +64.06% 42
Yorkshire -42 18 £375 -14.77% 38
East Midlands -33 10 £415 +3.75% 32
North East -10 5 £550 +76.00% 2
Windows Server
UK

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 62 (12.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 43 (8.57%) SharePoint
3 28 (5.58%) IIS
4 23 (4.58%) Apache
5 20 (3.98%) WebSphere
6 10 (1.99%) Confluence
7 9 (1.79%) JBoss
8 8 (1.59%) iPlanet
8 8 (1.59%) WebSphere Application Server
9 5 (1.00%) Skype for Business
10 4 (0.80%) SAS
11 3 (0.60%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.40%) Documentum
12 2 (0.40%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.40%) WordPress
13 1 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2010
13 1 (0.20%) MQSeries
13 1 (0.20%) nginx
13 1 (0.20%) SharePoint 2010
13 1 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 29 (5.78%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.40%) Windchill
4 1 (0.20%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.20%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 7 (1.39%) Maximo
2 2 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.40%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 173 (34.46%) Azure
2 99 (19.72%) Microsoft 365
3 68 (13.55%) Entra ID
4 49 (9.76%) AWS
5 20 (3.98%) IaaS
5 20 (3.98%) SaaS
6 11 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (2.19%) PaaS
7 9 (1.79%) Power Platform
8 8 (1.59%) GCP
8 8 (1.59%) GitHub
8 8 (1.59%) OpenShift
9 6 (1.20%) Amazon S3
9 6 (1.20%) Nutanix
9 6 (1.20%) Power Automate
9 6 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (1.00%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (1.00%) Serverless
11 4 (0.80%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 126 (25.10%) DNS
2 99 (19.72%) Firewall
3 86 (17.13%) DHCP
4 51 (10.16%) TCP/IP
5 39 (7.77%) VPN
6 32 (6.37%) LAN
6 32 (6.37%) WAN
7 24 (4.78%) SAN
8 22 (4.38%) VLAN
9 19 (3.78%) Cisco IOS
10 18 (3.59%) iSCSI
10 18 (3.59%) Network Security
11 17 (3.39%) Cisco Firepower
11 17 (3.39%) Cisco ISE
11 17 (3.39%) Junos
12 15 (2.99%) Wireless
13 14 (2.79%) Fibre Channel
14 12 (2.39%) Wi-Fi
15 11 (2.19%) Kerberos
16 10 (1.99%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (11.35%) SQL Server
2 24 (4.78%) Oracle Database
3 10 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (1.39%) DB2
4 7 (1.39%) Power BI
5 3 (0.60%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.40%) Apache Hive
6 2 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.40%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.40%) Impala
6 2 (0.40%) MySQL
6 2 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.40%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.20%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Discoverer
7 1 (0.20%) Redis
7 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (5.78%) Git
2 25 (4.98%) Jenkins
3 20 (3.98%) GitLab
4 12 (2.39%) Sonatype Nexus
5 11 (2.19%) JIRA
6 9 (1.79%) Bitbucket Server
6 9 (1.79%) CA Release Automation
7 7 (1.39%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.39%) MSI
8 5 (1.00%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.80%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.60%) Fiddler
10 3 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.60%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.40%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.40%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.40%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.20%) GoCD
12 1 (0.20%) Postman
General
1 123 (24.50%) Social Skills
2 52 (10.36%) Finance
3 48 (9.56%) Public Sector
4 46 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (6.57%) Documentation Skills
6 20 (3.98%) Banking
7 19 (3.78%) Legal
8 13 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.99%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.59%) Law
11 6 (1.20%) Local Government
11 6 (1.20%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.00%) Front Office
12 5 (1.00%) Marketing
12 5 (1.00%) Military
12 5 (1.00%) Spanish Language
13 3 (0.60%) Electronics
13 3 (0.60%) Japanese Language
13 3 (0.60%) Retail
14 2 (0.40%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 78 (15.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 53 (10.56%) Support Engineer
3 49 (9.76%) Architect
4 45 (8.96%) Analyst
5 35 (6.97%) Senior
6 32 (6.37%) Platform Engineer
7 28 (5.58%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 27 (5.38%) Network Engineer
9 24 (4.78%) 2nd Line Support
9 24 (4.78%) Support Analyst
10 23 (4.58%) IT Support
11 22 (4.38%) Cloud Engineer
12 21 (4.18%) 3rd Line Support
12 21 (4.18%) Infrastructure Architect
12 21 (4.18%) IT Engineer
12 21 (4.18%) Technical Analyst
12 21 (4.18%) Windows Engineer
13 20 (3.98%) Developer
14 19 (3.78%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
14 19 (3.78%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.98%) OAuth
2 23 (4.58%) SAML
3 22 (4.38%) OpenID
4 15 (2.99%) Middleware
5 14 (2.79%) .NET
5 14 (2.79%) LDAP
6 13 (2.59%) OAuth2
7 12 (2.39%) SOAP
8 11 (2.19%) Web Services
9 10 (1.99%) REST
10 9 (1.79%) XML
11 6 (1.20%) XMPP
12 5 (1.00%) .NET Framework
12 5 (1.00%) ASP.NET Web API
12 5 (1.00%) React
12 5 (1.00%) YAML
13 4 (0.80%) Elastic Stack
13 4 (0.80%) RESTful
13 4 (0.80%) WCF
14 3 (0.60%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 40 (7.97%) PKI
2 39 (7.77%) Data Centre
3 20 (3.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 20 (3.98%) NHS
4 19 (3.78%) Replication
5 17 (3.39%) Private Cloud
6 13 (2.59%) Product Ownership
7 12 (2.39%) Driving Licence
8 11 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (2.19%) Management Information System
8 11 (2.19%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.79%) CMDB
10 8 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.39%) Cloud Native
11 7 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.39%) iPhone
11 7 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.20%) Client/Server
13 5 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 498 (99.20%) Windows
2 134 (26.69%) Linux
3 43 (8.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 42 (8.37%) Windows 10
5 39 (7.77%) Windows Server 2019
6 29 (5.78%) Windows Server 2012
7 23 (4.58%) Windows Server 2016
8 19 (3.78%) Unix
9 18 (3.59%) CentOS
10 16 (3.19%) Ubuntu
11 8 (1.59%) Windows Server 2003
11 8 (1.59%) Windows Server 2008
12 7 (1.39%) Android
12 7 (1.39%) VMS
13 6 (1.20%) Mac OS
14 5 (1.00%) Debian
15 4 (0.80%) Apple iOS
16 3 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
16 3 (0.60%) Windows 7
17 2 (0.40%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (21.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 86 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
3 85 (16.93%) ITIL
4 74 (14.74%) Agile
5 68 (13.55%) Service Management
6 66 (13.15%) Migration
7 61 (12.15%) DevOps
8 55 (10.96%) CI/CD
9 49 (9.76%) ITSM
10 48 (9.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 42 (8.37%) Identity Access Management
12 34 (6.77%) Change Management
12 34 (6.77%) Disaster Recovery
13 33 (6.57%) Cybersecurity
13 33 (6.57%) High Availability
14 32 (6.37%) Infrastructure as Code
14 32 (6.37%) Project Delivery
15 30 (5.98%) Change Control
16 29 (5.78%) Platform Engineering
17 27 (5.38%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 173 (34.46%) PowerShell
2 74 (14.74%) SQL
3 66 (13.15%) Python
4 31 (6.18%) Bash
5 19 (3.78%) C#
6 13 (2.59%) JavaScript
7 11 (2.19%) Shell Script
8 10 (1.99%) Perl
9 9 (1.79%) Groovy
10 8 (1.59%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.20%) Bicep
11 6 (1.20%) Java
12 4 (0.80%) PHP
12 4 (0.80%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.60%) VB
13 3 (0.60%) VBScript
14 2 (0.40%) Formula Language
14 2 (0.40%) LotusScript
14 2 (0.40%) VBA
15 1 (0.20%) JCL
Qualifications
1 185 (36.85%) Security Cleared
2 112 (22.31%) SC Cleared
3 78 (15.54%) DV Cleared
4 69 (13.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 49 (9.76%) Degree
6 32 (6.37%) MCSE
7 23 (4.58%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (4.18%) CCNA
9 20 (3.98%) CCNP
10 18 (3.59%) AWS Certification
11 16 (3.19%) Azure Certification
12 15 (2.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 12 (2.39%) ITIL Certification
14 10 (1.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 9 (1.79%) CCDP
16 8 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
17 7 (1.39%) VCP5
17 7 (1.39%) VCP6
18 6 (1.20%) Master's Degree
18 6 (1.20%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.59%) QA
2 12 (2.39%) SLA
3 10 (1.99%) GDPR
4 9 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.59%) NIST
6 6 (1.20%) NCSC
7 3 (0.60%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.40%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.20%) IEC 61131
9 1 (0.20%) RMADS
System Software
1 297 (59.16%) Active Directory
2 128 (25.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 48 (9.56%) Hyper-V
4 35 (6.97%) vSphere
5 33 (6.57%) VMware ESXi
6 26 (5.18%) Docker
6 26 (5.18%) Virtual Machines
7 25 (4.98%) VMware NSX
8 17 (3.39%) NFS
9 13 (2.59%) Terminal Services
10 12 (2.39%) Virtual Servers
11 10 (1.99%) Virtual Desktop
12 6 (1.20%) Tivoli Directory Server
13 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.80%) Firmware
15 3 (0.60%) XenDesktop
16 2 (0.40%) HDFS
17 1 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
17 1 (0.20%) Job Entry Subsystem
17 1 (0.20%) KVM
Systems Management
1 64 (12.75%) SCCM
2 56 (11.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 44 (8.76%) Ansible
4 43 (8.57%) Terraform
5 32 (6.37%) vCenter Server
6 29 (5.78%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (5.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 22 (4.38%) SCOM
9 20 (3.98%) WSUS
10 17 (3.39%) Kubernetes
11 10 (1.99%) Progress Chef
12 9 (1.79%) CA Single Sign-On
13 8 (1.59%) CA Wily
14 7 (1.39%) SCOrch
14 7 (1.39%) vRealize
15 6 (1.20%) CASB
15 6 (1.20%) Tivoli
16 5 (1.00%) Grafana
16 5 (1.00%) Puppet
17 4 (0.80%) Packer
Vendors
1 256 (51.00%) Microsoft
2 183 (36.45%) VMware
3 61 (12.15%) Cisco
4 51 (10.16%) Citrix
5 44 (8.76%) Oracle
6 39 (7.77%) Red Hat
7 35 (6.97%) Veeam
8 32 (6.37%) Splunk
9 30 (5.98%) SolarWinds
10 23 (4.58%) Dell
11 22 (4.38%) Juniper
12 19 (3.78%) IBM
13 16 (3.19%) NetApp
14 11 (2.19%) HP
15 10 (1.99%) Broadcom
16 9 (1.79%) Atlassian
16 9 (1.79%) Qualys
16 9 (1.79%) ServiceNow
17 8 (1.59%) AppDynamics
17 8 (1.59%) F5
650 Windows Server jobs in England