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 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 130 86 88
Rank change year-on-year -44 +2 +25
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 529 907 1,412
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.17% 2.44% 2.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.50% 17.88% 17.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 654 1,053
10th Percentile £317 £210 £213
25th Percentile £419 £314 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £468 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.51% -6.50% +17.10%
75th Percentile £607 £594 £613
90th Percentile £690 £697 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £465 £500
% change year-on-year +12.90% -7.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 21 57
10th Percentile £15.89 £15.76 £20.78
25th Percentile £16.73 £16.25 £25.00
Median hourly rate £18.75 £38.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.30% +28.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £46.56 £61.60 £49.52
90th Percentile £62.88 £65.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £17.75 £38.50 £29.30
% change year-on-year -53.90% +31.40% +27.39%

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 3,414 5,072 8,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.02% 13.64% 16.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,320 3,461 5,863
10th Percentile £200 £181 £193
25th Percentile £313 £289 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 369 384
10th Percentile £15.26 £12.75 £13.97
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.17 £17.74
Median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%
75th Percentile £64.38 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 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
London -53 192 £525 +16.67% 207
North of England -7 104 £500 +5.26% 135
South East -19 98 £550 - 188
South West +43 76 £575 +15.00% 65
North West +8 66 £445 -44.38% 79
Yorkshire -11 33 £550 +69.23% 41
Midlands -28 27 £400 +14.29% 99
East of England +21 23 £450 +83.67% 55
West Midlands -21 19 £375 +3.45% 43
East Midlands -5 8 £500 +53.85% 50
North East -13 4 £600 +20.00% 19
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
1 100 (18.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 53 (10.02%) SharePoint
3 26 (4.91%) IIS
4 20 (3.78%) Confluence
5 16 (3.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 11 (2.08%) Skype for Business
6 11 (2.08%) Tomcat
7 7 (1.32%) JBoss
8 5 (0.95%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (0.76%) Apache
9 4 (0.76%) SharePoint 2010
10 2 (0.38%) CMS
10 2 (0.38%) SharePoint Server
10 2 (0.38%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.19%) DataSynapse
11 1 (0.19%) nginx
11 1 (0.19%) SAS
11 1 (0.19%) WinCC
Applications
1 42 (7.94%) 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 5 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.19%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 234 (44.23%) Azure
2 126 (23.82%) Microsoft 365
3 112 (21.17%) Entra ID
4 101 (19.09%) AWS
5 48 (9.07%) IaaS
6 31 (5.86%) OpenShift
7 27 (5.10%) GCP
8 24 (4.54%) SaaS
9 22 (4.16%) PaaS
10 19 (3.59%) Nutanix
11 17 (3.21%) GitHub
12 16 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (3.02%) OneDrive
13 13 (2.46%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
14 11 (2.08%) Azure Stack
15 7 (1.32%) Serverless
16 6 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
16 6 (1.13%) AWS CloudFormation
16 6 (1.13%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 161 (30.43%) DNS
2 100 (18.90%) DHCP
3 92 (17.39%) Firewall
4 53 (10.02%) VPN
5 45 (8.51%) TCP/IP
6 32 (6.05%) LAN
7 31 (5.86%) SAN
8 29 (5.48%) Network Security
9 22 (4.16%) NAS
9 22 (4.16%) WAN
10 21 (3.97%) SMTP
11 19 (3.59%) HTTP
12 18 (3.40%) Skype
13 16 (3.02%) Intrusion Detection
14 14 (2.65%) MPLS
14 14 (2.65%) Wi-Fi
15 10 (1.89%) NetScaler
15 10 (1.89%) SSL
16 9 (1.70%) Fibre Channel
16 9 (1.70%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (13.99%) SQL Server
2 23 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
3 22 (4.16%) Oracle Database
4 18 (3.40%) Big Data
5 13 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (2.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (1.13%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (0.95%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (0.57%) DB2
9 3 (0.57%) Neo4j
9 3 (0.57%) Sybase ASE
10 2 (0.38%) GIS
10 2 (0.38%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.38%) IDOL
10 2 (0.38%) MSDE
10 2 (0.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (6.05%) Git
2 30 (5.67%) Jenkins
3 29 (5.48%) JIRA
4 16 (3.02%) Bitbucket
5 14 (2.65%) GitLab
6 7 (1.32%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.76%) Selenium
8 3 (0.57%) JUnit
8 3 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.38%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.38%) HP UFT
9 2 (0.38%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.38%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.19%) NUnit
10 1 (0.19%) Serena SBM
10 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.19%) Subversion
General
1 136 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 78 (14.74%) Finance
3 57 (10.78%) Public Sector
4 30 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (4.91%) Banking
6 18 (3.40%) Telecoms
7 15 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.84%) Legal
7 15 (2.84%) Manufacturing
8 10 (1.89%) Military
9 9 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.70%) Law
10 6 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (0.95%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.95%) Police
11 5 (0.95%) Spanish Language
12 4 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.57%) Electronics
13 3 (0.57%) International Banking
13 3 (0.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 144 (27.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 50 (9.45%) Architect
3 49 (9.26%) Senior
4 43 (8.13%) Support Engineer
5 34 (6.43%) Analyst
6 33 (6.24%) Windows Engineer
7 27 (5.10%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 25 (4.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 24 (4.54%) Administrator
10 22 (4.16%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 21 (3.97%) Azure Engineer
12 19 (3.59%) Infrastructure Architect
13 17 (3.21%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 17 (3.21%) IT Engineer
13 17 (3.21%) Server Engineer
14 16 (3.02%) Linux Engineer
15 15 (2.84%) Lead
15 15 (2.84%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
16 14 (2.65%) Applications Support
16 14 (2.65%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.40%) .NET
1 18 (3.40%) REST
2 11 (2.08%) LDAP
3 10 (1.89%) SOAP
4 7 (1.32%) ASP.NET
5 6 (1.13%) Middleware
5 6 (1.13%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (0.95%) ARM Templates
6 5 (0.95%) Web Services
7 4 (0.76%) .NET Framework
7 4 (0.76%) Apache Axis
7 4 (0.76%) Azure Blueprints
7 4 (0.76%) HTML
8 3 (0.57%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.57%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (0.57%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (0.57%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.57%) OpenAPI
8 3 (0.57%) Spring Boot
8 3 (0.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 55 (10.40%) PKI
2 44 (8.32%) Data Centre
3 35 (6.62%) Clustering
4 33 (6.24%) Hybrid Cloud
5 24 (4.54%) Onboarding
6 23 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
7 16 (3.02%) Management Information System
8 15 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (2.65%) Public Cloud
10 11 (2.08%) Replication
11 9 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.51%) Security Posture
13 7 (1.32%) Video Conferencing
14 6 (1.13%) Client/Server
14 6 (1.13%) Enterprise Storage
14 6 (1.13%) Private Cloud
15 5 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 5 (0.95%) Grid Computing
15 5 (0.95%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 528 (99.81%) Windows
2 170 (32.14%) Linux
3 75 (14.18%) Windows 10
4 74 (13.99%) Windows Server 2016
5 63 (11.91%) Windows Server 2019
6 47 (8.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 47 (8.88%) Windows Server 2012
7 21 (3.97%) Ubuntu
8 20 (3.78%) Windows Server 2003
9 15 (2.84%) CentOS
9 15 (2.84%) VMS
10 9 (1.70%) Android
10 9 (1.70%) Unix
11 7 (1.32%) Solaris
12 6 (1.13%) Windows 8
12 6 (1.13%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.95%) Apple iOS
13 5 (0.95%) Windows XP
14 3 (0.57%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.57%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (37.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 110 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
3 90 (17.01%) ITIL
4 88 (16.64%) Migration
5 80 (15.12%) DevOps
6 79 (14.93%) Agile
7 50 (9.45%) Disaster Recovery
8 48 (9.07%) High Availability
9 42 (7.94%) Service Management
10 37 (6.99%) Configuration Management
11 35 (6.62%) Project Delivery
12 32 (6.05%) Patch Management
13 29 (5.48%) ITSM
14 28 (5.29%) Server Management
15 27 (5.10%) Cybersecurity
15 27 (5.10%) Roadmaps
16 26 (4.91%) Change Management
16 26 (4.91%) Microservices
17 25 (4.73%) Business Continuity
18 24 (4.54%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 233 (44.05%) PowerShell
2 100 (18.90%) SQL
3 83 (15.69%) Python
4 58 (10.96%) Bash
5 29 (5.48%) Java
6 24 (4.54%) C#
7 22 (4.16%) PL/SQL
8 21 (3.97%) Perl
9 15 (2.84%) Shell Script
10 12 (2.27%) VBScript
11 10 (1.89%) JavaScript
12 5 (0.95%) Bicep
12 5 (0.95%) C++
12 5 (0.95%) Ruby
12 5 (0.95%) VB
13 3 (0.57%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.19%) ActionScript
14 1 (0.19%) C
14 1 (0.19%) FoxPro (VFP)
14 1 (0.19%) Korn
Qualifications
1 214 (40.45%) Security Cleared
2 133 (25.14%) SC Cleared
3 81 (15.31%) DV Cleared
4 52 (9.83%) Microsoft Certification
5 50 (9.45%) Degree
6 32 (6.05%) Cisco Certification
7 25 (4.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 24 (4.54%) MCSE
9 21 (3.97%) Azure Certification
10 12 (2.27%) CISSP
11 11 (2.08%) CCNP
12 10 (1.89%) MCSA
12 10 (1.89%) OCA
12 10 (1.89%) Oracle Certification
13 9 (1.70%) RHCA
13 9 (1.70%) RHCE
14 8 (1.51%) CISM
14 8 (1.51%) CompTIA Security+
15 7 (1.32%) AWS Certification
15 7 (1.32%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.65%) SLA
2 11 (2.08%) GDPR
2 11 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (2.08%) QA
3 7 (1.32%) NCSC
4 5 (0.95%) Government Security Classifications
4 5 (0.95%) NIST
5 4 (0.76%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.57%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.57%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.19%) HL7
8 1 (0.19%) IEC 61131
8 1 (0.19%) JSP 440
System Software
1 311 (58.79%) Active Directory
2 164 (31.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 88 (16.64%) Hyper-V
4 51 (9.64%) VMware ESXi
5 49 (9.26%) vSphere
6 46 (8.70%) Docker
7 29 (5.48%) Virtual Machines
8 17 (3.21%) BitLocker
9 16 (3.02%) Microsoft App-V
10 15 (2.84%) Virtual Desktop
11 14 (2.65%) Virtual Servers
11 14 (2.65%) VMware NSX
12 10 (1.89%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 10 (1.89%) Terminal Services
13 9 (1.70%) XenApp
13 9 (1.70%) XenDesktop
14 7 (1.32%) NFS
15 4 (0.76%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 4 (0.76%) Platform Symphony
15 4 (0.76%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 77 (14.56%) Ansible
2 68 (12.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 63 (11.91%) Terraform
4 58 (10.96%) SCCM
5 56 (10.59%) vCenter Server
6 51 (9.64%) Kubernetes
7 48 (9.07%) WSUS
8 36 (6.81%) Puppet
9 16 (3.02%) SCOM
10 14 (2.65%) Progress Chef
10 14 (2.65%) vMotion
11 13 (2.46%) Nagios
12 12 (2.27%) Microsoft Clustering
13 11 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
14 10 (1.89%) Nessus
15 9 (1.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 9 (1.70%) Kibana
16 8 (1.51%) VxRail
17 7 (1.32%) Failover Clustering
17 7 (1.32%) Grafana
Vendors
1 245 (46.31%) Microsoft
2 237 (44.80%) VMware
3 70 (13.23%) Cisco
4 53 (10.02%) Red Hat
5 52 (9.83%) Oracle
6 44 (8.32%) Citrix
7 36 (6.81%) Dell
8 29 (5.48%) HP
9 21 (3.97%) Google
9 21 (3.97%) SolarWinds
9 21 (3.97%) Symantec
10 19 (3.59%) Veeam
11 17 (3.21%) NetApp
12 14 (2.65%) Atlassian
12 14 (2.65%) CyberArk
12 14 (2.65%) ServiceNow
13 13 (2.46%) IBM
14 12 (2.27%) Zscaler
15 10 (1.89%) EMC
15 10 (1.89%) Splunk