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

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 91 86
Rank change year-on-year -35 -5 +30
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 531 878 1,344
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.17% 2.41% 2.79%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.43% 17.71% 17.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 652 1,009
10th Percentile £350 £210 £213
25th Percentile £425 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £595 £614
90th Percentile £688 £690 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £461 £500
% change year-on-year +13.82% -7.75% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 18 54
10th Percentile £15.89 £14.89 £20.39
25th Percentile £16.73 £16.06 £25.00
Median hourly rate £18.75 £46.75 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.89% +37.50% +44.68%
75th Percentile £46.56 £61.60 £49.49
90th Percentile £62.88 £66.88 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £17.75 £46.75 £32.00
% change year-on-year -62.03% +46.09% +36.17%

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 3,441 4,959 7,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.06% 13.61% 16.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,340 3,385 5,522
10th Percentile £200 £185 £193
25th Percentile £313 £300 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% -7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £639
90th Percentile £696 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £467 £470 £500
% change year-on-year -0.74% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 362 371
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.75 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.41 £14.83 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.59 £22.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% -41.33% +73.29%
75th Percentile £59.09 £61.20 £64.50
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £22.53 £22.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year +2.41% -42.86% +71.11%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -41 175 £525 +16.67% 240
North of England -1 106 £485 +2.11% 158
South East -19 98 £550 - 223
South West +38 76 £575 +15.00% 73
North West +4 66 £431 -46.09% 78
East of England +30 40 £550 +109.52% 84
Yorkshire +3 33 £538 +65.38% 53
Midlands -38 29 £425 +21.43% 95
West Midlands -27 21 £400 +14.29% 40
East Midlands -11 8 £500 +53.85% 46
North East -14 6 £500 - 32
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 96 (18.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 44 (8.29%) SharePoint
3 26 (4.90%) IIS
4 20 (3.77%) Confluence
5 16 (3.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 11 (2.07%) Skype for Business
7 9 (1.69%) Tomcat
8 6 (1.13%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (0.75%) Apache
9 4 (0.75%) JBoss
9 4 (0.75%) 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 38 (7.16%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (0.94%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.75%) InfoPath
4 2 (0.38%) ProjectWise
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.94%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.19%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 226 (42.56%) Azure
2 106 (19.96%) Entra ID
3 105 (19.77%) Microsoft 365
4 99 (18.64%) AWS
5 49 (9.23%) IaaS
6 27 (5.08%) OpenShift
7 26 (4.90%) GCP
8 24 (4.52%) PaaS
9 21 (3.95%) Cohesity
9 21 (3.95%) SaaS
10 17 (3.20%) GitHub
10 17 (3.20%) Nutanix
11 15 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (2.64%) Cloud Computing
13 11 (2.07%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (2.07%) Azure Stack
13 11 (2.07%) OneDrive
14 7 (1.32%) Serverless
15 6 (1.13%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (1.13%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 177 (33.33%) DNS
2 97 (18.27%) DHCP
3 89 (16.76%) Firewall
4 52 (9.79%) VPN
5 48 (9.04%) SAN
6 43 (8.10%) TCP/IP
7 32 (6.03%) LAN
8 25 (4.71%) Network Security
9 22 (4.14%) WAN
10 21 (3.95%) SMTP
11 20 (3.77%) NAS
12 18 (3.39%) HTTP
12 18 (3.39%) Skype
13 16 (3.01%) Intrusion Detection
14 14 (2.64%) MPLS
15 11 (2.07%) Wi-Fi
16 10 (1.88%) Fibre Channel
16 10 (1.88%) iSCSI
16 10 (1.88%) NetScaler
17 8 (1.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (13.37%) SQL Server
2 23 (4.33%) Elasticsearch
3 22 (4.14%) Oracle Database
4 18 (3.39%) Big Data
5 13 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (2.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 9 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (1.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (0.94%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.75%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.56%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.38%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.38%) GIS
12 2 (0.38%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.38%) IDOL
12 2 (0.38%) MSDE
12 2 (0.38%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.38%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 33 (6.21%) Git
2 30 (5.65%) Jenkins
3 29 (5.46%) JIRA
4 16 (3.01%) Bitbucket
5 15 (2.82%) GitLab
6 7 (1.32%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.75%) MSI
7 4 (0.75%) Selenium
8 3 (0.56%) JUnit
8 3 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.38%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.38%) HP UFT
9 2 (0.38%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
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%) Subversion
10 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 132 (24.86%) Social Skills
2 71 (13.37%) Finance
3 56 (10.55%) Public Sector
4 30 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (4.52%) Banking
6 16 (3.01%) Telecoms
7 14 (2.64%) Manufacturing
8 13 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (2.26%) Legal
9 12 (2.26%) Military
10 10 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.51%) Law
12 7 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.13%) Police
14 5 (0.94%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.94%) Spanish Language
15 3 (0.56%) Fire and Rescue
15 3 (0.56%) Front Office
15 3 (0.56%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 138 (25.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 50 (9.42%) Architect
3 42 (7.91%) Senior
4 39 (7.34%) Support Engineer
5 34 (6.40%) Analyst
5 34 (6.40%) Windows Engineer
6 25 (4.71%) Azure Engineer
7 23 (4.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 22 (4.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 21 (3.95%) Administrator
10 19 (3.58%) Infrastructure Architect
11 18 (3.39%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 18 (3.39%) Server Engineer
12 17 (3.20%) IT Engineer
13 16 (3.01%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 16 (3.01%) Lead
14 15 (2.82%) Cloud Engineer
15 14 (2.64%) DevOps Engineer
15 14 (2.64%) Linux Engineer
15 14 (2.64%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.58%) .NET
2 17 (3.20%) REST
3 11 (2.07%) LDAP
4 10 (1.88%) SOAP
5 7 (1.32%) ASP.NET
6 6 (1.13%) Middleware
6 6 (1.13%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (0.94%) .NET Framework
7 5 (0.94%) ARM Templates
8 4 (0.75%) Apache Axis
8 4 (0.75%) Azure Blueprints
8 4 (0.75%) HTML
9 3 (0.56%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.56%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (0.56%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (0.56%) CSS
9 3 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.56%) OpenAPI
9 3 (0.56%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 54 (10.17%) PKI
2 42 (7.91%) Data Centre
3 34 (6.40%) Clustering
4 30 (5.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 23 (4.33%) Linux Command Line
6 21 (3.95%) Onboarding
7 15 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (2.64%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.88%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.88%) Replication
10 7 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.13%) Enterprise Storage
11 6 (1.13%) Private Cloud
12 5 (0.94%) Driving Licence
12 5 (0.94%) Grid Computing
12 5 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (0.94%) Security Posture
12 5 (0.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 5 (0.94%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 530 (99.81%) Windows
2 160 (30.13%) Linux
3 89 (16.76%) Windows Server 2016
4 82 (15.44%) Windows Server 2019
5 78 (14.69%) Windows 10
6 48 (9.04%) Windows Server 2012
7 45 (8.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 20 (3.77%) Windows Server 2003
9 18 (3.39%) Ubuntu
10 14 (2.64%) VMS
11 11 (2.07%) CentOS
12 9 (1.69%) Android
12 9 (1.69%) Unix
13 8 (1.51%) Solaris
14 6 (1.13%) Windows 8
15 5 (0.94%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.94%) Windows Server 2008
15 5 (0.94%) Windows XP
16 3 (0.56%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (35.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 109 (20.53%) Problem-Solving
3 90 (16.95%) ITIL
4 85 (16.01%) Migration
5 77 (14.50%) DevOps
6 74 (13.94%) Agile
7 51 (9.60%) High Availability
8 50 (9.42%) Disaster Recovery
9 42 (7.91%) Service Management
10 36 (6.78%) Configuration Management
11 35 (6.59%) Project Delivery
11 35 (6.59%) SIEM
12 34 (6.40%) Patch Management
13 32 (6.03%) Deployment Automation
14 30 (5.65%) Change Management
15 27 (5.08%) ITSM
15 27 (5.08%) Server Management
16 25 (4.71%) Business Continuity
16 25 (4.71%) CI/CD
16 25 (4.71%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 238 (44.82%) PowerShell
2 98 (18.46%) SQL
3 79 (14.88%) Python
4 54 (10.17%) Bash
5 30 (5.65%) Java
6 27 (5.08%) C#
7 22 (4.14%) PL/SQL
8 21 (3.95%) Perl
9 14 (2.64%) Shell Script
10 11 (2.07%) VBScript
11 10 (1.88%) JavaScript
12 9 (1.69%) VB
13 5 (0.94%) Bicep
13 5 (0.94%) C++
13 5 (0.94%) Ruby
14 3 (0.56%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.19%) ActionScript
15 1 (0.19%) C
15 1 (0.19%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 229 (43.13%) Security Cleared
2 135 (25.42%) SC Cleared
3 98 (18.46%) DV Cleared
4 54 (10.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 53 (9.98%) Degree
6 32 (6.03%) Cisco Certification
7 26 (4.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 24 (4.52%) MCSE
9 22 (4.14%) Azure Certification
10 11 (2.07%) CCNP
10 11 (2.07%) CISSP
11 10 (1.88%) MCSA
11 10 (1.88%) OCA
11 10 (1.88%) Oracle Certification
12 9 (1.69%) RHCA
12 9 (1.69%) RHCE
13 8 (1.51%) AWS Certification
14 7 (1.32%) CISM
14 7 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
14 7 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.20%) SLA
2 11 (2.07%) GDPR
2 11 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.88%) QA
4 7 (1.32%) NCSC
5 5 (0.94%) Government Security Classifications
5 5 (0.94%) NIST
6 4 (0.75%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.56%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.19%) HL7
9 1 (0.19%) IEC 61131
9 1 (0.19%) JSP 440
System Software
1 321 (60.45%) Active Directory
2 173 (32.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 89 (16.76%) Hyper-V
4 54 (10.17%) VMware ESXi
5 46 (8.66%) Docker
5 46 (8.66%) vSphere
6 31 (5.84%) Virtual Machines
6 31 (5.84%) Virtual Servers
7 27 (5.08%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 17 (3.20%) BitLocker
8 17 (3.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 15 (2.82%) Microsoft App-V
10 14 (2.64%) VMware NSX
11 10 (1.88%) Terminal Services
12 9 (1.69%) XenApp
12 9 (1.69%) XenDesktop
13 8 (1.51%) NFS
14 5 (0.94%) VMware Workstation
15 4 (0.75%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 4 (0.75%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 91 (17.14%) Ansible
2 76 (14.31%) SCCM
3 69 (12.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 65 (12.24%) WSUS
5 61 (11.49%) Terraform
6 54 (10.17%) vCenter Server
7 47 (8.85%) Kubernetes
8 36 (6.78%) Puppet
9 17 (3.20%) SCOM
10 15 (2.82%) vMotion
11 14 (2.64%) Progress Chef
12 13 (2.45%) Microsoft Clustering
12 13 (2.45%) Nagios
13 10 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (1.69%) Kibana
15 8 (1.51%) VxRail
16 7 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 7 (1.32%) Failover Clustering
16 7 (1.32%) Grafana
16 7 (1.32%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 257 (48.40%) Microsoft
2 246 (46.33%) VMware
3 66 (12.43%) Cisco
4 52 (9.79%) Oracle
5 49 (9.23%) Red Hat
6 42 (7.91%) Citrix
7 38 (7.16%) Dell
8 35 (6.59%) NetApp
9 30 (5.65%) HP
10 28 (5.27%) Splunk
11 22 (4.14%) SolarWinds
12 21 (3.95%) Veeam
13 19 (3.58%) Google
13 19 (3.58%) Symantec
14 15 (2.82%) CyberArk
14 15 (2.82%) ServiceNow
15 14 (2.64%) Atlassian
15 14 (2.64%) IBM
16 12 (2.26%) Zscaler
17 10 (1.88%) EMC