Windows Server Contracts in England

Microsoft Windows Server
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Windows Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 86 118
Rank change year-on-year -2 +32 -7
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 907 1,402 1,734
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.46% 2.80% 2.44%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.00% 17.04% 15.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 658 1,048 1,293
10th Percentile £210 £213 £185
25th Percentile £313 £358 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £435
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +14.94% +8.75%
75th Percentile £594 £613 £575
90th Percentile £693 £700 £655
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -10.00% +14.29% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 56 58
10th Percentile £15.18 £20.65 £16.24
25th Percentile £16.13 £25.00 £18.88
Median hourly rate £38.50 £32.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.31% +42.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £61.60 £49.52 £45.87
90th Percentile £66.25 £60.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £29.65 £23.00
% change year-on-year +29.85% +28.91% -8.00%

All Operating Systems
England

Windows Server is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,039 8,230 11,208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.67% 16.46% 15.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,443 5,843 7,667
10th Percentile £183 £195 £173
25th Percentile £294 £326 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.27% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £470 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -6.93% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 368 391 560
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.96 £13.38
25th Percentile £15.23 £17.72 £15.78
Median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.33% +70.45% +22.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.08 £39.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -43.40% +73.33% +25.80%

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 May 2024.

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 May 2024.

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 May 2024. 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 +10 337 £450 -10.00% 132
South East +10 217 £550 +5.77% 146
North of England +10 143 £450 +4.65% 120
Midlands 0 90 £350 -15.15% 108
North West -15 74 £800 +64.10% 59
South West -27 72 £500 -9.09% 70
West Midlands +6 58 £350 -26.32% 65
Yorkshire +16 52 £325 -14.75% 44
East of England -36 32 £250 -41.18% 88
East Midlands -3 29 £338 - 43
North East +19 17 £500 +93.24% 20
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
1 175 (19.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 71 (7.83%) SharePoint
3 30 (3.31%) IIS
4 28 (3.09%) Confluence
5 25 (2.76%) Exchange Server 2013
6 24 (2.65%) Exchange Server 2010
7 11 (1.21%) Skype for Business
8 10 (1.10%) Exchange Server 2003
8 10 (1.10%) Exchange Server 2007
9 9 (0.99%) Apache
9 9 (0.99%) nginx
9 9 (0.99%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.66%) JBoss
11 3 (0.33%) WordPress
12 2 (0.22%) IBM Domino
12 2 (0.22%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 52 (5.73%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.22%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 7 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.66%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.66%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.22%) Remedy AR System
4 1 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.11%) Eikon
4 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.11%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 1 (0.11%) RMDS
4 1 (0.11%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.11%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 297 (32.75%) Azure
2 282 (31.09%) Microsoft 365
3 110 (12.13%) AWS
4 99 (10.92%) Entra ID
5 45 (4.96%) IaaS
6 36 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (2.98%) OneDrive
8 26 (2.87%) Azure Monitor
9 22 (2.43%) Azure Storage
9 22 (2.43%) GCP
10 21 (2.32%) PaaS
11 18 (1.98%) Cloud Computing
12 16 (1.76%) SaaS
13 15 (1.65%) OCI
14 14 (1.54%) Nutanix
15 10 (1.10%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (1.10%) GitHub
15 10 (1.10%) Rubrik
16 9 (0.99%) Power Platform
17 8 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 239 (26.35%) DNS
2 230 (25.36%) Firewall
3 154 (16.98%) DHCP
4 111 (12.24%) VPN
5 88 (9.70%) SAN
6 70 (7.72%) LAN
7 69 (7.61%) WAN
8 40 (4.41%) TCP/IP
9 34 (3.75%) NAS
10 23 (2.54%) VLAN
11 21 (2.32%) Wireless
12 20 (2.21%) Skype
13 18 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
14 15 (1.65%) MPLS
15 12 (1.32%) Internet
15 12 (1.32%) NetScaler
15 12 (1.32%) Network Security
16 11 (1.21%) VoIP
17 10 (1.10%) FTP
17 10 (1.10%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (12.90%) SQL Server
2 17 (1.87%) MySQL
3 15 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
3 15 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (1.21%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.10%) RDBMS
6 9 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (0.88%) Power BI
8 4 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.44%) Big Data
8 4 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.44%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.33%) Tableau
10 2 (0.22%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.22%) Looker
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.11%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.11%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 49 (5.40%) JIRA
2 31 (3.42%) Jenkins
3 24 (2.65%) Git
4 20 (2.21%) Robot Framework
5 15 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
6 13 (1.43%) Subversion
7 11 (1.21%) Artifactory
7 11 (1.21%) GitLab
7 11 (1.21%) TeamCity
8 8 (0.88%) Selenium
9 7 (0.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (0.44%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.33%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.22%) JMeter
12 2 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.22%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.11%) AppScan
13 1 (0.11%) MSI
13 1 (0.11%) Oracle APEX
13 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 239 (26.35%) Social Skills
2 92 (10.14%) Finance
3 84 (9.26%) Public Sector
4 76 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
6 20 (2.21%) Military
7 18 (1.98%) Legal
7 18 (1.98%) Telecoms
8 15 (1.65%) Banking
9 14 (1.54%) Manufacturing
10 12 (1.32%) Mandarin Language
11 9 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (0.88%) Marketing
13 7 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.66%) Electronics
14 6 (0.66%) Front Office
15 5 (0.55%) French Language
15 5 (0.55%) Law
16 4 (0.44%) Aviation
16 4 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 171 (18.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 87 (9.59%) Architect
3 85 (9.37%) Support Engineer
4 65 (7.17%) Senior
5 62 (6.84%) Windows Engineer
6 58 (6.39%) Administrator
7 57 (6.28%) Analyst
8 47 (5.18%) Wintel Engineer
9 46 (5.07%) IT Support
9 46 (5.07%) Technical Architect
10 42 (4.63%) Lead
11 38 (4.19%) Integration Engineer
11 38 (4.19%) IT Engineer
12 34 (3.75%) Lead Architect
12 34 (3.75%) Technical Leader
13 33 (3.64%) Systems Administrator
14 32 (3.53%) Azure Engineer
15 29 (3.20%) Server Engineer
16 26 (2.87%) Support Specialist
17 25 (2.76%) Active Directory Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (5.29%) Node.js
2 32 (3.53%) .NET
3 20 (2.21%) ARM Templates
4 19 (2.09%) LDAP
5 17 (1.87%) Middleware
6 7 (0.77%) ASP.NET
6 7 (0.77%) XML
7 6 (0.66%) CSS
7 6 (0.66%) IBM Integration Bus
7 6 (0.66%) Itk
7 6 (0.66%) Web Services
7 6 (0.66%) YAML
8 5 (0.55%) HTML
8 5 (0.55%) JSON
8 5 (0.55%) REST
8 5 (0.55%) XSLT
9 4 (0.44%) Apache NiFi
9 4 (0.44%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (0.44%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (0.44%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 95 (10.47%) PKI
2 48 (5.29%) Data Centre
3 46 (5.07%) Public Cloud
4 41 (4.52%) Clustering
4 41 (4.52%) Replication
5 28 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (2.65%) Client/Server
7 23 (2.54%) NHS
8 20 (2.21%) Video Conferencing
9 17 (1.87%) Management Information System
10 15 (1.65%) Product Ownership
11 14 (1.54%) Driving Licence
12 13 (1.43%) Onboarding
13 11 (1.21%) Fat Client
13 11 (1.21%) Thin Client
14 10 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
15 9 (0.99%) Mobile App
16 8 (0.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 8 (0.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
17 7 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 904 (99.67%) Windows
2 191 (21.06%) Linux
3 183 (20.18%) Windows Server 2012
4 166 (18.30%) Windows 10
5 162 (17.86%) Windows Server 2019
6 146 (16.10%) Windows Server 2016
7 62 (6.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 55 (6.06%) Apple iOS
9 52 (5.73%) Android
10 43 (4.74%) Windows Server 2008
11 28 (3.09%) Unix
12 25 (2.76%) Windows 7
13 24 (2.65%) VMS
14 21 (2.32%) Windows NT
15 18 (1.98%) Ubuntu
16 17 (1.87%) Mac OS
17 15 (1.65%) Windows XP
18 14 (1.54%) Windows Server 2003
19 11 (1.21%) CentOS
20 9 (0.99%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (24.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 155 (17.09%) ITIL
3 141 (15.55%) DevOps
4 139 (15.33%) Agile
5 110 (12.13%) Problem-Solving
6 107 (11.80%) Migration
7 90 (9.92%) Customer Service
8 86 (9.48%) CI/CD
9 79 (8.71%) Mobile Device Management
10 71 (7.83%) Disaster Recovery
11 65 (7.17%) Service Management
12 60 (6.62%) Change Management
13 58 (6.39%) Release Management
14 52 (5.73%) Server Management
15 51 (5.62%) Security Architecture
16 50 (5.51%) Infrastructure as Code
17 48 (5.29%) High Availability
18 46 (5.07%) Risk Management
19 43 (4.74%) Zero Trust
20 41 (4.52%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 266 (29.33%) PowerShell
2 127 (14.00%) SQL
3 97 (10.69%) Python
4 46 (5.07%) C#
5 35 (3.86%) Bash
6 34 (3.75%) VBScript
7 22 (2.43%) Java
7 22 (2.43%) VB
8 20 (2.21%) Bicep
9 13 (1.43%) C++
10 12 (1.32%) Shell Script
11 9 (0.99%) F#
12 7 (0.77%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.55%) C
13 5 (0.55%) Ruby
14 4 (0.44%) PHP
15 3 (0.33%) JavaScript
15 3 (0.33%) Korn
15 3 (0.33%) Perl
15 3 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 317 (34.95%) Security Cleared
2 172 (18.96%) DV Cleared
3 142 (15.66%) SC Cleared
4 106 (11.69%) Degree
5 73 (8.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 34 (3.75%) MCSE
7 25 (2.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 24 (2.65%) MCSA
9 23 (2.54%) CCNA
9 23 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
10 20 (2.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 18 (1.98%) Azure Certification
12 17 (1.87%) CCNP
12 17 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (0.99%) DBS Check
14 7 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.77%) MCITP
15 5 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (0.55%) MCTS
16 3 (0.33%) ECDL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (4.08%) QA
2 23 (2.54%) SLA
3 12 (1.32%) GDPR
3 12 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.10%) NIST
5 8 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (0.77%) RMADS
7 6 (0.66%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.22%) NCSC
9 1 (0.11%) COBIT
9 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.11%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 545 (60.09%) Active Directory
2 263 (29.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 90 (9.92%) Hyper-V
4 68 (7.50%) VMware ESXi
5 46 (5.07%) vSphere
6 42 (4.63%) VMware NSX
7 38 (4.19%) Virtual Machines
8 35 (3.86%) Virtual Desktop
9 30 (3.31%) Docker
10 27 (2.98%) Firmware
11 25 (2.76%) XenApp
12 16 (1.76%) Virtual Servers
13 15 (1.65%) XenDesktop
14 8 (0.88%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 7 (0.77%) VMware Workstation
16 6 (0.66%) Terminal Services
17 5 (0.55%) VMware Server
18 4 (0.44%) BitLocker
18 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 3 (0.33%) KVM
Systems Management
1 169 (18.63%) SCCM
2 93 (10.25%) WSUS
3 71 (7.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 59 (6.50%) Ansible
4 59 (6.50%) vCenter Server
5 58 (6.39%) SCOM
6 51 (5.62%) Kubernetes
7 50 (5.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 49 (5.40%) Terraform
9 24 (2.65%) EMC NetWorker
10 21 (2.32%) Sysprep
11 17 (1.87%) NetBackup
12 12 (1.32%) Puppet
13 11 (1.21%) Failover Clustering
13 11 (1.21%) Nessus
14 10 (1.10%) Autotask
14 10 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
15 9 (0.99%) BladeLogic
15 9 (0.99%) Grafana
15 9 (0.99%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 429 (47.30%) Microsoft
2 378 (41.68%) VMware
3 88 (9.70%) Veeam
4 82 (9.04%) Citrix
5 71 (7.83%) Cisco
6 52 (5.73%) Oracle
7 50 (5.51%) Dell
8 43 (4.74%) HP
9 36 (3.97%) ServiceNow
10 34 (3.75%) Palo Alto
11 33 (3.64%) Red Hat
12 30 (3.31%) EMC
13 23 (2.54%) Juniper
13 23 (2.54%) Splunk
14 20 (2.21%) Apple
14 20 (2.21%) Qualys
15 19 (2.09%) Google
16 17 (1.87%) IBM
16 17 (1.87%) Symantec
17 14 (1.54%) NetApp