Windows Server Contracts in Essex

Microsoft Windows Server
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 18 24 27
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 +19
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2 8 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 2.50% 3.60% 3.77%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.29% 19.51% 24.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 6
10th Percentile - £189 £156
25th Percentile - £194 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £231 £328
Median % change year-on-year +159.46% -29.50% -18.00%
75th Percentile - £419 £553
90th Percentile - £475 £638
East of England median daily rate £450 £245 £425
% change year-on-year +83.67% -42.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £13.15 £21.96
25th Percentile - £13.59 £22.96
Median hourly rate - £14.31 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year - -41.88% -13.34%
75th Percentile - £15.04 -
90th Percentile - £15.47 -
East of England median hourly rate £43.92 £14.31 £22.97
% change year-on-year +206.88% -37.69% -19.17%

All Operating Systems
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 14 41 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 17.50% 18.47% 15.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 23 22
10th Percentile £231 £121 £153
25th Percentile £243 £194 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £300 £220
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +36.36% -54.64%
75th Percentile £400 £475 £522
90th Percentile £438 £547 £648
East of England median daily rate £383 £350 £425
% change year-on-year +9.29% -17.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £13.73 £20.04
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.04 £20.85
Median hourly rate £22.50 £28.04 £23.31
Median % change year-on-year -19.74% +20.27% -17.95%
75th Percentile £23.75 £48.98 £24.62
90th Percentile - £64.59 -
East of England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.18 £17.75
% change year-on-year +108.50% +41.86% -12.99%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Essex

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Essex

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Essex

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) VMware