Windows Server Contract Job Trends in Essex

Microsoft Windows Server
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Windows Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 17 34
Rank change year-on-year -1 +17 +5
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 3 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 2.59% 4.76% 1.78%
As % of the Operating Systems category 21.43% 24.00% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £227 - £221
25th Percentile £266 - £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 - £363
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.50%
75th Percentile £336 - £447
90th Percentile £337 - £494
East of England median daily rate £550 £550 £465
% change year-on-year - +18.28% +9.41%

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 25 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 12.07% 19.84% 14.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 19
10th Percentile £160 £206 £186
25th Percentile £175 £213 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £213 £231 £340
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -31.99% +15.74%
75th Percentile £229 £425 £489
90th Percentile £337 £569 £535
East of England median daily rate £439 £450 £465
% change year-on-year -2.50% -3.23% +24.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £27.50 -
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £65.00 £19.76
% change year-on-year -34.62% +228.91% -23.99%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Windows Server job vacancy trend in Essex

Windows Server
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

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

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

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

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Witham - 2 £335 -
Southend-on-Sea +3 1 £200 -
Windows Server
East of England

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Mac OS
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) VMware