Windows Server Contracts in Essex

Microsoft Windows Server
East of England > Essex

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 31 45
Rank change year-on-year +4 +14 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 7 7 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 3.32% 2.77% 3.77%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.00% 22.58% 13.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 8
10th Percentile £189 £148 £194
25th Percentile £194 £165 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £213 £253 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.84% -49.50% +37.93%
75th Percentile £250 £333 £550
90th Percentile £385 £336 £569
East of England median daily rate £263 £413 £425
% change year-on-year -36.36% -2.94% +31.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £13.15 £21.96 -
25th Percentile £13.59 £22.96 -
Median hourly rate £14.31 £24.62 £28.41
Median % change year-on-year -41.88% -13.34% -5.89%
75th Percentile £15.04 - £32.56
90th Percentile £15.47 - £40.02
East of England median hourly rate £12.86 £22.97 £28.41
% change year-on-year -44.00% -19.17% +54.61%

All Operating Systems
Essex

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 Essex with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 35 31 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 16.59% 12.25% 27.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 16 61
10th Percentile £103 £156 £154
25th Percentile £189 £171 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £240 £485
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -50.52% +8.38%
75th Percentile £450 £577 £588
90th Percentile £550 £617 £631
East of England median daily rate £350 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -17.65% +6.25% +9.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 7
10th Percentile £13.44 £20.04 £18.35
25th Percentile £14.31 £20.85 £24.58
Median hourly rate £15.76 £23.31 £28.41
Median % change year-on-year -32.39% -17.95% -3.69%
75th Percentile £45.38 £24.62 £36.71
90th Percentile £63.15 - £49.00
East of England median hourly rate £17.00 £17.24 £22.00
% change year-on-year -1.36% -21.66% +33.33%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Essex over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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
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 17 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
Chelmsford +4 3 £190 +33.80% 1
Saffron Walden - 2 £213 -
Colchester -2 1 £250 +38.89%
Windows Server
East of England

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (14.29%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) LAN
1 2 (28.57%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (28.57%) WAN
1 2 (28.57%) Wireless
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) 2nd/3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Service Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) ICT Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) ICT Support
2 1 (14.29%) ICT Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) Coaching
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
2 1 (14.29%) Network Management
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) ECDL
1 2 (28.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) VMware
3 2 (28.57%) Citrix
4 1 (14.29%) Apple
4 1 (14.29%) F5
4 1 (14.29%) Google