Windows Server Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Microsoft Windows Server
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Farnborough requiring Windows Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 28 13
Rank change year-on-year +3 -15 +13
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 3 7 12
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 3.00% 4.17% 9.45%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.00% 15.22% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 9
10th Percentile £398 - £290
25th Percentile £431 £475 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £575 £388
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +48.39% -29.55%
75th Percentile £544 £625 £425
90th Percentile £578 £678 £493
Hampshire median daily rate £530 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -3.64% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
Hampshire median hourly rate - - £69.00
% change year-on-year - - +43.75%

All Operating Systems
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 20 46 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 20.00% 27.38% 22.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 36 19
10th Percentile £371 £469 £290
25th Percentile £380 £523 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £596 £425
Median % change year-on-year -16.98% +40.29% -13.27%
75th Percentile £519 £672 £643
90th Percentile £563 £688 £665
Hampshire median daily rate £510 £542 £525
% change year-on-year -5.82% +3.14% +2.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £39.00
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £58.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.88%
75th Percentile - - £60.00
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £25.15 £70.00 £58.00
% change year-on-year -64.07% +20.69% +163.64%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

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

Windows Server job vacancy trend in Farnborough

Windows Server
Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

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

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

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Farnborough

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Farnborough over the 6 months to 5 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Farnborough

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Farnborough

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

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

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 1 (33.33%) Automotive
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium Automation Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) API Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Dell