Windows Server Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Microsoft Windows Server
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Windows Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 27 30
Rank change year-on-year -18 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 52 47 79
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 3.70% 6.38% 5.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 21.05% 27.81% 25.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 41 26
10th Percentile £481 £400 £275
25th Percentile - £475 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £661 £556
90th Percentile £825 £675 £585
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £43.50
25th Percentile £44.86 - -
Median hourly rate £48.72 - £78.00
75th Percentile £52.58 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £26.44 - £67.27
% change year-on-year - - +22.30%

All Operating Systems
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 247 169 305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 17.56% 22.93% 21.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 121 132
10th Percentile £325 £263 £206
25th Percentile £463 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% +1.29%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £680
90th Percentile £725 £675 £825
South East median daily rate £450 £438 £425
% change year-on-year +2.86% +2.94% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 14 28
10th Percentile £15.62 £56.61 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £61.56 £36.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £62.50 £62.25
Median % change year-on-year -59.76% +0.40% +136.29%
75th Percentile £48.75 £69.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £51.43 £80.25 £78.00
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £59.13 £54.78
% change year-on-year -64.84% +7.93% +129.25%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Windows Server job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Windows Server
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Hampshire over the 6 months to 12 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Hampshire

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 12 February 2026. 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
Basingstoke +10 31 £500 +5.26% 12
Farnborough -9 3 £440 -18.14% 6
Winchester -3 2 £850 +37.93% 3
Portsmouth -7 2 - - 2
Southampton - 2 £640 - 5
Fleet - 2 £508 -
Havant - 1 £163 -
Hayling Island - 1 £650 -
Windows Server
South East

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 10 (19.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.85%) IIS
3 1 (1.92%) Confluence
3 1 (1.92%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.62%) Azure
1 5 (9.62%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
2 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (28.85%) Cisco Firepower
1 15 (28.85%) Cisco IOS
1 15 (28.85%) Cisco ISE
1 15 (28.85%) Junos
2 14 (26.92%) DNS
3 2 (3.85%) DHCP
3 2 (3.85%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (3.85%) iSCSI
3 2 (3.85%) VSAN
3 2 (3.85%) WAN
4 1 (1.92%) Firewall
4 1 (1.92%) LAN
4 1 (1.92%) SNMP
4 1 (1.92%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.85%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Robot Framework
1 4 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.92%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.92%) JIRA
2 1 (1.92%) REST Assured
2 1 (1.92%) Selenium
General
1 6 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (11.54%) Military
2 5 (9.62%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.77%) Finance
5 1 (1.92%) Automotive
5 1 (1.92%) Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (40.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 15 (28.85%) 3rd Line Support
2 15 (28.85%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 15 (28.85%) Network Engineer
2 15 (28.85%) Support Engineer
3 14 (26.92%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 14 (26.92%) Cloud Engineer
3 14 (26.92%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 13 (25.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 13 (25.00%) Network Support
4 13 (25.00%) Network Support Engineer
5 7 (13.46%) Architect
6 6 (11.54%) Infrastructure Architect
7 4 (7.69%) Product Owner
8 3 (5.77%) Lead
9 2 (3.85%) Active Directory Specialist
9 2 (3.85%) Senior
9 2 (3.85%) Technical Leader
9 2 (3.85%) Windows Specialist
9 2 (3.85%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.69%) REST
2 2 (3.85%) AngularJS
2 2 (3.85%) React
2 2 (3.85%) Vue
3 1 (1.92%) .NET
3 1 (1.92%) RESTful
3 1 (1.92%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.23%) PKI
2 4 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 52 (100.00%) Windows
2 13 (25.00%) Linux
3 4 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.92%) CentOS
6 1 (1.92%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (40.38%) ITSM
2 19 (36.54%) Service Management
3 17 (32.69%) Agile
4 11 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (15.38%) Prototyping
6 7 (13.46%) Change Management
6 7 (13.46%) ITIL
7 5 (9.62%) Creative Thinking
7 5 (9.62%) Test Automation
8 4 (7.69%) High Availability
8 4 (7.69%) Security Architecture
9 3 (5.77%) Containerisation
9 3 (5.77%) Customer Requirements
9 3 (5.77%) Mentoring
10 2 (3.85%) Clean Code
10 2 (3.85%) Coaching
10 2 (3.85%) DevOps
10 2 (3.85%) RBAC
10 2 (3.85%) Roadmaps
10 2 (3.85%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 20 (38.46%) PowerShell
2 7 (13.46%) Python
2 7 (13.46%) SQL
3 4 (7.69%) C#
4 3 (5.77%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.85%) Bash
5 2 (3.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 45 (86.54%) Security Cleared
2 34 (65.38%) DV Cleared
3 8 (15.38%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.77%) MCSE
4 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.92%) MCSA
5 1 (1.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) JSP 440
System Software
1 39 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 17 (32.69%) VMware NSX
3 12 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (11.54%) vSphere
5 4 (7.69%) Hyper-V
6 3 (5.77%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (3.85%) Docker
7 2 (3.85%) NFS
8 1 (1.92%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 24 (46.15%) vCenter Server
2 6 (11.54%) SCOM
2 6 (11.54%) Terraform
3 5 (9.62%) Ansible
3 5 (9.62%) SCCM
4 4 (7.69%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.92%) Backup Exec
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.92%) Nessus
5 1 (1.92%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.92%) WhatsUp Gold
5 1 (1.92%) WSUS
Vendors
1 28 (53.85%) VMware
2 16 (30.77%) Cisco
3 15 (28.85%) Juniper
3 15 (28.85%) SolarWinds
4 14 (26.92%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.77%) Veeam
6 2 (3.85%) CyberArk
6 2 (3.85%) NetApp
6 2 (3.85%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.85%) Splunk
7 1 (1.92%) Acronis
7 1 (1.92%) BMC
7 1 (1.92%) F5
7 1 (1.92%) McAfee
7 1 (1.92%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.92%) Remedy
7 1 (1.92%) Symantec