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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 28 25
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 71 49 103
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 4.17% 6.28% 5.77%
As % of the Operating Systems category 30.74% 30.25% 24.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 46 62
10th Percentile £463 £495 £464
25th Percentile £508 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £595
90th Percentile £840 £650 £637
South East median daily rate £515 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -4.01% -2.45% +10.00%

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 231 162 420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 13.57% 20.77% 23.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 130 227
10th Percentile £263 £325 £300
25th Percentile £475 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £644
90th Percentile £735 £660 £780
South East median daily rate £475 £491 £475
% change year-on-year -3.16% +3.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 28
10th Percentile - £41.40 £16.58
25th Percentile £16.00 £52.14 £17.69
Median hourly rate £47.50 £57.50 £62.25
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -7.63% +6.25%
75th Percentile £53.81 £60.72 £70.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £69.63 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £18.85 £48.75
% change year-on-year +72.46% -61.34% -15.22%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +4 46 £550 -8.33% 4
Farnborough -11 7 £560 -6.67% 4
Portsmouth -3 4 £600 +9.09% 2
Winchester 0 2 £850 +47.83%
Andover - 2 £450 - 1
Southampton -8 1 £675 +33.00% 6
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 12 (16.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.23%) IIS
3 2 (2.82%) Apache
3 2 (2.82%) nginx
3 2 (2.82%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (14.08%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (14.08%) Power Platform
2 9 (12.68%) Azure
3 6 (8.45%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.23%) AWS
5 2 (2.82%) Cloudflare
5 2 (2.82%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 28 (39.44%) DNS
2 3 (4.23%) DHCP
2 3 (4.23%) Firewall
2 3 (4.23%) VSAN
3 2 (2.82%) VLAN
4 1 (1.41%) BIG-IP
4 1 (1.41%) NAS
4 1 (1.41%) SAN
4 1 (1.41%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.31%) SQL Server
2 10 (14.08%) Power BI
3 2 (2.82%) Data Mining
3 2 (2.82%) MySQL
4 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (7.04%) Robot Framework
2 3 (4.23%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.41%) MSI
General
1 11 (15.49%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (11.27%) Military
4 2 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.82%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (19.72%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 13 (18.31%) Cloud Engineer
3 11 (15.49%) Senior
4 10 (14.08%) Architect
4 10 (14.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (14.08%) Support Engineer
5 8 (11.27%) Product Owner
5 8 (11.27%) Storage Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) ITSM Architect
6 6 (8.45%) Lead
6 6 (8.45%) Senior Architect
7 5 (7.04%) Integration Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Infrastructure Architect
9 3 (4.23%) Server Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Team Leader
10 2 (2.82%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (2.82%) Technical Leader
10 2 (2.82%) Wintel Engineer
11 1 (1.41%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
11 1 (1.41%) Lead Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.49%) REST
2 2 (2.82%) LAMP
2 2 (2.82%) LEMP Stack
2 2 (2.82%) YAML
3 1 (1.41%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.41%) React
3 1 (1.41%) Vue
3 1 (1.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (39.44%) PKI
2 8 (11.27%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (11.27%) Product Ownership
3 7 (9.86%) Clustering
4 4 (5.63%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.23%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.41%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 71 (100.00%) Windows
2 21 (29.58%) Linux
3 10 (14.08%) Windows Server 2019
4 7 (9.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (8.45%) Ubuntu
6 5 (7.04%) CentOS
7 3 (4.23%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.41%) Windows 10
9 1 (1.41%) Windows 7
9 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (36.62%) ITSM
2 23 (32.39%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (30.99%) Agile
4 16 (22.54%) Service Management
4 16 (22.54%) Technical Leadership
5 14 (19.72%) Change Management
6 12 (16.90%) ITIL
7 11 (15.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (14.08%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (14.08%) eTOM
9 9 (12.68%) High Availability
9 9 (12.68%) Prototyping
10 8 (11.27%) Test Automation
11 6 (8.45%) Data Visualisation
11 6 (8.45%) Mentoring
11 6 (8.45%) Product Roadmap
11 6 (8.45%) Roadmaps
11 6 (8.45%) Service Delivery
11 6 (8.45%) Visualisation
12 5 (7.04%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 39 (54.93%) PowerShell
2 22 (30.99%) SQL
3 11 (15.49%) JavaScript
3 11 (15.49%) Python
4 5 (7.04%) C#
5 3 (4.23%) Bash
6 1 (1.41%) Java
Qualifications
1 62 (87.32%) Security Cleared
2 50 (70.42%) DV Cleared
3 9 (12.68%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.82%) Degree
5 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.82%) NCSC
2 1 (1.41%) NIST
2 1 (1.41%) NIST 800
System Software
1 54 (76.06%) Active Directory
2 41 (57.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (22.54%) VMware NSX
4 13 (18.31%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (15.49%) vCloud
6 10 (14.08%) Hyper-V
7 9 (12.68%) vSphere
8 2 (2.82%) Dovecot
8 2 (2.82%) Postfix
9 1 (1.41%) Docker
9 1 (1.41%) UAG
Systems Management
1 26 (36.62%) vCenter Server
2 23 (32.39%) SCOM
3 12 (16.90%) Terraform
4 11 (15.49%) Ansible
5 8 (11.27%) Avamar
6 4 (5.63%) WMI
7 3 (4.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (4.23%) SCCM
7 3 (4.23%) WSUS
8 2 (2.82%) HAProxy
8 2 (2.82%) Kubernetes
8 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (2.82%) SCSM
9 1 (1.41%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (1.41%) Nessus
Vendors
1 54 (76.06%) VMware
2 27 (38.03%) Microsoft
3 10 (14.08%) BMC
3 10 (14.08%) Remedy
3 10 (14.08%) ServiceNow
4 8 (11.27%) Dell
4 8 (11.27%) Thales
5 5 (7.04%) Juniper
6 4 (5.63%) Veeam
7 3 (4.23%) Cisco
7 3 (4.23%) NVIDIA
7 3 (4.23%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.82%) F5
8 2 (2.82%) Trend Micro
9 1 (1.41%) Becrypt
9 1 (1.41%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.41%) McAfee