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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 21 18
Rank change year-on-year -10 -3 +20
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 60 86 108
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 5.69% 7.47% 8.06%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.20% 30.28% 32.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 62 32
10th Percentile £475 £389 £255
25th Percentile £500 £475 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +4.76% -3.45%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £603
90th Percentile £650 £675 £624
South East median daily rate £508 £520 £468
% change year-on-year -2.40% +11.11% -0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £25.14 £52.77 £63.25
% change year-on-year -52.37% -16.57% +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 229 284 329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 21.71% 24.65% 24.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 175 159
10th Percentile £200 £341 £203
25th Percentile £418 £425 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £626 £634
90th Percentile £638 £675 £655
South East median daily rate £430 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -4.44% +5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 21 38
10th Percentile £15.62 £26.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £62.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.43% +21.74% +139.58%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £68.13
90th Percentile - £75.00 £72.40
South East median hourly rate £18.87 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -69.81% +13.64% +223.53%

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 31 October 2025.

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 31 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
Basingstoke +9 34 £600 +9.09% 6
Romsey - 5 £508 -
Southampton +6 4 £529 +0.71% 1
Fareham - 3 - - 10
Farnborough -1 2 £375 -34.78% 1
Havant - 2 £191 -
Winchester -1 1 £200 -62.10%
Fleet - 1 £505 - 1
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 4 (6.67%) Apache
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.67%) Confluence
2 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (1.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (28.33%) Cisco Firepower
1 17 (28.33%) Cisco IOS
1 17 (28.33%) Cisco ISE
1 17 (28.33%) Junos
2 14 (23.33%) Fibre Channel
2 14 (23.33%) iSCSI
3 5 (8.33%) DNS
4 4 (6.67%) DHCP
4 4 (6.67%) VSAN
5 1 (1.67%) NAS
5 1 (1.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (18.33%) MSI
2 4 (6.67%) Robot Framework
2 4 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.67%) JIRA
3 1 (1.67%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.67%) Selenium
General
1 2 (3.33%) Finance
1 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (1.67%) Automotive
2 1 (1.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 16 (26.67%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
2 16 (26.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 16 (26.67%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 16 (26.67%) Network Engineer
2 16 (26.67%) Support Engineer
3 15 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 15 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 15 (25.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 15 (25.00%) Network Support
3 15 (25.00%) Network Support Engineer
4 14 (23.33%) Architect
4 14 (23.33%) Infrastructure Architect
5 13 (21.67%) VMware Architect
6 4 (6.67%) Exchange Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Integration Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) SCCM Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Windows Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Configuration Manager
7 3 (5.00%) Server Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.67%) .NET
1 1 (1.67%) REST
1 1 (1.67%) RESTful
1 1 (1.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.67%) PKI
2 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 60 (100.00%) Windows
2 25 (41.67%) Windows Server 2019
3 11 (18.33%) Linux
4 7 (11.67%) Windows 10
5 6 (10.00%) CentOS
6 5 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (5.00%) Unix
7 3 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (3.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (30.00%) ITSM
1 18 (30.00%) Service Management
2 8 (13.33%) Change Management
2 8 (13.33%) Edge Virtualization
2 8 (13.33%) Performance Analysis
3 7 (11.67%) Data Analysis
3 7 (11.67%) Mentoring
3 7 (11.67%) Security Patching
4 6 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
4 6 (10.00%) Prototyping
5 5 (8.33%) Agile
5 5 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 5 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (8.33%) DevOps
5 5 (8.33%) Operational Stability
5 5 (8.33%) Test Automation
6 4 (6.67%) Batch Scripting
6 4 (6.67%) Migration
6 4 (6.67%) Web Development
6 4 (6.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 18 (30.00%) SQL
2 16 (26.67%) PowerShell
3 8 (13.33%) C#
4 6 (10.00%) VB
5 5 (8.33%) Python
6 4 (6.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 41 (68.33%) Security Cleared
2 36 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 14 (23.33%) MCSE
3 14 (23.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (13.33%) VCP5
4 8 (13.33%) VCP6
4 8 (13.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 6 (10.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 25 (41.67%) Active Directory
2 19 (31.67%) VMware NSX
3 18 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (28.33%) NFS
4 17 (28.33%) vSphere
5 16 (26.67%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.67%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.67%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 17 (28.33%) vCenter Server
2 8 (13.33%) Ansible
2 8 (13.33%) SCCM
2 8 (13.33%) Terraform
3 4 (6.67%) WMI
4 3 (5.00%) VxRail
4 3 (5.00%) WSUS
5 1 (1.67%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 30 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 25 (41.67%) VMware
3 17 (28.33%) Cisco
3 17 (28.33%) Juniper
3 17 (28.33%) SolarWinds
4 14 (23.33%) NetApp
4 14 (23.33%) Splunk
4 14 (23.33%) Veeam
5 2 (3.33%) EMC
5 2 (3.33%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.67%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.67%) Dell
6 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow