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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 28 27
Rank change year-on-year -16 -1 -7
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 71 50 106
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 4.01% 5.98% 6.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 27.84% 28.90% 24.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 46 64
10th Percentile £463 £502 £461
25th Percentile £508 £526 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £595
90th Percentile £845 £650 £636
South East median daily rate £514 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.55% - +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 255 173 425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 14.40% 20.69% 24.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 139 228
10th Percentile £260 £320 £300
25th Percentile £463 £438 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £730 £650 £725
South East median daily rate £475 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 31
10th Percentile - £38.19 £17.69
25th Percentile £16.00 £51.78 £19.97
Median hourly rate £37.24 £57.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.24% -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £58.13 £59.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £61.08 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £18.82 £47.50
% change year-on-year +72.69% -60.38% -13.64%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +3 47 £538 -10.42% 6
Farnborough -11 7 £575 -4.17% 3
Portsmouth -6 4 £600 +9.09% 2
Winchester -1 2 £850 +47.83%
Andover - 2 £450 -
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 11 (15.49%) 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 7 (9.86%) Azure
3 4 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.23%) AWS
5 2 (2.82%) Cloudflare
5 2 (2.82%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 30 (42.25%) DNS
2 3 (4.23%) DHCP
2 3 (4.23%) Firewall
2 3 (4.23%) VLAN
2 3 (4.23%) VSAN
3 2 (2.82%) SAN
4 1 (1.41%) BIG-IP
4 1 (1.41%) NAS
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 4 (5.63%) Robot Framework
2 2 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.41%) MSI
General
1 12 (16.90%) 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
1 14 (19.72%) Cloud Engineer
2 13 (18.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (16.90%) Senior
4 11 (15.49%) Support Engineer
5 9 (12.68%) Storage Engineer
6 8 (11.27%) Architect
7 7 (9.86%) Product Owner
8 6 (8.45%) ITSM Architect
8 6 (8.45%) Lead
8 6 (8.45%) Senior Architect
9 5 (7.04%) Integration Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) Server Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) Team Leader
11 2 (2.82%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
11 2 (2.82%) Infrastructure Architect
11 2 (2.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 2 (2.82%) Technical Leader
11 2 (2.82%) Test Engineer
12 1 (1.41%) AWS 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 29 (40.85%) PKI
2 8 (11.27%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (9.86%) Clustering
3 7 (9.86%) Product Ownership
4 5 (7.04%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.23%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.41%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 71 (100.00%) Windows
2 20 (28.17%) Linux
3 10 (14.08%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (7.04%) Ubuntu
4 5 (7.04%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (5.63%) CentOS
6 3 (4.23%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.41%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.41%) Windows 7
8 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (36.62%) ITSM
2 22 (30.99%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (26.76%) Agile
4 17 (23.94%) Technical Leadership
5 16 (22.54%) Service Management
6 14 (19.72%) Change Management
7 13 (18.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (15.49%) ITIL
9 10 (14.08%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (14.08%) eTOM
10 9 (12.68%) High Availability
11 8 (11.27%) Prototyping
11 8 (11.27%) Service Delivery
12 7 (9.86%) Test Automation
13 6 (8.45%) Data Visualisation
13 6 (8.45%) Mentoring
13 6 (8.45%) Product Roadmap
13 6 (8.45%) Roadmaps
13 6 (8.45%) Software Distribution
13 6 (8.45%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 36 (50.70%) PowerShell
2 23 (32.39%) SQL
3 11 (15.49%) JavaScript
4 10 (14.08%) Python
5 5 (7.04%) C#
6 3 (4.23%) Bash
7 1 (1.41%) Java
Qualifications
1 62 (87.32%) Security Cleared
2 51 (71.83%) 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 53 (74.65%) Active Directory
2 44 (61.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (25.35%) VMware NSX
4 15 (21.13%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (16.90%) vCloud
6 11 (15.49%) Hyper-V
7 9 (12.68%) vSphere
8 2 (2.82%) Dovecot
8 2 (2.82%) Postfix
8 2 (2.82%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (1.41%) Docker
9 1 (1.41%) UAG
Systems Management
1 26 (36.62%) vCenter Server
2 24 (33.80%) SCOM
3 11 (15.49%) Ansible
3 11 (15.49%) Terraform
4 9 (12.68%) Avamar
5 4 (5.63%) WMI
6 3 (4.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (4.23%) WSUS
7 2 (2.82%) HAProxy
7 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.82%) SCCM
7 2 (2.82%) SCSM
8 1 (1.41%) Kubernetes
8 1 (1.41%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 55 (77.46%) VMware
2 26 (36.62%) Microsoft
3 10 (14.08%) BMC
3 10 (14.08%) Remedy
3 10 (14.08%) ServiceNow
4 9 (12.68%) Dell
4 9 (12.68%) Thales
5 5 (7.04%) Juniper
6 4 (5.63%) Veeam
7 3 (4.23%) Cisco
7 3 (4.23%) NVIDIA
8 2 (2.82%) F5
8 2 (2.82%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.82%) Trend Micro
9 1 (1.41%) Becrypt
9 1 (1.41%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.41%) McAfee