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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 29 23
Rank change year-on-year -6 -6 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 81 53 113
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 4.38% 5.81% 6.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 28.83% 27.75% 27.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 49 68
10th Percentile £463 £503 £462
25th Percentile £503 £530 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £594
90th Percentile £748 - £638
South East median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - +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 281 191 412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 15.20% 20.92% 23.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 149 226
10th Percentile £260 £288 £313
25th Percentile £463 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% -1.82% +7.32%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £638
90th Percentile £726 £650 £694
South East median daily rate £475 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 30
10th Percentile - £18.87 £17.32
25th Percentile £16.00 £25.15 £18.83
Median hourly rate £37.24 £54.88 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -32.15% -17.17% +15.22%
75th Percentile £58.13 £58.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £60.13 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £33.86 £18.87 £47.50
% change year-on-year +79.44% -60.27% -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 12 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 12 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 56 £538 -10.42% 10
Farnborough -10 8 £568 -5.42% 2
Portsmouth -3 5 £600 +9.09% 2
Winchester -1 2 £850 +98.25%
Andover - 2 £450 -
Southampton -8 1 £675 +27.66% 5
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 (14.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.70%) IIS
3 2 (2.47%) Apache
3 2 (2.47%) nginx
3 2 (2.47%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.47%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (13.58%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (13.58%) Power Platform
2 7 (8.64%) Azure
3 4 (4.94%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.70%) AWS
4 3 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.47%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.23%) IaaS
6 1 (1.23%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 37 (45.68%) DNS
2 4 (4.94%) DHCP
2 4 (4.94%) Firewall
2 4 (4.94%) VLAN
3 3 (3.70%) VSAN
4 2 (2.47%) SAN
5 1 (1.23%) BIG-IP
5 1 (1.23%) NAS
5 1 (1.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.23%) VPN
5 1 (1.23%) WAN
5 1 (1.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.52%) SQL Server
2 11 (13.58%) Power BI
3 2 (2.47%) Data Mining
3 2 (2.47%) MySQL
4 1 (1.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Robot Framework
2 1 (1.23%) MSI
2 1 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (23.46%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.28%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.88%) Military
4 2 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.47%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.23%) Finance
Job Titles
1 19 (23.46%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 17 (20.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (19.75%) Cloud Engineer
4 13 (16.05%) Senior
4 13 (16.05%) Support Engineer
5 11 (13.58%) Storage Engineer
6 10 (12.35%) Lead
7 7 (8.64%) Product Owner
8 6 (7.41%) Architect
8 6 (7.41%) ITSM Architect
8 6 (7.41%) Senior Architect
8 6 (7.41%) Team Leader
9 5 (6.17%) Integration Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) Test Engineer
11 3 (3.70%) Server Engineer
11 3 (3.70%) Technical Leader
12 2 (2.47%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
12 2 (2.47%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 1 (1.23%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 1 (1.23%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.81%) REST
2 2 (2.47%) LAMP
2 2 (2.47%) LEMP Stack
2 2 (2.47%) YAML
3 1 (1.23%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.23%) React
3 1 (1.23%) Vue
3 1 (1.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (38.27%) PKI
2 8 (9.88%) Clustering
2 8 (9.88%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (8.64%) Product Ownership
4 6 (7.41%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.70%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.23%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 81 (100.00%) Windows
2 18 (22.22%) Linux
3 14 (17.28%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (6.17%) Ubuntu
5 4 (4.94%) CentOS
6 3 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.47%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.23%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.23%) Windows 7
8 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (38.27%) ITSM
2 26 (32.10%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (24.69%) Agile
4 19 (23.46%) Technical Leadership
5 18 (22.22%) Change Management
5 18 (22.22%) Service Management
6 17 (20.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 13 (16.05%) ITIL
8 11 (13.58%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (13.58%) eTOM
9 10 (12.35%) Service Delivery
10 9 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (11.11%) High Availability
11 8 (9.88%) Software Distribution
12 7 (8.64%) Data Visualisation
12 7 (8.64%) Prototyping
12 7 (8.64%) Visualisation
13 6 (7.41%) Mentoring
13 6 (7.41%) Product Roadmap
13 6 (7.41%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 37 (45.68%) PowerShell
2 25 (30.86%) SQL
3 12 (14.81%) JavaScript
4 9 (11.11%) Python
5 5 (6.17%) C#
6 3 (3.70%) Bash
7 1 (1.23%) Java
Qualifications
1 71 (87.65%) Security Cleared
2 62 (76.54%) DV Cleared
3 10 (12.35%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.47%) Degree
4 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.23%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.47%) NCSC
2 1 (1.23%) NIST
2 1 (1.23%) NIST 800
System Software
1 60 (74.07%) Active Directory
2 53 (65.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (24.69%) VMware NSX
4 17 (20.99%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (17.28%) vCloud
6 12 (14.81%) Hyper-V
7 9 (11.11%) vSphere
8 5 (6.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (2.47%) Dovecot
9 2 (2.47%) Postfix
10 1 (1.23%) Docker
10 1 (1.23%) UAG
Systems Management
1 29 (35.80%) vCenter Server
2 28 (34.57%) SCOM
3 11 (13.58%) Avamar
4 10 (12.35%) Ansible
4 10 (12.35%) Terraform
5 4 (4.94%) WMI
6 3 (3.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (3.70%) WSUS
7 2 (2.47%) HAProxy
7 2 (2.47%) SCCM
7 2 (2.47%) SCSM
8 1 (1.23%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (1.23%) Kubernetes
8 1 (1.23%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 63 (77.78%) VMware
2 30 (37.04%) Microsoft
3 12 (14.81%) Dell
3 12 (14.81%) Remedy
4 11 (13.58%) BMC
4 11 (13.58%) ServiceNow
4 11 (13.58%) Thales
5 8 (9.88%) Juniper
6 4 (4.94%) Veeam
7 3 (3.70%) Cisco
7 3 (3.70%) NVIDIA
8 2 (2.47%) F5
8 2 (2.47%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.47%) Trend Micro
9 1 (1.23%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.23%) Becrypt
9 1 (1.23%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.23%) McAfee