Windows Server Contracts in Hampshire

Microsoft Windows Server
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire requiring Windows Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 33 24
Rank change year-on-year +5 -9 +21
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 42 77 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 5.63% 4.78% 7.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.09% 22.78% 22.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 41 63
10th Percentile £500 £425 £286
25th Percentile £534 £501 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £622 £595 £625
90th Percentile £663 - £670
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £28.15
25th Percentile - £20.50 £43.75
Median hourly rate - £21.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -65.00% +166.67%
75th Percentile - £21.50 -
90th Percentile - - £81.00
South East median hourly rate - £59.80 £60.00
% change year-on-year - -0.33% +26.32%

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 161 338 465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 21.58% 20.99% 33.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 172 286
10th Percentile £340 £250 £201
25th Percentile £456 £425 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £617
90th Percentile £661 £823 £691
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 22 45
10th Percentile £51.35 £14.37 £18.25
25th Percentile £55.38 £17.69 £21.22
Median hourly rate £60.50 £60.00 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +8.11% +226.47%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.69 £67.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.50 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -10.38% +165.00%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Hampshire

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in Hampshire.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Hampshire

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Hampshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Hampshire

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in Hampshire.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Hampshire

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 May 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 +18 15 £575 +9.52% 16
Winchester +4 4 £616 -
Portsmouth +10 3 £550 +2.33% 9
Hook +1 1 £500 -13.79% 1
Farnborough -1 1 £600 -7.69% 4
Eastleigh -3 1 £500 - 1
Windows Server
South East

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (19.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (7.14%) Tomcat
3 2 (4.76%) IIS
4 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (35.71%) OpenShift
2 13 (30.95%) Azure
3 9 (21.43%) AWS
3 9 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (19.05%) GCP
4 8 (19.05%) IaaS
4 8 (19.05%) PaaS
5 7 (16.67%) SaaS
6 6 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.38%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (28.57%) DNS
2 10 (23.81%) Firewall
3 8 (19.05%) DHCP
3 8 (19.05%) SMTP
3 8 (19.05%) VPN
4 4 (9.52%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (9.52%) iSCSI
5 3 (7.14%) VSAN
6 2 (4.76%) HTTP
6 2 (4.76%) HTTPS
6 2 (4.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.19%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (19.05%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (19.05%) Big Data
3 3 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
General
1 10 (23.81%) Public Sector
2 2 (4.76%) Military
2 2 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (40.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (26.19%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 8 (19.05%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (19.05%) 3rd Line Support
3 8 (19.05%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 8 (19.05%) Support Engineer
4 7 (16.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 7 (16.67%) Senior
4 7 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (14.29%) Applications Packager
5 6 (14.29%) DV Cleared Application Packager
6 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 4 (9.52%) Architect
7 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure Architect
7 4 (9.52%) VMware Architect
8 2 (4.76%) Technical Specialist
9 1 (2.38%) Systems Engineer
9 1 (2.38%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.19%) Clustering
2 10 (23.81%) PKI
3 8 (19.05%) Data Centre
4 7 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (16.67%) Public Cloud
5 6 (14.29%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 42 (100.00%) Windows
2 24 (57.14%) Linux
3 10 (23.81%) Windows Server 2016
4 9 (21.43%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (19.05%) CentOS
5 8 (19.05%) Ubuntu
5 8 (19.05%) Windows 10
6 6 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (9.52%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (7.14%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (4.76%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (4.76%) Solaris
9 2 (4.76%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (35.71%) DevOps
3 13 (30.95%) Agile
3 13 (30.95%) Application Packaging
4 8 (19.05%) Artificial Intelligence
4 8 (19.05%) Machine Learning
4 8 (19.05%) Software Deployment
5 7 (16.67%) Change Control
5 7 (16.67%) DevSecOps
6 6 (14.29%) Application Virtualisation
6 6 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 4 (9.52%) Edge Virtualization
7 4 (9.52%) Performance Analysis
8 3 (7.14%) ITSM
8 3 (7.14%) Patch Management
8 3 (7.14%) Power Management
8 3 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (7.14%) Service Management
9 2 (4.76%) Configuration Management
9 2 (4.76%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (69.05%) PowerShell
2 11 (26.19%) SQL
3 6 (14.29%) Python
3 6 (14.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 41 (97.62%) Security Cleared
2 29 (69.05%) DV Cleared
3 10 (23.81%) SC Cleared
4 8 (19.05%) Degree
5 4 (9.52%) MCSE
5 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (9.52%) VCP5
5 4 (9.52%) VCP6
5 4 (9.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 28 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (42.86%) Active Directory
3 15 (35.71%) vSphere
4 14 (33.33%) Hyper-V
5 12 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (23.81%) Microsoft App-V
7 8 (19.05%) BitLocker
7 8 (19.05%) Docker
7 8 (19.05%) Terminal Services
8 4 (9.52%) NFS
9 3 (7.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 21 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 15 (35.71%) Ansible
2 15 (35.71%) Kubernetes
3 8 (19.05%) Nagios
3 8 (19.05%) Puppet
3 8 (19.05%) SCCM
3 8 (19.05%) vMotion
4 7 (16.67%) Nessus
4 7 (16.67%) Terraform
5 6 (14.29%) SCOM
6 5 (11.90%) WSUS
7 3 (7.14%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (7.14%) Norton AntiVirus
7 3 (7.14%) SCSM
Vendors
1 34 (80.95%) VMware
2 23 (54.76%) Microsoft
3 11 (26.19%) Symantec
4 10 (23.81%) Red Hat
5 8 (19.05%) Citrix
5 8 (19.05%) Google
5 8 (19.05%) HP
6 6 (14.29%) SolarWinds
7 4 (9.52%) NetApp
7 4 (9.52%) Splunk
7 4 (9.52%) Veeam
8 3 (7.14%) Juniper
8 3 (7.14%) NETGEAR
8 3 (7.14%) TP-LINK
9 2 (4.76%) McAfee
9 2 (4.76%) Oracle
10 1 (2.38%) Dell