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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 21 18
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 +32
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 64 89 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 6.65% 6.49% 8.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 30.77% 27.73% 32.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 61 45
10th Percentile £499 £360 £300
25th Percentile £500 £475 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £590 £580
90th Percentile £650 £638 £613
South East median daily rate £525 £525 £450
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - - £53.75
Median hourly rate - - £69.00
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £32.77 £38.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -14.88% -35.83% -35.14%

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 208 321 345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 21.60% 23.41% 26.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 194 175
10th Percentile £369 £350 £192
25th Percentile £463 £425 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% +5.41% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £600
90th Percentile £650 £671 £650
South East median daily rate £450 £450 £420
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 19 51
10th Percentile £18.87 £21.34 £15.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £40.44 £35.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £70.00 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year -64.07% +19.47% +166.32%
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile £58.38 £70.75 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £18.87 £56.75 £56.78
% change year-on-year -66.75% -0.06% +234.00%

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
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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +10 37 £600 +9.09% 15
Romsey - 5 £508 -
Southampton +2 4 £529 +11.32% 10
Farnborough +5 3 £488 -15.22% 2
Fareham - 3 - - 5
Portsmouth -6 2 £550 +37.50% 3
Winchester +4 1 £200 -62.10%
Eastleigh -4 1 £500 - 1
Havant - 1 £220 -
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 12 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.25%) Apache
3 1 (1.56%) Confluence
3 1 (1.56%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.50%) AWS
1 8 (12.50%) GCP
1 8 (12.50%) IaaS
1 8 (12.50%) OpenShift
1 8 (12.50%) PaaS
2 3 (4.69%) Azure
3 1 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
1 16 (25.00%) iSCSI
2 12 (18.75%) DHCP
2 12 (18.75%) DNS
3 10 (15.63%) Firewall
4 9 (14.06%) Cisco Firepower
4 9 (14.06%) Cisco IOS
4 9 (14.06%) Cisco ISE
4 9 (14.06%) Junos
5 8 (12.50%) SMTP
5 8 (12.50%) VPN
6 4 (6.25%) VSAN
7 1 (1.56%) HTTP
7 1 (1.56%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.56%) NAS
7 1 (1.56%) SAN
7 1 (1.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (12.50%) Big Data
1 8 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (17.19%) MSI
2 4 (6.25%) Robot Framework
2 4 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.56%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.56%) JIRA
3 1 (1.56%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.56%) Selenium
General
1 8 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (3.13%) Military
3 1 (1.56%) Automotive
3 1 (1.56%) Finance
3 1 (1.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (32.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 17 (26.56%) Support Engineer
3 16 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 16 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 16 (25.00%) Architect
3 16 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 15 (23.44%) VMware Architect
5 10 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (14.06%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
6 9 (14.06%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (14.06%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 9 (14.06%) Network Engineer
7 8 (12.50%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 8 (12.50%) Network Support
7 8 (12.50%) Network Support Engineer
8 7 (10.94%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (10.94%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
8 7 (10.94%) Infrastructure Support
8 7 (10.94%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) SCCM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.56%) .NET
1 1 (1.56%) REST
1 1 (1.56%) RESTful
1 1 (1.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.88%) PKI
2 9 (14.06%) Data Centre
3 8 (12.50%) Clustering
4 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 64 (100.00%) Windows
2 28 (43.75%) Windows Server 2019
3 21 (32.81%) Linux
4 10 (15.63%) Windows 10
5 7 (10.94%) CentOS
6 6 (9.38%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (7.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (4.69%) Ubuntu
8 3 (4.69%) Unix
8 3 (4.69%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (4.69%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (3.13%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (3.13%) Solaris
10 1 (1.56%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (20.31%) DevOps
2 10 (15.63%) Edge Virtualization
2 10 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (15.63%) ITSM
2 10 (15.63%) Performance Analysis
3 9 (14.06%) Service Management
4 8 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
4 8 (12.50%) Machine Learning
4 8 (12.50%) Software Deployment
5 7 (10.94%) Change Management
5 7 (10.94%) Data Analysis
5 7 (10.94%) Prototyping
5 7 (10.94%) Security Patching
6 6 (9.38%) Customer Requirements
6 6 (9.38%) Mentoring
7 5 (7.81%) Agile
7 5 (7.81%) CI/CD
7 5 (7.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (7.81%) Operational Stability
7 5 (7.81%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (40.63%) PowerShell
2 23 (35.94%) SQL
3 8 (12.50%) C#
4 6 (9.38%) VB
5 5 (7.81%) Python
6 4 (6.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 47 (73.44%) Security Cleared
2 42 (65.63%) DV Cleared
3 16 (25.00%) MCSE
3 16 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (15.63%) VCP5
4 10 (15.63%) VCP6
4 10 (15.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 8 (12.50%) Degree
6 7 (10.94%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 29 (45.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (39.06%) VMware ESXi
3 24 (37.50%) Active Directory
4 20 (31.25%) vSphere
5 19 (29.69%) NFS
6 11 (17.19%) Hyper-V
6 11 (17.19%) VMware NSX
7 9 (14.06%) Microsoft App-V
8 8 (12.50%) BitLocker
8 8 (12.50%) Docker
8 8 (12.50%) Terminal Services
9 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (1.56%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 17 (26.56%) vCenter Server
2 16 (25.00%) Ansible
3 9 (14.06%) Kubernetes
3 9 (14.06%) SCCM
4 8 (12.50%) Nagios
4 8 (12.50%) Puppet
4 8 (12.50%) Terraform
4 8 (12.50%) vMotion
5 4 (6.25%) WMI
5 4 (6.25%) WSUS
6 3 (4.69%) VxRail
Vendors
1 39 (60.94%) Microsoft
2 37 (57.81%) VMware
3 16 (25.00%) NetApp
3 16 (25.00%) Splunk
3 16 (25.00%) Veeam
4 9 (14.06%) Cisco
4 9 (14.06%) Juniper
4 9 (14.06%) SolarWinds
5 8 (12.50%) Citrix
5 8 (12.50%) Google
5 8 (12.50%) HP
5 8 (12.50%) Symantec
6 5 (7.81%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.13%) Dell
7 2 (3.13%) EMC
7 2 (3.13%) Oracle