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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 26 20
Rank change year-on-year -9 -6 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 102 55 106
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 5.24% 5.76% 6.91%
As % of the Operating Systems category 34.00% 29.26% 29.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 52 63
10th Percentile £443 £500 £432
25th Percentile £484 £525 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £595
90th Percentile £727 £650 £636
South East median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - +15.79%

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 300 188 359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 15.42% 19.69% 23.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 151 205
10th Percentile £260 £220 £360
25th Percentile £463 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.09% -2.36% +7.32%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £627
90th Percentile £725 £650 £674
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 24
10th Percentile - £18.87 £17.69
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.97 £25.25
Median hourly rate £48.72 £25.15 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +93.72% -64.07% +21.74%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.80 -
90th Percentile £60.00 £58.74 £72.63
South East median hourly rate £38.72 £18.87 £52.75
% change year-on-year +105.19% -64.23% -4.09%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 +2 70 £538 -10.42% 3
Farnborough -8 8 £568 -5.42% 7
Portsmouth -5 6 £600 +9.09% 2
Winchester -2 2 £850 +325.00%
Fareham -8 2 £275 - 3
Andover - 2 £450 -
Southampton -6 1 £675 +27.66% 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 10 (9.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.94%) IIS
2 3 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.96%) Apache
3 2 (1.96%) nginx
3 2 (1.96%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (12.75%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (12.75%) Power Platform
2 12 (11.76%) Azure
3 10 (9.80%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (7.84%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.94%) AWS
6 2 (1.96%) Cloudflare
6 2 (1.96%) IaaS
6 2 (1.96%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 39 (38.24%) DNS
2 5 (4.90%) DHCP
2 5 (4.90%) Firewall
2 5 (4.90%) VLAN
3 3 (2.94%) VSAN
4 2 (1.96%) SAN
4 2 (1.96%) VPN
4 2 (1.96%) Wireless
5 1 (0.98%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.98%) NAS
5 1 (0.98%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (18.63%) SQL Server
2 13 (12.75%) Power BI
3 2 (1.96%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.96%) MySQL
4 1 (0.98%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.94%) Robot Framework
2 1 (0.98%) MSI
2 1 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (22.55%) Social Skills
2 20 (19.61%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.86%) Military
4 2 (1.96%) Finance
4 2 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (0.98%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (22.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 20 (19.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 17 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 16 (15.69%) Lead
5 15 (14.71%) Senior
5 15 (14.71%) Support Engineer
6 14 (13.73%) Storage Engineer
7 8 (7.84%) Team Leader
8 7 (6.86%) Architect
8 7 (6.86%) Technical Leader
9 6 (5.88%) ITSM Architect
9 6 (5.88%) Product Owner
9 6 (5.88%) Senior Architect
10 5 (4.90%) Integration Engineer
11 4 (3.92%) 2nd Line Support
11 4 (3.92%) IT Engineer
11 4 (3.92%) Server Engineer
11 4 (3.92%) Test Engineer
12 2 (1.96%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
12 2 (1.96%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.73%) REST
2 2 (1.96%) LAMP
2 2 (1.96%) LEMP Stack
2 2 (1.96%) YAML
3 1 (0.98%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.98%) React
3 1 (0.98%) Vue
3 1 (0.98%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (33.33%) PKI
2 10 (9.80%) Clustering
3 7 (6.86%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 6 (5.88%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.92%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.94%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.96%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.98%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 102 (100.00%) Windows
2 20 (19.61%) Linux
3 17 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (7.84%) Ubuntu
5 7 (6.86%) CentOS
5 7 (6.86%) Windows 10
6 4 (3.92%) Mac OS
7 3 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.98%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.98%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (41.18%) ITSM
2 36 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (27.45%) Agile
4 25 (24.51%) Change Management
5 24 (23.53%) Service Management
5 24 (23.53%) Technical Leadership
6 20 (19.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 16 (15.69%) ITIL
8 13 (12.75%) Business Intelligence
8 13 (12.75%) eTOM
9 12 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (11.76%) Software Distribution
10 10 (9.80%) Service Delivery
11 9 (8.82%) Data Visualisation
11 9 (8.82%) Visualisation
12 8 (7.84%) High Availability
13 7 (6.86%) Coaching
13 7 (6.86%) Prototyping
14 6 (5.88%) Mentoring
14 6 (5.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 46 (45.10%) PowerShell
2 26 (25.49%) SQL
3 14 (13.73%) JavaScript
4 9 (8.82%) Python
5 5 (4.90%) C#
6 3 (2.94%) Bash
7 1 (0.98%) Java
Qualifications
1 88 (86.27%) Security Cleared
2 79 (77.45%) DV Cleared
3 14 (13.73%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.96%) Degree
5 2 (1.96%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.96%) NCSC
2 1 (0.98%) NIST
2 1 (0.98%) NIST 800
System Software
1 73 (71.57%) Active Directory
2 63 (61.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (25.49%) VMware ESXi
4 23 (22.55%) VMware NSX
5 18 (17.65%) vCloud
6 12 (11.76%) Hyper-V
7 10 (9.80%) vSphere
8 6 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (1.96%) Dovecot
9 2 (1.96%) Postfix
10 1 (0.98%) Docker
10 1 (0.98%) UAG
10 1 (0.98%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 40 (39.22%) vCenter Server
2 34 (33.33%) SCOM
3 13 (12.75%) Avamar
4 10 (9.80%) Ansible
4 10 (9.80%) Terraform
5 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (3.92%) WMI
6 3 (2.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (2.94%) WSUS
7 2 (1.96%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (1.96%) HAProxy
7 2 (1.96%) SCCM
7 2 (1.96%) SCSM
8 1 (0.98%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.98%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 77 (75.49%) VMware
2 39 (38.24%) Microsoft
3 15 (14.71%) Dell
3 15 (14.71%) Remedy
4 13 (12.75%) BMC
4 13 (12.75%) ServiceNow
4 13 (12.75%) Thales
5 10 (9.80%) Juniper
6 4 (3.92%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.94%) Cisco
7 3 (2.94%) NVIDIA
7 3 (2.94%) Veeam
8 2 (1.96%) F5
8 2 (1.96%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.96%) Trend Micro
9 1 (0.98%) Becrypt
9 1 (0.98%) Broadcom
9 1 (0.98%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.98%) McAfee