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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 27 21
Rank change year-on-year -1 -6 +28
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 50 106 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 6.03% 6.04% 8.29%
As % of the Operating Systems category 29.24% 24.94% 25.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 64 54
10th Percentile £502 £461 £333
25th Percentile £526 £511 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £600 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £636 £625
South East median daily rate £545 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -0.91% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £28.10
25th Percentile - - £35.00
Median hourly rate - - £43.75
75th Percentile - - £60.00
90th Percentile - - £74.00
South East median hourly rate £32.77 £59.80 £51.88
% change year-on-year -45.20% +15.28% -7.78%

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 171 425 426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 20.63% 24.20% 32.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 228 252
10th Percentile £315 £300 £204
25th Percentile £425 £461 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £600
90th Percentile £650 £725 £640
South East median daily rate £490 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +3.16% +5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 31 48
10th Percentile £38.19 £17.69 £16.20
25th Percentile £51.78 £19.97 £27.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +238.24%
75th Percentile £59.44 £70.00 £67.81
90th Percentile £61.08 £75.00 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -60.38% -13.64% +214.29%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +6 26 £600 +9.09% 22
Romsey - 5 £508 -
Winchester +2 4 £575 +18.80% 1
Southampton +5 3 £508 +6.84% 15
Fareham - 3 - - 4
Portsmouth +10 2 £550 +2.33% 8
Farnborough +4 1 £600 - 4
Eastleigh -1 1 £500 - 5
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 9 (18.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (8.00%) Apache
3 1 (2.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 8 (16.00%) AWS
1 8 (16.00%) GCP
1 8 (16.00%) IaaS
1 8 (16.00%) OpenShift
1 8 (16.00%) PaaS
2 4 (8.00%) Azure
3 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (2.00%) GitHub
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (32.00%) DNS
2 12 (24.00%) DHCP
3 11 (22.00%) Fibre Channel
3 11 (22.00%) iSCSI
4 10 (20.00%) Firewall
5 8 (16.00%) SMTP
5 8 (16.00%) VPN
6 4 (8.00%) VSAN
7 1 (2.00%) HTTP
7 1 (2.00%) HTTPS
7 1 (2.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.00%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (16.00%) Big Data
1 8 (16.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (22.00%) MSI
2 4 (8.00%) Robot Framework
2 4 (8.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (16.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (4.00%) Military
3 1 (2.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (30.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 11 (22.00%) Architect
2 11 (22.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 11 (22.00%) VMware Architect
3 10 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (18.00%) Support Engineer
5 8 (16.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (16.00%) 3rd Line Support
5 8 (16.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 7 (14.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure Support
6 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 4 (8.00%) Integration Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) SCCM Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Administrator
8 3 (6.00%) Configuration Manager
8 3 (6.00%) Server Administrator
9 2 (4.00%) Systems Manager
9 2 (4.00%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 14 (28.00%) PKI
2 11 (22.00%) Clustering
3 8 (16.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 50 (100.00%) Windows
2 25 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 18 (36.00%) Linux
4 14 (28.00%) Windows 10
5 6 (12.00%) CentOS
6 5 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (6.00%) Unix
8 3 (6.00%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (6.00%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (4.00%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (4.00%) Solaris
9 2 (4.00%) Ubuntu
10 1 (2.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (26.00%) DevOps
2 11 (22.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (18.00%) Edge Virtualization
3 9 (18.00%) Performance Analysis
4 8 (16.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 8 (16.00%) Machine Learning
4 8 (16.00%) Software Deployment
5 7 (14.00%) Change Management
5 7 (14.00%) Data Analysis
5 7 (14.00%) Security Patching
6 5 (10.00%) Agile
6 5 (10.00%) Prototyping
7 4 (8.00%) Batch Scripting
7 4 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (8.00%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (8.00%) ITSM
7 4 (8.00%) Test Automation
7 4 (8.00%) Web Development
7 4 (8.00%) Workflow
8 3 (6.00%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 30 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 20 (40.00%) SQL
3 7 (14.00%) C#
4 6 (12.00%) VB
5 5 (10.00%) Python
6 4 (8.00%) PHP
7 1 (2.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 40 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 31 (62.00%) DV Cleared
3 11 (22.00%) MCSE
3 11 (22.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (20.00%) SC Cleared
5 9 (18.00%) VCP5
5 9 (18.00%) VCP6
5 9 (18.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 8 (16.00%) Degree
System Software
1 26 (52.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (42.00%) Active Directory
3 20 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (32.00%) vSphere
5 14 (28.00%) Hyper-V
5 14 (28.00%) NFS
6 9 (18.00%) Microsoft App-V
7 8 (16.00%) BitLocker
7 8 (16.00%) Docker
7 8 (16.00%) Terminal Services
8 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (30.00%) Ansible
2 14 (28.00%) vCenter Server
3 12 (24.00%) SCCM
4 8 (16.00%) Kubernetes
4 8 (16.00%) Nagios
4 8 (16.00%) Puppet
4 8 (16.00%) vMotion
5 7 (14.00%) Terraform
5 7 (14.00%) WSUS
6 4 (8.00%) WMI
7 3 (6.00%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (6.00%) Norton AntiVirus
7 3 (6.00%) SCOM
8 1 (2.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 34 (68.00%) VMware
2 31 (62.00%) Microsoft
3 11 (22.00%) NetApp
3 11 (22.00%) Splunk
3 11 (22.00%) Symantec
3 11 (22.00%) Veeam
4 8 (16.00%) Citrix
4 8 (16.00%) Google
4 8 (16.00%) HP
5 6 (12.00%) SolarWinds
6 4 (8.00%) Red Hat
7 3 (6.00%) Juniper
7 3 (6.00%) NETGEAR
7 3 (6.00%) TP-LINK
8 2 (4.00%) Dell
8 2 (4.00%) McAfee
8 2 (4.00%) Oracle