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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 27 31
Rank change year-on-year -14 +4 -5
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 55 41 76
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 3.72% 5.72% 5.07%
As % of the Operating Systems category 22.54% 25.47% 24.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 37 28
10th Percentile £485 £420 £414
25th Percentile £500 £484 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £660 £661 £577
90th Percentile £825 £675 £595
South East median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £32.00
25th Percentile £44.86 - £49.25
Median hourly rate £48.72 - £78.00
75th Percentile £52.58 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £26.44 - £66.50
% change year-on-year - - +20.91%

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 244 161 315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 16.49% 22.45% 21.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 118 148
10th Percentile £298 £344 £200
25th Percentile £471 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.13% -3.45% +1.29%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £675
90th Percentile £726 £675 £825
South East median daily rate £465 £468 £438
% change year-on-year -0.53% +6.86% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 14 23
10th Percentile £15.62 £56.61 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £61.56 £19.10
Median hourly rate £25.15 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.76% +0.81% +90.77%
75th Percentile £48.75 £69.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £51.81 £80.25 £77.90
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £57.75 £52.28
% change year-on-year -64.00% +10.46% +80.90%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 +7 31 £500 +5.26% 8
Portsmouth +1 4 £500 +21.21% 4
Winchester -3 2 £850 +37.93% 2
Farnborough -10 2 £505 -12.17% 8
Southampton - 2 £640 - 3
Fleet - 2 £508 -
Havant - 1 £163 -
Hayling Island - 1 £650 -
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 (21.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.64%) IIS
3 1 (1.82%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.09%) Azure
1 5 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (5.45%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.82%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (32.73%) DNS
2 11 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 11 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
2 11 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
2 11 (20.00%) Junos
3 3 (5.45%) DHCP
3 3 (5.45%) VSAN
4 2 (3.64%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (3.64%) Firewall
4 2 (3.64%) iSCSI
4 2 (3.64%) WAN
5 1 (1.82%) LAN
5 1 (1.82%) SNMP
5 1 (1.82%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.82%) VLAN
5 1 (1.82%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.91%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.45%) Power BI
3 2 (3.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (10.91%) Robot Framework
2 4 (7.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (16.36%) Military
2 6 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (10.91%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.64%) Finance
5 1 (1.82%) Banking
5 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (30.91%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 11 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 11 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 11 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 11 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 10 (18.18%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 10 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
3 10 (18.18%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 9 (16.36%) Architect
4 9 (16.36%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 9 (16.36%) Network Support
4 9 (16.36%) Network Support Engineer
5 7 (12.73%) Product Owner
6 6 (10.91%) Infrastructure Architect
7 4 (7.27%) Senior
8 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) ITSM Architect
8 3 (5.45%) Lead
8 3 (5.45%) Senior Architect
9 2 (3.64%) Windows Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.09%) REST
2 2 (3.64%) AngularJS
2 2 (3.64%) React
2 2 (3.64%) Vue
3 1 (1.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.45%) PKI
2 7 (12.73%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (12.73%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.27%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.82%) Clustering
5 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 55 (100.00%) Windows
2 19 (34.55%) Linux
3 5 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (7.27%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (5.45%) CentOS
6 2 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (3.64%) Ubuntu
6 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (36.36%) Agile
2 19 (34.55%) ITSM
3 17 (30.91%) Service Management
4 11 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (18.18%) ITIL
5 10 (18.18%) Prototyping
6 8 (14.55%) High Availability
7 7 (12.73%) Change Management
8 6 (10.91%) Test Automation
9 5 (9.09%) Creative Thinking
9 5 (9.09%) Product Roadmap
9 5 (9.09%) Roadmaps
10 4 (7.27%) DevOps
10 4 (7.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 4 (7.27%) Mentoring
10 4 (7.27%) Security Architecture
11 3 (5.45%) Business Intelligence
11 3 (5.45%) Containerisation
11 3 (5.45%) Customer Requirements
11 3 (5.45%) eTOM
Programming Languages
1 24 (43.64%) PowerShell
2 8 (14.55%) Python
2 8 (14.55%) SQL
3 5 (9.09%) C#
3 5 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.64%) Bash
4 2 (3.64%) Java
Qualifications
1 46 (83.64%) Security Cleared
2 34 (61.82%) DV Cleared
3 9 (16.36%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.45%) MCSE
4 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.82%) MCSA
5 1 (1.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.82%) JSP 440
System Software
1 43 (78.18%) Active Directory
2 19 (34.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (25.45%) VMware NSX
4 7 (12.73%) Hyper-V
4 7 (12.73%) vSphere
5 3 (5.45%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (3.64%) Docker
6 2 (3.64%) NFS
7 1 (1.82%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 20 (36.36%) vCenter Server
2 8 (14.55%) Terraform
3 7 (12.73%) Ansible
4 6 (10.91%) SCOM
5 5 (9.09%) SCCM
6 4 (7.27%) Kubernetes
7 2 (3.64%) WSUS
8 1 (1.82%) Backup Exec
8 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.82%) Nessus
8 1 (1.82%) Norton AntiVirus
8 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.82%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 35 (63.64%) VMware
2 19 (34.55%) Microsoft
3 12 (21.82%) Cisco
4 11 (20.00%) Juniper
4 11 (20.00%) SolarWinds
5 4 (7.27%) ServiceNow
6 3 (5.45%) BMC
6 3 (5.45%) Remedy
6 3 (5.45%) Veeam
7 2 (3.64%) CyberArk
7 2 (3.64%) NetApp
7 2 (3.64%) Splunk
8 1 (1.82%) Acronis
8 1 (1.82%) F5
8 1 (1.82%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.82%) McAfee
8 1 (1.82%) NVIDIA
8 1 (1.82%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.82%) Symantec