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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 19 21
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 +30
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 58 106 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 5.82% 6.97% 7.76%
As % of the Operating Systems category 28.16% 29.36% 27.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 65 48
10th Percentile £500 £438 £321
25th Percentile £525 £506 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £645 £613
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £468
% change year-on-year - +17.52% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £24.65
25th Percentile - - £35.00
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
75th Percentile - - £60.00
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £32.77 £61.60 £52.87
% change year-on-year -46.80% +16.52% -32.87%

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 206 361 359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 20.66% 23.75% 27.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 209 199
10th Percentile £259 £360 £200
25th Percentile £449 £450 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £628 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £640
South East median daily rate £475 £473 £425
% change year-on-year +0.53% +11.18% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 24 45
10th Percentile £18.87 £17.69 £15.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £26.25 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.07% +21.74% +238.24%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £66.25
90th Percentile £58.74 £72.63 £74.50
South East median hourly rate £18.87 £57.87 £55.00
% change year-on-year -67.39% +5.22% +223.53%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 +8 33 £600 +9.09% 8
Romsey - 5 £508 -
Southampton -1 4 £529 +11.32% 10
Fareham - 3 - - 5
Portsmouth -1 2 £550 +2.33% 4
Farnborough +1 1 £600 - 3
Winchester +1 1 £200 -62.10%
Eastleigh -2 1 £500 - 2
Havant - 1 £220 - 2
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 (20.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.90%) Apache
3 1 (1.72%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 8 (13.79%) AWS
1 8 (13.79%) GCP
1 8 (13.79%) IaaS
1 8 (13.79%) OpenShift
1 8 (13.79%) PaaS
2 3 (5.17%) Azure
3 1 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (27.59%) Fibre Channel
1 16 (27.59%) iSCSI
2 12 (20.69%) DHCP
2 12 (20.69%) DNS
3 10 (17.24%) Firewall
4 8 (13.79%) SMTP
4 8 (13.79%) VPN
5 2 (3.45%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (3.45%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (3.45%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (3.45%) Junos
5 2 (3.45%) VSAN
6 1 (1.72%) HTTP
6 1 (1.72%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.72%) NAS
6 1 (1.72%) SAN
6 1 (1.72%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.79%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (13.79%) Big Data
1 8 (13.79%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (18.97%) MSI
2 4 (6.90%) Robot Framework
2 4 (6.90%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (12.07%) Public Sector
2 2 (3.45%) Military
3 1 (1.72%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (29.31%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 16 (27.59%) Architect
2 16 (27.59%) Infrastructure Architect
2 16 (27.59%) VMware Architect
3 11 (18.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (18.97%) Support Engineer
4 10 (17.24%) 3rd Line Support
4 10 (17.24%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 8 (13.79%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (12.07%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 7 (12.07%) Infrastructure Support
6 7 (12.07%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Exchange Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Integration Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) SCCM Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Windows Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Administrator
8 3 (5.17%) Configuration Manager
8 3 (5.17%) Server Administrator
9 2 (3.45%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (24.14%) PKI
2 9 (15.52%) Data Centre
3 8 (13.79%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 58 (100.00%) Windows
2 28 (48.28%) Windows Server 2019
3 19 (32.76%) Linux
4 10 (17.24%) Windows 10
5 7 (12.07%) CentOS
6 6 (10.34%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (8.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (5.17%) Ubuntu
8 3 (5.17%) Unix
8 3 (5.17%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (5.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (3.45%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (3.45%) Solaris
10 1 (1.72%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (20.69%) DevOps
1 12 (20.69%) Edge Virtualization
1 12 (20.69%) Performance Analysis
2 11 (18.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (13.79%) Artificial Intelligence
3 8 (13.79%) Machine Learning
3 8 (13.79%) Software Deployment
4 7 (12.07%) Change Management
4 7 (12.07%) Data Analysis
4 7 (12.07%) Security Patching
5 6 (10.34%) ITSM
6 5 (8.62%) Operational Stability
6 5 (8.62%) Prototyping
6 5 (8.62%) Service Management
7 4 (6.90%) Batch Scripting
7 4 (6.90%) Customer Requirements
7 4 (6.90%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (6.90%) Mentoring
7 4 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (6.90%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 25 (43.10%) PowerShell
1 25 (43.10%) SQL
2 7 (12.07%) C#
3 6 (10.34%) VB
4 4 (6.90%) PHP
4 4 (6.90%) Python
Qualifications
1 42 (72.41%) Security Cleared
2 37 (63.79%) DV Cleared
3 16 (27.59%) MCSE
3 16 (27.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (20.69%) VCP5
4 12 (20.69%) VCP6
4 12 (20.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 8 (13.79%) Degree
6 6 (10.34%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 30 (51.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (43.10%) VMware ESXi
3 20 (34.48%) vSphere
4 19 (32.76%) Active Directory
4 19 (32.76%) NFS
5 11 (18.97%) Hyper-V
6 9 (15.52%) Microsoft App-V
7 8 (13.79%) BitLocker
7 8 (13.79%) Docker
7 8 (13.79%) Terminal Services
8 2 (3.45%) VMware NSX
9 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (1.72%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 15 (25.86%) Ansible
2 13 (22.41%) vCenter Server
3 12 (20.69%) SCCM
4 8 (13.79%) Kubernetes
4 8 (13.79%) Nagios
4 8 (13.79%) Puppet
4 8 (13.79%) vMotion
5 7 (12.07%) Terraform
6 4 (6.90%) WMI
6 4 (6.90%) WSUS
7 3 (5.17%) SCOM
7 3 (5.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 39 (67.24%) Microsoft
2 36 (62.07%) VMware
3 16 (27.59%) NetApp
3 16 (27.59%) Splunk
3 16 (27.59%) Veeam
4 8 (13.79%) Citrix
4 8 (13.79%) Google
4 8 (13.79%) HP
4 8 (13.79%) Symantec
5 5 (8.62%) Red Hat
5 5 (8.62%) SolarWinds
6 2 (3.45%) Cisco
6 2 (3.45%) Dell
6 2 (3.45%) EMC
6 2 (3.45%) Juniper
6 2 (3.45%) McAfee
6 2 (3.45%) Oracle