Windows Server Contracts in Hertfordshire

Microsoft Windows Server
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 60 31
Rank change year-on-year +39 -29 +26
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 26 15 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 7.67% 1.81% 5.29%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.26% 13.64% 18.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 15 35
10th Percentile - £277 £284
25th Percentile £525 £381 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +110.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £644
90th Percentile - £583 £828
East of England median daily rate £550 £263 £413
% change year-on-year +109.52% -36.36% -2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £72.50 - -
75th Percentile £73.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £43.92 £12.86 £22.97
% change year-on-year +241.49% -44.00% -19.17%

All Operating Systems
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 99 110 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 29.20% 13.30% 28.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 72 170
10th Percentile £425 £258 £185
25th Percentile £465 £322 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £471
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +16.71% +25.67%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £631
90th Percentile - £673 £700
East of England median daily rate £450 £350 £425
% change year-on-year +28.57% -17.65% +5.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 17 10
10th Percentile £16.95 £54.00 £16.03
25th Percentile £20.64 - £25.53
Median hourly rate £53.75 £60.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £65.19 £65.00 £71.56
90th Percentile £87.50 - £73.83
East of England median hourly rate £30.78 £17.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +81.06% - -22.73%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Hertfordshire

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in Hertfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Hertfordshire

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Hertfordshire

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in Hertfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Hertfordshire

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
Stevenage +29 24 £550 - 13
Windows Server
East of England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.69%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.85%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 22 (84.62%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 22 (84.62%) DNS
2 20 (76.92%) SAN
3 3 (11.54%) Skype
4 1 (3.85%) Firewall
4 1 (3.85%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) DB2
2 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) GitLab
General
1 2 (7.69%) Law
1 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.85%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (7.69%) Analyst
1 2 (7.69%) Architect
1 2 (7.69%) Information Analyst
1 2 (7.69%) Information Systems Analyst
1 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (7.69%) Solutions Analyst
1 2 (7.69%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (3.85%) Network Architect
2 1 (3.85%) Network Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (3.85%) VMware Architect
2 1 (3.85%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
1 2 (7.69%) Smartcard
1 2 (7.69%) YubiKey
2 1 (3.85%) Blackberry
2 1 (3.85%) PKI
2 1 (3.85%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 26 (100.00%) Windows
2 20 (76.92%) Windows Server 2016
2 20 (76.92%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (7.69%) Unix
4 1 (3.85%) Linux
4 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (76.92%) SIEM
2 19 (73.08%) Build Automation
2 19 (73.08%) Deployment Automation
2 19 (73.08%) Operations Management
3 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (7.69%) Information Management
4 2 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (7.69%) Systems Engineering
4 2 (7.69%) Validation
5 1 (3.85%) Capacity Management
5 1 (3.85%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (3.85%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (80.77%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (92.31%) DV Cleared
1 24 (92.31%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) Degree
System Software
1 25 (96.15%) Active Directory
2 20 (76.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (73.08%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 19 (73.08%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (7.69%) Hyper-V
4 2 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (88.46%) WSUS
2 22 (84.62%) SCCM
3 21 (80.77%) Ansible
4 2 (7.69%) Nessus
5 1 (3.85%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (84.62%) VMware
2 20 (76.92%) Microsoft
2 20 (76.92%) NetApp
2 20 (76.92%) Splunk
3 3 (11.54%) Tenable
4 2 (7.69%) Oracle
5 1 (3.85%) Cisco
5 1 (3.85%) HP
5 1 (3.85%) Red Hat