Windows Server Contracts in Leeds

Microsoft Windows Server
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 32 65
Rank change year-on-year -5 +33 +3
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 23 32 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 4.95% 4.01% 2.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.54% 27.35% 23.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 28 19
10th Percentile £405 £270 £208
25th Percentile £513 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £415 £425
Median % change year-on-year +32.53% -2.35% +13.33%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £525
90th Percentile - £653 £565
West Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £380 £381
% change year-on-year +44.74% -0.33% +12.13%

All Operating Systems
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 112 117 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 24.09% 14.64% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 89 95
10th Percentile £209 £258 £190
25th Percentile £350 £313 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £594
90th Percentile £765 £628 £683
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £400 £470
% change year-on-year +12.50% -14.89% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 - -
Median hourly rate £41.00 £13.87 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +195.60% -82.66% +338.36%
75th Percentile £41.50 £16.07 -
90th Percentile - £17.39 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £41.00 £14.52 £15.44
% change year-on-year +182.37% -5.96% -12.12%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Leeds

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Leeds

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Leeds

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Leeds

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 16 (69.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.04%) Azure
1 3 (13.04%) Entra ID
2 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (8.70%) AWS
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (78.26%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (86.96%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
General
1 13 (56.52%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 8 (34.78%) Engineering Specialist
4 5 (21.74%) IT Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) Network Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) IP Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Active Directory Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) CCTV Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) IP Network Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Migration Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) VMS Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Windows Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (78.26%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) CCTV
3 1 (4.35%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 23 (100.00%) Windows
2 22 (95.65%) Linux
3 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (4.35%) VMS
4 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (91.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (73.91%) Agile
2 17 (73.91%) Microservices
2 17 (73.91%) Security Management
3 16 (69.57%) SOA
4 14 (60.87%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (60.87%) Server Management
5 9 (39.13%) Migration
6 7 (30.43%) Roadmaps
6 7 (30.43%) Technology Roadmap
7 3 (13.04%) Technical Architecture
8 2 (8.70%) Data Protection
8 2 (8.70%) Proactive Management
8 2 (8.70%) Proactive Monitoring
8 2 (8.70%) Project Planning
9 1 (4.35%) Customer Service
9 1 (4.35%) Incident Management
9 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Management
9 1 (4.35%) Project Delivery
9 1 (4.35%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 20 (86.96%) Bash
2 19 (82.61%) SQL
3 18 (78.26%) PL/SQL
3 18 (78.26%) PowerShell
4 17 (73.91%) Perl
Qualifications
1 20 (86.96%) Cisco Certification
1 20 (86.96%) Security Cleared
2 16 (69.57%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 22 (95.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (4.35%) vCenter Server
1 1 (4.35%) vRealize
Vendors
1 20 (86.96%) Cisco
1 20 (86.96%) Oracle
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.70%) Red Hat
3 2 (8.70%) Veeam
3 2 (8.70%) VMware