Windows Server Contracts in Manchester

Microsoft Windows Server
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 35 67
Rank change year-on-year -19 +32 +10
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 22 62 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.44% 4.32% 2.77%
As % of the Operating Systems category 19.82% 36.26% 18.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 46 38
10th Percentile £370 £282 £211
25th Percentile £385 £467 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £800 £542
Median % change year-on-year -45.31% +47.71% +66.65%
75th Percentile £510 £850 £579
90th Percentile £525 - £700
North West median daily rate £431 £800 £446
% change year-on-year -46.09% +79.27% +18.21%

All Operating Systems
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 111 171 266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 12.29% 11.91% 15.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 124 191
10th Percentile £189 £300 £189
25th Percentile £228 £375 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.19% +4.21% -5.00%
75th Percentile £500 £800 £578
90th Percentile £606 £850 £650
North West median daily rate £400 £438 £475
% change year-on-year -8.57% -7.89% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 15
10th Percentile - £18.40 £13.18
25th Percentile - - £15.88
Median hourly rate £13.00 £25.25 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.51% +32.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £13.80 £48.00 £26.00
90th Percentile £36.76 £68.50 £35.26
North West median hourly rate £14.40 £14.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +2.86% -49.09% +37.50%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Manchester

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Manchester

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Manchester over the 6 months to 5 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Manchester

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Manchester

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 14 (63.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (9.09%) IIS
2 2 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (72.73%) Azure
2 15 (68.18%) Entra ID
2 15 (68.18%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (45.45%) IaaS
4 3 (13.64%) AWS
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (9.09%) Nutanix
5 2 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Stack
6 1 (4.55%) Cloudflare
6 1 (4.55%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 12 (54.55%) Firewall
1 12 (54.55%) Network Security
2 11 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 8 (36.36%) DHCP
4 7 (31.82%) DNS
5 2 (9.09%) VPN
6 1 (4.55%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) GitLab
1 1 (4.55%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 11 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.09%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Military
3 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Analyst
1 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Lead
5 2 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 1 (4.55%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) IT Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) IT Support
6 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Specialist
6 1 (4.55%) Senior
6 1 (4.55%) Software Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Clustering
1 2 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) NHS
2 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 22 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (27.27%) Linux
3 2 (9.09%) CentOS
3 2 (9.09%) VMS
3 2 (9.09%) Windows 10
3 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 11 (50.00%) Change Management
1 11 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 10 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (36.36%) BCP
3 8 (36.36%) Business Continuity Planning
3 8 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (36.36%) Enterprise Architecture
3 8 (36.36%) High Availability
3 8 (36.36%) Information Security
3 8 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (36.36%) Project Delivery
3 8 (36.36%) Risk Assessment
4 7 (31.82%) Line Management
4 7 (31.82%) Web Operations
5 5 (22.73%) Analytics
5 5 (22.73%) ITIL
6 3 (13.64%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (13.64%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 11 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.55%) NCSC
2 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (95.45%) Active Directory
2 12 (54.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (50.00%) vSphere
4 2 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (9.09%) VMware NSX
5 1 (4.55%) BitLocker
5 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 14 (63.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (9.09%) Ansible
2 2 (9.09%) Nagios
2 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
2 2 (9.09%) Terraform
2 2 (9.09%) WSUS
2 2 (9.09%) ZABBIX
3 1 (4.55%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (77.27%) Microsoft
1 17 (77.27%) VMware
2 3 (13.64%) Dell
3 2 (9.09%) CyberArk
3 2 (9.09%) HP
3 2 (9.09%) IBM
3 2 (9.09%) SolarWinds
4 1 (4.55%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.55%) Citrix
4 1 (4.55%) Google
4 1 (4.55%) Zscaler