Windows Server Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Windows Server
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 84 56 52
Rank change year-on-year -28 -4 +7
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 27 80 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.41% 2.90% 4.13%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.67% 19.09% 22.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 66 102
10th Percentile £225 £169 £223
25th Percentile £300 £213 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -17.65% +30.67%
75th Percentile £500 £497 £616
90th Percentile £534 £731 £700
England median daily rate £540 £468 £500
% change year-on-year +15.51% -6.50% +17.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £21.30
25th Percentile - - £23.24
Median hourly rate - - £26.48
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £18.75 £38.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -51.30% +28.33% +33.33%

All Operating Systems
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 253 419 641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.22% 15.20% 18.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 268 433
10th Percentile £150 £145 £158
25th Percentile £200 £190 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £391 £377 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -20.74% +26.67%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £558
90th Percentile £578 £612 £688
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 42 38
10th Percentile £15.16 £12.86 £11.80
25th Percentile £16.31 £14.27 £14.64
Median hourly rate £18.13 £18.50 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.05% +3.59%
75th Percentile £19.63 £23.75 £19.98
90th Percentile £24.21 - £30.61
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the Midlands

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in the Midlands

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in the Midlands

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in the Midlands

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands -21 19 £375 +3.45% 42
East Midlands -5 8 £500 +53.85% 52
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (7.41%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.70%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) AWS
3 4 (14.81%) Entra ID
4 3 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.41%) OneDrive
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Stack
6 1 (3.70%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) LAN
2 4 (14.81%) Cisco ISE
2 4 (14.81%) NAS
2 4 (14.81%) SAN
3 3 (11.11%) DNS
3 3 (11.11%) Firewall
3 3 (11.11%) NetScaler
3 3 (11.11%) VPN
4 2 (7.41%) DHCP
4 2 (7.41%) SSL
4 2 (7.41%) TCP/IP
4 2 (7.41%) WAN
5 1 (3.70%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Git
1 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Manufacturing
3 3 (11.11%) Legal
4 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Storage Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Windows Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Administrator
4 2 (7.41%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (7.41%) Applications Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Architect
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) IT Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Security Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) Apache Axis
2 2 (7.41%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 4 (14.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.41%) Replication
4 1 (3.70%) CCTV
4 1 (3.70%) Clustering
4 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.70%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.70%) PKI
4 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (29.63%) Linux
3 5 (18.52%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (18.52%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (11.11%) Ubuntu
4 3 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (7.41%) Rocky
5 2 (7.41%) Windows 10
6 1 (3.70%) CentOS
6 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (25.93%) ITIL
3 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (14.81%) Patch Management
4 4 (14.81%) Storage Management
5 3 (11.11%) Customer-Centricity
5 3 (11.11%) Design Patterns
5 3 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (11.11%) Microservices
5 3 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (11.11%) SOA
6 2 (7.41%) Cost Reduction
6 2 (7.41%) Customer-Centric Approach
6 2 (7.41%) Identity Management
6 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Maintenance
6 2 (7.41%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (7.41%) RBAC
6 2 (7.41%) Risk Management
6 2 (7.41%) Roadmaps
6 2 (7.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) PowerShell
2 7 (25.93%) Python
3 3 (11.11%) C#
3 3 (11.11%) Java
3 3 (11.11%) Ruby
3 3 (11.11%) SQL
4 2 (7.41%) Perl
5 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 11 (40.74%) SC Cleared
3 5 (18.52%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (11.11%) CISSP
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Certification
5 2 (7.41%) Degree
6 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.70%) MCSE
6 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.70%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (11.11%) QA
3 2 (7.41%) GDPR
3 2 (7.41%) NIST
4 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 10 (37.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (22.22%) Hyper-V
4 4 (14.81%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (7.41%) vSphere
6 1 (3.70%) Firmware
6 1 (3.70%) XenApp
6 1 (3.70%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (22.22%) SCCM
2 3 (11.11%) Ansible
2 3 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (7.41%) Terraform
4 1 (3.70%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.70%) SolarWinds Orion
4 1 (3.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (44.44%) VMware
2 8 (29.63%) Dell
3 6 (22.22%) Cisco
4 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
5 3 (11.11%) HP
6 2 (7.41%) Databricks
6 2 (7.41%) IBM
7 1 (3.70%) Citrix
7 1 (3.70%) SolarWinds
7 1 (3.70%) Veeam