Windows Server Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Windows Server
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Windows Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 47 53
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 +30
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 85 140 184
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.16% 4.20% 3.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.58% 23.61% 18.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 103 137
10th Percentile £177 £223 £166
25th Percentile £213 £313 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +23.35%
75th Percentile £431 £588 £425
90th Percentile £654 £700 £530
England median daily rate £475 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 9
10th Percentile - £20.75 £16.25
25th Percentile - £21.88 £16.50
Median hourly rate - £25.74 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +28.70% -57.89%
75th Percentile - £26.74 £23.50
90th Percentile - £27.19 £26.50
England median hourly rate £46.75 £34.00 £22.75
% change year-on-year +37.50% +49.45% -9.00%

All Operating Systems
Midlands

Windows Server is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 413 593 985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.35% 17.79% 19.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 398 652
10th Percentile £150 £158 £138
25th Percentile £200 £229 £199
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £445 £379
Median % change year-on-year -16.85% +17.34% +4.77%
75th Percentile £538 £564 £500
90th Percentile £628 £690 £586
England median daily rate £470 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 35 70
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.80 £13.18
25th Percentile £14.27 £14.76 £14.87
Median hourly rate £17.86 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.79% +4.24% +12.40%
75th Percentile £23.31 £21.50 £22.63
90th Percentile £23.75 £35.15 £24.55
England median hourly rate £22.00 £38.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -42.11% +72.73% +23.80%

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 14 May 2024.

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 14 May 2024. 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 +4 54 £350 -26.32% 67
East Midlands -7 29 £338 +3.85% 43
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 28 (32.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (23.53%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.53%) IIS
4 2 (2.35%) WordPress
5 1 (1.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (7.06%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 1 (1.18%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 54 (63.53%) Microsoft 365
2 32 (37.65%) Azure
3 13 (15.29%) OneDrive
4 11 (12.94%) Entra ID
5 8 (9.41%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (7.06%) Power Automate
6 6 (7.06%) Power Platform
6 6 (7.06%) PowerApps
7 3 (3.53%) AWS
8 2 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.35%) IaaS
9 1 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.18%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.18%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.18%) GitHub
9 1 (1.18%) PaaS
9 1 (1.18%) Route 53
9 1 (1.18%) Rubrik
9 1 (1.18%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (40.00%) DNS
2 23 (27.06%) DHCP
3 16 (18.82%) Firewall
4 12 (14.12%) TCP/IP
5 10 (11.76%) LAN
5 10 (11.76%) NetScaler
5 10 (11.76%) SAN
5 10 (11.76%) WAN
6 7 (8.24%) Fibre Channel
6 7 (8.24%) Remote Desktop
6 7 (8.24%) VPN
7 6 (7.06%) Unified Communications
8 4 (4.71%) VLAN
8 4 (4.71%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (3.53%) Ethernet
9 3 (3.53%) VoIP
10 2 (2.35%) iSCSI
10 2 (2.35%) NAS
10 2 (2.35%) Wireless
11 1 (1.18%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.94%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.06%) Power BI
3 1 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.18%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (4.71%) JIRA
2 1 (1.18%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.18%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.18%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (24.71%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.06%) Finance
3 4 (4.71%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.35%) Banking
6 1 (1.18%) Advertising
6 1 (1.18%) Back Office
6 1 (1.18%) Law
6 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 19 (22.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (17.65%) Support Engineer
3 8 (9.41%) 2nd Line Support
4 7 (8.24%) Administrator
4 7 (8.24%) Windows Engineer
5 6 (7.06%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 6 (7.06%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 6 (7.06%) Architect
5 6 (7.06%) Citrix Specialist
5 6 (7.06%) Deployment Engineer
5 6 (7.06%) IT Engineer
5 6 (7.06%) IT Support
5 6 (7.06%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 6 (7.06%) Microsoft Engineer
6 5 (5.88%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 5 (5.88%) Citrix Engineer
6 5 (5.88%) DBA
6 5 (5.88%) Desktop Engineer
6 5 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
6 5 (5.88%) Server Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.35%) LAMP
2 1 (1.18%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.94%) PKI
2 9 (10.59%) Driving Licence
3 6 (7.06%) Digital Signage
4 4 (4.71%) Clustering
4 4 (4.71%) Fat Client
4 4 (4.71%) Thin Client
5 2 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.35%) Replication
6 1 (1.18%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 85 (100.00%) Windows
2 21 (24.71%) Windows 10
3 15 (17.65%) Windows Server 2012
4 14 (16.47%) Windows Server 2019
5 13 (15.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 12 (14.12%) Linux
7 10 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (7.06%) Ubuntu
9 5 (5.88%) Apple iOS
9 5 (5.88%) Unix
10 4 (4.71%) CentOS
11 3 (3.53%) Mac OS
11 3 (3.53%) VMS
11 3 (3.53%) Windows 7
11 3 (3.53%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (27.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (14.12%) Patch Management
3 11 (12.94%) Customer Service
4 9 (10.59%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (10.59%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (9.41%) Application Packaging
5 8 (9.41%) Change Management
5 8 (9.41%) ITIL
5 8 (9.41%) Migration
6 6 (7.06%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (7.06%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (7.06%) High Availability
6 6 (7.06%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (7.06%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 6 (7.06%) Service Delivery
7 5 (5.88%) Security Hardening
7 5 (5.88%) Security Monitoring
7 5 (5.88%) Systems Engineering
7 5 (5.88%) Virtual Environments
7 5 (5.88%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 29 (34.12%) PowerShell
2 6 (7.06%) C#
2 6 (7.06%) SQL
3 5 (5.88%) Java
4 4 (4.71%) Bash
5 1 (1.18%) Python
5 1 (1.18%) Ruby
5 1 (1.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (14.12%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.59%) Degree
3 8 (9.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (8.24%) SC Cleared
5 5 (5.88%) DV Cleared
5 5 (5.88%) MCITP
5 5 (5.88%) MCTS
6 3 (3.53%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.35%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.88%) NIST
2 1 (1.18%) SLA
System Software
1 63 (74.12%) Active Directory
2 19 (22.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (18.82%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (12.94%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (12.94%) VMware NSX
5 10 (11.76%) XenApp
5 10 (11.76%) XenDesktop
6 9 (10.59%) Hyper-V
7 8 (9.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 7 (8.24%) vSphere
9 5 (5.88%) VMware Server
10 3 (3.53%) BitLocker
11 2 (2.35%) Docker
11 2 (2.35%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 23 (27.06%) SCCM
2 16 (18.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (17.65%) vCenter Server
4 6 (7.06%) Autotask
4 6 (7.06%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (3.53%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (3.53%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (3.53%) Terraform
6 2 (2.35%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.18%) Ansible
7 1 (1.18%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.18%) Puppet
7 1 (1.18%) Rancher
7 1 (1.18%) SCOM
7 1 (1.18%) VxRail
7 1 (1.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 50 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 32 (37.65%) VMware
3 15 (17.65%) Citrix
4 9 (10.59%) NetApp
5 7 (8.24%) Veeam
6 6 (7.06%) Oracle
7 5 (5.88%) Cisco
8 4 (4.71%) Apple
9 3 (3.53%) Datto
9 3 (3.53%) Remedy
10 2 (2.35%) Aruba
10 2 (2.35%) Palo Alto
10 2 (2.35%) ProCurve
10 2 (2.35%) Synology
10 2 (2.35%) Zerto
11 1 (1.18%) Guidewire
11 1 (1.18%) Juniper
11 1 (1.18%) Red Hat
11 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow
11 1 (1.18%) Splunk