Windows Server Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Microsoft Windows Server
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Windows Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 24 41
Rank change year-on-year -34 +17 +16
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 4 7 6
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.56% 4.19% 1.50%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.80% 35.00% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 5
10th Percentile £488 £364 -
25th Percentile £505 £400 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £450 £250
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% +80.00% -48.05%
75th Percentile £570 £550 £480
90th Percentile £588 £580 £522
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £499 £450 £235
% change year-on-year +10.83% +91.49% -51.79%

All Operating Systems
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 69 20 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 9.60% 11.98% 16.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 16 47
10th Percentile £390 £232 £209
25th Percentile £465 £325 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £388 £450
Median % change year-on-year +38.43% -13.89% -10.45%
75th Percentile £610 £438 £544
90th Percentile £643 £513 £550
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £518 £421 £450
% change year-on-year +23.07% -6.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 12
10th Percentile - - £18.00
25th Percentile - - £21.38
Median hourly rate - - £23.17
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - £14.20 £22.58
% change year-on-year - -37.11% -

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Windows Server job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Windows Server
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Windows Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Milton Keynes

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Windows Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Monitoring Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow