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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 30 27
Rank change year-on-year -21 -3 +18
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 19 8 18
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 2.64% 3.35% 6.06%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.17% 19.51% 21.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 14
10th Percentile £480 £460 £196
25th Percentile £515 £513 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £529 £411
Median % change year-on-year +16.36% +28.71% -17.87%
75th Percentile £623 £543 £430
90th Percentile - £553 £462
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £565 £529 £406
% change year-on-year +6.90% +30.09% -17.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £33.70 - £35.58
Median hourly rate £38.72 - £36.17
75th Percentile £43.75 - £36.75
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £38.72 - £36.17

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 82 41 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 11.39% 17.15% 28.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 23 69
10th Percentile £383 £181 £237
25th Percentile £500 £278 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £325 £415
Median % change year-on-year +65.05% -21.69% -12.63%
75th Percentile £610 £506 £484
90th Percentile £631 £542 £565
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £536 £350 £413
% change year-on-year +53.26% -15.15% -12.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 5
10th Percentile £15.75 - £21.13
25th Percentile £21.55 - £30.00
Median hourly rate £38.72 £15.12 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +156.08% -55.53% -
75th Percentile £43.75 - £36.75
90th Percentile - - £37.50
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £38.72 £14.20 £30.00
% change year-on-year +172.68% -52.67% +44.58%

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 6 September 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (21.05%) FactoryTalk
Cloud Services
1 15 (78.95%) Azure
1 15 (78.95%) Azure Monitor
2 8 (42.11%) Azure Sentinel
3 7 (36.84%) Entra ID
4 4 (21.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 11 (57.89%) Firewall
1 11 (57.89%) TCP/IP
2 10 (52.63%) DNS
3 7 (36.84%) DHCP
3 7 (36.84%) VPN
4 6 (31.58%) SSH
5 4 (21.05%) Network Security
5 4 (21.05%) VLAN
General
1 10 (52.63%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Manufacturing
2 4 (21.05%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (10.53%) Military
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 10 (52.63%) Senior
1 10 (52.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (42.11%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) Monitoring Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Automation Specialist
4 4 (21.05%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (52.63%) ARM Templates
1 10 (52.63%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 15 (78.95%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (42.11%) Onboarding
3 7 (36.84%) ARM Cortex
4 4 (21.05%) Life Science
4 4 (21.05%) Operational Technology
4 4 (21.05%) SCADA
5 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
6 1 (5.26%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (63.16%) Linux
3 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Analytics
1 14 (73.68%) Log Analytics
2 12 (63.16%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (63.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (52.63%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 10 (52.63%) Validation
4 9 (47.37%) ITIL
4 9 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (42.11%) Platform Engineering
5 8 (42.11%) Security Hardening
5 8 (42.11%) Task Automation
6 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure Automation
6 7 (36.84%) Observability
7 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
7 6 (31.58%) Data Collection
7 6 (31.58%) Deployment Automation
7 6 (31.58%) DevOps
8 5 (26.32%) Resource Management
8 5 (26.32%) Server Patching
8 5 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 10 (52.63%) Bash
2 10 (52.63%) Bicep
3 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (78.95%) Security Cleared
2 12 (63.16%) DV Cleared
3 8 (42.11%) Degree
4 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 4 (21.05%) GxP
System Software
1 10 (52.63%) Active Directory
2 9 (47.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (36.84%) SCCM
2 5 (26.32%) SCOM
3 4 (21.05%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (78.95%) Microsoft
2 9 (47.37%) VMware
3 8 (42.11%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (21.05%) Rockwell
5 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow