Windows Server Contract Job Trends in Newport

Microsoft Windows Server
South Wales > Newport

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newport requiring Windows Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 14 20
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 -7
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 4 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in Newport 5.13% 7.69% 4.88%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.53% 40.00% 57.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile - - £148
25th Percentile £525 £185 £172
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £278 £278
Median % change year-on-year +98.20% - -49.55%
75th Percentile £575 £373 £389
90th Percentile - - £418
South Wales median daily rate £546 £365 £220
% change year-on-year +49.66% +65.91% -53.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82.50 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate £85.00 - -

All Operating Systems
Newport

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 Newport.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 17 10 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newport 21.79% 19.23% 8.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 5
10th Percentile £412 - £154
25th Percentile £485 £185 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £365 £325
Median % change year-on-year +50.68% +12.31% -40.91%
75th Percentile £575 £373 £373
90th Percentile - £408 £412
South Wales median daily rate £383 £365 £540
% change year-on-year +4.79% -32.41% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 2
10th Percentile £46.08 £29.25 £17.72
25th Percentile - £33.75 £22.77
Median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £31.18
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% +20.27% -36.04%
75th Percentile £63.13 £41.25 £39.59
90th Percentile £88.25 £51.00 £44.64
South Wales median hourly rate £23.63 £37.50 £14.36
% change year-on-year -36.99% +161.14% -69.77%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Newport

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

Windows Server job vacancy trend in Newport

Windows Server
Daily Rate Trend in Newport

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Newport

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newport 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 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (25.00%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) VSAN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (25.00%) DB2
1 1 (25.00%) MariaDB
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Military
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
1 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
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 2012
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (25.00%) Release Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Statistics
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Trend Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (25.00%) Sendmail
3 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Check_MK
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Nessus
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Splunk
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (25.00%) Tenable
3 1 (25.00%) Veeam