Windows Server Contracts in the North East

Microsoft Windows Server
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 34 21 42
Rank change year-on-year -13 +21 -17
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 4 17 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 1.25% 5.03% 4.02%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.89% 42.50% 20.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 14
10th Percentile £485 £411 £140
25th Percentile £519 £431 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £259
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +93.24% -42.50%
75th Percentile £656 £638 £635
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £540 £468 £500
% change year-on-year +15.51% -6.50% +17.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.25 -
Median hourly rate £18.75 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £19.38 £18.75 -
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
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 45 40 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 14.06% 11.83% 19.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 28 64
10th Percentile £180 £171 £205
25th Percentile £188 £190 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £408 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.25% -22.38% +85.84%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £747
90th Percentile £615 £650 £775
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate £18.75 £17.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -46.15% +116.67%
75th Percentile £19.38 £18.75 £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
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 North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the North East

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in the North East

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in the North East

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in the North East

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East 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
Tyne and Wear -18 3 £600 +20.00% 11
Durham +2 1 - - 4
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) IaaS
1 3 (75.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support Technician
2 1 (25.00%) IT Technician
2 1 (25.00%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (75.00%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft