Windows Server Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Windows Server
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 59 59
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 +12
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 150 207 269
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.16% 3.54% 3.71%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.33% 22.28% 20.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 139 194
10th Percentile £210 £190 £140
25th Percentile £285 £300 £186
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £430 £325
Median % change year-on-year +10.47% +32.31% -12.16%
75th Percentile £813 £555 £470
90th Percentile £850 £631 £607
England median daily rate £450 £500 £427
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.10% +6.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 23 17
10th Percentile - £25.75 £13.65
25th Percentile £16.25 £29.00 £15.04
Median hourly rate £17.50 £42.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.82% +123.68% +3.73%
75th Percentile £18.75 £49.46 £23.00
90th Percentile - £51.61 £34.13
England median hourly rate £32.50 £29.30 £22.50
% change year-on-year +10.92% +30.22% -10.00%

All Operating Systems
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 738 929 1,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.55% 15.88% 17.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 667 924
10th Percentile £163 £169 £140
25th Percentile £275 £231 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +18.75% +6.67%
75th Percentile £533 £575 £538
90th Percentile £650 £675 £630
England median daily rate £459 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -11.73% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 61 88
10th Percentile - £13.96 £12.33
25th Percentile £10.95 £17.72 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £27.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.82% +57.14% +2.94%
75th Percentile £19.63 £43.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £25.25 £49.52 £41.71
England median hourly rate £22.00 £29.30 £21.50
% change year-on-year -24.91% +36.28% +20.21%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the North of England

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in the North of England

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in the North of England

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in the North of England

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
North West -17 76 £800 +59.20% 66
Yorkshire +20 56 £363 -0.07% 39
North East +24 18 £488 +111.96% 17
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 19 (12.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (11.33%) SharePoint
3 6 (4.00%) IIS
4 2 (1.33%) Apache
4 2 (1.33%) nginx
5 1 (0.67%) JBoss
5 1 (0.67%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (5.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.67%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 44 (29.33%) Microsoft 365
2 25 (16.67%) Azure
3 13 (8.67%) AWS
4 6 (4.00%) IaaS
5 5 (3.33%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.33%) Azure AKS
6 2 (1.33%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.67%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.67%) Azure Stack
7 1 (0.67%) Cohesity
7 1 (0.67%) Datadog
7 1 (0.67%) GCP
7 1 (0.67%) OCI
7 1 (0.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 67 (44.67%) Firewall
2 62 (41.33%) VPN
3 16 (10.67%) LAN
4 13 (8.67%) DNS
5 11 (7.33%) DHCP
5 11 (7.33%) SAN
5 11 (7.33%) WAN
6 9 (6.00%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (4.00%) Internet
8 5 (3.33%) VLAN
9 4 (2.67%) VoIP
10 3 (2.00%) AMQP
10 3 (2.00%) MQTT
11 2 (1.33%) DMZ
11 2 (1.33%) Modbus
11 2 (1.33%) NAS
12 1 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (0.67%) SMTP
12 1 (0.67%) TCP/IP
12 1 (0.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.67%) Big Data
3 2 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.33%) Tableau
4 1 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.67%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.67%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (0.67%) GitLab
1 1 (0.67%) Gradle
1 1 (0.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.67%) JIRA
1 1 (0.67%) Liquibase
1 1 (0.67%) SonarQube
1 1 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (7.33%) Public Sector
3 8 (5.33%) Finance
4 7 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.67%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.00%) Legal
6 4 (2.67%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.00%) Aviation
7 3 (2.00%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.33%) Banking
9 1 (0.67%) Back Office
9 1 (0.67%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.67%) Military
9 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (31.33%) Architect
2 40 (26.67%) Technical Architect
3 30 (20.00%) Lead
3 30 (20.00%) Lead Architect
3 30 (20.00%) Technical Leader
4 23 (15.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 19 (12.67%) IT Support
6 16 (10.67%) Support Engineer
7 11 (7.33%) 3rd Line Support
7 11 (7.33%) Senior
8 8 (5.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 8 (5.33%) Analyst
8 8 (5.33%) Server Engineer
8 8 (5.33%) Windows Engineer
9 7 (4.67%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
9 7 (4.67%) Cloud Architect
9 7 (4.67%) Wintel Engineer
10 6 (4.00%) Linux Engineer
10 6 (4.00%) Migration Engineer
11 5 (3.33%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (28.67%) Node.js
2 5 (3.33%) XML
2 5 (3.33%) XSLT
3 4 (2.67%) JSON
3 4 (2.67%) Web Services
4 3 (2.00%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (2.00%) LDAP
5 2 (1.33%) ADSI
5 2 (1.33%) Middleware
5 2 (1.33%) React Native
6 1 (0.67%) IBM Integration Bus
6 1 (0.67%) jQuery
6 1 (0.67%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.67%) RESTful
6 1 (0.67%) SOAP
6 1 (0.67%) Spring
6 1 (0.67%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 30 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 15 (10.00%) Clustering
3 9 (6.00%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.33%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (4.67%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.67%) Mobile App
6 5 (3.33%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.67%) PKI
8 2 (1.33%) IoT
8 2 (1.33%) iPad
8 2 (1.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.67%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.67%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.67%) Freedom of Information Act
9 1 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.67%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.67%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 150 (100.00%) Windows
2 46 (30.67%) Apple iOS
3 45 (30.00%) Android
4 19 (12.67%) Windows Server 2012
5 18 (12.00%) Linux
5 18 (12.00%) Windows 10
6 13 (8.67%) Windows Server 2016
7 11 (7.33%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (6.67%) VMS
9 4 (2.67%) Unix
10 3 (2.00%) Mac OS
10 3 (2.00%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (1.33%) zOS
12 1 (0.67%) CentOS
12 1 (0.67%) Fedora
12 1 (0.67%) Rocky
12 1 (0.67%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (37.33%) Mobile Device Management
2 43 (28.67%) CI/CD
2 43 (28.67%) Risk Management
3 42 (28.00%) Security Architecture
3 42 (28.00%) Zero Trust
4 40 (26.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 40 (26.67%) Threat Intelligence
5 36 (24.00%) Agile
6 33 (22.00%) DevOps
7 29 (19.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 27 (18.00%) Design Patterns
9 17 (11.33%) Customer Service
9 17 (11.33%) ITIL
10 14 (9.33%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (9.33%) Roadmaps
11 12 (8.00%) Microservices
11 12 (8.00%) Migration
11 12 (8.00%) Product Strategy
11 12 (8.00%) Strategic Roadmap
12 10 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 20 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 17 (11.33%) SQL
3 3 (2.00%) Java
3 3 (2.00%) Python
4 2 (1.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.33%) Kotlin
5 1 (0.67%) Bash
5 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 27 (18.00%) SC Cleared
3 17 (11.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (8.67%) Degree
5 9 (6.00%) MCSE
6 7 (4.67%) DV Cleared
7 5 (3.33%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.33%) CCNA
7 5 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (3.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (2.00%) MCSA
9 2 (1.33%) A+ Certification
9 2 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.33%) CCENT
10 1 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (0.67%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 30 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (9.33%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.67%) Docker
4 4 (2.67%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.00%) VMware Workstation
5 3 (2.00%) vSphere
6 2 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.33%) XenApp
7 1 (0.67%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.67%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.67%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (6.00%) SCCM
2 8 (5.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (2.00%) Autotask
4 3 (2.00%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (2.00%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (2.00%) vCenter Server
5 2 (1.33%) Grafana
5 2 (1.33%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (1.33%) Terraform
6 1 (0.67%) Anchore
6 1 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.67%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.67%) Kibana
6 1 (0.67%) Packer
6 1 (0.67%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.67%) Rsyslog
6 1 (0.67%) vMotion
6 1 (0.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 49 (32.67%) Microsoft
2 44 (29.33%) VMware
3 9 (6.00%) Apple
4 8 (5.33%) Cisco
5 7 (4.67%) Google
6 6 (4.00%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.33%) Citrix
7 5 (3.33%) NetApp
8 3 (2.00%) Datto
8 3 (2.00%) Dell
8 3 (2.00%) HP
9 2 (1.33%) Adobe
9 2 (1.33%) MEDITECH
9 2 (1.33%) Oracle
9 2 (1.33%) Symantec
10 1 (0.67%) 3PAR
10 1 (0.67%) Aruba
10 1 (0.67%) Brocade
10 1 (0.67%) Infoblox
10 1 (0.67%) Splunk