Windows Server Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Windows Server
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 68 61 64
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 104 144 198
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.16% 3.02% 3.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.67% 19.86% 21.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 116 132
10th Percentile £311 £211 £190
25th Percentile £358 £285 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £434
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +9.51% +33.46%
75th Percentile £570 £825 £550
90th Percentile £575 £850 £620
England median daily rate £540 £468 £500
% change year-on-year +15.51% -6.50% +17.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 23
10th Percentile - - £26.10
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.25 £29.30
Median hourly rate £18.75 £17.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -58.82% +112.50%
75th Percentile £19.38 £18.75 £49.46
90th Percentile - - £51.61
England median hourly rate £18.75 £38.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -51.30% +28.33% +33.33%

All Operating Systems
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 557 725 911
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.90% 15.21% 15.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 495 652
10th Percentile £163 £167 £165
25th Percentile £210 £275 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -10.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £538 £531 £575
90th Percentile £635 £650 £675
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 80 57
10th Percentile £13.00 - £13.98
25th Percentile £16.25 £10.95 £17.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 £16.00 £28.70
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -44.25% +63.35%
75th Percentile £19.75 £19.44 £43.75
90th Percentile £41.50 £30.68 £49.52
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 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 1 May 2025.

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 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
North West +8 66 £445 -44.38% 79
Yorkshire -11 33 £550 +69.23% 43
North East -13 4 £600 +20.00% 19
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 33 (31.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (19.23%) SharePoint
3 16 (15.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (4.81%) IIS
5 2 (1.92%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.96%) Confluence
6 1 (0.96%) SAS
6 1 (0.96%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 15 (14.42%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (4.81%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 52 (50.00%) Azure
2 38 (36.54%) Entra ID
3 36 (34.62%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (12.50%) IaaS
5 7 (6.73%) AWS
6 4 (3.85%) Google Workspace
6 4 (3.85%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.88%) PaaS
8 2 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.92%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.92%) GCP
8 2 (1.92%) Nutanix
8 2 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.96%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 47 (45.19%) DNS
2 25 (24.04%) DHCP
3 19 (18.27%) Firewall
4 15 (14.42%) Network Security
5 11 (10.58%) Intrusion Detection
5 11 (10.58%) LAN
5 11 (10.58%) SAN
6 9 (8.65%) VPN
7 5 (4.81%) NAS
8 3 (2.88%) DMZ
8 3 (2.88%) Internet
8 3 (2.88%) iSCSI
8 3 (2.88%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (2.88%) WAN
8 3 (2.88%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (2.88%) Wireless
8 3 (2.88%) WLAN
9 2 (1.92%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (19.23%) Oracle Database
2 19 (18.27%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.92%) GIS
3 2 (1.92%) MSDE
3 2 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.96%) DTS
4 1 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (7.69%) GitLab
2 5 (4.81%) Git
3 4 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.96%) JIRA
4 1 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.96%) Selenium
4 1 (0.96%) SonarQube
General
1 33 (31.73%) Social Skills
2 14 (13.46%) Public Sector
2 14 (13.46%) Telecoms
3 7 (6.73%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.81%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.81%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (3.85%) Finance
6 4 (3.85%) Legal
6 4 (3.85%) Military
7 2 (1.92%) Aviation
7 2 (1.92%) Fire and Rescue
7 2 (1.92%) Police
7 2 (1.92%) Swedish Language
8 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 32 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (14.42%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 12 (11.54%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 8 (7.69%) Administrator
4 8 (7.69%) Engineering Specialist
4 8 (7.69%) Support Engineer
4 8 (7.69%) Windows Engineer
5 7 (6.73%) IT Engineer
5 7 (6.73%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (5.77%) Analyst
6 6 (5.77%) Linux Engineer
6 6 (5.77%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (5.77%) VMWare Administrator
6 6 (5.77%) Wintel Administrator
7 5 (4.81%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (4.81%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 5 (4.81%) Desktop Engineer
7 5 (4.81%) Desktop Support
7 5 (4.81%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 5 (4.81%) Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.85%) Middleware
2 2 (1.92%) .NET
2 2 (1.92%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 19 (18.27%) Linux Command Line
2 13 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (8.65%) Management Information System
4 7 (6.73%) Data Centre
5 5 (4.81%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.85%) Clustering
7 3 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.88%) IVR
8 2 (1.92%) Robotics
9 1 (0.96%) CCTV
9 1 (0.96%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.96%) NHS
9 1 (0.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 104 (100.00%) Windows
2 46 (44.23%) Linux
3 23 (22.12%) Windows Server 2016
4 16 (15.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 15 (14.42%) Windows Server 2012
6 11 (10.58%) VMS
6 11 (10.58%) Windows 10
7 8 (7.69%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (4.81%) Windows 8
8 5 (4.81%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (4.81%) Windows XP
9 4 (3.85%) Android
9 4 (3.85%) Unix
10 3 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (1.92%) CentOS
12 1 (0.96%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.96%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.96%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (55.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 37 (35.58%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (25.96%) ITIL
4 23 (22.12%) Agile
4 23 (22.12%) Migration
5 18 (17.31%) High Availability
6 17 (16.35%) DevOps
6 17 (16.35%) Microservices
6 17 (16.35%) Security Management
7 16 (15.38%) SOA
8 15 (14.42%) Disaster Recovery
8 15 (14.42%) Project Delivery
9 14 (13.46%) Business Continuity
9 14 (13.46%) Roadmaps
9 14 (13.46%) Server Management
10 13 (12.50%) ITSM
10 13 (12.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 12 (11.54%) BCP
11 12 (11.54%) Change Management
12 11 (10.58%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 41 (39.42%) PowerShell
2 22 (21.15%) Bash
3 21 (20.19%) SQL
4 18 (17.31%) PL/SQL
5 17 (16.35%) Perl
6 5 (4.81%) Python
7 4 (3.85%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.92%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.96%) Ruby
9 1 (0.96%) VB
9 1 (0.96%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 33 (31.73%) Security Cleared
2 29 (27.88%) SC Cleared
3 23 (22.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 20 (19.23%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (10.58%) Azure Certification
6 5 (4.81%) MCSE
7 4 (3.85%) Degree
7 4 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.96%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.96%) MCP
9 1 (0.96%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.73%) SLA
2 2 (1.92%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.96%) NCSC
System Software
1 91 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 33 (31.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (15.38%) vSphere
4 14 (13.46%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (10.58%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (7.69%) VMware NSX
7 6 (5.77%) Hyper-V
8 5 (4.81%) BitLocker
9 4 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (2.88%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.96%) Docker
11 1 (0.96%) Firmware
11 1 (0.96%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 27 (25.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (17.31%) vCenter Server
2 18 (17.31%) WSUS
3 8 (7.69%) Ansible
4 7 (6.73%) SCCM
5 6 (5.77%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (4.81%) vRealize
7 4 (3.85%) Dell DRAC
7 4 (3.85%) NetApp OnCommand
7 4 (3.85%) Terraform
8 3 (2.88%) Backup Exec
8 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (2.88%) vMotion
9 2 (1.92%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.92%) Grafana
9 2 (1.92%) Nagios
9 2 (1.92%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.92%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.96%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.96%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 60 (57.69%) Microsoft
2 49 (47.12%) VMware
3 25 (24.04%) Cisco
4 20 (19.23%) Oracle
5 8 (7.69%) Citrix
5 8 (7.69%) CyberArk
6 6 (5.77%) Dell
7 5 (4.81%) Canon
7 5 (4.81%) SolarWinds
7 5 (4.81%) Veeam
8 4 (3.85%) CheckPoint
8 4 (3.85%) Google
8 4 (3.85%) Symantec
8 4 (3.85%) Zscaler
9 3 (2.88%) Apple
9 3 (2.88%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.92%) HP
10 2 (1.92%) IBM
10 2 (1.92%) Ribbon
10 2 (1.92%) Tenable