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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 77 74
Rank change year-on-year -40 -3 -5
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 72 93 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.80% 2.25% 2.70%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.08% 17.10% 18.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 72 94
10th Percentile £235 £210 £190
25th Percentile £313 £419 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £625 £400
Median % change year-on-year -28.64% +56.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £525 £850 £533
90th Percentile £575 - £579
England median daily rate £527 £500 £488
% change year-on-year +5.35% +2.56% +8.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 13
10th Percentile - - £25.75
25th Percentile - - £29.30
Median hourly rate - - £42.50
75th Percentile - - £48.00
90th Percentile - - £49.52
England median hourly rate £22.67 £61.60 £40.00
% change year-on-year -63.21% +54.00% +61.62%

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 596 544 764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.94% 13.18% 14.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 352 510
10th Percentile £175 £188 £165
25th Percentile £268 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £470 £440
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +6.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £573
90th Percentile £622 £784 £664
England median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 59 67
10th Percentile £13.00 - £13.16
25th Percentile £14.20 £10.95 £16.38
Median hourly rate £18.00 £15.17 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.66% -31.05% +16.14%
75th Percentile £18.87 £18.97 £43.24
90th Percentile £19.78 £24.18 £49.52
England median hourly rate £23.00 £35.58 £40.00
% change year-on-year -35.36% -11.04% +70.21%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -21 41 £393 -50.94% 58
Yorkshire -20 28 £447 -8.31% 35
North East -3 3 £500 +5.26% 12
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 12 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (13.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 9 (12.50%) WebSphere
4 8 (11.11%) IIS
5 6 (8.33%) Apache
6 4 (5.56%) JBoss
6 4 (5.56%) SharePoint
7 3 (4.17%) iPlanet
7 3 (4.17%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (1.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (6.94%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 29 (40.28%) Azure
2 16 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (19.44%) Entra ID
4 11 (15.28%) AWS
4 11 (15.28%) IaaS
5 6 (8.33%) PaaS
6 5 (6.94%) SaaS
7 3 (4.17%) GCP
7 3 (4.17%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.78%) Google Workspace
8 2 (2.78%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.39%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.39%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 27 (37.50%) DNS
2 16 (22.22%) SAN
3 15 (20.83%) Firewall
4 9 (12.50%) LAN
4 9 (12.50%) NAS
4 9 (12.50%) VPN
5 8 (11.11%) Network Security
6 6 (8.33%) DHCP
7 5 (6.94%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (5.56%) TCP/IP
9 3 (4.17%) Kerberos
9 3 (4.17%) WLAN
10 2 (2.78%) iSCSI
10 2 (2.78%) VLAN
11 1 (1.39%) DMZ
11 1 (1.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (20.83%) Oracle Database
2 8 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.78%) DB2
Development Applications
1 13 (18.06%) Git
2 12 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 9 (12.50%) GitLab
4 4 (5.56%) Bitbucket Server
4 4 (5.56%) CA Release Automation
5 2 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.39%) Postman
6 1 (1.39%) Selenium
6 1 (1.39%) SonarQube
General
1 27 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.33%) Finance
3 5 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.94%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (6.94%) Manufacturing
3 5 (6.94%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (6.94%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.94%) Telecoms
4 4 (5.56%) Banking
5 3 (4.17%) Japanese Language
6 2 (2.78%) Aviation
6 2 (2.78%) Fire and Rescue
6 2 (2.78%) Legal
6 2 (2.78%) Police
6 2 (2.78%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 17 (23.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (11.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 8 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
2 8 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 8 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 6 (8.33%) Analyst
3 6 (8.33%) IT Engineer
4 5 (6.94%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
4 5 (6.94%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
4 5 (6.94%) Desktop Engineer
4 5 (6.94%) Desktop Support
4 5 (6.94%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 5 (6.94%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 5 (6.94%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 5 (6.94%) Windows Engineer
5 4 (5.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 4 (5.56%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (5.56%) Engineering Specialist
5 4 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (4.17%) Server Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.89%) Middleware
2 4 (5.56%) OAuth
2 4 (5.56%) OpenID
2 4 (5.56%) SAML
3 3 (4.17%) LDAP
4 2 (2.78%) SOAP
4 2 (2.78%) Web Services
4 2 (2.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.28%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 8 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.17%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (4.17%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.78%) Clustering
6 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.78%) Replication
6 2 (2.78%) Robotics
7 1 (1.39%) CCTV
7 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.39%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 72 (100.00%) Windows
2 37 (51.39%) Linux
3 9 (12.50%) Windows 10
3 9 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
4 8 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
4 8 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (9.72%) Unix
6 6 (8.33%) Windows 8
7 5 (6.94%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (6.94%) Windows XP
8 3 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (4.17%) VMS
9 1 (1.39%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (1.39%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (43.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (29.17%) Agile
4 16 (22.22%) Migration
4 16 (22.22%) Project Delivery
5 13 (18.06%) Microservices
6 11 (15.28%) ITIL
7 10 (13.89%) DevOps
7 10 (13.89%) Scrum
7 10 (13.89%) Security Management
7 10 (13.89%) SOA
8 9 (12.50%) High Availability
9 8 (11.11%) Asset Management
9 8 (11.11%) Business Continuity
9 8 (11.11%) Mentoring
9 8 (11.11%) Proactive Maintenance
9 8 (11.11%) Server Management
10 7 (9.72%) CI/CD
10 7 (9.72%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (9.72%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 29 (40.28%) PowerShell
2 17 (23.61%) SQL
3 13 (18.06%) Bash
4 11 (15.28%) PL/SQL
4 11 (15.28%) Python
5 9 (12.50%) Perl
6 8 (11.11%) Shell Script
7 4 (5.56%) Groovy
8 2 (2.78%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (23.61%) SC Cleared
3 15 (20.83%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (6.94%) Azure Certification
6 4 (5.56%) AWS Certification
6 4 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (5.56%) Degree
7 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.39%) MCSE
7 1 (1.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.17%) SLA
2 2 (2.78%) QA
3 1 (1.39%) NCSC
System Software
1 61 (84.72%) Active Directory
2 20 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (16.67%) vSphere
4 9 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (12.50%) VMware NSX
5 5 (6.94%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (5.56%) Docker
6 4 (5.56%) Hyper-V
7 3 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (2.78%) BitLocker
8 2 (2.78%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 2 (2.78%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (1.39%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 14 (19.44%) vCenter Server
2 8 (11.11%) Ansible
2 8 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (11.11%) vRealize
3 6 (8.33%) SCCM
4 4 (5.56%) CA Single Sign-On
4 4 (5.56%) Progress Chef
5 3 (4.17%) Backup Exec
5 3 (4.17%) CA Wily
5 3 (4.17%) NetApp OnCommand
5 3 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (4.17%) WSUS
6 2 (2.78%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (2.78%) FortiGate
6 2 (2.78%) Grafana
6 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (2.78%) Tivoli
6 2 (2.78%) vMotion
7 1 (1.39%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (54.17%) Microsoft
2 27 (37.50%) VMware
3 18 (25.00%) Oracle
4 17 (23.61%) Cisco
5 8 (11.11%) IBM
6 7 (9.72%) Veeam
7 6 (8.33%) Citrix
7 6 (8.33%) F5
8 5 (6.94%) Canon
9 4 (5.56%) Broadcom
9 4 (5.56%) Dell
9 4 (5.56%) SolarWinds
10 3 (4.17%) AppDynamics
10 3 (4.17%) CyberArk
10 3 (4.17%) HP
10 3 (4.17%) NetApp
10 3 (4.17%) Red Hat
10 3 (4.17%) Splunk
10 3 (4.17%) Symantec
11 2 (2.78%) Ribbon