Windows Server Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Microsoft Windows Server
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Windows Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 1.33% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.79% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +2.56%

All Operating Systems
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 19 35 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 8.41% 14.52% 22.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 15
10th Percentile £107 £157 £167
25th Percentile £116 £200 £183
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £139 £240 £203
Median % change year-on-year -42.29% +18.52% -49.38%
75th Percentile £166 £375 £488
90th Percentile £179 £410 £575
UK median daily rate £475 £460 £475
% change year-on-year +3.26% -3.16% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 10
10th Percentile - £16.56 £12.25
25th Percentile - £18.42 £15.23
Median hourly rate £14.50 £23.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year -36.96% -4.88% +36.46%
75th Percentile - £24.50 -
90th Percentile - - £31.88
UK median hourly rate £25.92 £24.58 £27.50
% change year-on-year +5.45% -10.62% -31.25%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Windows Server job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Windows Server
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 16 August 2026. 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
County Antrim - 3 - -
Windows Server
UK

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Kerberos
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Billing
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Bicep
2 1 (33.33%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco