Windows Server Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Microsoft Windows Server
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring Windows Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 8 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +15
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 3 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 6.00% 3.45% 7.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 42.86% 14.29% 28.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile £240 - -
25th Percentile £300 - £170
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.67%
75th Percentile £419 - £369
90th Percentile £430 - £393
Oxfordshire median daily rate £413 - £350
% change year-on-year - - +16.67%

All Operating Systems
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 7 7 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 14.00% 24.14% 26.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 22
10th Percentile £249 £244 £142
25th Percentile £322 £313 £170
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £513 £250
Median % change year-on-year -24.39% +105.00% -47.37%
75th Percentile £409 £566 £378
90th Percentile £426 £619 £535
Oxfordshire median daily rate £275 £500 £250
% change year-on-year -45.00% +100.00% -43.18%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Windows Server job vacancy trend in Oxford

Windows Server
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Oxford over the 6 months to 3 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Oxford

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxford

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 1 (33.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) Head of IT
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Driving Licence
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Change Management
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
1 1 (33.33%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Ariba
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) SAP