Windows Server Contracts in Oxfordshire

Microsoft Windows Server
South East > Oxfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 16 20
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +12
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 5 16 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 2.22% 6.40% 5.95%
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.36% 20.25% 22.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 15
10th Percentile £354 £183 £169
25th Percentile £359 £213 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £288 £220
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% +30.68% -30.98%
75th Percentile £409 £404 £263
90th Percentile £447 £450 £620
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £450
% change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% +12.50%

All Operating Systems
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 44 79 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 19.56% 31.60% 26.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 48 50
10th Percentile £128 £193 £145
25th Percentile £143 £300 £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £400 £190
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +110.53% -41.54%
75th Percentile £456 £506 £344
90th Percentile £538 £575 £579
South East median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 7
10th Percentile £16.10 - £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.50 £18.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.21% -9.60% +26.10%
75th Percentile £48.75 - £34.38
90th Percentile £49.50 £36.93 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -9.52% +162.50% +5.26%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Oxfordshire

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in Oxfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Oxfordshire

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in Oxfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Oxfordshire

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 27 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
Oxford +8 2 £363 +20.83% 5
Bicester - 1 £375 - 1
Windows Server
South East

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (40.00%) Google Workspace
2 2 (40.00%) IaaS
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) PaaS
2 2 (40.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
1 4 (80.00%) VPN
2 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) LAN
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
2 2 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Wintel Engineer
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Server Management
3 2 (40.00%) Information Security
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (40.00%) Patch Management
4 1 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Security Patching
4 1 (20.00%) Server Hardening
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Aruba
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco
3 2 (40.00%) Google
3 2 (40.00%) HP
3 2 (40.00%) Meraki
3 2 (40.00%) Sophos