Windows Server Contracts in Portsmouth

Microsoft Windows Server
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth 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 25 35 36
Rank change year-on-year +10 +1 -6
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 3 11 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 2.44% 3.68% 2.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.00% 21.57% 8.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 2
10th Percentile £400 - £433
25th Percentile £456 £519 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +2.38% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £556 £588
90th Percentile - £571 £618
Hampshire median daily rate £575 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +6.98% -2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.00 -
Hampshire median hourly rate - £21.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - -65.00% +166.67%

All Operating Systems
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 25 51 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 20.33% 17.06% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 22 38
10th Percentile £463 £243 £184
25th Percentile £510 £400 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 £208
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +98.71% -53.87%
75th Percentile £626 £556 £492
90th Percentile £657 - £514
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 10
10th Percentile £52.50 £51.55 £52.68
25th Percentile £55.81 £60.31 £53.31
Median hourly rate £60.50 £62.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.81% +8.26% +21.05%
75th Percentile £63.13 £64.69 £69.38
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £71.65
Hampshire median hourly rate £60.50 £60.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year +0.83% +8.11% +226.47%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Portsmouth

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Portsmouth

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Portsmouth

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Portsmouth

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (66.67%) Military
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Solaris
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 10
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft