Windows Server Contracts in Reading

Microsoft Windows Server
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 44 45
Rank change year-on-year +13 +1 -3
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 68 45 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 5.71% 4.32% 3.97%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.46% 34.09% 26.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 36 44
10th Percentile £525 £469 £319
25th Percentile - £579 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £615
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +1.63% +49.45%
75th Percentile £608 £695 £675
90th Percentile - £758 £718
Berkshire median daily rate £575 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -6.12% +2.08% +41.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £55.39 -
25th Percentile £56.50 £59.72 -
Median hourly rate £58.00 £68.19 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.94% - -
75th Percentile £62.25 £75.40 -
90th Percentile £63.90 £78.98 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £68.19 £65.00
% change year-on-year -9.66% +4.90% -

All Operating Systems
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 164 132 206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 13.77% 12.68% 15.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 101 162
10th Percentile £205 £325 £150
25th Percentile £213 £455 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +11.90% +23.53%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £629
90th Percentile - £763 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £425 £514 £496
% change year-on-year -17.27% +3.53% +16.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile £56.33 £49.00 -
25th Percentile £56.44 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £60.25 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% - -
75th Percentile £65.94 £72.84 -
90th Percentile £67.63 £77.96 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £55.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +12.00% -16.03% +63.75%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Reading

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Reading

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Reading over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Reading

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Reading

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 17 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 38 (55.88%) Azure
2 16 (23.53%) Entra ID
3 15 (22.06%) Azure Monitor
3 15 (22.06%) Azure Storage
3 15 (22.06%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (19.12%) OCI
5 7 (10.29%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.47%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (44.12%) Firewall
2 28 (41.18%) DHCP
2 28 (41.18%) DNS
3 13 (19.12%) SAN
4 2 (2.94%) LAN
4 2 (2.94%) Skype
4 2 (2.94%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Robot Framework
1 3 (4.41%) Selenium
2 1 (1.47%) JIRA
2 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 50 (73.53%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (30.88%) Build Engineer
1 21 (30.88%) Windows Build Engineer
1 21 (30.88%) Windows Engineer
2 17 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 15 (22.06%) Active Directory Support
4 14 (20.59%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (20.59%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (20.59%) Support Specialist
5 9 (13.24%) Storage Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) Administrator
6 7 (10.29%) Systems Administrator
7 4 (5.88%) Analyst
7 4 (5.88%) Senior
7 4 (5.88%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 4 (5.88%) Solutions Analyst
7 4 (5.88%) Support Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) PowerShell Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Server Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) VMware Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (22.06%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.94%) Itk
3 1 (1.47%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (22.06%) PKI
1 15 (22.06%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (19.12%) Data Centre
3 7 (10.29%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 68 (100.00%) Windows
2 55 (80.88%) Windows Server 2016
2 55 (80.88%) Windows Server 2019
3 37 (54.41%) Linux
4 34 (50.00%) Windows 10
4 34 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 21 (30.88%) Windows NT
6 13 (19.12%) Windows XP
7 7 (10.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (72.06%) ITIL
2 39 (57.35%) Release Management
3 36 (52.94%) Service Management
4 24 (35.29%) DevOps
5 22 (32.35%) Agile
5 22 (32.35%) Customer Service
5 22 (32.35%) User Acceptance Testing
6 21 (30.88%) Deployment Automation
7 17 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 17 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (22.06%) Analytics
8 15 (22.06%) CI/CD
8 15 (22.06%) Identity Management
8 15 (22.06%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (22.06%) Log Analytics
8 15 (22.06%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 15 (22.06%) Privileged Identity Management
8 15 (22.06%) RBAC
9 13 (19.12%) Disaster Recovery
9 13 (19.12%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (54.41%) PowerShell
2 22 (32.35%) VBScript
3 16 (23.53%) C#
4 15 (22.06%) Bicep
4 15 (22.06%) VB
5 8 (11.76%) Python
6 1 (1.47%) F#
6 1 (1.47%) Java
6 1 (1.47%) SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (91.18%) DV Cleared
1 62 (91.18%) Security Cleared
2 31 (45.59%) Degree
3 28 (41.18%) SC Cleared
4 15 (22.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 13 (19.12%) CCNA
5 13 (19.12%) CCNP
5 13 (19.12%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.47%) CEH
6 1 (1.47%) CISSP
6 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (32.35%) QA
2 2 (2.94%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 54 (79.41%) Active Directory
2 22 (32.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (30.88%) Firmware
4 15 (22.06%) Virtual Desktop
4 15 (22.06%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (19.12%) Hyper-V
5 13 (19.12%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.94%) Docker
6 2 (2.94%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 51 (75.00%) SCCM
2 49 (72.06%) WSUS
3 32 (47.06%) SCOM
4 21 (30.88%) Sysprep
5 15 (22.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 15 (22.06%) EMC NetWorker
5 15 (22.06%) Kubernetes
5 15 (22.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (19.12%) NetBackup
6 13 (19.12%) vCenter Server
7 2 (2.94%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (2.94%) Nessus
7 2 (2.94%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 55 (80.88%) Microsoft
2 24 (35.29%) VMware
3 16 (23.53%) Cisco
4 15 (22.06%) EMC
5 13 (19.12%) 3PAR
5 13 (19.12%) Dell
5 13 (19.12%) Extreme Networks
5 13 (19.12%) HP
5 13 (19.12%) Juniper
5 13 (19.12%) Oracle
5 13 (19.12%) Palo Alto
5 13 (19.12%) Symantec
5 13 (19.12%) Veeam
6 4 (5.88%) Citrix
7 2 (2.94%) CheckPoint
7 2 (2.94%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.94%) Splunk