Windows Server Contracts in Sheffield

Microsoft Windows Server
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 45 53 49
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 -20
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 5 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.57% 0.53% 1.54%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.06% 1.87% 11.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £233 £648
25th Percentile - £233 £681
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £238 £700
Median % change year-on-year - -66.07% +74.56%
75th Percentile - £243 £719
90th Percentile - £244 £753
South Yorkshire median daily rate - £230 £675
% change year-on-year - -65.93% +63.64%

All Operating Systems
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 62 107 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 19.44% 28.23% 13.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 64 43
10th Percentile £150 £233 £340
25th Percentile £284 £412 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year +23.55% -14.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £538 £641
90th Percentile £746 £588 £698
South Yorkshire median daily rate £538 £430 £500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 2
10th Percentile - - £11.65
25th Percentile £18.10 £21.25 £12.63
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.09% +45.16% +5.08%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £19.63
90th Percentile £18.47 - £21.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £22.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year -19.09% +45.16% -11.07%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Sheffield

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Sheffield

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Sheffield

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) NAS
2 4 (80.00%) DNS
2 4 (80.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
1 4 (80.00%) GitLab
2 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Automation Specialist
1 1 (20.00%) Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Virtualisation Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Virtualisation Specialist
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Kanban
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (80.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (80.00%) Python
1 4 (80.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (80.00%) VMware NSX
1 4 (80.00%) vSphere
2 3 (60.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) vCenter Server
1 4 (80.00%) vRealize
2 1 (20.00%) NetApp OnCommand
2 1 (20.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) NetApp
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat