Windows Server Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Microsoft Windows Server
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Windows Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 25 16
Rank change year-on-year -38 -9 +82
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.62% 2.40% 1.92%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.51% 10.00% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £210 -
Median % change year-on-year +90.48% - -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £260 £398
% change year-on-year +101.92% -34.59% -5.92%

All Operating Systems
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 57 30 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 17.65% 24.00% 36.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 22 9
10th Percentile £359 £225 £196
25th Percentile £411 £420 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £438 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% -8.85% -10.78%
75th Percentile £525 £475 £495
90th Percentile £545 £506 £514
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £435 £400
% change year-on-year +9.20% +8.75% -19.19%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Windows Server job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Windows Server
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 6 December 2025. 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
Shrewsbury -4 2 £400 +90.48%
Windows Server
West Midlands

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware