Windows Server Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Windows Server
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 66 47 60
Rank change year-on-year -19 +13 -3
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 98 219 221
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.26% 3.94% 3.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 19.18% 22.32% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 150 157
10th Percentile £359 £285 £239
25th Percentile £493 £386 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £595 £620
90th Percentile £653 £608 £688
England median daily rate £540 £468 £500
% change year-on-year +15.51% -6.50% +17.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 7
10th Percentile - £31.88 £33.35
25th Percentile - £51.56 £48.13
Median hourly rate - £59.80 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -0.33% +26.32%
75th Percentile - £61.60 £70.69
90th Percentile - £62.62 £86.82
England median hourly rate £18.75 £38.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -51.30% +28.33% +33.33%

All Operating Systems
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 511 981 1,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.98% 17.65% 20.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 650 830
10th Percentile £205 £200 £197
25th Percentile £339 £268 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £638 £669
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 59 70
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.98 £18.08
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.69 £18.88
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -10.38% +165.00%
75th Percentile £59.44 £62.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £63.25 £70.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the South East

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in the South East

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in the South East

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in the South East

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley -8 47 £500 -13.04% 55
Hampshire +5 42 £575 +6.98% 30
Berkshire -19 38 £513 -10.87% 30
Buckinghamshire +17 7 £450 +80.00% 12
Surrey +9 6 £400 +11.89% 15
Oxfordshire +2 2 £275 -26.67% 19
East Sussex - 2 £163 - 4
West Sussex -2 1 £250 -35.48% 12
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 12 (12.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (10.20%) IIS
3 3 (3.06%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.06%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.04%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (1.02%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 35 (35.71%) Azure
2 20 (20.41%) AWS
3 16 (16.33%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (15.31%) OpenShift
5 11 (11.22%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (10.20%) GCP
7 9 (9.18%) SaaS
8 8 (8.16%) Entra ID
8 8 (8.16%) IaaS
8 8 (8.16%) PaaS
9 5 (5.10%) GitHub
10 4 (4.08%) Nutanix
11 1 (1.02%) Akamai
11 1 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.02%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.02%) Azure Storage
11 1 (1.02%) OneDrive
11 1 (1.02%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 26 (26.53%) DNS
2 17 (17.35%) DHCP
2 17 (17.35%) Firewall
3 15 (15.31%) SMTP
4 11 (11.22%) VPN
5 7 (7.14%) NetScaler
5 7 (7.14%) TCP/IP
6 4 (4.08%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (4.08%) iSCSI
6 4 (4.08%) Network Security
6 4 (4.08%) SSL
7 3 (3.06%) FTP
7 3 (3.06%) HTTP
7 3 (3.06%) VSAN
7 3 (3.06%) WAN
8 2 (2.04%) HTTPS
8 2 (2.04%) LAN
8 2 (2.04%) NGFW
8 2 (2.04%) SD-WAN
8 2 (2.04%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.27%) Big Data
2 11 (11.22%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (8.16%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (6.12%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.06%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.02%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (5.10%) Git
1 5 (5.10%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.02%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 15 (15.31%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.24%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.14%) Finance
4 2 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.04%) Military
5 1 (1.02%) Legal
5 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (29.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (13.27%) Support Engineer
3 11 (11.22%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 10 (10.20%) Architect
5 8 (8.16%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (8.16%) 3rd Line Support
5 8 (8.16%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 8 (8.16%) Senior
6 7 (7.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 7 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support
6 7 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 7 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (6.12%) Applications Packager
7 6 (6.12%) DV Cleared Application Packager
7 6 (6.12%) Infrastructure Architect
8 5 (5.10%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 5 (5.10%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Security Architect
9 4 (4.08%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.06%) Apache Axis
1 3 (3.06%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (2.04%) .NET
2 2 (2.04%) SAML
3 1 (1.02%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.02%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.02%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.02%) EDI
3 1 (1.02%) JSON
3 1 (1.02%) MSMQ
3 1 (1.02%) REST
3 1 (1.02%) SOAP
3 1 (1.02%) WCF
3 1 (1.02%) XML
3 1 (1.02%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.35%) PKI
2 16 (16.33%) Clustering
3 12 (12.24%) Data Centre
4 11 (11.22%) Onboarding
5 7 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (7.14%) Public Cloud
6 6 (6.12%) Client/Server
7 5 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (4.08%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.02%) Driving Licence
9 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.02%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.02%) SCADA
9 1 (1.02%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 98 (100.00%) Windows
2 35 (35.71%) Linux
3 23 (23.47%) Windows 10
4 21 (21.43%) Windows Server 2019
5 20 (20.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (13.27%) Ubuntu
7 10 (10.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (8.16%) CentOS
8 8 (8.16%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (5.10%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (2.04%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (2.04%) Solaris
10 2 (2.04%) Windows 7
11 1 (1.02%) Android
11 1 (1.02%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (34.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (21.43%) DevOps
3 17 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (15.31%) Agile
5 14 (14.29%) Application Packaging
6 12 (12.24%) ITIL
7 11 (11.22%) DevSecOps
8 10 (10.20%) High Availability
8 10 (10.20%) Migration
9 8 (8.16%) Artificial Intelligence
9 8 (8.16%) Machine Learning
9 8 (8.16%) Server Building
9 8 (8.16%) Software Deployment
10 7 (7.14%) Change Control
10 7 (7.14%) Configuration Management
10 7 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
11 6 (6.12%) Application Virtualisation
11 6 (6.12%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (6.12%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 5 (5.10%) Customer-Centric Approach
Programming Languages
1 56 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 18 (18.37%) SQL
3 14 (14.29%) Python
4 7 (7.14%) VBScript
5 5 (5.10%) Shell Script
6 4 (4.08%) C#
7 3 (3.06%) Java
8 2 (2.04%) Ruby
9 1 (1.02%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.02%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (1.02%) Bicep
9 1 (1.02%) VB
Qualifications
1 64 (65.31%) Security Cleared
2 39 (39.80%) DV Cleared
3 23 (23.47%) SC Cleared
4 11 (11.22%) Degree
5 6 (6.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (5.10%) MCSE
7 4 (4.08%) CISSP
7 4 (4.08%) VCP5
7 4 (4.08%) VCP6
7 4 (4.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (3.06%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (2.04%) CISM
10 1 (1.02%) A+ Certification
10 1 (1.02%) Citrix Certification
10 1 (1.02%) DBS Check
10 1 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (1.02%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.02%) IEC 61131
2 1 (1.02%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.02%) QA
2 1 (1.02%) SLA
System Software
1 49 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 34 (34.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (22.45%) VMware ESXi
4 21 (21.43%) vSphere
5 18 (18.37%) Hyper-V
6 10 (10.20%) Microsoft App-V
7 8 (8.16%) BitLocker
7 8 (8.16%) Docker
7 8 (8.16%) Terminal Services
8 7 (7.14%) XenApp
9 6 (6.12%) NFS
9 6 (6.12%) XenDesktop
10 4 (4.08%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 3 (3.06%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (21.43%) vCenter Server
2 20 (20.41%) Ansible
3 16 (16.33%) Kubernetes
4 14 (14.29%) Terraform
5 11 (11.22%) WSUS
6 10 (10.20%) SCCM
7 9 (9.18%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (9.18%) SCOM
8 8 (8.16%) Nagios
8 8 (8.16%) Puppet
8 8 (8.16%) vMotion
9 7 (7.14%) Nessus
10 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Clustering
11 4 (4.08%) NetBackup
12 3 (3.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (3.06%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (3.06%) Norton AntiVirus
12 3 (3.06%) SCSM
13 2 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (1.02%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 60 (61.22%) VMware
2 43 (43.88%) Microsoft
3 19 (19.39%) Citrix
3 19 (19.39%) Dell
4 17 (17.35%) HP
5 14 (14.29%) Red Hat
6 11 (11.22%) Symantec
7 9 (9.18%) Wyse
8 8 (8.16%) Google
9 7 (7.14%) SolarWinds
10 5 (5.10%) Databricks
10 5 (5.10%) Veeam
11 4 (4.08%) 3PAR
11 4 (4.08%) NetApp
11 4 (4.08%) Splunk
11 4 (4.08%) Veritas
12 3 (3.06%) Cisco
12 3 (3.06%) Juniper
12 3 (3.06%) NETGEAR
12 3 (3.06%) TP-LINK