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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 41 54
Rank change year-on-year -18 +13 +5
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 97 223 220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.25% 4.09% 3.91%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.95% 23.16% 19.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 159 155
10th Percentile £358 £263 £234
25th Percentile £488 £394 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +7.32% +13.89%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £623
90th Percentile £650 - £688
England median daily rate £550 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 6
10th Percentile - £48.60 £30.75
25th Percentile - £56.50 £47.81
Median hourly rate - £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +2.67% +26.32%
75th Percentile - - £76.03
90th Percentile - £62.96 £88.19
England median hourly rate £18.75 £46.75 £34.00
% change year-on-year -59.89% +37.50% +38.78%

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 512 963 1,152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.14% 17.65% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 635 779
10th Percentile £197 £200 £195
25th Percentile £325 £283 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £463 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.95% - +2.78%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £583
90th Percentile £675 £645 £650
England median daily rate £473 £473 £513
% change year-on-year -0.16% -7.66% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 57 68
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.95 £17.38
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.69 £18.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -13.64% +205.56%
75th Percentile £58.72 £62.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £62.50 £71.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £21.28 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year -3.27% -42.11% +74.47%

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 20 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 20 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 -11 46 £500 -13.04% 74
Hampshire -1 43 £575 +5.75% 52
Berkshire -13 36 £500 -13.04% 34
Buckinghamshire +15 8 £450 +91.49% 28
Surrey +7 5 £400 +17.65% 25
Oxfordshire -3 2 £275 -26.67% 15
East Sussex - 2 £163 -
West Sussex +2 1 £250 -37.50% 17
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 13 (13.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (9.28%) IIS
3 3 (3.09%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (3.09%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.09%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.03%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 28 (28.87%) Azure
2 17 (17.53%) AWS
3 11 (11.34%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (11.34%) OpenShift
4 10 (10.31%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (8.25%) GCP
5 8 (8.25%) IaaS
5 8 (8.25%) PaaS
6 6 (6.19%) Entra ID
7 5 (5.15%) GitHub
8 4 (4.12%) Nutanix
9 3 (3.09%) SaaS
10 1 (1.03%) Akamai
10 1 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.03%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.03%) Azure Storage
10 1 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.03%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 27 (27.84%) DNS
2 18 (18.56%) DHCP
3 17 (17.53%) Firewall
4 15 (15.46%) SMTP
5 11 (11.34%) VPN
6 7 (7.22%) NetScaler
6 7 (7.22%) TCP/IP
7 5 (5.15%) Fibre Channel
7 5 (5.15%) iSCSI
8 3 (3.09%) FTP
8 3 (3.09%) VSAN
8 3 (3.09%) WAN
9 2 (2.06%) HTTP
9 2 (2.06%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (2.06%) LAN
9 2 (2.06%) Network Security
9 2 (2.06%) SD-WAN
9 2 (2.06%) Telnet
9 2 (2.06%) Wireless
10 1 (1.03%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.40%) Big Data
2 11 (11.34%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (8.25%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (6.19%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.09%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.03%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (5.15%) Git
1 5 (5.15%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.12%) MSI
General
1 15 (15.46%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.37%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.15%) Finance
4 2 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.06%) Military
5 1 (1.03%) Legal
5 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (25.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (12.37%) Support Engineer
3 11 (11.34%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 9 (9.28%) Architect
5 8 (8.25%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (8.25%) 3rd Line Support
5 8 (8.25%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 7 (7.22%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 7 (7.22%) Infrastructure Support
6 7 (7.22%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) Infrastructure Architect
8 5 (5.15%) Applications Packager
8 5 (5.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) DV Cleared Application Packager
8 5 (5.15%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 5 (5.15%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) Server Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) VMware Architect
8 5 (5.15%) Windows Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.09%) .NET
1 3 (3.09%) Apache Axis
1 3 (3.09%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (2.06%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.03%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.03%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.03%) EDI
3 1 (1.03%) JSON
3 1 (1.03%) MSMQ
3 1 (1.03%) REST
3 1 (1.03%) SOAP
3 1 (1.03%) WCF
3 1 (1.03%) XML
3 1 (1.03%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.53%) PKI
2 16 (16.49%) Clustering
3 12 (12.37%) Data Centre
3 12 (12.37%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.15%) Client/Server
4 5 (5.15%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.12%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.09%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.03%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.03%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.03%) SCADA
8 1 (1.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 97 (100.00%) Windows
2 30 (30.93%) Linux
3 27 (27.84%) Windows 10
4 22 (22.68%) Windows Server 2019
5 16 (16.49%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (9.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (9.28%) Ubuntu
7 8 (8.25%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (4.12%) CentOS
8 4 (4.12%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (2.06%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (2.06%) Solaris
10 1 (1.03%) Android
10 1 (1.03%) Mac OS
10 1 (1.03%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (30.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (20.62%) DevOps
3 18 (18.56%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (11.34%) ITIL
5 10 (10.31%) Agile
5 10 (10.31%) High Availability
5 10 (10.31%) Migration
6 9 (9.28%) Application Packaging
7 8 (8.25%) Artificial Intelligence
7 8 (8.25%) Machine Learning
7 8 (8.25%) Server Building
7 8 (8.25%) Software Deployment
8 7 (7.22%) DevSecOps
8 7 (7.22%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (6.19%) Configuration Management
9 6 (6.19%) Platform Engineering
10 5 (5.15%) Edge Virtualization
10 5 (5.15%) Open Source
10 5 (5.15%) Performance Analysis
10 5 (5.15%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 56 (57.73%) PowerShell
2 18 (18.56%) SQL
3 13 (13.40%) Python
4 8 (8.25%) C#
5 6 (6.19%) VBScript
6 5 (5.15%) Shell Script
7 4 (4.12%) VB
8 3 (3.09%) Java
9 2 (2.06%) Ruby
10 1 (1.03%) ActionScript
10 1 (1.03%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (1.03%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 63 (64.95%) Security Cleared
2 38 (39.18%) DV Cleared
3 24 (24.74%) SC Cleared
4 11 (11.34%) Degree
5 7 (7.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (6.19%) MCSE
7 5 (5.15%) VCP5
7 5 (5.15%) VCP6
7 5 (5.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (3.09%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (2.06%) CISSP
10 1 (1.03%) A+ Certification
10 1 (1.03%) Citrix Certification
10 1 (1.03%) DBS Check
10 1 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (1.03%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.03%) IEC 61131
2 1 (1.03%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.03%) QA
2 1 (1.03%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (48.45%) Active Directory
2 28 (28.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (25.77%) VMware ESXi
4 18 (18.56%) Hyper-V
4 18 (18.56%) vSphere
5 9 (9.28%) Microsoft App-V
6 8 (8.25%) BitLocker
6 8 (8.25%) Docker
6 8 (8.25%) Terminal Services
7 7 (7.22%) NFS
7 7 (7.22%) XenApp
8 6 (6.19%) XenDesktop
9 4 (4.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 3 (3.09%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (2.06%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (17.53%) vCenter Server
2 16 (16.49%) Ansible
3 14 (14.43%) SCCM
4 12 (12.37%) Kubernetes
5 10 (10.31%) SCOM
5 10 (10.31%) Terraform
5 10 (10.31%) WSUS
6 9 (9.28%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (8.25%) Nagios
7 8 (8.25%) Puppet
7 8 (8.25%) vMotion
8 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Clustering
9 4 (4.12%) NetBackup
10 3 (3.09%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (3.09%) Nessus
10 3 (3.09%) Norton AntiVirus
10 3 (3.09%) SCSM
11 2 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (1.03%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 55 (56.70%) VMware
2 44 (45.36%) Microsoft
3 20 (20.62%) Dell
4 19 (19.59%) Citrix
5 17 (17.53%) HP
6 11 (11.34%) Symantec
7 10 (10.31%) Red Hat
7 10 (10.31%) Wyse
8 8 (8.25%) Google
9 7 (7.22%) SolarWinds
10 6 (6.19%) Veeam
11 5 (5.15%) Databricks
11 5 (5.15%) NetApp
11 5 (5.15%) Splunk
12 4 (4.12%) 3PAR
12 4 (4.12%) Veritas
13 3 (3.09%) Cisco
13 3 (3.09%) Juniper
13 3 (3.09%) NETGEAR
13 3 (3.09%) ServiceNow