Windows Server Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Windows Server
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 83 43
Rank change year-on-year +38 -40 +35
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 74 74 162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 4.32% 2.28% 4.77%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.64% 13.48% 23.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 62 118
10th Percentile £495 £175 £200
25th Percentile £525 £239 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.21% -8.86% +22.22%
75th Percentile £625 £584 £619
90th Percentile £700 £675 £699
England median daily rate £550 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 8
10th Percentile - £65.18 £17.83
25th Percentile - £67.31 £18.88
Median hourly rate - £72.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +21.25% +34.76%
75th Percentile - £76.31 £64.50
90th Percentile - £77.33 £97.65
England median hourly rate £17.04 £38.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -55.74% +2.67% +64.84%

All Operating Systems
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 313 549 681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 18.26% 16.94% 20.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 381 478
10th Percentile £200 £175 £184
25th Percentile £225 £350 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £606 £588 £621
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £470 £475 £510
% change year-on-year -1.05% -6.86% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 81 80
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £17.48
25th Percentile £18.51 £40.00 £52.38
Median hourly rate £26.94 £65.00 £65.25
Median % change year-on-year -58.56% -0.38% +26.30%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.52
90th Percentile - - £78.00
England median hourly rate £20.64 £22.50 £43.13
% change year-on-year -8.27% -47.83% +100.58%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the South West

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in the South West

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the South West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in the South West

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in the South West

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Wiltshire +41 34 £575 +6.98% 21
Gloucestershire +32 19 £615 +173.33% 21
Bristol +15 9 £550 +10.00% 25
Dorset -3 5 £525 +184.08% 10
Somerset - 5 £513 - 17
Devon +9 1 £155 -71.82% 7
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 16 (21.62%) Confluence
1 16 (21.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (13.51%) SharePoint
3 9 (12.16%) Skype for Business
4 1 (1.35%) IIS
4 1 (1.35%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (20.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 27 (36.49%) Azure
2 21 (28.38%) AWS
3 15 (20.27%) OpenShift
4 3 (4.05%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.70%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.70%) GCP
6 1 (1.35%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 28 (37.84%) DNS
2 27 (36.49%) DHCP
3 16 (21.62%) TCP/IP
4 15 (20.27%) HTTP
5 14 (18.92%) Skype
6 5 (6.76%) Unified Communications
7 3 (4.05%) Firewall
8 2 (2.70%) iSCSI
8 2 (2.70%) LAN
8 2 (2.70%) SAN
8 2 (2.70%) VPN
8 2 (2.70%) WAN
9 1 (1.35%) NetScaler
9 1 (1.35%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.35%) MS Access
3 1 (1.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (22.97%) JIRA
2 13 (17.57%) Bitbucket
3 10 (13.51%) Git
3 10 (13.51%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (25.68%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.57%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (16.22%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.11%) Military
5 3 (4.05%) Finance
6 2 (2.70%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.35%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.35%) Legal
7 1 (1.35%) Police
7 1 (1.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (22.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (13.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (12.16%) Wintel Engineer
4 8 (10.81%) Automation Engineer
5 5 (6.76%) Analyst
5 5 (6.76%) Architect
6 4 (5.41%) Senior
6 4 (5.41%) Senior Wintel Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 3 (4.05%) Security Analyst
7 3 (4.05%) Server Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) Server Specialist
7 3 (4.05%) Windows Server Specialist
7 3 (4.05%) Windows Specialist
8 2 (2.70%) Applications Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (2.70%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) Principal Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) Windows Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.51%) REST
2 9 (12.16%) SOAP
3 2 (2.70%) Flash
4 1 (1.35%) .NET
4 1 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.35%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 19 (25.68%) PKI
2 4 (5.41%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (4.05%) Clustering
4 2 (2.70%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.70%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.35%) CESG
5 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 74 (100.00%) Windows
2 28 (37.84%) Linux
3 17 (22.97%) Windows 10
3 17 (22.97%) Windows Server 2012
4 15 (20.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (14.86%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (8.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (4.05%) VMS
8 1 (1.35%) Android
8 1 (1.35%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.35%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.35%) Rocky
8 1 (1.35%) Solaris
8 1 (1.35%) Unix
8 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (43.24%) Service Management
2 22 (29.73%) Agile
2 22 (29.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 19 (25.68%) System Testing
4 18 (24.32%) NsoIT
5 16 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (20.27%) Containerisation
7 13 (17.57%) Critical Thinking
7 13 (17.57%) DevOps
7 13 (17.57%) ITIL
8 12 (16.22%) Infrastructure Automation
8 12 (16.22%) Validation
9 11 (14.86%) Deployment Automation
10 10 (13.51%) Configuration Management
11 9 (12.16%) Disaster Recovery
11 9 (12.16%) Migration
11 9 (12.16%) Reverse Engineering
12 8 (10.81%) Incident Management
13 6 (8.11%) Technical Leadership
14 5 (6.76%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 40 (54.05%) PowerShell
2 26 (35.14%) Python
3 24 (32.43%) Bash
4 16 (21.62%) Java
5 15 (20.27%) SQL
6 2 (2.70%) VB
6 2 (2.70%) VBScript
7 1 (1.35%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.35%) VB6
7 1 (1.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 54 (72.97%) Security Cleared
2 33 (44.59%) SC Cleared
3 27 (36.49%) DV Cleared
4 15 (20.27%) Degree
4 15 (20.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 14 (18.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (16.22%) MCSE
7 11 (14.86%) CCNP
7 11 (14.86%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (13.51%) OCA
8 10 (13.51%) Oracle Certification
9 9 (12.16%) MCSA
9 9 (12.16%) RHCA
9 9 (12.16%) RHCE
10 3 (4.05%) Master's Degree
11 2 (2.70%) CCNA
12 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
12 1 (1.35%) MCP
12 1 (1.35%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.70%) SLA
2 1 (1.35%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.35%) JSP 440
2 1 (1.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 38 (51.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (39.19%) Active Directory
2 29 (39.19%) Hyper-V
3 15 (20.27%) Docker
4 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (8.11%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (6.76%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (5.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (2.70%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.35%) BitLocker
8 1 (1.35%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.35%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (1.35%) vSphere
8 1 (1.35%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 27 (36.49%) Ansible
2 24 (32.43%) Puppet
3 19 (25.68%) Terraform
4 16 (21.62%) Kubernetes
5 14 (18.92%) vCenter Server
6 13 (17.57%) WSUS
7 11 (14.86%) SCCM
8 9 (12.16%) Progress Chef
9 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (4.05%) Nessus
9 3 (4.05%) SCOM
10 2 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (2.70%) OPNET
10 2 (2.70%) PowerCLI
11 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (1.35%) NetApp OnCommand
11 1 (1.35%) vMotion
Vendors
1 42 (56.76%) VMware
2 32 (43.24%) Microsoft
3 16 (21.62%) Red Hat
4 14 (18.92%) Atlassian
5 13 (17.57%) Cisco
6 12 (16.22%) Oracle
7 6 (8.11%) Veeam
8 3 (4.05%) Qualys
9 2 (2.70%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.35%) Citrix
10 1 (1.35%) Dell
10 1 (1.35%) Fujitsu
10 1 (1.35%) Ivanti
10 1 (1.35%) McAfee
10 1 (1.35%) Remedy
10 1 (1.35%) Symantec
10 1 (1.35%) Veritas