Windows Server Contracts in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Windows Server
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 43 51 48
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 -23
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 5 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 1.34% 1.09% 1.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.85% 3.57% 11.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 6
10th Percentile - - £195
25th Percentile - £210 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £230 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -65.93% +63.64%
75th Percentile - £238 £700
90th Percentile - £242 £738
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £325 £381
% change year-on-year +69.23% -14.75% +17.31%

All Operating Systems
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 73 140 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 19.57% 30.63% 14.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 91 59
10th Percentile £150 £200 £160
25th Percentile £335 £403 £246
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -14.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £521 £575
90th Percentile £711 £588 £678
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £415 £440
% change year-on-year +8.43% -5.68% +17.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 2
10th Percentile - £18.15 £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% -11.07%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £19.63
90th Percentile £18.47 - £21.35
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £19.39
% change year-on-year -17.25% +13.49% +10.77%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in South Yorkshire

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in South Yorkshire

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in South Yorkshire

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield +8 5 - - 6
Windows Server
Yorkshire

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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