Windows Server Contracts in Surrey

Microsoft Windows Server
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 33 42 56
Rank change year-on-year +9 +14 +8
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 6 14 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 2.01% 2.39% 1.92%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.53% 14.58% 8.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 10
10th Percentile - £155 £301
25th Percentile - £279 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £358 £463
Median % change year-on-year +11.89% -22.70% +15.63%
75th Percentile £453 £475 £670
90th Percentile £523 £738 £694
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +16.67%

All Operating Systems
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 57 96 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 19.13% 16.35% 22.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 73 111
10th Percentile £195 £164 £161
25th Percentile £218 £320 £194
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £310
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +37.10% -14.48%
75th Percentile £525 £563 £568
90th Percentile £533 £650 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 6
10th Percentile £23.00 £16.25 £17.92
25th Percentile £26.50 £23.75 £18.59
Median hourly rate £28.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% +42.86% -19.80%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £30.30 £80.00 £61.25
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -10.38% +165.00%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Surrey

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Surrey

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Surrey

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Surrey

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey 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
Horley - 1 £470 -
Woking - 1 £550 - 6
Windows Server
South East

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 4 (66.67%) Nutanix
2 1 (16.67%) Akamai
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
1 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
1 1 (16.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Server Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Nutanix Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
1 4 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (66.67%) Server Migrations
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) BCP
2 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
2 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
2 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
2 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco
1 1 (16.67%) Dell KACE
1 1 (16.67%) Meraki
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
1 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds
1 1 (16.67%) Ubiquiti
1 1 (16.67%) VMware