Windows Server Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Windows Server
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 55 47 66
Rank change year-on-year -8 +19 -22
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 47 106 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.11% 3.95% 3.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 22.38% 27.11% 19.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 80 71
10th Percentile £325 £356 £200
25th Percentile £431 £498 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +27.91%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £638
90th Percentile £639 - £700
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
10th Percentile - £56.50 £55.39
25th Percentile - £57.78 £59.72
Median hourly rate - £61.60 £68.19
Median % change year-on-year - -9.66% +4.90%
75th Percentile - - £75.40
90th Percentile - £63.30 £78.98
South East median hourly rate - £59.80 £60.00
% change year-on-year - -0.33% +26.32%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 210 391 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.90% 14.56% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 281 318
10th Percentile £213 £193 £213
25th Percentile £329 £213 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £584
90th Percentile £700 £608 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 26 16
10th Percentile - £16.25 £18.08
25th Percentile - £19.13 £19.52
Median hourly rate £14.20 £38.75 £48.70
Median % change year-on-year -63.35% -20.43% +143.50%
75th Percentile £18.58 £57.13 £62.97
90th Percentile £23.63 £61.60 £78.19
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 the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the Thames Valley

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in the Thames Valley

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in the Thames Valley

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in the Thames Valley

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -19 38 £513 -10.87% 40
Buckinghamshire +17 7 £450 +80.00% 22
Oxfordshire +2 2 £275 -26.67% 24
Windows Server
South East

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 8 (17.02%) IIS
2 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.26%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (4.26%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.13%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 20 (42.55%) Azure
2 10 (21.28%) AWS
3 7 (14.89%) Entra ID
4 5 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (10.64%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (8.51%) GitHub
6 2 (4.26%) GCP
6 2 (4.26%) SaaS
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.13%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 13 (27.66%) DNS
2 8 (17.02%) DHCP
3 7 (14.89%) NetScaler
3 7 (14.89%) SMTP
4 6 (12.77%) TCP/IP
5 5 (10.64%) Firewall
6 3 (6.38%) FTP
6 3 (6.38%) Network Security
7 2 (4.26%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (4.26%) NGFW
7 2 (4.26%) SSL
7 2 (4.26%) Telnet
7 2 (4.26%) VPN
8 1 (2.13%) IP Telephony
8 1 (2.13%) Modbus
8 1 (2.13%) NAS
8 1 (2.13%) Profibus
8 1 (2.13%) SD-WAN
8 1 (2.13%) Skype
8 1 (2.13%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.64%) Big Data
2 3 (6.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Git
1 5 (10.64%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.13%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 8 (17.02%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.89%) Finance
3 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.13%) Legal
4 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (23.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (12.77%) Architect
3 5 (10.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 5 (10.64%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (10.64%) Security Architect
4 4 (8.51%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Lead
4 4 (8.51%) Support Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Applications Architect
5 3 (6.38%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Citrix Specialist
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Citrix Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (2.13%) Applications Support Engineer
7 1 (2.13%) Desktop Engineer
7 1 (2.13%) IT Support Analyst
7 1 (2.13%) Project Coordinator
7 1 (2.13%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.38%) Apache Axis
2 2 (4.26%) .NET
2 2 (4.26%) SAML
3 1 (2.13%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.13%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.13%) EDI
3 1 (2.13%) JSON
3 1 (2.13%) MSMQ
3 1 (2.13%) REST
3 1 (2.13%) SOAP
3 1 (2.13%) WCF
3 1 (2.13%) XML
3 1 (2.13%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 11 (23.40%) Onboarding
2 7 (14.89%) PKI
3 5 (10.64%) Clustering
3 5 (10.64%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (8.51%) Data Centre
4 4 (8.51%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.13%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.13%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 47 (100.00%) Windows
2 14 (29.79%) Windows 10
3 12 (25.53%) Windows Server 2019
4 11 (23.40%) Linux
5 5 (10.64%) Ubuntu
5 5 (10.64%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (10.64%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (8.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (31.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (21.28%) High Availability
4 9 (19.15%) ITIL
5 8 (17.02%) Server Building
6 7 (14.89%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (12.77%) DevOps
8 5 (10.64%) Configuration Management
8 5 (10.64%) Continuous Delivery
8 5 (10.64%) Customer-Centric Approach
8 5 (10.64%) Customer-Centricity
8 5 (10.64%) Migration
8 5 (10.64%) Open Source
8 5 (10.64%) Platform Engineering
9 4 (8.51%) DevSecOps
9 4 (8.51%) Microservices
9 4 (8.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 3 (6.38%) Application Security
10 3 (6.38%) RBAC
10 3 (6.38%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 27 (57.45%) PowerShell
2 8 (17.02%) Python
3 5 (10.64%) Shell Script
3 5 (10.64%) SQL
4 4 (8.51%) C#
5 3 (6.38%) Java
6 2 (4.26%) Ruby
7 1 (2.13%) ActionScript
7 1 (2.13%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (2.13%) Bicep
7 1 (2.13%) VB
7 1 (2.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 23 (48.94%) Security Cleared
2 13 (27.66%) SC Cleared
3 10 (21.28%) DV Cleared
4 4 (8.51%) CISSP
5 3 (6.38%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (6.38%) Degree
6 2 (4.26%) CISM
6 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.13%) A+ Certification
7 1 (2.13%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (2.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (2.13%) MCP
7 1 (2.13%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.13%) IEC 61131
2 1 (2.13%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.13%) QA
2 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (55.32%) Active Directory
2 10 (21.28%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (14.89%) XenApp
4 6 (12.77%) vSphere
4 6 (12.77%) XenDesktop
5 5 (10.64%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (8.51%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (6.38%) Hyper-V
8 2 (4.26%) NFS
8 2 (4.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (19.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (12.77%) Terraform
2 6 (12.77%) WSUS
3 5 (10.64%) Ansible
3 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Clustering
4 4 (8.51%) NetBackup
5 3 (6.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (6.38%) SCOM
6 2 (4.26%) SCCM
6 2 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.13%) FortiGate
7 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (51.06%) VMware
2 18 (38.30%) Dell
3 17 (36.17%) Microsoft
4 11 (23.40%) Citrix
5 9 (19.15%) HP
5 9 (19.15%) Wyse
6 5 (10.64%) Databricks
7 4 (8.51%) 3PAR
7 4 (8.51%) Red Hat
7 4 (8.51%) Veritas
8 2 (4.26%) Dynatrace
8 2 (4.26%) IBM
8 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow
9 1 (2.13%) Cisco
9 1 (2.13%) F5
9 1 (2.13%) Fortinet
9 1 (2.13%) Intel
9 1 (2.13%) Rockwell
9 1 (2.13%) SAP
9 1 (2.13%) Siemens