Windows Server Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows Server
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Windows Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 58 65
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 +1
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 606 938 1,136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.93% 3.89% 3.67%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.62% 20.17% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 667 839
10th Percentile £194 £190 £163
25th Percentile £300 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +18.75% +6.67%
75th Percentile £601 £600 £500
90th Percentile £713 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £465 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -7.00% +14.29% +6.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 46 47
10th Percentile £14.31 £18.75 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £24.90 £16.99
Median hourly rate £55.25 £37.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.33% +70.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £61.60 £49.52 £38.75
90th Percentile £68.13 £60.28 £59.25
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £29.30 £23.00
% change year-on-year +31.40% +27.39% -8.00%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

Windows Server is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,254 4,650 5,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.75% 19.28% 19.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,158 3,251 3,901
10th Percentile £173 £163 £149
25th Percentile £256 £250 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +8.97%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £675 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £470 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -6.93% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 338 465
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.57
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £31.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.80% +56.25% +17.65%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.19 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £64.05
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.75 £22.28
% change year-on-year -43.23% +73.92% +23.78%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the UK excluding London

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in the UK excluding London

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in the UK excluding London

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in the UK excluding London

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Server in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows Server in the UK excluding London

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
South East +13 215 £550 +4.76% 149
North of England +1 142 £475 +9.51% 126
Midlands -13 79 £350 -17.65% 120
North West -18 74 £800 +60.00% 66
South West -30 73 £500 -9.09% 58
West Midlands +11 54 £363 -23.68% 82
Scotland +9 54 £525 +13.02% 37
Yorkshire +12 51 £325 -14.75% 43
East of England -36 31 £240 -43.53% 75
East Midlands -13 22 £325 - 38
North East +20 17 £500 +93.24% 20
Wales +4 15 £223 +18.35% 12
Windows Server
UK

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 114 (18.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 58 (9.57%) SharePoint
3 28 (4.62%) IIS
4 22 (3.63%) Confluence
5 6 (0.99%) SAS
6 5 (0.83%) Apache
6 5 (0.83%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.66%) nginx
8 3 (0.50%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
9 2 (0.33%) WordPress
10 1 (0.17%) JBoss
10 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 34 (5.61%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.33%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.17%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 6 (0.99%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.50%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.17%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 1 (0.17%) RMDS
4 1 (0.17%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 189 (31.19%) Azure
2 184 (30.36%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (8.75%) Entra ID
4 47 (7.76%) AWS
5 23 (3.80%) Azure Monitor
6 22 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (2.81%) IaaS
7 17 (2.81%) OCI
8 16 (2.64%) Azure Storage
8 16 (2.64%) OneDrive
9 12 (1.98%) OpenShift
10 11 (1.82%) Power Platform
11 6 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (0.99%) PaaS
11 6 (0.99%) Power Automate
11 6 (0.99%) PowerApps
12 5 (0.83%) SaaS
13 4 (0.66%) Nutanix
14 3 (0.50%) GitHub
14 3 (0.50%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 169 (27.89%) Firewall
2 161 (26.57%) DNS
3 121 (19.97%) DHCP
4 89 (14.69%) VPN
5 71 (11.72%) SAN
6 53 (8.75%) LAN
7 47 (7.76%) WAN
8 24 (3.96%) TCP/IP
9 16 (2.64%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (2.31%) NAS
10 14 (2.31%) VLAN
11 13 (2.15%) Wireless
12 12 (1.98%) Fibre Channel
12 12 (1.98%) Skype
13 11 (1.82%) NetScaler
13 11 (1.82%) SMTP
14 10 (1.65%) Internet
14 10 (1.65%) iSCSI
14 10 (1.65%) Unified Communications
15 9 (1.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (8.42%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (1.49%) MySQL
4 7 (1.16%) Power BI
5 6 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (0.99%) Oracle Database
6 5 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (0.66%) Big Data
7 4 (0.66%) DB2
7 4 (0.66%) RDBMS
7 4 (0.66%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.33%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.33%) Tableau
9 1 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 35 (5.78%) JIRA
2 20 (3.30%) Robot Framework
3 15 (2.48%) Sonatype Nexus
4 11 (1.82%) Git
5 8 (1.32%) Selenium
6 6 (0.99%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.66%) GitLab
7 4 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.50%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.50%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.33%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.33%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.33%) JMeter
10 1 (0.17%) AppScan
10 1 (0.17%) MSI
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.17%) Subversion
10 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 188 (31.02%) Social Skills
2 53 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (7.76%) Public Sector
4 21 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
4 21 (3.47%) Finance
5 19 (3.14%) Military
6 12 (1.98%) Legal
7 11 (1.82%) Banking
8 9 (1.49%) Manufacturing
8 9 (1.49%) Telecoms
9 6 (0.99%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.50%) Aviation
10 3 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.33%) Advertising
11 2 (0.33%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.33%) Automotive
11 2 (0.33%) Electronics
11 2 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.33%) Law
11 2 (0.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 111 (18.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 85 (14.03%) Architect
3 60 (9.90%) Support Engineer
4 43 (7.10%) Windows Engineer
5 42 (6.93%) Technical Architect
6 41 (6.77%) IT Support
7 36 (5.94%) Lead
7 36 (5.94%) Senior
8 34 (5.61%) Lead Architect
9 30 (4.95%) Integration Engineer
9 30 (4.95%) Technical Leader
10 28 (4.62%) 3rd Line Support
10 28 (4.62%) Wintel Engineer
11 26 (4.29%) IT Engineer
12 25 (4.13%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 23 (3.80%) Administrator
13 23 (3.80%) Analyst
13 23 (3.80%) Build Engineer
13 23 (3.80%) Windows Build Engineer
14 22 (3.63%) Active Directory Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (7.26%) Node.js
2 16 (2.64%) ARM Templates
3 10 (1.65%) .NET
3 10 (1.65%) LDAP
3 10 (1.65%) REST
4 8 (1.32%) XML
5 6 (0.99%) Flash
5 6 (0.99%) Itk
5 6 (0.99%) JSON
5 6 (0.99%) POSIX
5 6 (0.99%) Web Services
6 5 (0.83%) XSLT
7 3 (0.50%) .NET Core
7 3 (0.50%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (0.50%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.50%) Middleware
7 3 (0.50%) RESTful
8 2 (0.33%) 802.1X
8 2 (0.33%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.33%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 85 (14.03%) PKI
2 38 (6.27%) Public Cloud
3 37 (6.11%) Clustering
4 35 (5.78%) Data Centre
5 25 (4.13%) Client/Server
5 25 (4.13%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (2.48%) NHS
7 14 (2.31%) Driving Licence
8 12 (1.98%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.65%) Fat Client
9 10 (1.65%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.65%) Replication
9 10 (1.65%) Thin Client
10 8 (1.32%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.32%) Video Conferencing
11 6 (0.99%) Digital Signage
12 5 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (0.66%) iPad
13 4 (0.66%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 605 (99.83%) Windows
2 146 (24.09%) Linux
3 141 (23.27%) Windows Server 2012
4 132 (21.78%) Windows Server 2019
5 121 (19.97%) Windows 10
6 112 (18.48%) Windows Server 2016
7 51 (8.42%) Apple iOS
8 49 (8.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 48 (7.92%) Android
10 28 (4.62%) Unix
11 21 (3.47%) Windows NT
12 20 (3.30%) Windows Server 2008
13 14 (2.31%) VMS
14 13 (2.15%) Windows XP
15 11 (1.82%) Ubuntu
16 9 (1.49%) CentOS
16 9 (1.49%) Mac OS
17 8 (1.32%) Windows Server 2003
18 7 (1.16%) Windows 7
19 6 (0.99%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (23.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 121 (19.97%) Agile
3 113 (18.65%) ITIL
4 90 (14.85%) DevOps
5 77 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
6 69 (11.39%) CI/CD
7 68 (11.22%) Customer Service
8 65 (10.73%) Mobile Device Management
9 57 (9.41%) Service Management
10 52 (8.58%) Release Management
11 50 (8.25%) Security Architecture
12 47 (7.76%) Change Management
12 47 (7.76%) Migration
13 43 (7.10%) Risk Management
14 42 (6.93%) Zero Trust
15 40 (6.60%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 40 (6.60%) Threat Intelligence
16 37 (6.11%) Project Management
17 31 (5.12%) Disaster Recovery
17 31 (5.12%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 169 (27.89%) PowerShell
2 78 (12.87%) SQL
3 63 (10.40%) Python
4 34 (5.61%) VBScript
5 25 (4.13%) C#
6 17 (2.81%) Java
7 15 (2.48%) Bicep
7 15 (2.48%) VB
8 10 (1.65%) Bash
9 8 (1.32%) Perl
10 4 (0.66%) C
10 4 (0.66%) C++
11 3 (0.50%) F#
12 2 (0.33%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.33%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.33%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.17%) Korn
13 1 (0.17%) PHP
13 1 (0.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 255 (42.08%) Security Cleared
2 143 (23.60%) DV Cleared
3 120 (19.80%) SC Cleared
4 82 (13.53%) Degree
5 57 (9.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 42 (6.93%) MCSE
7 26 (4.29%) MCSA
8 25 (4.13%) CCNA
8 25 (4.13%) Cisco Certification
9 23 (3.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 19 (3.14%) CCNP
11 18 (2.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 13 (2.15%) Azure Certification
13 12 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (1.16%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.99%) RHCT
16 4 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
17 3 (0.50%) ECDL
18 2 (0.33%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.29%) QA
2 9 (1.49%) SLA
3 7 (1.16%) Disclosure Scotland
3 7 (1.16%) NIST
3 7 (1.16%) RMADS
4 3 (0.50%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.17%) COBIT
6 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.17%) GDPR
6 1 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 372 (61.39%) Active Directory
2 200 (33.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 81 (13.37%) Hyper-V
4 76 (12.54%) VMware ESXi
5 33 (5.45%) Virtual Desktop
6 28 (4.62%) VMware NSX
7 26 (4.29%) Virtual Machines
8 24 (3.96%) vSphere
9 23 (3.80%) XenApp
10 21 (3.47%) Firmware
11 18 (2.97%) Docker
12 14 (2.31%) XenDesktop
13 11 (1.82%) Terminal Services
14 9 (1.49%) BitLocker
15 8 (1.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 8 (1.32%) Microsoft App-V
16 7 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
16 7 (1.16%) VMware Workstation
17 6 (0.99%) KVM
17 6 (0.99%) NFS
Systems Management
1 131 (21.62%) SCCM
2 87 (14.36%) WSUS
3 61 (10.07%) vCenter Server
4 54 (8.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 43 (7.10%) SCOM
6 38 (6.27%) Kubernetes
7 31 (5.12%) Ansible
8 29 (4.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 27 (4.46%) Terraform
10 21 (3.47%) Sysprep
11 18 (2.97%) NetBackup
12 17 (2.81%) EMC NetWorker
13 10 (1.65%) Autotask
13 10 (1.65%) Failover Clustering
14 9 (1.49%) Nessus
15 7 (1.16%) Microsoft Clustering
15 7 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
16 6 (0.99%) Grafana
16 6 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
16 6 (0.99%) vMotion
Vendors
1 304 (50.17%) Microsoft
2 288 (47.52%) VMware
3 54 (8.91%) Citrix
4 52 (8.58%) Cisco
4 52 (8.58%) Veeam
5 39 (6.44%) Oracle
6 27 (4.46%) EMC
7 26 (4.29%) Dell
8 25 (4.13%) HP
9 24 (3.96%) Palo Alto
10 23 (3.80%) Red Hat
11 18 (2.97%) NetApp
11 18 (2.97%) Symantec
12 17 (2.81%) ServiceNow
13 16 (2.64%) Juniper
14 15 (2.48%) Extreme Networks
14 15 (2.48%) Google
15 14 (2.31%) Apple
16 13 (2.15%) 3PAR
17 12 (1.98%) Veritas
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