Windows Server Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows Server
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 64 52
Rank change year-on-year -14 -12 +17
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 409 621 896
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.02% 2.91% 3.92%
As % of the Operating Systems category 17.55% 18.33% 21.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 472 618
10th Percentile £325 £200 £185
25th Percentile £450 £305 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £489 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.53% +8.61% +7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £588
90th Percentile £638 £678 £688
UK median daily rate £529 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +11.42% -5.00% +13.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 15 49
10th Percentile £14.66 £14.02 £19.80
25th Percentile £15.79 £16.25 £25.75
Median hourly rate £17.75 £58.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.40% +93.33% +40.52%
75th Percentile £53.26 £61.60 £49.52
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.63 £61.34
UK median hourly rate £17.75 £38.50 £29.30
% change year-on-year -53.90% +31.40% +27.39%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,330 3,387 4,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.23% 15.86% 18.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,490 2,177 2,890
10th Percentile £181 £178 £170
25th Percentile £250 £290 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £455 £463
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% -1.62% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £625 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 362 313
10th Percentile £15.12 £12.43 £13.29
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £18.87 £27.50 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year -31.38% -30.56% +98.00%
75th Percentile £45.06 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £24.18 £46.00
% change year-on-year -9.02% -47.43% +104.44%

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 23 June 2025.

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 23 June 2025.

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 23 June 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
South East -10 111 £550 - 378
North of England -9 98 £500 +5.26% 372
South West +45 77 £575 +6.98% 178
North West -5 60 £468 -41.56% 207
Scotland +19 53 £488 +43.38% 73
East of England +26 45 £550 +22.22% 181
Yorkshire -6 33 £538 +65.38% 126
Midlands -54 30 £450 +28.57% 224
West Midlands -19 22 £400 +14.29% 107
East Midlands -26 8 £500 +33.33% 117
North East -5 5 £500 +2.56% 40
Wales -10 1 £450 +125.00% 43
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 72 (17.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (7.09%) SharePoint
3 20 (4.89%) IIS
4 16 (3.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 15 (3.67%) Confluence
6 10 (2.44%) Apache
7 8 (1.96%) Skype for Business
8 7 (1.71%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.98%) Exchange Server 2013
10 3 (0.73%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.49%) Documentum
11 2 (0.49%) SharePoint Server
12 1 (0.24%) SAS
12 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.24%) WinCC
Applications
1 25 (6.11%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (1.22%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.22%) Maximo
2 4 (0.98%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 140 (34.23%) Azure
2 66 (16.14%) AWS
3 62 (15.16%) Microsoft 365
4 51 (12.47%) Entra ID
5 33 (8.07%) OpenShift
6 30 (7.33%) Cohesity
7 27 (6.60%) IaaS
8 15 (3.67%) PaaS
9 13 (3.18%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (2.93%) GCP
11 10 (2.44%) Amazon S3
11 10 (2.44%) Nutanix
12 7 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.71%) OneDrive
13 5 (1.22%) GitHub
14 4 (0.98%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (0.98%) Power Platform
14 4 (0.98%) SaaS
15 3 (0.73%) Azure Sentinel
15 3 (0.73%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 130 (31.78%) DNS
2 71 (17.36%) DHCP
3 58 (14.18%) SAN
4 57 (13.94%) Firewall
5 38 (9.29%) TCP/IP
6 26 (6.36%) LAN
7 24 (5.87%) NAS
7 24 (5.87%) VPN
8 19 (4.65%) Network Security
9 18 (4.40%) HTTP
10 17 (4.16%) Skype
11 16 (3.91%) SMTP
12 15 (3.67%) Fibre Channel
12 15 (3.67%) Intrusion Detection
12 15 (3.67%) WAN
13 13 (3.18%) iSCSI
14 11 (2.69%) NetScaler
15 7 (1.71%) Internet
15 7 (1.71%) Unified Communications
16 5 (1.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.56%) SQL Server
2 21 (5.13%) Oracle Database
3 13 (3.18%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (3.18%) Big Data
4 8 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (1.71%) DB2
6 5 (1.22%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.24%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.24%) MS Access
8 1 (0.24%) MySQL
8 1 (0.24%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (8.07%) Git
2 28 (6.85%) Jenkins
3 17 (4.16%) JIRA
4 13 (3.18%) Bitbucket
5 11 (2.69%) GitLab
5 11 (2.69%) MSI
6 4 (0.98%) Robot Framework
6 4 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.24%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.24%) Postman
7 1 (0.24%) Selenium
7 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 112 (27.38%) Social Skills
2 52 (12.71%) Public Sector
3 32 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (5.62%) Finance
5 18 (4.40%) Telecoms
6 15 (3.67%) Manufacturing
7 10 (2.44%) Military
8 9 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.96%) Legal
10 6 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.22%) Law
11 5 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.73%) Banking
12 3 (0.73%) Fire and Rescue
12 3 (0.73%) German Language
12 3 (0.73%) Police
13 2 (0.49%) Aviation
13 2 (0.49%) Publishing
13 2 (0.49%) Swedish Language
14 1 (0.24%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 97 (23.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 28 (6.85%) Analyst
3 24 (5.87%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 24 (5.87%) Windows Engineer
4 23 (5.62%) Support Engineer
5 22 (5.38%) Architect
5 22 (5.38%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 16 (3.91%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (3.91%) Administrator
6 16 (3.91%) IT Engineer
6 16 (3.91%) Server Engineer
7 15 (3.67%) Linux Engineer
8 14 (3.42%) Infrastructure Architect
9 11 (2.69%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (2.69%) Lead
9 11 (2.69%) Senior
9 11 (2.69%) VMware Architect
10 10 (2.44%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (2.44%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (2.44%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.67%) SOAP
2 11 (2.69%) REST
3 7 (1.71%) LDAP
4 6 (1.47%) .NET
4 6 (1.47%) Middleware
4 6 (1.47%) XML
5 5 (1.22%) Web Services
6 4 (0.98%) Apache Axis
7 3 (0.73%) X-Windows
8 2 (0.49%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.49%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.49%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (0.24%) 802.1X
9 1 (0.24%) Azure Blueprints
9 1 (0.24%) JSON
9 1 (0.24%) OAuth
9 1 (0.24%) ODBC
9 1 (0.24%) WCF
9 1 (0.24%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 42 (10.27%) PKI
2 28 (6.85%) Data Centre
3 23 (5.62%) Clustering
4 21 (5.13%) Management Information System
5 20 (4.89%) Linux Command Line
6 18 (4.40%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (4.16%) Onboarding
8 10 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (1.47%) Replication
10 5 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.22%) Driving Licence
10 5 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.22%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (0.98%) Product Ownership
12 3 (0.73%) Client/Server
12 3 (0.73%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.73%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 409 (100.00%) Windows
2 146 (35.70%) Linux
3 76 (18.58%) Windows Server 2019
4 72 (17.60%) Windows Server 2016
5 67 (16.38%) Windows 10
6 40 (9.78%) Windows Server 2012
7 38 (9.29%) Unix
8 35 (8.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 19 (4.65%) Windows Server 2003
10 17 (4.16%) Ubuntu
11 9 (2.20%) CentOS
11 9 (2.20%) VMS
12 7 (1.71%) Android
13 6 (1.47%) Amazon Linux
13 6 (1.47%) Mac OS
13 6 (1.47%) Solaris
14 5 (1.22%) Debian
14 5 (1.22%) Windows 8
14 5 (1.22%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (1.22%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (32.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 95 (23.23%) Problem-Solving
3 77 (18.83%) ITIL
4 67 (16.38%) Agile
5 57 (13.94%) DevOps
6 45 (11.00%) Service Management
7 44 (10.76%) Migration
8 36 (8.80%) Deployment Automation
9 34 (8.31%) Disaster Recovery
10 32 (7.82%) CI/CD
11 31 (7.58%) High Availability
12 28 (6.85%) Cybersecurity
13 27 (6.60%) Change Management
14 26 (6.36%) SIEM
15 25 (6.11%) ITSM
16 24 (5.87%) Business Continuity
16 24 (5.87%) Project Delivery
16 24 (5.87%) Server Management
17 22 (5.38%) Roadmaps
17 22 (5.38%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 178 (43.52%) PowerShell
2 73 (17.85%) Python
3 68 (16.63%) SQL
4 48 (11.74%) Bash
5 20 (4.89%) Java
6 19 (4.65%) Perl
7 18 (4.40%) PL/SQL
8 16 (3.91%) Shell Script
9 14 (3.42%) C#
10 10 (2.44%) VB
11 6 (1.47%) VBScript
12 5 (1.22%) JavaScript
13 4 (0.98%) PHP
13 4 (0.98%) Ruby
14 3 (0.73%) Bicep
15 1 (0.24%) ActionScript
15 1 (0.24%) Ladder Logic
15 1 (0.24%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.24%) VB6
15 1 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 196 (47.92%) Security Cleared
2 106 (25.92%) SC Cleared
3 99 (24.21%) DV Cleared
4 54 (13.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 42 (10.27%) Degree
6 30 (7.33%) Cisco Certification
7 26 (6.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 25 (6.11%) MCSE
9 17 (4.16%) Azure Certification
10 10 (2.44%) CCNP
10 10 (2.44%) OCA
10 10 (2.44%) Oracle Certification
11 9 (2.20%) RHCA
11 9 (2.20%) RHCE
11 9 (2.20%) VCP5
11 9 (2.20%) VCP6
12 6 (1.47%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (1.47%) MCSA
13 4 (0.98%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.73%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.93%) SLA
2 9 (2.20%) QA
3 7 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.47%) Disclosure Scotland
5 5 (1.22%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.98%) GDPR
6 4 (0.98%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.73%) NCSC
8 2 (0.49%) IEC 61131
8 2 (0.49%) NIST
9 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.24%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 234 (57.21%) Active Directory
2 133 (32.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 71 (17.36%) Hyper-V
4 49 (11.98%) VMware ESXi
5 40 (9.78%) vSphere
6 35 (8.56%) Docker
6 35 (8.56%) Virtual Servers
7 28 (6.85%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 15 (3.67%) NFS
8 15 (3.67%) Virtual Machines
9 14 (3.42%) Virtual Desktop
10 13 (3.18%) BitLocker
11 12 (2.93%) VMware NSX
12 11 (2.69%) Microsoft App-V
13 9 (2.20%) Terminal Services
13 9 (2.20%) XenDesktop
14 7 (1.71%) XenApp
15 4 (0.98%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 2 (0.49%) Firmware
17 1 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 84 (20.54%) Ansible
2 72 (17.60%) SCCM
3 64 (15.65%) WSUS
4 43 (10.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 40 (9.78%) vCenter Server
6 39 (9.54%) Terraform
7 38 (9.29%) Kubernetes
8 35 (8.56%) Puppet
9 12 (2.93%) NetBackup
9 12 (2.93%) Progress Chef
10 10 (2.44%) Nagios
10 10 (2.44%) vMotion
11 9 (2.20%) Oracle RMAN
11 9 (2.20%) SCOM
11 9 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (1.96%) Microsoft Clustering
13 7 (1.71%) Failover Clustering
13 7 (1.71%) Nessus
14 5 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (1.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 196 (47.92%) VMware
2 187 (45.72%) Microsoft
3 47 (11.49%) Red Hat
4 46 (11.25%) Cisco
5 45 (11.00%) Oracle
6 37 (9.05%) NetApp
7 34 (8.31%) Dell
8 32 (7.82%) Citrix
9 31 (7.58%) Splunk
10 24 (5.87%) Veeam
11 22 (5.38%) HP
12 17 (4.16%) SolarWinds
13 16 (3.91%) Symantec
14 14 (3.42%) Veritas
15 13 (3.18%) Google
15 13 (3.18%) IBM
16 12 (2.93%) Atlassian
17 11 (2.69%) Wyse
18 9 (2.20%) CyberArk
19 6 (1.47%) Qualys