Windows Server Engineer Contracts

Windows Server Engineer
UK

The median Windows Server Engineer daily rate in the UK is £448 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 660 800
Rank change year-on-year +94 +140 -144
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Server Engineer 20 38 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.047% 0.065% 0.074%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.069% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 23 47
10th Percentile £322 £325 £270
25th Percentile £393 £363 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £440 £425
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +3.53% +6.25%
75th Percentile £491 £538 £500
90th Percentile £513 £700 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £375 £338
% change year-on-year +26.67% +11.11% -0.74%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,893 55,060 83,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,957 38,445 58,715
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,534 2,047
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +2.56%

Windows Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Windows Server Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server Engineer in the UK

Windows Server Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server Engineer in the UK

Windows Server Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server Engineer over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server Engineer in the UK

Windows Server Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server Engineer in the UK

Windows Server Engineer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 May 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
England +92 14 £428 -2.73% 2
UK excluding London +64 11 £475 +26.67% 2
Work from Home +99 8 £425 -
North of England +24 4 £475 +18.75%
South East +20 4 £513 +46.43% 1
London +76 3 £400 -20.00%
Midlands +31 2 £338 -
East Midlands +23 2 £338 -
North West +23 2 £488 +21.88%
Yorkshire +20 1 £475 -
North East +15 1 £431 -
South West +11 1 £350 -12.50%

Windows Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Windows Server Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Windows Server Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Windows
1 20 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 13 (65.00%) Active Directory
3 8 (40.00%) VMware
3 8 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (35.00%) SCCM
4 7 (35.00%) DHCP
4 7 (35.00%) DNS
4 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (30.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (30.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
5 6 (30.00%) Hyper-V
5 6 (30.00%) Azure
6 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
6 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
7 4 (20.00%) Migration
7 4 (20.00%) Change Management
7 4 (20.00%) AWS
7 4 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
8 3 (15.00%) Power BI
8 3 (15.00%) GitHub
8 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (15.00%) SQL
8 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
8 3 (15.00%) Degree

Windows Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (10.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (20.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (15.00%) GitHub
3 3 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Storage
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.00%) IaaS
4 1 (5.00%) PaaS
4 1 (5.00%) SaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (35.00%) DHCP
1 7 (35.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (5.00%) AMQP
3 1 (5.00%) DMZ
3 1 (5.00%) Firewall
3 1 (5.00%) Modbus
3 1 (5.00%) MQTT
3 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Power BI
1 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.00%) Tableau
General
1 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (5.00%) JSON
1 1 (5.00%) Web Services
1 1 (5.00%) XML
1 1 (5.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Clustering
1 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (5.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (5.00%) IoT
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) PKI
2 1 (5.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (100.00%) Windows
1 20 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 6 (30.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 6 (30.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (10.00%) Linux
5 1 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (20.00%) Change Management
3 4 (20.00%) Migration
4 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (15.00%) Intelligent Automation
5 2 (10.00%) Agile
5 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (10.00%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (10.00%) DevOps
5 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (10.00%) Due Diligence
5 2 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (10.00%) Patch Management
5 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (10.00%) Scrum
5 2 (10.00%) Server Management
5 2 (10.00%) Task Automation
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (5.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.00%) SQL
3 2 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) MCSE
3 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (65.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (30.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (10.00%) vSphere
5 1 (5.00%) Docker
5 1 (5.00%) Firmware
5 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) SCCM
2 2 (10.00%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (10.00%) SCOM
2 2 (10.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (5.00%) Grafana
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.00%) Nessus
3 1 (5.00%) SCOrch
3 1 (5.00%) SCVMM
3 1 (5.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) VMware
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.00%) UiPath
4 2 (10.00%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (10.00%) Varonis
5 1 (5.00%) BEA
5 1 (5.00%) CA
5 1 (5.00%) Qualys