Windows Server Engineer Contract Job Trends

Windows Server Engineer
UK

The median Windows Server Engineer daily rate in the UK is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 572 541 589
Rank change year-on-year -31 +48 +180
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Server Engineer 7 18 29
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.020% 0.050% 0.064%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.054% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 14 24
10th Percentile £543 £275 £240
25th Percentile £569 £371 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% -5.88% -16.67%
75th Percentile £669 £436 £479
90th Percentile £688 £486 £579
UK excluding London median daily rate - £400 £425
% change year-on-year - -5.88% -12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £21.46 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 32,486 33,393 42,696
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.92% 92.81% 93.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,605 20,273 28,801
10th Percentile £281 £300 £293
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £647
90th Percentile £723 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £497 £500
% change year-on-year -4.43% -0.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,896 1,201 1,522
10th Percentile £14.15 £15.25 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.27% +43.93%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.75 £77.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +78.00%

Windows Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Windows Server Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Windows Server Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Windows Server Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Windows Server Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Windows Server Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Windows Server Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server Engineer over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server Engineer in the UK

Windows Server Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Windows Server Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Windows Server Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Windows Server Engineer
Top 3 Contract Job 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 1 December 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
London +10 5 £700 +75.00%
England -31 5 £700 +75.00% 2
Work from Home -4 2 £550 +37.50% 1

Windows Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 December 2025, Windows Server Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Windows Server Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) Android
2 2 (28.57%) Apple
2 2 (28.57%) Break/Fix
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
2 2 (28.57%) Dell
2 2 (28.57%) HP
2 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
2 2 (28.57%) Mac OS
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Windows 10
2 2 (28.57%) Wireless
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (14.29%) Fintech
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) iSCSI
3 1 (14.29%) Nutanix
3 1 (14.29%) Patch Management
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering

Windows Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Wireless
2 1 (14.29%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Clustering
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) FMCG
2 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (28.57%) Android
2 2 (28.57%) Mac OS
2 2 (28.57%) Windows 10
3 1 (14.29%) VMS
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Break/Fix
1 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
1 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
2 1 (14.29%) Fintech
2 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Patch Management
2 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (14.29%) Server Migrations
2 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Apple
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) Dell
1 2 (28.57%) HP
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft