Windows Server Contracts in Wales

Microsoft Windows Server
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 28 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 -13 +26
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 1 16 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.33% 3.80% 9.74%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.13% 25.40% 35.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 14 38
10th Percentile - £121 £159
25th Percentile - £134 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £200 £450
Median % change year-on-year +125.00% -55.56% -0.88%
75th Percentile - £334 £550
90th Percentile - £584 £608
UK median daily rate £529 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +11.26% -5.00% +14.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.03
Median hourly rate - - £18.06
75th Percentile - - £18.09
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £17.75 £38.50 £29.30
% change year-on-year -53.90% +31.40% +27.39%

All Operating Systems
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 32 63 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 10.63% 14.96% 27.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 44 119
10th Percentile £191 £139 £158
25th Percentile £230 £220 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -39.39% -1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £331 £575 £588
90th Percentile £440 £682 £650
UK median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.16% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 6
10th Percentile £23.08 £12.88 £16.14
25th Percentile £29.94 £13.83 £18.84
Median hourly rate £37.50 £31.18 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.27% -10.91% +62.79%
75th Percentile £45.31 £48.50 £49.69
90th Percentile £52.63 £49.40 £54.38
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £24.18 £44.11
% change year-on-year -9.02% -45.18% +96.04%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Wales

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Wales

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Wales

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 24 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 Wales -3 1 £450 +125.00% 9
Windows Server
UK

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft