Windows Server Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Windows Server
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 57 64
Rank change year-on-year -21 +7 +11
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 19 54 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.41% 2.77% 3.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.38% 22.04% 18.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 42 60
10th Percentile £210 £201 £256
25th Percentile £293 £266 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £363 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -23.68% +26.67%
75th Percentile £450 £566 £638
90th Percentile £543 £850 £731
England median daily rate £540 £468 £500
% change year-on-year +15.51% -6.50% +17.10%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 183 245 410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.61% 12.58% 17.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 163 275
10th Percentile £147 £182 £170
25th Percentile £190 £250 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £505
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -15.84% +24.69%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £559
90th Percentile £653 £695 £694
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 16 9
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.83 £14.71
25th Percentile £16.67 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 £16.94
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% +32.86% +2.64%
75th Percentile £19.01 £23.75 £18.50
90th Percentile £20.00 £48.13 £25.75
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the West Midlands

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in the West Midlands

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in the West Midlands

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in the West Midlands

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Warwickshire +7 8 £425 +41.67% 6
Solihull +20 5 £375 +66.67% 3
Coventry -3 3 £290 -27.50%
Shropshire -2 2 £210 -
Worcestershire -5 1 £700 +27.27% 2
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.26%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) Entra ID
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (10.53%) AWS
4 2 (10.53%) OneDrive
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) LAN
2 4 (21.05%) NAS
2 4 (21.05%) SAN
3 3 (15.79%) NetScaler
4 2 (10.53%) Firewall
4 2 (10.53%) SSL
4 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
4 2 (10.53%) VPN
4 2 (10.53%) WAN
5 1 (5.26%) DNS
5 1 (5.26%) SMTP
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Manufacturing
3 3 (15.79%) Legal
4 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Storage Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Windows Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Administrator
4 2 (10.53%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (10.53%) Applications Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Architect
4 2 (10.53%) IT Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Security Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) IT Security Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Apache Axis
2 2 (10.53%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
3 2 (10.53%) Replication
4 1 (5.26%) CCTV
4 1 (5.26%) Clustering
4 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.26%) Operational Technology
4 1 (5.26%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (26.32%) Linux
2 5 (26.32%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (10.53%) Windows 10
5 1 (5.26%) Rocky
5 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (36.84%) ITIL
3 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (21.05%) Patch Management
4 4 (21.05%) Storage Management
5 3 (15.79%) Design Patterns
5 3 (15.79%) Microservices
5 3 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (15.79%) SOA
6 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
6 2 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (10.53%) Identity Management
6 2 (10.53%) Network Load Balancing
6 2 (10.53%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (10.53%) Project Management
6 2 (10.53%) Release Management
6 2 (10.53%) Risk Management
6 2 (10.53%) Roadmaps
6 2 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (10.53%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) PowerShell
2 5 (26.32%) Python
3 3 (15.79%) C#
3 3 (15.79%) Java
3 3 (15.79%) Ruby
3 3 (15.79%) SQL
4 2 (10.53%) Perl
5 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 6 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 5 (26.32%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (15.79%) CISSP
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Certification
5 2 (10.53%) Degree
6 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
6 1 (5.26%) MCSE
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (5.26%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (15.79%) QA
3 2 (10.53%) GDPR
3 2 (10.53%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (52.63%) Active Directory
2 5 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (21.05%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.26%) vSphere
4 1 (5.26%) XenApp
4 1 (5.26%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.26%) SCCM
2 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (5.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Dell
2 7 (36.84%) VMware
3 3 (15.79%) HP
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.53%) IBM
5 1 (5.26%) Citrix
5 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds
5 1 (5.26%) Veeam