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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 54 59
Rank change year-on-year -27 +5 +13
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 21 54 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.50% 2.86% 3.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.77% 22.78% 20.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 44 58
10th Percentile £300 £202 £244
25th Percentile £347 £259 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -26.32% +26.67%
75th Percentile £473 £575 £638
90th Percentile £572 £850 £731
England median daily rate £550 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.50
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
75th Percentile - - £27.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £18.75 £46.75 £34.00
% change year-on-year -59.89% +37.50% +38.78%

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 195 237 354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.97% 12.56% 15.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 162 230
10th Percentile £145 £182 £163
25th Percentile £190 £251 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 £423 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.72% -11.05% +17.28%
75th Percentile £516 £550 £576
90th Percentile £638 £698 £694
England median daily rate £473 £473 £513
% change year-on-year -0.16% -7.66% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 10
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.99 £13.16
25th Percentile £16.67 £18.50 £15.49
Median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 £17.33
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% +29.85% +5.02%
75th Percentile £19.50 £23.75 £18.69
90th Percentile £23.73 £43.25 £30.13
England median hourly rate £21.28 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year -3.27% -42.11% +74.47%

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 20 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 20 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 +1 8 £425 +41.67% 4
Solihull +15 6 £375 +66.67% 5
Coventry -5 3 £290 -27.50% 2
Worcestershire -2 2 £625 +13.64% 2
Birmingham -6 1 £400 +14.29% 12
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 1 (4.76%) IIS
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) Azure
2 6 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 3 (14.29%) AWS
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) LAN
2 5 (23.81%) NAS
2 5 (23.81%) SAN
3 3 (14.29%) NetScaler
4 2 (9.52%) DNS
4 2 (9.52%) SSL
4 2 (9.52%) WAN
5 1 (4.76%) DHCP
5 1 (4.76%) DKIM
5 1 (4.76%) DMARC
5 1 (4.76%) Firewall
5 1 (4.76%) SMTP
5 1 (4.76%) Unified Communications
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
1 1 (4.76%) GitLab
General
1 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Manufacturing
3 2 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Storage Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Windows Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Administrator
4 2 (9.52%) Applications Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Architect
4 2 (9.52%) IT Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Lead
4 2 (9.52%) Security Architect
5 1 (4.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) IT Security Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) Apache Axis
2 2 (9.52%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 3 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
3 2 (9.52%) Replication
4 1 (4.76%) CCTV
4 1 (4.76%) Clustering
4 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.76%) Driving Licence
4 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.76%) Operational Technology
4 1 (4.76%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 21 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (23.81%) Linux
2 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (4.76%) Rocky
4 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
4 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (33.33%) ITIL
3 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (19.05%) Storage Management
5 3 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 3 (14.29%) Design Patterns
5 3 (14.29%) Microservices
5 3 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (14.29%) SOA
5 3 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (9.52%) Containerisation
6 2 (9.52%) Cost Reduction
6 2 (9.52%) Identity Management
6 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Maintenance
6 2 (9.52%) Network Load Balancing
6 2 (9.52%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (9.52%) RBAC
6 2 (9.52%) Release Management
6 2 (9.52%) Risk Management
6 2 (9.52%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 5 (23.81%) Python
3 3 (14.29%) C#
3 3 (14.29%) Java
3 3 (14.29%) Ruby
3 3 (14.29%) SQL
4 2 (9.52%) Perl
5 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 7 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (23.81%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (14.29%) Azure Certification
4 3 (14.29%) CISSP
4 3 (14.29%) Degree
4 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.76%) MCSE
5 1 (4.76%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (14.29%) QA
3 2 (9.52%) GDPR
3 2 (9.52%) NIST
4 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 6 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (19.05%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (9.52%) Hyper-V
5 1 (4.76%) Docker
5 1 (4.76%) Firmware
5 1 (4.76%) vSphere
5 1 (4.76%) XenApp
5 1 (4.76%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (9.52%) SCCM
3 1 (4.76%) Ansible
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (4.76%) Terraform
3 1 (4.76%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) VMware
2 8 (38.10%) Dell
3 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 3 (14.29%) HP
5 2 (9.52%) IBM
5 2 (9.52%) Veeam
6 1 (4.76%) Citrix
6 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds