Windows Server Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Microsoft Windows Server
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Windows Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 29 12
Rank change year-on-year -17 -17 +28
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 8 3 14
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 1.94% 1.65% 8.92%
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.67% 8.57% 29.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 13
10th Percentile £483 £278 £212
25th Percentile £494 £319 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% - +37.93%
75th Percentile £619 £525 £475
90th Percentile £668 £593 -
South East median daily rate £515 £533 £540
% change year-on-year -3.29% -1.39% +18.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £36.75
Median hourly rate - - £38.50
75th Percentile - - £40.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £57.99 £32.77 £38.50
% change year-on-year +76.96% -14.88% -31.25%

All Operating Systems
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 48 35 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 11.65% 19.23% 30.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 19 40
10th Percentile £163 £189 £199
25th Percentile £401 £200 £264
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £214 £445
Median % change year-on-year +114.49% -51.86% +48.17%
75th Percentile £475 £336 £475
90th Percentile £525 £530 £588
South East median daily rate £481 £477 £450
% change year-on-year +0.94% +5.89% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 15 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £15.50 £36.75
Median hourly rate £15.31 £18.82 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -51.12% -
75th Percentile - £20.69 £40.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £47.54 £18.87 £55.13
% change year-on-year +151.93% -65.77% +0.23%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Windows Server job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Windows Server
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Windows Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in West Sussex over the 6 months to 3 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in West Sussex

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Windows Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 3 September 2026. 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
Horsham -16 5 - -
Crawley -7 2 £513 +28.13% 5
Worthing -9 1 £700 +12.00%
Windows Server
South East

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Wireless
2 1 (12.50%) BIG-IP
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Project Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Data Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Manager
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) Unix
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Project Management
2 3 (37.50%) Business Continuity
2 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (12.50%) BCP
4 1 (12.50%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
4 1 (12.50%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) ITSM
4 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
4 1 (12.50%) Project Planning
4 1 (12.50%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (12.50%) Server Virtualisation
4 1 (12.50%) Service Management
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (12.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Guidewire
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) BeyondTrust
2 1 (12.50%) F5
2 1 (12.50%) Juniper
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat