Windows Server Contracts in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Windows Server
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 38 41 61
Rank change year-on-year +3 +20 -5
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 24 36 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 4.38% 3.60% 2.82%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.00% 25.17% 26.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 31 34
10th Percentile £336 £275 £213
25th Percentile £494 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £380 £381
Median % change year-on-year +44.74% -0.33% +12.13%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £531
90th Percentile - £638 £538
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £325 £381
% change year-on-year +69.23% -14.75% +17.31%

All Operating Systems
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 120 143 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 21.90% 14.31% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 110 126
10th Percentile £185 £178 £190
25th Percentile £313 £300 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £470
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -14.89% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £522 £575
90th Percentile £750 £619 £660
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £415 £440
% change year-on-year +8.43% -5.68% +17.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 £13.87 £13.16
Median hourly rate £41.00 £14.52 £15.44
Median % change year-on-year +182.37% -5.96% -12.12%
75th Percentile £41.50 £15.95 £33.29
90th Percentile - £17.34 £61.32
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £19.39
% change year-on-year -17.25% +13.49% +10.77%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in West Yorkshire

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in West Yorkshire

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in West Yorkshire

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in West Yorkshire

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Leeds -5 23 £550 +32.53% 12
Huddersfield +4 1 £320 -14.67% 1
Windows Server
Yorkshire

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 16 (66.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) Azure
1 4 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (8.33%) AWS
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (75.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (83.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
General
1 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (37.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 8 (33.33%) Engineering Specialist
4 5 (20.83%) IT Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) Network Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) IP Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Windows Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) IP Network Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Migration Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Server Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) VMS Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Windows Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (75.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) CCTV
3 1 (4.17%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 24 (100.00%) Windows
2 22 (91.67%) Linux
3 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (4.17%) VMS
4 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (91.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (70.83%) Agile
2 17 (70.83%) Microservices
2 17 (70.83%) Security Management
3 16 (66.67%) SOA
4 14 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (58.33%) Server Management
5 9 (37.50%) Migration
6 7 (29.17%) Roadmaps
6 7 (29.17%) Technology Roadmap
7 3 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
8 2 (8.33%) Data Protection
8 2 (8.33%) Proactive Management
8 2 (8.33%) Proactive Monitoring
8 2 (8.33%) Project Planning
9 1 (4.17%) Change Management
9 1 (4.17%) Customer Service
9 1 (4.17%) Data Security
9 1 (4.17%) Incident Management
9 1 (4.17%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 20 (83.33%) Bash
2 19 (79.17%) SQL
3 18 (75.00%) PL/SQL
3 18 (75.00%) PowerShell
4 17 (70.83%) Perl
Qualifications
1 20 (83.33%) Cisco Certification
1 20 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 16 (66.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 23 (95.83%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (4.17%) vCenter Server
1 1 (4.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 20 (83.33%) Cisco
1 20 (83.33%) Oracle
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 2 (8.33%) Veeam
3 2 (8.33%) VMware