Windows Server Contract Job Trends in Wokingham

Microsoft Windows Server
Berkshire > Wokingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wokingham requiring Windows Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 18 20
Rank change year-on-year -30 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 16 12 3
As % of all contract jobs in Wokingham 3.58% 7.69% 3.30%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.84% 23.53% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 3
10th Percentile - £325 -
25th Percentile £350 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £539 £310
Median % change year-on-year -28.11% +73.87% -49.39%
75th Percentile £483 £575 -
90th Percentile £537 £675 -
Berkshire median daily rate £423 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -21.47% -6.43% -6.69%

All Operating Systems
Wokingham

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 Wokingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 101 51 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 22.60% 32.69% 19.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 34 17
10th Percentile £335 £277 £275
25th Percentile £375 £350 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £450 £350
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +28.57% -37.78%
75th Percentile £492 £538 £400
90th Percentile £537 £565 £600
Berkshire median daily rate £414 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -17.20% +25.00% -23.81%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

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

Windows Server job vacancy trend in Wokingham

Windows Server
Daily Rate Trend in Wokingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Wokingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Wokingham over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Wokingham

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Wokingham

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wokingham 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 (6.25%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) Azure
2 11 (68.75%) Entra ID
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (6.25%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (87.50%) DHCP
1 14 (87.50%) DNS
2 11 (68.75%) FTP
3 3 (18.75%) SSL
4 1 (6.25%) SMTP
4 1 (6.25%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database 11g
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database 12c
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Analyst
1 9 (56.25%) Wintel Analyst
2 1 (6.25%) DBA
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (6.25%) PowerShell Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) JSON
1 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (6.25%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (6.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (12.50%) High Availability
1 2 (12.50%) Identity Management
1 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (12.50%) Operational Stability
1 2 (12.50%) Patch Management
1 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (12.50%) Server Management
1 2 (12.50%) Validation
1 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (6.25%) Auto-Scaling
2 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
2 1 (6.25%) Configuration Management
2 1 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (6.25%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (6.25%) Security Hardening
2 1 (6.25%) Tech Ops
2 1 (6.25%) Workflow
2 1 (6.25%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.25%) Python
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 14 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 11 (68.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (18.75%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 2 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (6.25%) NFS
5 1 (6.25%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Data Guard
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
2 1 (6.25%) Puppet
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) VMware
2 9 (56.25%) Citrix
3 8 (50.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle