Windows Server Contracts in Worcestershire

Microsoft Windows Server
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Worcestershire 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 25 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 13 17
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 5 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Worcestershire 7.58% 5.62% 4.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 33.33% 35.71% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 £525 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +18.92% -2.63%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £513
90th Percentile £648 - £558
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £350 £378
% change year-on-year +39.29% -7.28% +0.67%

All Operating Systems
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 15 14 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 22.73% 15.73% 23.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 20
10th Percentile £145 £158 £163
25th Percentile £162 £179 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% +63.64%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £578
90th Percentile £621 - £653
West Midlands median daily rate £423 £450 £414
% change year-on-year -6.11% +8.76% -8.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - £30.00 -
25th Percentile £16.67 £43.13 -
Median hourly rate £17.16 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -75.49% - -
75th Percentile £21.15 £73.75 -
90th Percentile £23.26 £74.50 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £17.83 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.14% -5.00% +26.14%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Worcestershire

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Worcestershire

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Worcestershire

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 25 July 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
Malvern -4 3 £550 - 1
Worcester - 1 £625 - 2
Windows Server
West Midlands

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Worcestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Application Integration Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Applications Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 3 (60.00%) Change Control
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Application Packaging
3 2 (40.00%) Reverse Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) ArcSight