Windows Server Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Windows Server Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Windows Server Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £438 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 446 598
Rank change year-on-year +103 +152 -130
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Server Engineer 9 24 36
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.059% 0.093% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.097% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 22
10th Percentile £319 £325 £264
25th Percentile £380 £350 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £433 £408
Median % change year-on-year +1.16% +6.13% +7.24%
75th Percentile £473 £538 £425
90th Percentile £481 £638 £500
UK median daily rate £425 £470 £425
% change year-on-year -9.57% +10.59% +6.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,380 24,650 42,718
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.33% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,617 17,416 30,864
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +2.81% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 564 610
10th Percentile £14.30 £18.50 £13.10
25th Percentile £23.25 £26.19 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

Windows Server Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Windows Server Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Windows Server Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Server Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Windows Server Engineer.

Windows Server Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Server Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Windows Server Engineer over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Windows Server Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Server Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Windows Server Engineer.

Windows Server Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Windows Server Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Windows Server Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
3 5 (55.56%) PowerShell
4 4 (44.44%) SCCM
4 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (44.44%) DHCP
4 4 (44.44%) DNS
4 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
5 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 3 (33.33%) Power BI
5 3 (33.33%) VMware
5 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
5 3 (33.33%) vSphere
5 3 (33.33%) Hyper-V
5 3 (33.33%) Azure
6 2 (22.22%) AWS
6 2 (22.22%) SCOM
6 2 (22.22%) Migration
6 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (22.22%) WSUS
6 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
6 2 (22.22%) IIS
6 2 (22.22%) Change Management
6 2 (22.22%) Identity Access Management

Windows Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (22.22%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
1 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (11.11%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) DHCP
1 4 (44.44%) DNS
2 2 (22.22%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (11.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Power BI
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Clustering
1 1 (11.11%) Hedge funds
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2012
2 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Change Management
2 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (22.22%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (22.22%) Due Diligence
2 2 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Application Packaging
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
3 1 (11.11%) High Availability
3 1 (11.11%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (11.11%) Patch Management
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (11.11%) Security Hardening
3 1 (11.11%) Server Patching
3 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (11.11%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
2 3 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 3 (33.33%) vSphere
3 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (11.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) SCCM
2 2 (22.22%) SCOM
2 2 (22.22%) vCenter Server
2 2 (22.22%) WSUS
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (11.11%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (11.11%) Nessus
3 1 (11.11%) SCOrch
3 1 (11.11%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) VMware
2 2 (22.22%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (22.22%) Varonis
3 1 (11.11%) HP
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Qualys