Windows Server Contracts in Yorkshire

Microsoft Windows Server
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 59 48 68
Rank change year-on-year -11 +20 -23
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 33 52 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 3.24% 3.08% 2.56%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.00% 15.71% 19.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 46 42
10th Percentile £336 £229 £193
25th Percentile £494 £275 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £325 £381
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% -14.75% +17.31%
75th Percentile £575 £484 £538
90th Percentile - £572 £620
England median daily rate £540 £468 £500
% change year-on-year +15.51% -6.50% +17.10%

All Operating Systems
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 220 331 306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.63% 19.60% 13.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 242 224
10th Percentile £178 £163 £153
25th Percentile £243 £275 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £415 £440
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -5.68% +17.33%
75th Percentile £575 £505 £550
90th Percentile £725 £588 £650
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 9
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.57 £12.73
25th Percentile £16.50 £13.87 £13.16
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £19.39
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +13.49% +10.77%
75th Percentile £19.75 £23.75 £22.00
90th Percentile £24.12 - £34.00
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Yorkshire

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Yorkshire

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Yorkshire

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Yorkshire

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
West Yorkshire +3 24 £550 +44.74% 16
South Yorkshire +8 5 - - 7
East Yorkshire +2 2 - - 5
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (48.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.21%) Azure
2 4 (12.12%) Entra ID
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (9.09%) AWS
4 2 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (66.67%) DNS
2 5 (15.15%) NAS
3 4 (12.12%) SAN
4 2 (6.06%) Firewall
4 2 (6.06%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (60.61%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Git
1 4 (12.12%) GitLab
2 3 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (57.58%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.09%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.06%) Aviation
3 2 (6.06%) Fire and Rescue
3 2 (6.06%) Police
3 2 (6.06%) Swedish Language
4 1 (3.03%) Finance
4 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (48.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (27.27%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 8 (24.24%) Engineering Specialist
4 7 (21.21%) IT Engineer
4 7 (21.21%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Network Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) IP Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Security Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Windows Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Active Directory Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) CCTV Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Virtualisation Specialist
7 1 (3.03%) VMware Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 18 (54.55%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.06%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.06%) Robotics
5 1 (3.03%) CCTV
5 1 (3.03%) Driving Licence
5 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 33 (100.00%) Windows
2 29 (87.88%) Linux
3 3 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (3.03%) VMS
4 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (81.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (63.64%) Agile
3 18 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (51.52%) Microservices
4 17 (51.52%) Security Management
5 16 (48.48%) SOA
6 14 (42.42%) Server Management
7 13 (39.39%) Migration
8 9 (27.27%) Roadmaps
9 7 (21.21%) Technology Roadmap
10 4 (12.12%) Kanban
10 4 (12.12%) Scrum
11 3 (9.09%) Data Protection
11 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
11 3 (9.09%) Technical Architecture
12 2 (6.06%) IT Strategy
12 2 (6.06%) Proactive Management
12 2 (6.06%) Proactive Monitoring
12 2 (6.06%) Strategic Roadmap
12 2 (6.06%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 22 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 20 (60.61%) Bash
3 19 (57.58%) SQL
4 18 (54.55%) PL/SQL
5 17 (51.52%) Perl
6 4 (12.12%) Python
6 4 (12.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (60.61%) Cisco Certification
1 20 (60.61%) Security Cleared
2 16 (48.48%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.06%) Degree
System Software
1 27 (81.82%) Active Directory
2 8 (24.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (18.18%) VMware NSX
4 4 (12.12%) vSphere
5 3 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (6.06%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) vCenter Server
1 5 (15.15%) vRealize
2 4 (12.12%) Ansible
3 2 (6.06%) FortiGate
3 2 (6.06%) Grafana
4 1 (3.03%) NetApp OnCommand
4 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.03%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 20 (60.61%) Cisco
1 20 (60.61%) Oracle
2 8 (24.24%) VMware
3 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
4 3 (9.09%) Red Hat
5 2 (6.06%) Ribbon
5 2 (6.06%) Tenable
5 2 (6.06%) Veeam
6 1 (3.03%) NetApp