Windows Server Contracts in Yorkshire

Microsoft Windows Server
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for Windows Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 67 45
Rank change year-on-year +20 -22 +6
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 56 59 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 3.35% 2.58% 4.45%
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.47% 20.07% 26.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 42 80
10th Percentile £229 £190 £150
25th Percentile £275 £277 £166
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £363 £323
Median % change year-on-year -0.07% +12.48% -15.13%
75th Percentile £506 £538 £426
90th Percentile £580 £620 £489
England median daily rate £450 £500 £427
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.10% +6.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £17.07
25th Percentile - - £17.93
Median hourly rate - - £21.35
75th Percentile - - £23.00
90th Percentile - - £23.30
England median hourly rate £32.50 £29.30 £22.50
% change year-on-year +10.92% +30.22% -10.00%

All Operating Systems
Yorkshire

Windows Server is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 340 294 467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.32% 12.88% 16.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 215 348
10th Percentile £163 £153 £133
25th Percentile £275 £200 £171
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £425 £375
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% +13.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £506 £538 £491
90th Percentile £588 £645 £575
England median daily rate £459 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -11.73% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 38
10th Percentile £13.61 £11.22 £12.06
25th Percentile £14.20 £13.16 £14.06
Median hourly rate £21.35 £19.64 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% +12.20% -
75th Percentile £23.75 £22.31 £19.43
90th Percentile - £39.06 £23.23
England median hourly rate £22.00 £29.30 £21.50
% change year-on-year -24.91% +36.28% +20.21%

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 19 April 2024.

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 19 April 2024. 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 +23 37 £450 +20.00% 15
South Yorkshire +1 6 £235 -65.19% 10
North Yorkshire -1 5 £375 +97.37% 7
East Yorkshire - 5 £300 - 4
Humberside - 3 £300 -
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 17 (30.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 6 (10.71%) IIS
4 1 (1.79%) Apache
4 1 (1.79%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 24 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (25.00%) Azure
3 6 (10.71%) AWS
4 3 (5.36%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.57%) IaaS
6 1 (1.79%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.79%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (25.00%) VPN
2 13 (23.21%) Firewall
3 12 (21.43%) LAN
4 9 (16.07%) SAN
5 7 (12.50%) WAN
6 6 (10.71%) DNS
6 6 (10.71%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (8.93%) DHCP
7 5 (8.93%) Internet
8 2 (3.57%) NAS
8 2 (3.57%) VLAN
9 1 (1.79%) NetScaler
9 1 (1.79%) TCP/IP
9 1 (1.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.14%) Big Data
2 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.79%) JIRA
General
1 13 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.14%) Finance
3 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (3.57%) Manufacturing
3 2 (3.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.79%) Back Office
4 1 (1.79%) Health Technology
4 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (23.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (19.64%) IT Support
2 11 (19.64%) Support Engineer
3 10 (17.86%) 3rd Line Support
4 7 (12.50%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
4 7 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Analyst
5 6 (10.71%) Wintel Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Migration Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Data Centre Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Data Migration Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) IT Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Linux Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Server Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Windows Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Linux Support
9 2 (3.57%) Linux Support Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.57%) ADSI
1 2 (3.57%) LDAP
1 2 (3.57%) XML
1 2 (3.57%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Clustering
2 5 (8.93%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.79%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.79%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.79%) iPad
4 1 (1.79%) LIMS
4 1 (1.79%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 56 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (19.64%) Linux
3 10 (17.86%) VMS
4 8 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (10.71%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (8.93%) Windows 10
8 2 (3.57%) Unix
8 2 (3.57%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (3.57%) zOS
9 1 (1.79%) CentOS
9 1 (1.79%) Fedora
9 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.79%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (30.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 11 (19.64%) Migration
4 7 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (12.50%) Server Virtualisation
5 6 (10.71%) Kalman Filter
6 5 (8.93%) Email Filtering
7 4 (7.14%) High Availability
7 4 (7.14%) ITIL
8 2 (3.57%) Agile
8 2 (3.57%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (3.57%) Computer Science
8 2 (3.57%) Identity Management
8 2 (3.57%) ITSM
8 2 (3.57%) Network Design
8 2 (3.57%) Parallel Processing
8 2 (3.57%) Problem Management
8 2 (3.57%) Project Management
8 2 (3.57%) Release Management
8 2 (3.57%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 7 (12.50%) SQL
3 2 (3.57%) Java
4 1 (1.79%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (7.14%) Azure Certification
1 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (3.57%) A+ Certification
2 2 (3.57%) CCENT
2 2 (3.57%) CCNA
2 2 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (3.57%) Degree
2 2 (3.57%) MCSA
2 2 (3.57%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.79%) DBS Check
System Software
1 35 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 15 (26.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (10.71%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.57%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.79%) vSphere
5 1 (1.79%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (8.93%) SCCM
2 4 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.79%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.79%) Graylog
3 1 (1.79%) HAProxy
3 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.79%) Proxmox
3 1 (1.79%) Rsyslog
3 1 (1.79%) Terraform
3 1 (1.79%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 27 (48.21%) VMware
2 24 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.14%) Cisco
3 4 (7.14%) NetApp
4 3 (5.36%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.57%) Citrix
5 2 (3.57%) MEDITECH
6 1 (1.79%) Apple
6 1 (1.79%) Aruba
6 1 (1.79%) Brio
6 1 (1.79%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.79%) Google
6 1 (1.79%) HP
6 1 (1.79%) Oracle
6 1 (1.79%) Sophos