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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 63 68
Rank change year-on-year -14 +5 -12
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 31 38 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.29% 2.27% 2.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.45% 13.01% 14.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 32 31
10th Percentile £306 £210 £190
25th Percentile £398 £265 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +46.43% -17.65% +25.93%
75th Percentile £575 £555 £538
90th Percentile - £631 £625
England median daily rate £538 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.60% - +11.11%

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 249 292 319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 18.43% 17.41% 14.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 196 217
10th Percentile £182 £171 £155
25th Percentile £350 £275 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £428 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -10.00% +26.67%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £600
90th Percentile £600 £619 £693
England median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 17 17
10th Percentile £16.40 £13.72 £12.70
25th Percentile £16.88 £15.17 £16.50
Median hourly rate £18.21 £17.50 £19.89
Median % change year-on-year +4.03% -11.99% +7.49%
75th Percentile £19.63 £21.50 £22.00
90th Percentile £19.76 £22.00 £22.35
England median hourly rate £23.00 £24.34 £42.50
% change year-on-year -5.51% -42.73% +91.01%

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 17 July 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 17 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
West Yorkshire 0 20 £525 -4.55% 29
South Yorkshire -3 9 £413 +83.33% 10
East Yorkshire -4 2 - - 4
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 13 (41.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.13%) Azure
2 4 (12.90%) Entra ID
3 3 (9.68%) AWS
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 21 (67.74%) DNS
2 8 (25.81%) NAS
3 7 (22.58%) SAN
4 6 (19.35%) Firewall
5 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (48.39%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (25.81%) Git
2 7 (22.58%) GitLab
2 7 (22.58%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.23%) Postman
General
1 20 (64.52%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.45%) Aviation
2 2 (6.45%) Fire and Rescue
2 2 (6.45%) Police
2 2 (6.45%) Swedish Language
3 1 (3.23%) Banking
3 1 (3.23%) Finance
3 1 (3.23%) Legal
3 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (38.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 5 (16.13%) Engineering Specialist
4 4 (12.90%) IT Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Network Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Migration Specialist
5 3 (9.68%) Server Migration Specialist
5 3 (9.68%) Server Specialist
6 2 (6.45%) IP Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Security Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Windows Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) IP Network Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Migration Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Service Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 14 (45.16%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (19.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (12.90%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (12.90%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.45%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.45%) Robotics
5 1 (3.23%) CCTV
5 1 (3.23%) Driving Licence
5 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 31 (100.00%) Windows
2 28 (90.32%) Linux
3 3 (9.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (9.68%) VMS
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (3.23%) Unix
4 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (70.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (67.74%) Agile
3 16 (51.61%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (45.16%) Migration
5 13 (41.94%) Microservices
5 13 (41.94%) Security Management
5 13 (41.94%) SOA
6 10 (32.26%) Server Management
7 7 (22.58%) Kanban
7 7 (22.58%) Scrum
8 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (12.90%) Computer Science
9 4 (12.90%) Data Protection
9 4 (12.90%) Roadmaps
9 4 (12.90%) Technology Roadmap
10 3 (9.68%) Server Migrations
10 3 (9.68%) Technical Architecture
11 2 (6.45%) Incident Response
11 2 (6.45%) SOAR
11 2 (6.45%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 22 (70.97%) PowerShell
2 15 (48.39%) Bash
2 15 (48.39%) SQL
3 14 (45.16%) PL/SQL
4 12 (38.71%) Perl
5 8 (25.81%) Python
6 6 (19.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (48.39%) Cisco Certification
1 15 (48.39%) Security Cleared
2 13 (41.94%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (12.90%) Degree
System Software
1 27 (87.10%) Active Directory
2 10 (32.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (29.03%) VMware NSX
4 7 (22.58%) vSphere
5 6 (19.35%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (6.45%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (3.23%) Hyper-V
7 1 (3.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 8 (25.81%) Ansible
1 8 (25.81%) vCenter Server
1 8 (25.81%) vRealize
2 2 (6.45%) FortiGate
2 2 (6.45%) Grafana
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.23%) NetApp OnCommand
3 1 (3.23%) Puppet
3 1 (3.23%) SCCM
3 1 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.23%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 15 (48.39%) Cisco
1 15 (48.39%) Oracle
2 10 (32.26%) VMware
3 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
4 3 (9.68%) F5
4 3 (9.68%) Red Hat
5 2 (6.45%) Ribbon
5 2 (6.45%) Tenable
5 2 (6.45%) Veeam
6 1 (3.23%) MuleSoft
6 1 (3.23%) NetApp