Windows Server Contracts in Birmingham

Microsoft Windows Server
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 41 50
Rank change year-on-year -7 +9 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 19 37 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.51% 4.16% 3.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.00% 36.63% 25.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 27 33
10th Percentile £190 £345 £189
25th Percentile £213 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £430 £425
Median % change year-on-year -18.60% +1.18% +102.38%
75th Percentile £361 £713 £575
90th Percentile £759 £731 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £350 £450 £375
% change year-on-year -22.22% +20.00% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.50
Median hourly rate - - £17.00
75th Percentile - - £17.50
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £27.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +37.50% -

All Operating Systems
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 76 101 178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 10.04% 11.36% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 51 125
10th Percentile £190 £193 £173
25th Percentile £200 £325 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% - +21.43%
75th Percentile £491 £616 £563
90th Percentile £684 £731 £633
West Midlands median daily rate £438 £463 £425
% change year-on-year -5.41% +8.82% +8.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 6
10th Percentile £14.52 £15.54 £13.33
25th Percentile £15.47 £15.98 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.50 £17.49 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.06% +9.31% -1.54%
75th Percentile £20.56 £27.50 £19.38
90th Percentile £22.48 £43.25 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £18.25 £16.45
% change year-on-year +23.29% +10.94% +9.67%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Birmingham

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Birmingham

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Birmingham over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Birmingham

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Birmingham

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 11 (57.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (42.11%) SharePoint
3 2 (10.53%) IIS
3 2 (10.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (78.95%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (73.68%) Azure
3 8 (42.11%) OneDrive
4 7 (36.84%) Entra ID
5 6 (31.58%) Power Automate
5 6 (31.58%) Power Platform
5 6 (31.58%) PowerApps
6 2 (10.53%) AWS
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.26%) GitHub
7 1 (5.26%) Mimecast
7 1 (5.26%) Route 53
7 1 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (36.84%) DNS
1 7 (36.84%) Firewall
1 7 (36.84%) VPN
2 6 (31.58%) Unified Communications
3 5 (26.32%) DHCP
4 3 (15.79%) LAN
4 3 (15.79%) VLAN
4 3 (15.79%) VoIP
4 3 (15.79%) WAN
4 3 (15.79%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (10.53%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (10.53%) iSCSI
5 2 (10.53%) NAS
5 2 (10.53%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (10.53%) SAN
5 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
5 2 (10.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) Power BI
2 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.26%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Artifactory
1 1 (5.26%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (5.26%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (68.42%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 5 (26.32%) 2nd Line Support
3 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Support Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) 1st/2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Network Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Service Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Service Desk Support
5 2 (10.53%) Service Desk Support Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) LAMP
2 1 (5.26%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Digital Signage
1 6 (31.58%) PKI
2 3 (15.79%) Clustering
2 3 (15.79%) Driving Licence
3 2 (10.53%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (10.53%) Replication
4 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Windows
2 13 (68.42%) Windows Server 2019
3 10 (52.63%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (31.58%) Windows 10
5 5 (26.32%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (15.79%) Mac OS
7 2 (10.53%) Linux
7 2 (10.53%) Ubuntu
7 2 (10.53%) VMS
7 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Customer Service
2 6 (31.58%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (31.58%) ITIL
2 6 (31.58%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 6 (31.58%) Service Delivery
3 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (15.79%) Decision-Making
4 3 (15.79%) Mobile Device Management
4 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.79%) Quality Management
5 2 (10.53%) DevOps
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (10.53%) Server Patching
6 1 (5.26%) CI/CD
6 1 (5.26%) Containerisation
6 1 (5.26%) Customer Requirements
6 1 (5.26%) DevSecOps
6 1 (5.26%) Incident Response
6 1 (5.26%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 1 (5.26%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 15 (78.95%) Active Directory
2 5 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (15.79%) Hyper-V
4 2 (10.53%) Terminal Services
4 2 (10.53%) vSphere
5 1 (5.26%) Docker
5 1 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (5.26%) XenApp
5 1 (5.26%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (63.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (42.11%) SCCM
3 7 (36.84%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (15.79%) Autotask
4 3 (15.79%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (15.79%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (10.53%) Terraform
6 1 (5.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (5.26%) Ansible
6 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
6 1 (5.26%) Puppet
6 1 (5.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 15 (78.95%) Microsoft
2 11 (57.89%) VMware
3 6 (31.58%) Oracle
4 3 (15.79%) Apple
4 3 (15.79%) Datto
5 2 (10.53%) Aruba
5 2 (10.53%) Palo Alto
5 2 (10.53%) ProCurve
5 2 (10.53%) Synology
5 2 (10.53%) Veeam
5 2 (10.53%) Zerto
6 1 (5.26%) Citrix
6 1 (5.26%) Google
6 1 (5.26%) Guidewire
6 1 (5.26%) Ivanti
6 1 (5.26%) Zscaler