Windows Server Contracts in Cheshire

Microsoft Windows Server
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 46 49
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -9
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 8 14 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.55% 2.64% 1.83%
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.59% 14.58% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 4
10th Percentile - £504 £277
25th Percentile £126 £560 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £166 £565 £520
Median % change year-on-year -70.62% +8.65% +160.00%
75th Percentile £341 £566 £563
90th Percentile £620 £576 £604
North West median daily rate £800 £488 £325
% change year-on-year +64.10% +50.00% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
North West median hourly rate - £42.50 £26.25
% change year-on-year - +61.90% -29.05%

All Operating Systems
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 69 96 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 13.40% 18.11% 23.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 69 71
10th Percentile £126 £198 £163
25th Percentile £200 £215 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -16.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £448 £560 £558
90th Percentile £522 £590 £630
North West median daily rate £425 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 3
10th Percentile £14.00 £10.90 £20.36
25th Percentile £16.54 £11.94 £20.89
Median hourly rate £17.72 £16.41 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year +7.98% -24.66% +24.46%
75th Percentile - £21.51 -
90th Percentile £17.73 £44.08 -
North West median hourly rate £16.00 £29.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -45.39% +46.50% +25.00%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Cheshire

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Cheshire

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Cheshire over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Cheshire

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Cheshire

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Runcorn - 3 £128 - 1
Chester - 2 £225 - 1
Warrington +8 1 £575 -4.17% 9
Macclesfield - 1 £132 -
Windows Server
North West

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (25.00%) OneDrive
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Internet
1 2 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) VSAN
General
1 3 (37.50%) Aviation
2 1 (12.50%) Automotive
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) IT Support
2 3 (37.50%) Desktop Support
2 3 (37.50%) Desktop Support Technician
2 3 (37.50%) Desktop Technician
2 3 (37.50%) IT Support Technician
2 3 (37.50%) IT Technician
2 3 (37.50%) Support Technician
3 2 (25.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (25.00%) iPad
3 1 (12.50%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (12.50%) Migration
1 1 (12.50%) Server Building
1 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (12.50%) MCSE
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
1 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds Orion
1 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
1 1 (12.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Autodesk
1 2 (25.00%) Dell
1 2 (25.00%) Wyse
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
2 1 (12.50%) Symantec
2 1 (12.50%) Veeam
2 1 (12.50%) VMware