Windows Server Contracts in the East Midlands

Microsoft Windows Server
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 35 33 32
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +11
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 32 56 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.18% 5.52% 5.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.50% 27.59% 22.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 36 49
10th Percentile £145 £223 £157
25th Percentile £205 £289 £189
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £331 £325 £325
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% - +22.64%
75th Percentile £408 £388 £400
90th Percentile £489 £538 £445
England median daily rate £475 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £21.30 £21.50
25th Percentile - £23.24 £21.88
Median hourly rate - £26.48 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year - +15.13% -51.58%
75th Percentile - - £30.63
90th Percentile - - £34.75
England median hourly rate £46.75 £34.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year +37.50% +38.78% -2.00%

All Operating Systems
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 173 203 327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 22.61% 20.02% 23.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 141 208
10th Percentile £128 £122 £129
25th Percentile £160 £190 £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £344 £375 £300
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +25.00% +13.74%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £450
90th Percentile £570 £675 £500
England median daily rate £470 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 25 33
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.80 £13.72
25th Percentile £14.27 £14.52 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £18.38 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.51% -8.10% +35.09%
75th Percentile £20.00 £23.75 £23.50
90th Percentile - £40.25 £37.50
England median hourly rate £22.00 £38.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -42.11% +76.74% +22.86%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the East Midlands

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in the East Midlands

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in the East Midlands

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in the East Midlands

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands 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
Leicestershire +8 8 £338 -3.57% 8
Northamptonshire +7 8 £406 -20.88% 8
Nottinghamshire +4 6 £210 -35.38% 4
Derbyshire -7 6 £150 -53.85% 14
Lincolnshire - 4 £325 - 8
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 8 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (18.75%) SharePoint
3 2 (6.25%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 19 (59.38%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (18.75%) Azure
3 4 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.13%) AWS
4 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.13%) IaaS
4 1 (3.13%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) Firewall
1 4 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 3 (9.38%) Ethernet
3 2 (6.25%) DNS
3 2 (6.25%) NetScaler
4 1 (3.13%) DHCP
4 1 (3.13%) DSL
4 1 (3.13%) SAN
4 1 (3.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (28.13%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) JIRA
2 3 (9.38%) GitLab
3 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (9.38%) Finance
1 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
1 3 (9.38%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (3.13%) Local Government
3 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) IT Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Windows Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) DBA
4 5 (15.63%) IT Support
4 5 (15.63%) IT Support Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Designer
5 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 4 (12.50%) SQL DBA
6 3 (9.38%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) 2nd Line Support
6 3 (9.38%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Active Directory Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Active Directory Support
6 3 (9.38%) Active Directory Support Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Printer Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Printer Support
6 3 (9.38%) SQL Server DBA
6 3 (9.38%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.13%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.13%) Fat Client
2 1 (3.13%) Grid Computing
2 1 (3.13%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 32 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (15.63%) Apple iOS
3 4 (12.50%) Windows 10
3 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (9.38%) Linux
5 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (3.13%) VMS
6 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (18.75%) Migration
2 6 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (15.63%) Data Modelling
3 5 (15.63%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (15.63%) High Availability
3 5 (15.63%) Mentoring
4 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (9.38%) Ticket Management
5 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 1 (3.13%) Agile
6 1 (3.13%) CI/CD
6 1 (3.13%) Customer Service
6 1 (3.13%) Data Management
6 1 (3.13%) DevOps
6 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (3.13%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (3.13%) Server Building
6 1 (3.13%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 3 (9.38%) SQL
3 1 (3.13%) C#
3 1 (3.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (15.63%) Degree
2 5 (15.63%) MCITP
2 5 (15.63%) MCTS
3 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.25%) Citrix Certification
System Software
1 24 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (15.63%) Hyper-V
3 4 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (6.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (6.25%) XenApp
4 2 (6.25%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) SCCM
2 6 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (12.50%) SCOM
4 3 (9.38%) Autotask
4 3 (9.38%) SCSM
5 2 (6.25%) Ansible
6 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (3.13%) Terraform
6 1 (3.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.75%) VMware
3 4 (12.50%) Citrix
4 3 (9.38%) Cisco
4 3 (9.38%) Remedy
5 1 (3.13%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.13%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.13%) Splunk