Windows Server Contracts in England

Microsoft Windows Server
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 82 120
Rank change year-on-year -12 +38 -9
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 883 1,386 1,672
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.39% 2.90% 2.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 17.42% 17.90% 15.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 661 1,036 1,258
10th Percentile £210 £213 £190
25th Percentile £319 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £595 £618 £564
90th Percentile £688 £700 £652
UK median daily rate £461 £500 £427
% change year-on-year -7.75% +17.10% +3.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 49 42
10th Percentile £14.60 £21.04 £15.57
25th Percentile £16.00 £25.00 £16.72
Median hourly rate £38.50 £37.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +66.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £61.60 £49.52 £43.13
90th Percentile £65.46 £64.50 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £30.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +28.33% +33.33% -10.00%

All Operating Systems
England

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 England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,069 7,744 10,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.73% 16.22% 15.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,437 5,457 7,522
10th Percentile £185 £195 £175
25th Percentile £300 £330 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 374 358 503
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.29 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.86 £15.69
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +22.86%
75th Percentile £62.38 £65.00 £50.39
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.89
% change year-on-year -47.06% +94.15% +25.09%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in England

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in England

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in England

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in England

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Server in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows Server in England

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
London -18 307 £450 -10.27% 121
South East +10 229 £550 +10.00% 141
North of England +1 129 £475 +15.15% 117
Midlands -4 88 £350 -10.26% 91
South West -35 74 £501 -8.86% 66
North West -12 73 £800 +72.97% 58
West Midlands -3 53 £350 -22.22% 51
Yorkshire +11 42 £325 -13.33% 48
East of England -29 40 £338 -18.18% 53
East Midlands -7 34 £338 +3.85% 40
North East +12 14 £500 +40.85% 12
Windows Server
UK

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 179 (20.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 69 (7.81%) SharePoint
3 26 (2.94%) Confluence
3 26 (2.94%) IIS
4 24 (2.72%) Exchange Server 2013
5 21 (2.38%) Exchange Server 2010
6 11 (1.25%) Apache
7 10 (1.13%) Exchange Server 2003
7 10 (1.13%) Exchange Server 2007
7 10 (1.13%) Skype for Business
7 10 (1.13%) Tomcat
8 8 (0.91%) nginx
9 6 (0.68%) JBoss
10 2 (0.23%) WordPress
11 1 (0.11%) IBM Domino
11 1 (0.11%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 54 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.23%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.11%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (0.68%) Teamcenter
1 6 (0.68%) Temenos T24
2 5 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.23%) Remedy AR System
4 1 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.11%) Eikon
4 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.11%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 276 (31.26%) Azure
2 268 (30.35%) Microsoft 365
3 98 (11.10%) Entra ID
4 86 (9.74%) AWS
5 37 (4.19%) IaaS
6 32 (3.62%) Azure Monitor
7 29 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (2.94%) Azure Storage
9 25 (2.83%) OneDrive
10 17 (1.93%) GCP
10 17 (1.93%) PaaS
11 15 (1.70%) OCI
12 14 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
13 12 (1.36%) SaaS
14 10 (1.13%) GitHub
15 9 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (1.02%) Nutanix
15 9 (1.02%) Power Platform
15 9 (1.02%) WhatsApp
16 6 (0.68%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 228 (25.82%) DNS
2 218 (24.69%) Firewall
3 154 (17.44%) DHCP
4 103 (11.66%) VPN
5 77 (8.72%) SAN
6 62 (7.02%) WAN
7 59 (6.68%) LAN
8 39 (4.42%) TCP/IP
9 26 (2.94%) NAS
10 20 (2.27%) VLAN
10 20 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
11 17 (1.93%) Skype
12 16 (1.81%) NetScaler
12 16 (1.81%) Remote Desktop
12 16 (1.81%) SMTP
12 16 (1.81%) Wireless
13 12 (1.36%) MPLS
13 12 (1.36%) Unified Communications
14 11 (1.25%) Internet
15 10 (1.13%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (13.59%) SQL Server
2 17 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
2 17 (1.93%) MySQL
2 17 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (1.47%) Relational Database
4 10 (1.13%) RDBMS
5 9 (1.02%) Power BI
6 6 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.45%) Big Data
8 4 (0.45%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.23%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.23%) Looker
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.23%) Tableau
10 1 (0.11%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.11%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 49 (5.55%) JIRA
2 26 (2.94%) Jenkins
3 21 (2.38%) Robot Framework
4 16 (1.81%) Git
4 16 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
5 13 (1.47%) Artifactory
5 13 (1.47%) Subversion
6 12 (1.36%) GitLab
7 10 (1.13%) TeamCity
8 8 (0.91%) Selenium
9 7 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.34%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.23%) JMeter
12 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio
13 1 (0.11%) AppScan
13 1 (0.11%) MSI
13 1 (0.11%) Oracle APEX
13 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 228 (25.82%) Social Skills
2 93 (10.53%) Finance
3 83 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (9.17%) Public Sector
5 26 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
6 23 (2.60%) Military
7 19 (2.15%) Banking
8 18 (2.04%) Legal
9 16 (1.81%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.25%) Mandarin Language
11 10 (1.13%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.79%) Marketing
13 5 (0.57%) Electronics
13 5 (0.57%) Law
13 5 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.45%) Advertising
14 4 (0.45%) Aviation
14 4 (0.45%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 169 (19.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 95 (10.76%) Support Engineer
3 92 (10.42%) Architect
4 58 (6.57%) Windows Engineer
5 55 (6.23%) Analyst
6 48 (5.44%) Senior
7 47 (5.32%) Administrator
7 47 (5.32%) Wintel Engineer
8 46 (5.21%) IT Support
9 45 (5.10%) IT Engineer
9 45 (5.10%) Technical Architect
10 40 (4.53%) Lead
11 37 (4.19%) Integration Engineer
12 34 (3.85%) Lead Architect
12 34 (3.85%) Technical Leader
13 31 (3.51%) Server Engineer
14 29 (3.28%) Active Directory Support
14 29 (3.28%) Azure Engineer
15 26 (2.94%) Systems Administrator
16 25 (2.83%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (5.44%) Node.js
2 30 (3.40%) .NET
3 24 (2.72%) ARM Templates
4 17 (1.93%) Middleware
5 11 (1.25%) LDAP
6 9 (1.02%) CSS
7 8 (0.91%) Web Services
8 7 (0.79%) ASP.NET
8 7 (0.79%) HTML
8 7 (0.79%) REST
9 6 (0.68%) IBM Integration Bus
9 6 (0.68%) Itk
9 6 (0.68%) XML
10 5 (0.57%) FIX Protocol
10 5 (0.57%) HTML5
11 4 (0.45%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (0.45%) JSON
11 4 (0.45%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (0.45%) XSLT
12 3 (0.34%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 100 (11.33%) PKI
2 44 (4.98%) Data Centre
2 44 (4.98%) Public Cloud
3 35 (3.96%) Clustering
4 34 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
5 33 (3.74%) Replication
6 25 (2.83%) Client/Server
7 22 (2.49%) NHS
8 20 (2.27%) Management Information System
9 19 (2.15%) Video Conferencing
10 15 (1.70%) Product Ownership
11 12 (1.36%) Driving Licence
12 9 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 9 (1.02%) Fat Client
12 9 (1.02%) Mobile App
12 9 (1.02%) Thin Client
13 7 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.79%) Onboarding
14 6 (0.68%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 880 (99.66%) Windows
2 191 (21.63%) Linux
3 179 (20.27%) Windows Server 2012
4 162 (18.35%) Windows Server 2019
5 159 (18.01%) Windows 10
6 148 (16.76%) Windows Server 2016
7 63 (7.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 55 (6.23%) Apple iOS
9 53 (6.00%) Android
10 35 (3.96%) Windows Server 2008
11 28 (3.17%) Unix
12 24 (2.72%) VMS
12 24 (2.72%) Windows 7
13 17 (1.93%) Mac OS
13 17 (1.93%) Windows NT
14 15 (1.70%) Windows XP
15 14 (1.59%) Ubuntu
16 13 (1.47%) Windows Server 2003
17 12 (1.36%) CentOS
18 6 (0.68%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (23.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 151 (17.10%) ITIL
3 139 (15.74%) Agile
4 135 (15.29%) DevOps
5 109 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
6 102 (11.55%) Migration
7 87 (9.85%) CI/CD
8 81 (9.17%) Customer Service
9 78 (8.83%) Mobile Device Management
10 69 (7.81%) Disaster Recovery
11 65 (7.36%) Service Management
12 61 (6.91%) Change Management
12 61 (6.91%) Release Management
13 52 (5.89%) Infrastructure as Code
13 52 (5.89%) Security Architecture
14 49 (5.55%) Server Management
15 45 (5.10%) Risk Management
16 44 (4.98%) Vulnerability Management
17 43 (4.87%) Zero Trust
18 41 (4.64%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 276 (31.26%) PowerShell
2 129 (14.61%) SQL
3 92 (10.42%) Python
4 50 (5.66%) C#
5 40 (4.53%) VBScript
6 27 (3.06%) Bash
6 27 (3.06%) Java
7 26 (2.94%) VB
8 22 (2.49%) Bicep
9 13 (1.47%) C++
9 13 (1.47%) Shell Script
10 10 (1.13%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.02%) F#
12 5 (0.57%) C
12 5 (0.57%) PHP
13 4 (0.45%) Perl
14 3 (0.34%) VBA
15 2 (0.23%) JavaScript
15 2 (0.23%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 327 (37.03%) Security Cleared
2 185 (20.95%) DV Cleared
3 147 (16.65%) SC Cleared
4 111 (12.57%) Degree
5 81 (9.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 40 (4.53%) MCSE
7 28 (3.17%) MCSA
8 26 (2.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 24 (2.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 20 (2.27%) CCNA
10 20 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
11 19 (2.15%) Azure Certification
12 16 (1.81%) CCNP
12 16 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (1.02%) DBS Check
14 7 (0.79%) MCITP
15 5 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (0.57%) Citrix Certification
15 5 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.57%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.74%) QA
2 25 (2.83%) SLA
3 11 (1.25%) GDPR
4 10 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.13%) NIST
5 8 (0.91%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.79%) RMADS
7 5 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.34%) COBIT
8 3 (0.34%) NCSC
9 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.11%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 527 (59.68%) Active Directory
2 263 (29.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 87 (9.85%) Hyper-V
4 70 (7.93%) VMware ESXi
5 45 (5.10%) vSphere
6 42 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
6 42 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
7 35 (3.96%) VMware NSX
8 27 (3.06%) XenApp
9 24 (2.72%) Firmware
10 21 (2.38%) Docker
11 17 (1.93%) XenDesktop
12 14 (1.59%) Virtual Servers
13 8 (0.91%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 6 (0.68%) Terminal Services
14 6 (0.68%) VMware Workstation
15 5 (0.57%) VMware Server
16 4 (0.45%) BitLocker
16 4 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
17 3 (0.34%) KVM
Systems Management
1 170 (19.25%) SCCM
2 98 (11.10%) WSUS
3 73 (8.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 63 (7.13%) SCOM
5 58 (6.57%) Ansible
6 54 (6.12%) vCenter Server
7 46 (5.21%) Kubernetes
7 46 (5.21%) Terraform
8 44 (4.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 19 (2.15%) EMC NetWorker
10 17 (1.93%) NetBackup
10 17 (1.93%) Sysprep
11 11 (1.25%) MAILsweeper
11 11 (1.25%) Nessus
11 11 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
12 10 (1.13%) Autotask
13 9 (1.02%) BladeLogic
13 9 (1.02%) Failover Clustering
13 9 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
14 8 (0.91%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 431 (48.81%) Microsoft
2 370 (41.90%) VMware
3 81 (9.17%) Citrix
4 80 (9.06%) Veeam
5 58 (6.57%) Cisco
6 53 (6.00%) Oracle
7 46 (5.21%) Dell
8 39 (4.42%) HP
9 33 (3.74%) Red Hat
10 32 (3.62%) Palo Alto
11 29 (3.28%) ServiceNow
12 25 (2.83%) Juniper
13 23 (2.60%) EMC
14 22 (2.49%) Apple
15 18 (2.04%) Google
15 18 (2.04%) Qualys
15 18 (2.04%) Symantec
16 17 (1.93%) NetApp
17 15 (1.70%) Splunk
18 14 (1.59%) 3PAR