Windows Server Contracts in Essex

Microsoft Windows Server
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 32 38
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 +3
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 6 6 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 2.59% 2.39% 4.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 19.35% 25.00% 15.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 9
10th Percentile - £144 £307
25th Percentile £194 £156 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £231 £180 £500
Median % change year-on-year +28.47% -64.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £306 £261 £550
90th Percentile £408 £307 £613
East of England median daily rate £388 £406 £425
% change year-on-year -4.62% -4.41% +34.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £13.15 £21.96 -
25th Percentile £13.59 £22.96 -
Median hourly rate £14.31 £24.62 £28.41
Median % change year-on-year -41.88% -13.34% -5.89%
75th Percentile £15.04 - £32.56
90th Percentile £15.47 - £40.02
East of England median hourly rate £12.86 £22.97 £36.71
% change year-on-year -44.00% -37.43% +99.76%

All Operating Systems
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 31 24 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 13.36% 9.56% 27.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 62
10th Percentile £102 £160 £180
25th Percentile £191 £175 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £250 £474
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% -47.23% +3.84%
75th Percentile £513 £583 £569
90th Percentile £595 £737 £631
East of England median daily rate £450 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 6
10th Percentile £13.73 £21.96 £24.58
25th Percentile £15.04 £22.96 -
Median hourly rate £19.38 £24.62 £28.41
Median % change year-on-year -21.28% -13.34% +4.81%
75th Percentile £36.38 - £40.85
90th Percentile £59.55 - £50.00
East of England median hourly rate £58.75 £18.53 £22.00
% change year-on-year +217.14% -15.80% +23.94%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Essex

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Essex

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Essex over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Essex

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Essex

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 12 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
Chelmsford +2 2 - -
Saffron Walden - 2 £213 -
Colchester -2 1 £250 +38.89%
Windows Server
East of England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (16.67%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) LAN
1 2 (33.33%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (33.33%) WAN
1 2 (33.33%) Wireless
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) 2nd/3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Service Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (16.67%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) ECDL
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
1 1 (16.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (16.67%) F5