Windows Server Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Windows Server
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 49 56
Rank change year-on-year 0 +7 +29
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 87 140 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.23% 4.26% 3.71%
As % of the Operating Systems category 21.22% 23.97% 18.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 103 140
10th Percentile £180 £223 £166
25th Percentile £213 £313 £204
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £344
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +16.36% +21.15%
75th Percentile £444 £588 £425
90th Percentile £651 £700 £526
England median daily rate £475 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 9
10th Percentile - £20.75 £16.25
25th Percentile - £21.88 £16.50
Median hourly rate - £25.74 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +28.70% -47.02%
75th Percentile - £26.74 £23.50
90th Percentile - £27.19 £26.50
England median hourly rate £46.75 £34.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year +37.50% +44.68% -6.00%

All Operating Systems
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 Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 410 584 983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.22% 17.79% 19.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 392 655
10th Percentile £150 £158 £139
25th Percentile £200 £233 £199
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £445 £375
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% +18.67% +3.59%
75th Percentile £538 £568 £500
90th Percentile £630 £690 £586
England median daily rate £471 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.10% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 34 70
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.80 £13.18
25th Percentile £14.27 £14.64 £14.87
Median hourly rate £17.86 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.79% +4.24% +13.33%
75th Percentile £23.31 £22.25 £22.63
90th Percentile £23.75 £36.43 £24.55
England median hourly rate £22.00 £38.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -42.11% +72.73% +23.94%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the Midlands

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in the Midlands

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in the Midlands

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in the Midlands

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 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
West Midlands +9 54 £350 -26.32% 65
East Midlands -6 31 £325 - 43
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 28 (32.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (22.99%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.45%) IIS
4 2 (2.30%) Apache
4 2 (2.30%) WordPress
5 1 (1.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 1 (1.15%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 53 (60.92%) Microsoft 365
2 32 (36.78%) Azure
3 13 (14.94%) OneDrive
4 11 (12.64%) Entra ID
5 8 (9.20%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (6.90%) Power Automate
6 6 (6.90%) Power Platform
6 6 (6.90%) PowerApps
7 3 (3.45%) AWS
8 2 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.30%) IaaS
9 1 (1.15%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.15%) GitHub
9 1 (1.15%) PaaS
9 1 (1.15%) Route 53
9 1 (1.15%) Rubrik
9 1 (1.15%) SaaS
9 1 (1.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 33 (37.93%) DNS
2 22 (25.29%) DHCP
3 16 (18.39%) Firewall
4 12 (13.79%) TCP/IP
5 10 (11.49%) NetScaler
5 10 (11.49%) SAN
6 9 (10.34%) LAN
6 9 (10.34%) WAN
7 7 (8.05%) Fibre Channel
7 7 (8.05%) Remote Desktop
7 7 (8.05%) VPN
8 6 (6.90%) Unified Communications
9 4 (4.60%) VLAN
10 3 (3.45%) Ethernet
10 3 (3.45%) VoIP
10 3 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (2.30%) iSCSI
11 2 (2.30%) NAS
11 2 (2.30%) Wireless
12 1 (1.15%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.09%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.90%) Power BI
3 2 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.15%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (4.60%) JIRA
2 3 (3.45%) GitLab
3 1 (1.15%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.15%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.15%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.90%) Finance
3 5 (5.75%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.30%) Banking
6 1 (1.15%) Advertising
6 1 (1.15%) Back Office
6 1 (1.15%) Law
6 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (22.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (17.24%) Support Engineer
3 8 (9.20%) 2nd Line Support
4 7 (8.05%) Administrator
4 7 (8.05%) Windows Engineer
5 6 (6.90%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 6 (6.90%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 6 (6.90%) Architect
5 6 (6.90%) Citrix Specialist
5 6 (6.90%) Deployment Engineer
5 6 (6.90%) IT Engineer
5 6 (6.90%) IT Support
5 6 (6.90%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 6 (6.90%) Microsoft Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 5 (5.75%) Citrix Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) DBA
6 5 (5.75%) Principal Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Server Administrator
6 5 (5.75%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.30%) LAMP
1 2 (2.30%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.15%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.64%) PKI
2 8 (9.20%) Driving Licence
3 6 (6.90%) Digital Signage
4 4 (4.60%) Clustering
4 4 (4.60%) Fat Client
4 4 (4.60%) Thin Client
5 2 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.30%) Replication
6 1 (1.15%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.15%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 87 (100.00%) Windows
2 21 (24.14%) Windows 10
3 15 (17.24%) Linux
3 15 (17.24%) Windows Server 2012
4 14 (16.09%) Windows Server 2019
5 13 (14.94%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (12.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (6.90%) Ubuntu
8 5 (5.75%) Apple iOS
8 5 (5.75%) Unix
9 4 (4.60%) CentOS
10 3 (3.45%) Mac OS
10 3 (3.45%) VMS
10 3 (3.45%) Windows 7
10 3 (3.45%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (27.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (13.79%) Patch Management
3 10 (11.49%) Customer Service
4 9 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (9.20%) Application Packaging
5 8 (9.20%) Change Management
5 8 (9.20%) ITIL
5 8 (9.20%) Migration
6 6 (6.90%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (6.90%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (6.90%) High Availability
6 6 (6.90%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (6.90%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 6 (6.90%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (6.90%) Service Delivery
7 5 (5.75%) Security Monitoring
7 5 (5.75%) Systems Engineering
7 5 (5.75%) Virtual Environments
7 5 (5.75%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 31 (35.63%) PowerShell
2 6 (6.90%) C#
2 6 (6.90%) SQL
3 5 (5.75%) Java
4 4 (4.60%) Bash
5 1 (1.15%) Python
5 1 (1.15%) Ruby
5 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.34%) Degree
3 8 (9.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (8.05%) SC Cleared
5 5 (5.75%) DV Cleared
5 5 (5.75%) MCITP
5 5 (5.75%) MCTS
6 3 (3.45%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.30%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.75%) NIST
2 1 (1.15%) SLA
System Software
1 62 (71.26%) Active Directory
2 20 (22.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (18.39%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (12.64%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (12.64%) VMware NSX
5 10 (11.49%) XenApp
5 10 (11.49%) XenDesktop
6 9 (10.34%) Hyper-V
7 8 (9.20%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 7 (8.05%) vSphere
9 5 (5.75%) VMware Server
10 3 (3.45%) BitLocker
11 2 (2.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (2.30%) Docker
11 2 (2.30%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 26 (29.89%) SCCM
2 16 (18.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (17.24%) vCenter Server
4 6 (6.90%) Autotask
4 6 (6.90%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (4.60%) SCOM
6 3 (3.45%) Ansible
6 3 (3.45%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (3.45%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (3.45%) SCSM
6 3 (3.45%) Terraform
7 2 (2.30%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.15%) Kubernetes
8 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (1.15%) Puppet
8 1 (1.15%) Rancher
8 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.15%) VxRail
8 1 (1.15%) WSUS
Vendors
1 52 (59.77%) Microsoft
2 33 (37.93%) VMware
3 15 (17.24%) Citrix
4 9 (10.34%) NetApp
5 7 (8.05%) Veeam
6 6 (6.90%) Oracle
7 5 (5.75%) Cisco
8 3 (3.45%) Apple
8 3 (3.45%) Datto
8 3 (3.45%) Remedy
9 2 (2.30%) Aruba
9 2 (2.30%) Palo Alto
9 2 (2.30%) ProCurve
9 2 (2.30%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.30%) Synology
9 2 (2.30%) Zerto
10 1 (1.15%) Ariba
10 1 (1.15%) Dell
10 1 (1.15%) Juniper
10 1 (1.15%) SAP