Windows Server Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Windows Server
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 43 53 59
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 -21
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 233 228 298
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 4.05% 4.03% 3.89%
As % of the Operating Systems category 22.93% 19.86% 20.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 160 213
10th Percentile £300 £247 £194
25th Percentile £430 £356 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £575
90th Percentile - £688 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 3
10th Percentile £46.63 £30.75 £26.25
25th Percentile £56.50 £47.81 £33.75
Median hourly rate £59.80 £60.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% +26.32% +90.00%
75th Percentile £61.60 £76.03 £58.13
90th Percentile - £88.19 £63.75
England median hourly rate £38.50 £33.75 £22.75
% change year-on-year +14.07% +48.35% -9.00%

All Operating Systems
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,016 1,148 1,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.66% 20.27% 18.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 659 777 937
10th Percentile £205 £195 £160
25th Percentile £325 £250 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - +10.77%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £663 £638 £650
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 67 98
10th Percentile £15.99 £17.25 £12.54
25th Percentile £18.00 £22.51 £14.00
Median hourly rate £48.75 £57.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +219.44% -16.28%
75th Percentile £69.06 £69.38 £27.74
90th Percentile £73.88 £75.00 £58.25
England median hourly rate £22.51 £45.06 £21.50
% change year-on-year -50.04% +109.56% +21.13%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the South East

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in the South East

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in the South East

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in the South East

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Server in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows Server in the South East

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Hampshire -2 103 £550 +4.76% 50
Thames Valley +4 94 £588 +6.82% 36
Berkshire +1 85 £605 -1.22% 19
West Sussex +18 16 £400 +48.84% 10
Surrey +8 12 £343 +5.38% 11
Buckinghamshire +17 5 £465 -2.11% 6
Kent +8 4 £163 -56.67% 25
Oxfordshire -9 4 £375 +66.67% 11
Middlesex - 4 £275 - 1
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 34 (14.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (4.72%) Confluence
3 7 (3.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.86%) Apache
5 1 (0.43%) IIS
5 1 (0.43%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 11 (4.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 6 (2.58%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 77 (33.05%) Azure
2 39 (16.74%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (12.45%) Entra ID
4 21 (9.01%) Azure Monitor
4 21 (9.01%) Azure Storage
5 18 (7.73%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (7.30%) AWS
7 14 (6.01%) OCI
8 4 (1.72%) IaaS
8 4 (1.72%) PaaS
9 3 (1.29%) SaaS
10 2 (0.86%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.86%) GitHub
10 2 (0.86%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.86%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.43%) IBM Cloud
11 1 (0.43%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 87 (37.34%) DNS
2 70 (30.04%) DHCP
3 58 (24.89%) Firewall
4 24 (10.30%) SAN
5 11 (4.72%) LAN
6 10 (4.29%) WAN
7 7 (3.00%) VPN
7 7 (3.00%) Wireless
8 4 (1.72%) NAS
8 4 (1.72%) VSAN
9 3 (1.29%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (1.29%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.86%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (0.86%) MPLS
10 2 (0.86%) SSL
10 2 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.43%) Cisco IOS
11 1 (0.43%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.43%) Network Security
11 1 (0.43%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.01%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.15%) MySQL
4 4 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.43%) Power BI
5 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (9.44%) Robot Framework
2 17 (7.30%) JIRA
3 16 (6.87%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (3.43%) Selenium
5 3 (1.29%) Git
5 3 (1.29%) GitLab
5 3 (1.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.86%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.86%) JMeter
7 1 (0.43%) MSI
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle APEX
General
1 80 (34.33%) Social Skills
2 30 (12.88%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (6.87%) Public Sector
4 9 (3.86%) Military
5 5 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.29%) Finance
6 3 (1.29%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.86%) Automotive
7 2 (0.86%) Electronics
7 2 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (0.86%) Marketing
7 2 (0.86%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.43%) Advertising
8 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.43%) Law
Job Titles
1 46 (19.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 23 (9.87%) Integration Engineer
3 22 (9.44%) Architect
3 22 (9.44%) Support Engineer
4 21 (9.01%) Active Directory Support
5 20 (8.58%) Wintel Engineer
6 19 (8.15%) Windows Engineer
7 16 (6.87%) Security Architect
8 15 (6.44%) Build Engineer
8 15 (6.44%) Windows Build Engineer
9 14 (6.01%) Active Directory Specialist
9 14 (6.01%) Azure Specialist
9 14 (6.01%) Support Specialist
10 13 (5.58%) Storage Engineer
11 12 (5.15%) Administrator
11 12 (5.15%) Systems Administrator
12 10 (4.29%) Senior
12 10 (4.29%) Server Engineer
13 9 (3.86%) Applications Engineer
13 9 (3.86%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.01%) ARM Templates
2 6 (2.58%) Itk
3 4 (1.72%) .NET
4 2 (0.86%) .NET Core
4 2 (0.86%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.86%) CSS
4 2 (0.86%) Kafka
4 2 (0.86%) RESTful
5 1 (0.43%) HTML
5 1 (0.43%) JSP
5 1 (0.43%) LDAP
5 1 (0.43%) Node.js
5 1 (0.43%) REST
5 1 (0.43%) SOAP
5 1 (0.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 58 (24.89%) PKI
2 25 (10.73%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (9.01%) Client/Server
4 17 (7.30%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.72%) Fat Client
5 4 (1.72%) Thin Client
6 3 (1.29%) CCTV
6 3 (1.29%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.29%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.86%) Clustering
8 1 (0.43%) CMDB
8 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.43%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.43%) IBM Storwize
8 1 (0.43%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.43%) Replication
8 1 (0.43%) Smart Meter
8 1 (0.43%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 231 (99.14%) Windows
2 98 (42.06%) Windows Server 2019
3 86 (36.91%) Linux
4 73 (31.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 71 (30.47%) Windows Server 2012
6 49 (21.03%) Windows 10
7 33 (14.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (6.44%) Windows NT
9 14 (6.01%) Windows XP
10 5 (2.15%) Ubuntu
11 4 (1.72%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (1.29%) Unix
12 3 (1.29%) VMS
13 2 (0.86%) Solaris
14 1 (0.43%) AIX
14 1 (0.43%) Android
14 1 (0.43%) CentOS
14 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.43%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (30.90%) Agile
2 56 (24.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 55 (23.61%) ITIL
4 47 (20.17%) Release Management
5 46 (19.74%) DevOps
6 44 (18.88%) Service Management
7 38 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (11.59%) Test Automation
9 26 (11.16%) Deployment Automation
10 25 (10.73%) Customer Service
11 22 (9.44%) Application Packaging
11 22 (9.44%) CI/CD
11 22 (9.44%) Infrastructure as Code
11 22 (9.44%) Server Management
12 21 (9.01%) Analytics
12 21 (9.01%) Identity Management
12 21 (9.01%) Log Analytics
12 21 (9.01%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 21 (9.01%) Privileged Identity Management
12 21 (9.01%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 110 (47.21%) PowerShell
2 45 (19.31%) Python
3 41 (17.60%) VBScript
4 25 (10.73%) SQL
5 24 (10.30%) C#
6 21 (9.01%) Bicep
6 21 (9.01%) VB
7 4 (1.72%) C
7 4 (1.72%) C++
8 3 (1.29%) Bash
8 3 (1.29%) F#
9 2 (0.86%) Java
10 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 168 (72.10%) Security Cleared
2 109 (46.78%) DV Cleared
3 63 (27.04%) SC Cleared
4 50 (21.46%) Degree
5 21 (9.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (6.01%) CCNA
6 14 (6.01%) CCNP
6 14 (6.01%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (5.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (4.29%) MCSA
8 10 (4.29%) MCSE
9 9 (3.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 6 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.72%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.86%) CISSP
12 2 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.86%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 2 (0.86%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.43%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.15%) QA
2 7 (3.00%) RMADS
3 3 (1.29%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.86%) SLA
5 1 (0.43%) COBIT
System Software
1 163 (69.96%) Active Directory
2 126 (54.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (16.74%) Hyper-V
4 26 (11.16%) VMware ESXi
5 22 (9.44%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (9.01%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (6.44%) Firmware
8 11 (4.72%) XenApp
9 9 (3.86%) vSphere
10 3 (1.29%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.86%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.43%) VMFS
12 1 (0.43%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 87 (37.34%) WSUS
2 66 (28.33%) SCCM
3 40 (17.17%) SCOM
4 27 (11.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 25 (10.73%) Kubernetes
6 24 (10.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 22 (9.44%) Ansible
7 22 (9.44%) vCenter Server
8 20 (8.58%) Terraform
9 15 (6.44%) Sysprep
10 14 (6.01%) EMC NetWorker
10 14 (6.01%) NetBackup
11 9 (3.86%) Nessus
12 6 (2.58%) Red Hat Satellite
13 4 (1.72%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.86%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 2 (0.86%) Network Intrusion Detection System
14 2 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.86%) vRealize
14 2 (0.86%) VxRail
Vendors
1 143 (61.37%) VMware
2 120 (51.50%) Microsoft
3 26 (11.16%) Oracle
4 20 (8.58%) Cisco
4 20 (8.58%) Veeam
5 17 (7.30%) Dell
6 16 (6.87%) EMC
6 16 (6.87%) HP
7 15 (6.44%) Juniper
7 15 (6.44%) Red Hat
7 15 (6.44%) Symantec
8 14 (6.01%) 3PAR
8 14 (6.01%) Citrix
8 14 (6.01%) Extreme Networks
8 14 (6.01%) Palo Alto
9 8 (3.43%) Ivanti
10 4 (1.72%) ArcSight
10 4 (1.72%) SAP
10 4 (1.72%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.29%) Splunk