Windows Server Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Windows Server
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 48 74
Rank change year-on-year -37 +26 -3
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 70 159 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.20% 4.49% 2.97%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.97% 22.33% 14.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 127 73
10th Percentile £175 £164 £201
25th Percentile £217 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% +28.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £690 £644
England median daily rate £470 £500 £426
% change year-on-year -6.00% +17.37% +6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 5
10th Percentile £65.18 £17.83 £39.62
25th Percentile £67.31 £18.88 -
Median hourly rate £72.75 £60.00 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year +21.25% -13.11% +73.36%
75th Percentile £76.31 £64.50 -
90th Percentile £77.33 £97.65 -
England median hourly rate £46.75 £34.00 £22.75
% change year-on-year +37.50% +49.45% -9.00%

All Operating Systems
South West

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 South West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 501 712 758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.74% 20.08% 20.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 509 454
10th Percentile £173 £176 £153
25th Percentile £263 £288 £218
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £448
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +15.64% +14.01%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £550
90th Percentile £700 £700 £638
England median daily rate £470 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 84 72
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.16 £16.56
25th Percentile £40.00 £49.38 £20.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% +161.90%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £74.41
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.42 £22.00
% change year-on-year -41.21% +70.09% +23.87%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the South West

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in the South West

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in the South West

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in the South West

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Wiltshire -23 24 £538 -2.27% 21
Bristol -12 17 £500 -21.72% 15
Dorset +8 13 £185 +15.51% 7
Gloucestershire -30 5 £225 -59.09% 12
Devon -5 4 £550 +69.23% 5
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 20 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (11.43%) Confluence
3 5 (7.14%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.43%) nginx
4 1 (1.43%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 28 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 25 (35.71%) Azure
3 4 (5.71%) OpenShift
4 3 (4.29%) AWS
4 3 (4.29%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.43%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.43%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 16 (22.86%) DNS
2 15 (21.43%) Firewall
2 15 (21.43%) SAN
3 14 (20.00%) DHCP
4 7 (10.00%) WAN
5 6 (8.57%) FTP
5 6 (8.57%) LAN
5 6 (8.57%) Skype
6 4 (5.71%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.86%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (2.86%) SMTP
8 1 (1.43%) 4G
8 1 (1.43%) 5G
8 1 (1.43%) NetScaler
8 1 (1.43%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (1.43%) Unified Communications
8 1 (1.43%) VLAN
8 1 (1.43%) VPN
8 1 (1.43%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (11.43%) JIRA
2 2 (2.86%) Artifactory
General
1 25 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (14.29%) Military
3 4 (5.71%) Legal
4 3 (4.29%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.29%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.86%) Electronics
5 2 (2.86%) Finance
5 2 (2.86%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.86%) Marketing
6 1 (1.43%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (17.14%) Infrastructure Technician
2 9 (12.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (12.86%) Wintel Engineer
3 8 (11.43%) Architect
3 8 (11.43%) Integration Engineer
3 8 (11.43%) Test and Integration Engineer
4 7 (10.00%) Network Engineer
4 7 (10.00%) Test Engineer
5 6 (8.57%) 3rd Line Support
5 6 (8.57%) Systems Architect
6 5 (7.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) VMware Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Active Directory Architect
7 4 (5.71%) IT Support
8 3 (4.29%) 2nd Line Support
8 3 (4.29%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
8 3 (4.29%) 3rd Line Server Support
8 3 (4.29%) Active Directory Support
8 3 (4.29%) Windows Server Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.71%) REST
2 2 (2.86%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 16 (22.86%) PKI
2 12 (17.14%) NHS
3 7 (10.00%) Replication
4 4 (5.71%) Clustering
5 2 (2.86%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.86%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.43%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.43%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.43%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 70 (100.00%) Windows
2 20 (28.57%) Windows Server 2012
3 17 (24.29%) Linux
4 12 (17.14%) Windows 10
5 3 (4.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.86%) CentOS
6 2 (2.86%) Unix
6 2 (2.86%) Windows 7
6 2 (2.86%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.43%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (31.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (21.43%) ITIL
3 13 (18.57%) Change Management
4 12 (17.14%) Agile
4 12 (17.14%) Network Management
5 11 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
7 8 (11.43%) Test Scripting
8 7 (10.00%) Project Management
8 7 (10.00%) Regression Testing
9 6 (8.57%) Data Migration
9 6 (8.57%) Data Modelling
9 6 (8.57%) Database Optimisation
9 6 (8.57%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (8.57%) Migration
9 6 (8.57%) Service Management
10 5 (7.14%) CI/CD
10 5 (7.14%) Data Management
10 5 (7.14%) Identity Management
11 4 (5.71%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 19 (27.14%) SQL
2 10 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.86%) C#
3 2 (2.86%) Java
4 1 (1.43%) Python
Qualifications
1 43 (61.43%) Security Cleared
2 23 (32.86%) SC Cleared
3 20 (28.57%) DV Cleared
4 13 (18.57%) MCSE
4 13 (18.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (12.86%) Degree
5 9 (12.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 7 (10.00%) MCSA
7 4 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.43%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.43%) CCNA
9 1 (1.43%) CCNP
9 1 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.29%) SLA
2 2 (2.86%) NIST
3 1 (1.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 41 (58.57%) Active Directory
2 26 (37.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (27.14%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (20.00%) VMware NSX
5 5 (7.14%) Hyper-V
6 4 (5.71%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (5.71%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (4.29%) Docker
7 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (4.29%) vSphere
8 1 (1.43%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.43%) XenApp
8 1 (1.43%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 15 (21.43%) vCenter Server
2 7 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.00%) SCCM
3 4 (5.71%) Ansible
3 4 (5.71%) WSUS
4 3 (4.29%) SCOM
5 2 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (2.86%) OPNET
6 1 (1.43%) Check_MK
6 1 (1.43%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.43%) Puppet
6 1 (1.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 53 (75.71%) Microsoft
2 48 (68.57%) VMware
3 23 (32.86%) Veeam
4 8 (11.43%) Cisco
5 7 (10.00%) Palo Alto
6 6 (8.57%) CheckPoint
7 4 (5.71%) CyberArk
8 3 (4.29%) Atlassian
8 3 (4.29%) Dell
8 3 (4.29%) HP
8 3 (4.29%) Red Hat
8 3 (4.29%) SolarWinds
9 2 (2.86%) Remedy
9 2 (2.86%) SAP
9 2 (2.86%) Splunk
10 1 (1.43%) ArcSight
10 1 (1.43%) BEA
10 1 (1.43%) Citrix
10 1 (1.43%) Juniper
10 1 (1.43%) Veritas