Windows Server Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows Server
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 66 53 69
Rank change year-on-year -13 +16 -5
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 619 918 1,064
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.90% 4.05% 3.50%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.25% 21.47% 18.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 636 785
10th Percentile £198 £188 £169
25th Percentile £300 £313 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £450 £413
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +9.09% +7.49%
75th Percentile £595 £588 £500
90th Percentile £679 £684 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £433
% change year-on-year -5.00% +15.61% +2.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 47 38
10th Percentile £13.44 £21.10 £14.73
25th Percentile £16.25 £25.75 £16.31
Median hourly rate £58.00 £37.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.67% +87.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £61.60 £49.52 £28.41
90th Percentile £69.32 £62.13 £49.56
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £29.65 £22.75
% change year-on-year +29.85% +30.33% -9.00%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,391 4,276 5,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.90% 18.84% 19.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,208 2,930 3,824
10th Percentile £176 £165 £150
25th Percentile £275 £250 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +8.82% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £540
90th Percentile £672 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 307 426
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.57
25th Percentile £15.25 £17.70 £15.05
Median hourly rate £24.18 £40.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.43% +102.95% +17.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £49.43
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £46.75 £22.25
% change year-on-year -50.80% +110.11% +27.14%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the UK excluding London

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in the UK excluding London

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in the UK excluding London

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in the UK excluding London

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Server in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows Server in the UK excluding London

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +10 233 £550 +10.00% 151
North of England -3 127 £488 +21.88% 123
Midlands -1 98 £350 -10.26% 91
North West -9 73 £800 +93.94% 63
South West -49 68 £503 -8.64% 70
West Midlands -2 55 £350 -22.22% 49
East Midlands -2 42 £375 +15.38% 42
Yorkshire +6 40 £325 -13.33% 46
East of England -35 39 £388 -4.62% 51
Scotland +3 38 £340 -26.49% 36
Wales -7 16 £200 -55.56% 14
North East +9 14 £500 +40.85% 15
Windows Server
UK

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 130 (21.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 51 (8.24%) SharePoint
3 21 (3.39%) IIS
4 20 (3.23%) Confluence
5 6 (0.97%) Apache
6 5 (0.81%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.32%) nginx
7 2 (0.32%) SAS
7 2 (0.32%) WordPress
8 1 (0.16%) JBoss
8 1 (0.16%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 45 (7.27%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.32%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.32%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.16%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.16%) PTC Creo
3 1 (0.16%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (0.97%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.48%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.16%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.16%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 181 (29.24%) Microsoft 365
2 174 (28.11%) Azure
3 55 (8.89%) Entra ID
4 36 (5.82%) AWS
5 31 (5.01%) Azure Monitor
6 21 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (3.39%) Azure Storage
7 17 (2.75%) OCI
8 16 (2.58%) OneDrive
9 13 (2.10%) Power Platform
10 12 (1.94%) IaaS
11 6 (0.97%) OpenShift
11 6 (0.97%) Power Automate
11 6 (0.97%) PowerApps
12 5 (0.81%) PaaS
13 4 (0.65%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (0.65%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (0.65%) GitHub
13 4 (0.65%) SaaS
14 3 (0.48%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 169 (27.30%) Firewall
2 155 (25.04%) DNS
3 125 (20.19%) DHCP
4 86 (13.89%) VPN
5 60 (9.69%) SAN
6 43 (6.95%) LAN
7 37 (5.98%) WAN
8 24 (3.88%) TCP/IP
9 20 (3.23%) SMTP
10 15 (2.42%) Wireless
11 13 (2.10%) Remote Desktop
11 13 (2.10%) VLAN
11 13 (2.10%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (1.78%) NetScaler
13 10 (1.62%) NAS
14 9 (1.45%) Fibre Channel
14 9 (1.45%) Internet
14 9 (1.45%) VoIP
15 8 (1.29%) FTP
15 8 (1.29%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (8.89%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (1.29%) MySQL
4 8 (1.29%) Power BI
5 5 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (0.65%) Big Data
6 4 (0.65%) Oracle Database
6 4 (0.65%) RDBMS
6 4 (0.65%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.32%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (5.01%) JIRA
2 22 (3.55%) Robot Framework
3 17 (2.75%) Sonatype Nexus
4 11 (1.78%) GitLab
5 8 (1.29%) Selenium
6 6 (0.97%) Git
7 5 (0.81%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.48%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.48%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.32%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.32%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.32%) JMeter
11 1 (0.16%) AppScan
11 1 (0.16%) Gradle
11 1 (0.16%) MSI
11 1 (0.16%) Subversion
11 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.16%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 175 (28.27%) Social Skills
2 56 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (8.72%) Public Sector
4 20 (3.23%) Finance
4 20 (3.23%) Military
5 18 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (2.10%) Legal
7 9 (1.45%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.29%) Manufacturing
9 5 (0.81%) Banking
10 4 (0.65%) Electronics
10 4 (0.65%) Marketing
11 3 (0.48%) Automotive
11 3 (0.48%) Aviation
11 3 (0.48%) Local Government
12 2 (0.32%) Advertising
12 2 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.32%) Law
13 1 (0.16%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.16%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 110 (17.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 88 (14.22%) Architect
3 67 (10.82%) Support Engineer
4 42 (6.79%) Technical Architect
5 41 (6.62%) IT Support
6 37 (5.98%) Windows Engineer
7 35 (5.65%) Wintel Engineer
8 33 (5.33%) Lead
9 31 (5.01%) Integration Engineer
9 31 (5.01%) Lead Architect
9 31 (5.01%) Technical Leader
10 29 (4.68%) IT Engineer
10 29 (4.68%) Senior
11 28 (4.52%) Active Directory Support
11 28 (4.52%) Analyst
12 26 (4.20%) 3rd Line Support
13 22 (3.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 22 (3.55%) Administrator
14 21 (3.39%) Support Specialist
15 20 (3.23%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (7.11%) Node.js
2 22 (3.55%) ARM Templates
3 9 (1.45%) REST
4 7 (1.13%) .NET
4 7 (1.13%) Web Services
5 6 (0.97%) Itk
6 5 (0.81%) LDAP
7 4 (0.65%) XML
8 3 (0.48%) .NET Core
8 3 (0.48%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.48%) RESTful
8 3 (0.48%) XSLT
9 2 (0.32%) 802.1X
9 2 (0.32%) ADSI
9 2 (0.32%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.32%) Kafka
9 2 (0.32%) LAMP
9 2 (0.32%) Middleware
9 2 (0.32%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.32%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 95 (15.35%) PKI
2 39 (6.30%) Public Cloud
3 31 (5.01%) Clustering
3 31 (5.01%) Data Centre
4 30 (4.85%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (3.39%) Client/Server
6 17 (2.75%) NHS
7 13 (2.10%) Driving Licence
8 11 (1.78%) Product Ownership
8 11 (1.78%) Replication
9 8 (1.29%) Fat Client
9 8 (1.29%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.29%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.29%) Thin Client
9 8 (1.29%) Video Conferencing
10 6 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (0.97%) Digital Signage
10 6 (0.97%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.81%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 616 (99.52%) Windows
2 150 (24.23%) Linux
3 137 (22.13%) Windows Server 2019
4 134 (21.65%) Windows Server 2012
5 121 (19.55%) Windows Server 2016
6 113 (18.26%) Windows 10
7 52 (8.40%) Apple iOS
7 52 (8.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 49 (7.92%) Android
9 17 (2.75%) Unix
10 15 (2.42%) Windows NT
11 14 (2.26%) CentOS
11 14 (2.26%) VMS
11 14 (2.26%) Windows Server 2008
11 14 (2.26%) Windows XP
12 13 (2.10%) Ubuntu
13 10 (1.62%) Mac OS
14 6 (0.97%) Debian
14 6 (0.97%) Windows 7
15 4 (0.65%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (22.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 128 (20.68%) Agile
3 120 (19.39%) ITIL
4 93 (15.02%) DevOps
5 85 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
6 77 (12.44%) CI/CD
7 67 (10.82%) Mobile Device Management
8 57 (9.21%) Customer Service
9 56 (9.05%) Release Management
9 56 (9.05%) Service Management
10 53 (8.56%) Security Architecture
11 49 (7.92%) Migration
12 45 (7.27%) Change Management
13 44 (7.11%) Risk Management
14 43 (6.95%) Zero Trust
15 41 (6.62%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 41 (6.62%) Threat Intelligence
16 36 (5.82%) Infrastructure as Code
17 35 (5.65%) Disaster Recovery
18 34 (5.49%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 180 (29.08%) PowerShell
2 73 (11.79%) SQL
3 53 (8.56%) Python
4 42 (6.79%) VBScript
5 32 (5.17%) C#
6 21 (3.39%) Bicep
6 21 (3.39%) VB
7 12 (1.94%) Java
8 9 (1.45%) Bash
9 4 (0.65%) C
9 4 (0.65%) C++
10 3 (0.48%) F#
10 3 (0.48%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.32%) JCL
11 2 (0.32%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.32%) Perl
11 2 (0.32%) REXX
12 1 (0.16%) PHP
12 1 (0.16%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 287 (46.37%) Security Cleared
2 165 (26.66%) DV Cleared
3 132 (21.32%) SC Cleared
4 98 (15.83%) Degree
5 70 (11.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 51 (8.24%) MCSE
7 28 (4.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 26 (4.20%) MCSA
9 25 (4.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 19 (3.07%) CCNA
10 19 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (2.58%) CCNP
12 13 (2.10%) Azure Certification
13 11 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
14 6 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (0.97%) MCP
14 6 (0.97%) RHCT
15 5 (0.81%) MCITP
15 5 (0.81%) MCTS
16 4 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.23%) QA
2 10 (1.62%) SLA
3 7 (1.13%) NIST
3 7 (1.13%) RMADS
4 6 (0.97%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (0.48%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.16%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.16%) COBIT
7 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.16%) GDPR
System Software
1 377 (60.90%) Active Directory
2 217 (35.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 86 (13.89%) Hyper-V
4 68 (10.99%) VMware ESXi
5 42 (6.79%) Virtual Desktop
6 31 (5.01%) Virtual Machines
7 27 (4.36%) VMware NSX
8 23 (3.72%) vSphere
8 23 (3.72%) XenApp
9 16 (2.58%) Firmware
10 13 (2.10%) XenDesktop
11 9 (1.45%) Docker
11 9 (1.45%) Terminal Services
12 8 (1.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 7 (1.13%) BitLocker
14 6 (0.97%) KVM
14 6 (0.97%) VMware Workstation
15 5 (0.81%) Microsoft App-V
15 5 (0.81%) VMware Server
16 4 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 130 (21.00%) SCCM
2 104 (16.80%) WSUS
3 59 (9.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 56 (9.05%) SCOM
5 55 (8.89%) vCenter Server
6 38 (6.14%) Kubernetes
7 33 (5.33%) Ansible
8 30 (4.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 30 (4.85%) Terraform
9 16 (2.58%) NetBackup
10 15 (2.42%) Sysprep
11 14 (2.26%) EMC NetWorker
11 14 (2.26%) MAILsweeper
12 11 (1.78%) Autotask
13 10 (1.62%) Nessus
13 10 (1.62%) Red Hat Satellite
14 9 (1.45%) Failover Clustering
14 9 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
15 7 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
15 7 (1.13%) SCSM
Vendors
1 303 (48.95%) Microsoft
2 288 (46.53%) VMware
3 56 (9.05%) Citrix
4 50 (8.08%) Veeam
5 42 (6.79%) Cisco
6 39 (6.30%) Oracle
7 30 (4.85%) Red Hat
8 28 (4.52%) Dell
9 25 (4.04%) Palo Alto
10 24 (3.88%) HP
11 18 (2.91%) Symantec
12 17 (2.75%) EMC
12 17 (2.75%) Sophos
13 16 (2.58%) Extreme Networks
14 15 (2.42%) Juniper
15 14 (2.26%) 3PAR
15 14 (2.26%) Trend Micro
16 13 (2.10%) Apple
17 11 (1.78%) NetApp
17 11 (1.78%) SolarWinds