Windows Server Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Windows Server
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 55 64 78
Rank change year-on-year +9 +14 +12
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 54 74 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.86% 3.27% 3.01%
As % of the Operating Systems category 22.78% 20.50% 16.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 59 86
10th Percentile £202 £250 £166
25th Percentile £259 £363 £242
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £475 £375
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +26.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £438
90th Percentile £850 £731 £624
England median daily rate £475 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £16.25
25th Percentile - £22.50 £16.31
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - +35.14% -33.93%
75th Percentile - £27.50 £20.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £46.75 £34.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year +37.50% +44.68% -6.00%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 237 361 644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.54% 15.95% 18.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 235 437
10th Percentile £182 £167 £150
25th Percentile £251 £313 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £475 £405
Median % change year-on-year -11.05% +17.28% +10.05%
75th Percentile £550 £576 £525
90th Percentile £698 £694 £609
England median daily rate £471 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.10% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 36
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.83 £11.75
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.23 £13.97
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +7.39% -
75th Percentile £23.75 £18.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £43.25 £32.75 £23.75
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the West Midlands

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in the West Midlands

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in the West Midlands

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in the West Midlands

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West 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
Birmingham -6 17 £350 -22.65% 17
Coventry +21 15 £400 -11.11% 6
Worcestershire +8 6 £550 -4.35% 9
Shropshire +15 5 £300 -41.56% 1
Staffordshire +1 3 £375 +36.36% 13
Solihull -12 3 £225 -57.14%
Warwickshire +5 1 £300 +66.67% 12
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 22 (40.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (25.93%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.56%) IIS
4 2 (3.70%) WordPress
5 1 (1.85%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 36 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 25 (46.30%) Azure
3 13 (24.07%) OneDrive
4 8 (14.81%) Azure Monitor
5 7 (12.96%) Entra ID
6 6 (11.11%) Power Automate
6 6 (11.11%) Power Platform
6 6 (11.11%) PowerApps
7 2 (3.70%) AWS
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.85%) GitHub
8 1 (1.85%) IaaS
8 1 (1.85%) PaaS
8 1 (1.85%) Route 53
8 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (57.41%) DNS
2 21 (38.89%) DHCP
3 10 (18.52%) Firewall
4 9 (16.67%) SAN
5 8 (14.81%) NetScaler
5 8 (14.81%) TCP/IP
6 7 (12.96%) Fibre Channel
6 7 (12.96%) LAN
6 7 (12.96%) Remote Desktop
6 7 (12.96%) VPN
6 7 (12.96%) WAN
7 6 (11.11%) Unified Communications
8 3 (5.56%) VLAN
8 3 (5.56%) VoIP
8 3 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (3.70%) iSCSI
9 2 (3.70%) NAS
9 2 (3.70%) Wireless
10 1 (1.85%) Network Security
10 1 (1.85%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.11%) Power BI
2 4 (7.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Artifactory
1 1 (1.85%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (1.85%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (5.56%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.70%) Finance
4 1 (1.85%) Advertising
4 1 (1.85%) Back Office
4 1 (1.85%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (25.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (12.96%) Support Engineer
3 6 (11.11%) Deployment Engineer
3 6 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 6 (11.11%) Microsoft Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 5 (9.26%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (9.26%) Administrator
4 5 (9.26%) Citrix Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Desktop Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Principal Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Server Administrator
4 5 (9.26%) VMWare Administrator
5 4 (7.41%) Citrix Specialist
6 3 (5.56%) Architect
6 3 (5.56%) Senior Citrix Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Senior Desktop Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Technical Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Technical Support
6 3 (5.56%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.70%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.37%) PKI
2 6 (11.11%) Digital Signage
3 3 (5.56%) Clustering
3 3 (5.56%) Driving Licence
3 3 (5.56%) Fat Client
3 3 (5.56%) Thin Client
4 2 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.70%) Replication
5 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 54 (100.00%) Windows
2 17 (31.48%) Windows 10
3 14 (25.93%) Windows Server 2019
4 11 (20.37%) Linux
4 11 (20.37%) Windows Server 2012
4 11 (20.37%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (11.11%) Ubuntu
7 5 (9.26%) Unix
8 4 (7.41%) CentOS
9 3 (5.56%) Mac OS
9 3 (5.56%) Windows 7
10 2 (3.70%) VMS
10 2 (3.70%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (31.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (22.22%) Patch Management
3 9 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (14.81%) Application Packaging
4 8 (14.81%) Change Management
4 8 (14.81%) Customer Service
4 8 (14.81%) ITIL
5 6 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (11.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 6 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (11.11%) Service Delivery
6 5 (9.26%) Information Management
6 5 (9.26%) Security Hardening
6 5 (9.26%) Security Monitoring
6 5 (9.26%) Server Patching
6 5 (9.26%) SIEM
6 5 (9.26%) Virtual Environments
6 5 (9.26%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 5 (9.26%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 27 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (9.26%) C#
2 5 (9.26%) Java
3 4 (7.41%) Bash
4 2 (3.70%) SQL
5 1 (1.85%) Python
5 1 (1.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.26%) DV Cleared
3 4 (7.41%) Degree
4 3 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.26%) NIST
2 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (70.37%) Active Directory
2 16 (29.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (27.78%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (18.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (18.52%) VMware NSX
5 8 (14.81%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (14.81%) XenApp
5 8 (14.81%) XenDesktop
6 7 (12.96%) vSphere
7 5 (9.26%) VMware Server
8 4 (7.41%) Hyper-V
9 3 (5.56%) BitLocker
10 2 (3.70%) Terminal Services
11 1 (1.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (33.33%) SCCM
2 14 (25.93%) vCenter Server
3 11 (20.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (5.56%) Autotask
5 3 (5.56%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (5.56%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (3.70%) Terraform
7 1 (1.85%) Ansible
7 1 (1.85%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.85%) Puppet
7 1 (1.85%) Rancher
7 1 (1.85%) SCOM
Vendors
1 38 (70.37%) Microsoft
2 27 (50.00%) VMware
3 13 (24.07%) Citrix
4 9 (16.67%) NetApp
5 7 (12.96%) Veeam
6 6 (11.11%) Oracle
7 3 (5.56%) Apple
7 3 (5.56%) Datto
8 2 (3.70%) Aruba
8 2 (3.70%) Palo Alto
8 2 (3.70%) ProCurve
8 2 (3.70%) Synology
8 2 (3.70%) Zerto
9 1 (1.85%) Cisco
9 1 (1.85%) Google
9 1 (1.85%) Guidewire
9 1 (1.85%) Ivanti