Windows Server Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Windows Server
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 54 81
Rank change year-on-year -2 +27 +11
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 55 77 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.69% 3.48% 2.86%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.97% 23.55% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 56 84
10th Percentile £201 £196 £166
25th Percentile £256 £359 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +20.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £438
90th Percentile £850 £731 £605
England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 5
10th Percentile - £23.63 £16.35
25th Percentile - £25.31 £16.50
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +37.50% -
75th Percentile - £28.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £38.50 £33.75 £22.75
% change year-on-year +14.07% +48.35% -9.00%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 290 327 663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.20% 14.78% 18.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 203 445
10th Percentile £185 £185 £150
25th Percentile £275 £299 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £676 £699 £595
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 36
10th Percentile £14.99 £13.58 £11.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.23 £13.69
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.50 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% +12.46% +9.67%
75th Percentile £23.75 £28.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £72.50 - £23.75
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 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 13 June 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 13 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
Birmingham -5 19 £350 -20.45% 15
Coventry +15 14 £400 -11.11% 7
Worcestershire +4 5 £550 +4.76% 2
Shropshire -1 5 £300 -41.56%
Staffordshire -2 3 £328 +40.86% 12
Solihull -9 3 £225 -57.14% 1
Warwickshire -2 2 £438 +130.26% 9
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 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (25.45%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.64%) IIS
3 2 (3.64%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (10.91%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 34 (61.82%) Microsoft 365
2 26 (47.27%) Azure
3 13 (23.64%) OneDrive
4 8 (14.55%) Azure Monitor
5 7 (12.73%) Entra ID
6 6 (10.91%) Power Automate
6 6 (10.91%) Power Platform
6 6 (10.91%) PowerApps
7 2 (3.64%) AWS
8 1 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.82%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.82%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.82%) GitHub
8 1 (1.82%) IaaS
8 1 (1.82%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.82%) PaaS
8 1 (1.82%) Route 53
8 1 (1.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (60.00%) DNS
2 23 (41.82%) DHCP
3 11 (20.00%) Firewall
4 9 (16.36%) SAN
5 8 (14.55%) NetScaler
5 8 (14.55%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (14.55%) TCP/IP
6 7 (12.73%) Fibre Channel
6 7 (12.73%) LAN
6 7 (12.73%) VPN
6 7 (12.73%) WAN
7 6 (10.91%) Unified Communications
8 3 (5.45%) VLAN
8 3 (5.45%) VoIP
8 3 (5.45%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (5.45%) Wireless
9 2 (3.64%) iSCSI
9 2 (3.64%) NAS
10 1 (1.82%) Internet
10 1 (1.82%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.91%) Power BI
2 3 (5.45%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.82%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Artifactory
1 1 (1.82%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (1.82%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (34.55%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.45%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (5.45%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.64%) Finance
4 1 (1.82%) Advertising
4 1 (1.82%) Back Office
4 1 (1.82%) Law
Job Titles
1 15 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (10.91%) Deployment Engineer
2 6 (10.91%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 6 (10.91%) Microsoft Engineer
2 6 (10.91%) Support Engineer
3 5 (9.09%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 5 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support
3 5 (9.09%) Administrator
3 5 (9.09%) Citrix Engineer
3 5 (9.09%) Desktop Engineer
3 5 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
3 5 (9.09%) Server Administrator
3 5 (9.09%) VMWare Administrator
4 4 (7.27%) Analyst
4 4 (7.27%) Citrix Specialist
5 3 (5.45%) Network Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) Senior Citrix Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) Senior Desktop Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.45%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.64%) LAMP
2 1 (1.82%) .NET
2 1 (1.82%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.00%) PKI
2 6 (10.91%) Digital Signage
3 3 (5.45%) Clustering
3 3 (5.45%) Driving Licence
3 3 (5.45%) Fat Client
3 3 (5.45%) Thin Client
4 2 (3.64%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.64%) Replication
5 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 55 (100.00%) Windows
2 18 (32.73%) Windows 10
3 15 (27.27%) Windows Server 2019
4 11 (20.00%) Linux
4 11 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 10 (18.18%) Windows Server 2012
6 9 (16.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (10.91%) Ubuntu
8 5 (9.09%) Unix
9 4 (7.27%) CentOS
10 3 (5.45%) Mac OS
10 3 (5.45%) Windows 7
11 2 (3.64%) VMS
11 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (29.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (21.82%) Patch Management
3 9 (16.36%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (14.55%) Application Packaging
4 8 (14.55%) Change Management
4 8 (14.55%) Customer Service
4 8 (14.55%) ITIL
5 7 (12.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (10.91%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (10.91%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 6 (10.91%) Server Patching
6 6 (10.91%) Service Delivery
7 5 (9.09%) Information Management
7 5 (9.09%) Load Balancing
7 5 (9.09%) Security Monitoring
7 5 (9.09%) SIEM
7 5 (9.09%) Virtual Environments
7 5 (9.09%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 5 (9.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 28 (50.91%) PowerShell
2 5 (9.09%) C#
2 5 (9.09%) Java
3 4 (7.27%) Bash
4 1 (1.82%) Python
4 1 (1.82%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (12.73%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.91%) DV Cleared
3 4 (7.27%) Degree
4 2 (3.64%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.82%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.09%) NIST
2 1 (1.82%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (69.09%) Active Directory
2 16 (29.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (27.27%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (18.18%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (18.18%) VMware NSX
5 9 (16.36%) XenApp
5 9 (16.36%) XenDesktop
6 8 (14.55%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 7 (12.73%) vSphere
8 5 (9.09%) VMware Server
9 4 (7.27%) Hyper-V
10 3 (5.45%) BitLocker
11 2 (3.64%) Terminal Services
12 1 (1.82%) Docker
12 1 (1.82%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 20 (36.36%) SCCM
2 13 (23.64%) vCenter Server
3 12 (21.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (12.73%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (5.45%) Autotask
5 3 (5.45%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (5.45%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (5.45%) Terraform
6 1 (1.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.82%) Ansible
6 1 (1.82%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.82%) Puppet
6 1 (1.82%) Rancher
6 1 (1.82%) SCOM
Vendors
1 37 (67.27%) Microsoft
2 28 (50.91%) VMware
3 14 (25.45%) Citrix
4 9 (16.36%) NetApp
5 8 (14.55%) Veeam
6 6 (10.91%) Oracle
7 3 (5.45%) Apple
7 3 (5.45%) Datto
8 2 (3.64%) Aruba
8 2 (3.64%) Ivanti
8 2 (3.64%) Palo Alto
8 2 (3.64%) ProCurve
8 2 (3.64%) Synology
8 2 (3.64%) Zerto
9 1 (1.82%) Cisco
9 1 (1.82%) Google
9 1 (1.82%) Guidewire
9 1 (1.82%) HP
9 1 (1.82%) Zscaler