Windows Server Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Windows Server
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 71 68 64
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 +3
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 127 168 262
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.62% 3.09% 3.68%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.38% 19.27% 19.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 109 189
10th Percentile £210 £190 £154
25th Percentile £275 £269 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £400 £375
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £825 £550 £475
90th Percentile £850 £624 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 23 15
10th Percentile - £26.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £29.30 £15.64
Median hourly rate £17.50 £42.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.82% +123.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £18.75 £47.92 £24.38
90th Percentile - £49.52 £28.75
England median hourly rate £38.50 £33.75 £22.75
% change year-on-year +14.07% +48.35% -9.00%

All Operating Systems
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 691 872 1,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.26% 16.02% 19.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 605 989
10th Percentile £165 £169 £150
25th Percentile £264 £250 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £546 £586 £550
90th Percentile £654 £675 £638
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 63 75
10th Percentile - £13.16 £12.68
25th Percentile £10.95 £16.25 £15.59
Median hourly rate £16.00 £22.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.89% +25.00% +12.50%
75th Percentile £19.39 £41.49 £23.10
90th Percentile £48.00 £48.60 £73.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the North of England

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in the North of England

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in the North of England

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in the North of England

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West -9 73 £800 +93.94% 63
Yorkshire +6 40 £325 -13.33% 46
North East +9 14 £500 +40.85% 15
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 17 (13.39%) SharePoint
2 15 (11.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (4.72%) IIS
4 2 (1.57%) Apache
4 2 (1.57%) nginx
5 1 (0.79%) JBoss
5 1 (0.79%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (7.09%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 36 (28.35%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (14.17%) Azure
3 9 (7.09%) AWS
4 5 (3.94%) IaaS
5 3 (2.36%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.57%) GCP
6 2 (1.57%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.79%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.79%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.79%) Rubrik
7 1 (0.79%) Serverless
7 1 (0.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 62 (48.82%) Firewall
1 62 (48.82%) VPN
2 10 (7.87%) LAN
3 8 (6.30%) SAN
3 8 (6.30%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (5.51%) DNS
4 7 (5.51%) VLAN
5 6 (4.72%) DHCP
5 6 (4.72%) Internet
5 6 (4.72%) WAN
6 5 (3.94%) VoIP
7 3 (2.36%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.57%) NAS
9 1 (0.79%) AMQP
9 1 (0.79%) MQTT
9 1 (0.79%) SMTP
9 1 (0.79%) VSAN
9 1 (0.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.45%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.15%) Big Data
3 3 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.79%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.79%) Power BI
5 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (0.79%) GitLab
1 1 (0.79%) Gradle
1 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.79%) Liquibase
1 1 (0.79%) SonarQube
1 1 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (18.11%) Social Skills
2 10 (7.87%) Public Sector
3 8 (6.30%) Finance
4 7 (5.51%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.72%) Legal
6 3 (2.36%) Aviation
6 3 (2.36%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.57%) Banking
7 2 (1.57%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.79%) Automotive
8 1 (0.79%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.79%) Military
Job Titles
1 49 (38.58%) Architect
2 40 (31.50%) Technical Architect
3 30 (23.62%) Lead
3 30 (23.62%) Lead Architect
3 30 (23.62%) Technical Leader
4 19 (14.96%) IT Support
5 14 (11.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (11.02%) Support Engineer
6 12 (9.45%) Senior
7 10 (7.87%) Analyst
8 9 (7.09%) 3rd Line Support
9 7 (5.51%) Cloud Architect
10 6 (4.72%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 6 (4.72%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
10 6 (4.72%) Migration Engineer
10 6 (4.72%) Server Engineer
10 6 (4.72%) Wintel Engineer
11 5 (3.94%) Digital Architect
11 5 (3.94%) Digital Technical Architect
11 5 (3.94%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (33.86%) Node.js
2 3 (2.36%) XML
2 3 (2.36%) XSLT
3 2 (1.57%) ADSI
3 2 (1.57%) JSON
3 2 (1.57%) Middleware
3 2 (1.57%) React Native
3 2 (1.57%) Web Services
4 1 (0.79%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.79%) IBM Integration Bus
4 1 (0.79%) jQuery
4 1 (0.79%) Keycloak
4 1 (0.79%) LDAP
4 1 (0.79%) RESTful
4 1 (0.79%) SOAP
4 1 (0.79%) Spring
4 1 (0.79%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.79%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 31 (24.41%) Public Cloud
2 14 (11.02%) Clustering
3 9 (7.09%) Product Ownership
4 8 (6.30%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (5.51%) Data Centre
5 7 (5.51%) Mobile App
6 5 (3.94%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.57%) iPad
7 2 (1.57%) PKI
8 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.79%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.79%) Freedom of Information Act
8 1 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.79%) NHS
8 1 (0.79%) Replication
8 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 127 (100.00%) Windows
2 46 (36.22%) Apple iOS
3 45 (35.43%) Android
4 19 (14.96%) Windows 10
5 15 (11.81%) Windows Server 2012
6 13 (10.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 12 (9.45%) Linux
8 9 (7.09%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (5.51%) VMS
10 4 (3.15%) Mac OS
11 3 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (2.36%) Unix
12 2 (1.57%) zOS
13 1 (0.79%) CentOS
13 1 (0.79%) Fedora
13 1 (0.79%) Rocky
13 1 (0.79%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (46.46%) Mobile Device Management
2 43 (33.86%) CI/CD
2 43 (33.86%) Risk Management
3 42 (33.07%) Security Architecture
3 42 (33.07%) Zero Trust
4 40 (31.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 40 (31.50%) Threat Intelligence
5 35 (27.56%) Agile
6 33 (25.98%) DevOps
7 27 (21.26%) Design Patterns
8 15 (11.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 15 (11.81%) ITIL
9 14 (11.02%) Roadmaps
10 13 (10.24%) Migration
11 12 (9.45%) Microservices
11 12 (9.45%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (9.45%) Product Strategy
11 12 (9.45%) Strategic Roadmap
12 11 (8.66%) Customer Service
13 10 (7.87%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (11.81%) PowerShell
2 13 (10.24%) SQL
3 3 (2.36%) Java
4 2 (1.57%) Kotlin
5 1 (0.79%) Bash
5 1 (0.79%) Python
5 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (24.41%) Security Cleared
2 24 (18.90%) SC Cleared
3 16 (12.60%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (10.24%) Degree
5 11 (8.66%) MCSE
6 5 (3.94%) DV Cleared
7 4 (3.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (2.36%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.36%) CCNA
8 3 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.79%) MCSA
10 1 (0.79%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 46 (36.22%) Active Directory
2 23 (18.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (8.66%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.36%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (2.36%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (1.57%) Docker
5 2 (1.57%) vSphere
6 1 (0.79%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.79%) Firmware
6 1 (0.79%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.79%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (7.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (3.94%) SCCM
3 4 (3.15%) Autotask
3 4 (3.15%) Failover Clustering
3 4 (3.15%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (1.57%) Terraform
4 2 (1.57%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.79%) Ansible
5 1 (0.79%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.79%) Graylog
5 1 (0.79%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.79%) Kibana
5 1 (0.79%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.79%) Packer
5 1 (0.79%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.79%) Rsyslog
5 1 (0.79%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (0.79%) vMotion
5 1 (0.79%) WSUS
5 1 (0.79%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 39 (30.71%) Microsoft
2 29 (22.83%) VMware
3 8 (6.30%) Apple
4 6 (4.72%) Google
5 4 (3.15%) Datto
5 4 (3.15%) Dell
6 3 (2.36%) Cisco
6 3 (2.36%) Citrix
6 3 (2.36%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.57%) Adobe
7 2 (1.57%) Autodesk
7 2 (1.57%) HP
7 2 (1.57%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.57%) Symantec
7 2 (1.57%) Wyse
8 1 (0.79%) Aruba
8 1 (0.79%) Infoblox
8 1 (0.79%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.79%) Sophos
8 1 (0.79%) Veeam