Windows Server Contracts

Microsoft Windows Server
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 79 119
Rank change year-on-year -20 +40 -6
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 969 1,629 2,000
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.28% 2.84% 2.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 17.04% 17.61% 15.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 715 1,178 1,463
10th Percentile £208 £206 £191
25th Percentile £313 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +17.65% +3.03%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £566
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £400
% change year-on-year +2.70% +15.63% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 58 63
10th Percentile £14.89 £20.00 £15.53
25th Percentile £16.06 £24.62 £17.50
Median hourly rate £46.75 £32.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.09% +33.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £61.60 £49.49 £47.54
90th Percentile £66.88 £61.74 £67.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.00 £37.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +54.67% +66.67% -3.23%

All Operating Systems
UK

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 with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,687 9,251 13,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.37% 16.16% 14.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,850 6,458 8,915
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £300 £338 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £503 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% +0.57% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £700 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 393 404 594
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.08 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.74 £15.89
Median hourly rate £22.15 £39.05 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.28% +73.56% +28.57%
75th Percentile £60.75 £64.13 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% +50.00% +21.21%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the UK

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in the UK

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in the UK

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in the UK

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Server over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows Server in the UK

Windows Server
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 20 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
England -5 879 £475 -5.00% 667
UK excluding London -9 608 £475 +2.70% 564
London -2 309 £450 -10.00% 144
Work from Home -33 245 £463 -7.50% 202
South East +13 225 £550 +7.32% 153
North of England +4 134 £475 +18.75% 125
Midlands -8 88 £350 -15.15% 108
North West -10 74 £800 +64.10% 57
South West -35 71 £500 -9.09% 73
West Midlands +4 54 £350 -26.32% 64
Yorkshire +12 46 £325 -13.33% 58
Scotland +3 45 £438 -5.61% 29
East of England -26 36 £275 -33.33% 70
East Midlands -2 32 £331 +1.92% 44
North East +12 14 £500 +61.29% 11
Wales -7 12 £223 -49.14% 12

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 189 (19.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 72 (7.43%) SharePoint
3 35 (3.61%) IIS
4 27 (2.79%) Confluence
5 24 (2.48%) Exchange Server 2013
6 23 (2.37%) Exchange Server 2010
7 15 (1.55%) Apache
8 12 (1.24%) nginx
8 12 (1.24%) Skype for Business
8 12 (1.24%) Tomcat
9 11 (1.14%) Exchange Server 2003
9 11 (1.14%) Exchange Server 2007
10 9 (0.93%) JBoss
11 4 (0.41%) SAS
12 3 (0.31%) WordPress
13 1 (0.10%) IBM Domino
13 1 (0.10%) IBM Notes
13 1 (0.10%) OpenStack
Applications
1 60 (6.19%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.21%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.10%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (0.93%) Temenos T24
2 6 (0.62%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.52%) Dynamics GP
3 5 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.21%) Remedy AR System
5 1 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.10%) Eikon
5 1 (0.10%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.10%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 312 (32.20%) Azure
2 287 (29.62%) Microsoft 365
3 110 (11.35%) AWS
4 100 (10.32%) Entra ID
5 42 (4.33%) IaaS
6 37 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (3.10%) Azure Monitor
8 26 (2.68%) OneDrive
9 22 (2.27%) Azure Storage
10 20 (2.06%) GCP
11 19 (1.96%) Power Platform
12 18 (1.86%) GitHub
12 18 (1.86%) OCI
12 18 (1.86%) PaaS
13 15 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
14 13 (1.34%) OpenShift
14 13 (1.34%) SaaS
15 11 (1.14%) Nutanix
16 8 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 250 (25.80%) Firewall
2 237 (24.46%) DNS
3 158 (16.31%) DHCP
4 114 (11.76%) VPN
5 92 (9.49%) SAN
6 72 (7.43%) LAN
7 69 (7.12%) WAN
8 38 (3.92%) TCP/IP
9 32 (3.30%) NAS
10 24 (2.48%) VLAN
11 22 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
12 21 (2.17%) Skype
13 19 (1.96%) Wireless
14 18 (1.86%) SMTP
15 15 (1.55%) Internet
15 15 (1.55%) Remote Desktop
16 14 (1.44%) Fibre Channel
16 14 (1.44%) MPLS
17 13 (1.34%) Unified Communications
18 12 (1.24%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (13.83%) SQL Server
2 19 (1.96%) MySQL
3 17 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
3 17 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (1.75%) Relational Database
4 15 (1.55%) RDBMS
5 14 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (1.24%) Power BI
7 6 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
8 5 (0.52%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.41%) Big Data
9 4 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.41%) DB2
9 4 (0.41%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.21%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.21%) Looker
10 2 (0.21%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.21%) Tableau
11 1 (0.10%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 50 (5.16%) JIRA
2 35 (3.61%) Jenkins
3 23 (2.37%) Git
4 20 (2.06%) Robot Framework
5 16 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
6 14 (1.44%) Artifactory
6 14 (1.44%) GitLab
6 14 (1.44%) Subversion
7 12 (1.24%) TeamCity
8 8 (0.83%) Selenium
9 7 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.41%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.31%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.31%) Burp Suite
11 3 (0.31%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.21%) AppScan
12 2 (0.21%) JMeter
12 2 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
13 1 (0.10%) Gradle
General
1 265 (27.35%) Social Skills
2 103 (10.63%) Finance
3 95 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (9.49%) Public Sector
5 27 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
6 22 (2.27%) Banking
6 22 (2.27%) Military
7 18 (1.86%) Legal
8 17 (1.75%) Telecoms
9 11 (1.14%) Mandarin Language
9 11 (1.14%) Manufacturing
10 8 (0.83%) Marketing
11 7 (0.72%) French Language
11 7 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (0.62%) Electronics
12 6 (0.62%) Law
13 5 (0.52%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.41%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 183 (18.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 92 (9.49%) Support Engineer
3 87 (8.98%) Architect
4 67 (6.91%) Windows Engineer
5 58 (5.99%) Analyst
5 58 (5.99%) Senior
6 57 (5.88%) Administrator
7 51 (5.26%) IT Support
8 49 (5.06%) Wintel Engineer
9 48 (4.95%) IT Engineer
10 45 (4.64%) Technical Architect
11 40 (4.13%) Lead
12 39 (4.02%) Server Engineer
13 38 (3.92%) Integration Engineer
14 34 (3.51%) Lead Architect
14 34 (3.51%) Technical Leader
15 31 (3.20%) 3rd Line Support
15 31 (3.20%) Support Specialist
16 30 (3.10%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 30 (3.10%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (4.95%) Node.js
2 32 (3.30%) .NET
3 21 (2.17%) ARM Templates
4 20 (2.06%) Middleware
5 15 (1.55%) LDAP
6 11 (1.14%) REST
7 9 (0.93%) IBM Integration Bus
8 8 (0.83%) CSS
9 7 (0.72%) ASP.NET
9 7 (0.72%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (0.72%) Web Services
9 7 (0.72%) XML
10 6 (0.62%) HTML
10 6 (0.62%) Itk
11 4 (0.41%) Flash
11 4 (0.41%) JSON
11 4 (0.41%) LAMP
11 4 (0.41%) POSIX
11 4 (0.41%) XSLT
11 4 (0.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 104 (10.73%) PKI
2 53 (5.47%) Data Centre
3 48 (4.95%) Public Cloud
4 46 (4.75%) Clustering
5 39 (4.02%) Replication
6 32 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (2.79%) Client/Server
8 25 (2.58%) NHS
9 20 (2.06%) Management Information System
10 19 (1.96%) Video Conferencing
11 15 (1.55%) Product Ownership
12 14 (1.44%) Onboarding
13 13 (1.34%) Driving Licence
14 10 (1.03%) Mobile App
15 9 (0.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 9 (0.93%) Fat Client
15 9 (0.93%) Thin Client
16 8 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
17 6 (0.62%) Digital Signage
17 6 (0.62%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 965 (99.59%) Windows
2 212 (21.88%) Linux
3 193 (19.92%) Windows Server 2012
4 169 (17.44%) Windows 10
5 166 (17.13%) Windows Server 2019
6 160 (16.51%) Windows Server 2016
7 67 (6.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 56 (5.78%) Apple iOS
9 53 (5.47%) Android
10 46 (4.75%) Windows Server 2008
11 42 (4.33%) Unix
12 27 (2.79%) Windows 7
13 24 (2.48%) VMS
14 20 (2.06%) Mac OS
15 19 (1.96%) Windows NT
16 17 (1.75%) CentOS
16 17 (1.75%) Windows Server 2003
17 15 (1.55%) Ubuntu
17 15 (1.55%) Windows XP
18 8 (0.83%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (23.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 169 (17.44%) ITIL
3 150 (15.48%) DevOps
4 142 (14.65%) Agile
5 122 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
6 106 (10.94%) Migration
7 99 (10.22%) CI/CD
8 97 (10.01%) Customer Service
9 82 (8.46%) Mobile Device Management
10 70 (7.22%) Disaster Recovery
11 69 (7.12%) Service Management
12 61 (6.30%) Change Management
13 58 (5.99%) Server Management
14 57 (5.88%) High Availability
15 56 (5.78%) Release Management
16 55 (5.68%) Infrastructure as Code
17 51 (5.26%) Security Architecture
18 46 (4.75%) Risk Management
19 45 (4.64%) Vulnerability Management
20 44 (4.54%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 295 (30.44%) PowerShell
2 141 (14.55%) SQL
3 101 (10.42%) Python
4 47 (4.85%) C#
5 36 (3.72%) VBScript
6 31 (3.20%) Bash
7 29 (2.99%) Java
8 23 (2.37%) VB
9 20 (2.06%) Bicep
10 15 (1.55%) Shell Script
11 13 (1.34%) C++
12 12 (1.24%) Perl
13 9 (0.93%) F#
13 9 (0.93%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.52%) C
14 5 (0.52%) PHP
15 4 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.31%) Ruby
16 3 (0.31%) VBA
17 2 (0.21%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 336 (34.67%) Security Cleared
2 184 (18.99%) DV Cleared
3 157 (16.20%) SC Cleared
4 120 (12.38%) Degree
5 100 (10.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 59 (6.09%) MCSE
7 34 (3.51%) MCSA
8 27 (2.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 23 (2.37%) CCNA
9 23 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
10 21 (2.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 20 (2.06%) Azure Certification
12 18 (1.86%) CCNP
12 18 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (1.14%) DBS Check
13 11 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.72%) MCITP
15 6 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.62%) RHCT
16 5 (0.52%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (3.72%) QA
2 28 (2.89%) SLA
3 12 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.14%) GDPR
5 10 (1.03%) NIST
6 8 (0.83%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
7 7 (0.72%) RMADS
8 6 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.31%) COBIT
9 3 (0.31%) NCSC
10 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.10%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.10%) Data Quality
System Software
1 577 (59.55%) Active Directory
2 275 (28.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 107 (11.04%) Hyper-V
4 76 (7.84%) VMware ESXi
5 45 (4.64%) vSphere
6 39 (4.02%) Virtual Desktop
6 39 (4.02%) Virtual Machines
7 38 (3.92%) VMware NSX
8 34 (3.51%) Docker
9 26 (2.68%) Firmware
10 25 (2.58%) XenApp
11 16 (1.65%) Virtual Servers
12 14 (1.44%) XenDesktop
13 12 (1.24%) Terminal Services
14 9 (0.93%) KVM
15 8 (0.83%) BitLocker
15 8 (0.83%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 7 (0.72%) VMware Workstation
17 6 (0.62%) Microsoft App-V
18 5 (0.52%) NFS
Systems Management
1 189 (19.50%) SCCM
2 103 (10.63%) WSUS
3 72 (7.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 64 (6.60%) Ansible
4 64 (6.60%) SCOM
5 63 (6.50%) vCenter Server
6 60 (6.19%) Kubernetes
7 52 (5.37%) Terraform
8 48 (4.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 22 (2.27%) EMC NetWorker
10 21 (2.17%) NetBackup
11 19 (1.96%) Sysprep
12 13 (1.34%) Prometheus
13 12 (1.24%) Nessus
13 12 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
14 11 (1.14%) Failover Clustering
14 11 (1.14%) Grafana
14 11 (1.14%) Progress Chef
14 11 (1.14%) Puppet
15 10 (1.03%) Autotask
Vendors
1 467 (48.19%) Microsoft
2 395 (40.76%) VMware
3 98 (10.11%) Citrix
4 86 (8.88%) Veeam
5 68 (7.02%) Cisco
6 61 (6.30%) Oracle
7 50 (5.16%) Dell
8 41 (4.23%) HP
8 41 (4.23%) Red Hat
9 37 (3.82%) ServiceNow
10 33 (3.41%) Palo Alto
11 31 (3.20%) EMC
12 25 (2.58%) Juniper
13 24 (2.48%) Google
14 22 (2.27%) Apple
14 22 (2.27%) IBM
15 21 (2.17%) Splunk
16 19 (1.96%) NetApp
16 19 (1.96%) Qualys
17 17 (1.75%) Symantec
726 Windows Server jobs Nationwide