Windows Server Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows Server
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 52 66
Rank change year-on-year -11 +14 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 614 927 1,086
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.91% 4.07% 3.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.26% 21.58% 18.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 641 803
10th Percentile £194 £188 £168
25th Percentile £300 £313 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £413
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +9.09% +8.55%
75th Percentile £595 £588 £500
90th Percentile £680 £688 £636
UK median daily rate £468 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -6.50% +17.65% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 47 38
10th Percentile £13.44 £20.47 £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% -11.11%
75th Percentile £61.60 £49.52 £28.41
90th Percentile £69.32 £62.13 £49.56
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £29.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +29.85% +31.78% -10.00%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,362 4,296 5,850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.92% 18.88% 19.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,217 2,945 3,867
10th Percentile £175 £165 £150
25th Percentile £275 £250 £210
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 £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 308 433
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.56
25th Percentile £14.72 £17.60 £15.04
Median hourly rate £24.18 £39.05 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +95.25% +21.21%
75th Percentile £64.06 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.51 £43.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year -48.55% +98.86% +25.71%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +11 228 £550 +10.00% 148
North of England +2 128 £475 +18.75% 122
Midlands -4 94 £350 -7.89% 89
North West -9 73 £800 +86.05% 66
South West -36 70 £500 -9.09% 70
West Midlands -6 53 £350 -22.22% 45
Yorkshire +6 40 £325 -13.33% 42
East Midlands -3 40 £375 +15.38% 44
East of England -27 39 £348 -14.46% 51
Scotland -1 38 £340 -26.49% 32
Wales -9 17 £210 -52.00% 14
North East +10 15 £488 +37.32% 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
1 127 (20.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 51 (8.31%) SharePoint
3 21 (3.42%) IIS
4 20 (3.26%) Confluence
5 6 (0.98%) Apache
6 5 (0.81%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.33%) nginx
7 2 (0.33%) SAS
7 2 (0.33%) WordPress
8 1 (0.16%) JBoss
8 1 (0.16%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 44 (7.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.33%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.16%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.16%) PTC Creo
3 1 (0.16%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (0.98%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.49%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.16%) SystmOne
4 1 (0.16%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 179 (29.15%) Microsoft 365
2 173 (28.18%) Azure
3 54 (8.79%) Entra ID
4 36 (5.86%) AWS
5 30 (4.89%) Azure Monitor
6 21 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (3.26%) Azure Storage
8 17 (2.77%) OCI
9 16 (2.61%) OneDrive
10 13 (2.12%) Power Platform
11 12 (1.95%) IaaS
12 6 (0.98%) OpenShift
12 6 (0.98%) Power Automate
12 6 (0.98%) PowerApps
13 5 (0.81%) PaaS
14 4 (0.65%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (0.65%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (0.65%) GitHub
14 4 (0.65%) SaaS
15 3 (0.49%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 165 (26.87%) Firewall
2 152 (24.76%) DNS
3 122 (19.87%) DHCP
4 85 (13.84%) VPN
5 60 (9.77%) SAN
6 43 (7.00%) LAN
7 38 (6.19%) WAN
8 24 (3.91%) TCP/IP
9 20 (3.26%) SMTP
10 13 (2.12%) Remote Desktop
10 13 (2.12%) VLAN
10 13 (2.12%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (2.12%) Wireless
11 11 (1.79%) NetScaler
12 10 (1.63%) NAS
13 9 (1.47%) Fibre Channel
13 9 (1.47%) Internet
13 9 (1.47%) VoIP
14 8 (1.30%) FTP
14 8 (1.30%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (8.79%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (1.30%) MySQL
4 8 (1.30%) 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 (0.33%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.33%) Tableau
8 1 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 31 (5.05%) JIRA
2 21 (3.42%) Robot Framework
3 16 (2.61%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (1.63%) GitLab
5 8 (1.30%) Selenium
6 6 (0.98%) Git
7 5 (0.81%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.49%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.49%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.33%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.33%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.33%) JMeter
11 1 (0.16%) Gradle
11 1 (0.16%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.16%) MSI
11 1 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.16%) Subversion
11 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 176 (28.66%) Social Skills
2 57 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (8.47%) Public Sector
4 21 (3.42%) Military
5 18 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (2.77%) Finance
7 13 (2.12%) Legal
8 8 (1.30%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.30%) Telecoms
9 5 (0.81%) Banking
10 3 (0.49%) Automotive
10 3 (0.49%) Aviation
10 3 (0.49%) Electronics
10 3 (0.49%) Marketing
11 2 (0.33%) Advertising
11 2 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.33%) Law
11 2 (0.33%) Local Government
12 1 (0.16%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.16%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 107 (17.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 86 (14.01%) Architect
3 65 (10.59%) Support Engineer
4 42 (6.84%) Technical Architect
5 41 (6.68%) IT Support
6 39 (6.35%) Windows Engineer
7 35 (5.70%) Wintel Engineer
8 33 (5.37%) Lead
9 31 (5.05%) Integration Engineer
9 31 (5.05%) Lead Architect
9 31 (5.05%) Technical Leader
10 29 (4.72%) IT Engineer
11 27 (4.40%) Active Directory Support
11 27 (4.40%) Senior
12 26 (4.23%) 3rd Line Support
12 26 (4.23%) Analyst
13 22 (3.58%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 22 (3.58%) Administrator
13 22 (3.58%) Server Engineer
14 21 (3.42%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (7.17%) Node.js
2 21 (3.42%) ARM Templates
3 9 (1.47%) REST
4 8 (1.30%) Web Services
5 6 (0.98%) .NET
5 6 (0.98%) Itk
6 5 (0.81%) LDAP
6 5 (0.81%) XML
7 4 (0.65%) XSLT
8 3 (0.49%) .NET Core
8 3 (0.49%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.49%) JSON
8 3 (0.49%) RESTful
9 2 (0.33%) 802.1X
9 2 (0.33%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.33%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (0.33%) ISPF
9 2 (0.33%) Kafka
9 2 (0.33%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.33%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 92 (14.98%) PKI
2 38 (6.19%) Public Cloud
3 31 (5.05%) Clustering
3 31 (5.05%) Data Centre
4 29 (4.72%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (3.42%) Client/Server
6 19 (3.09%) NHS
7 13 (2.12%) Driving Licence
8 11 (1.79%) Product Ownership
8 11 (1.79%) Replication
9 8 (1.30%) Fat Client
9 8 (1.30%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.30%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.30%) Thin Client
9 8 (1.30%) Video Conferencing
10 6 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (0.98%) Digital Signage
10 6 (0.98%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 611 (99.51%) Windows
2 149 (24.27%) Linux
3 136 (22.15%) Windows Server 2012
4 134 (21.82%) Windows Server 2019
5 118 (19.22%) Windows Server 2016
6 112 (18.24%) Windows 10
7 52 (8.47%) Apple iOS
8 51 (8.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 49 (7.98%) Android
10 18 (2.93%) Unix
11 16 (2.61%) Windows NT
12 14 (2.28%) VMS
12 14 (2.28%) Windows Server 2008
12 14 (2.28%) Windows XP
13 13 (2.12%) CentOS
14 12 (1.95%) Ubuntu
15 10 (1.63%) Mac OS
16 6 (0.98%) Debian
16 6 (0.98%) Windows 7
17 4 (0.65%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (22.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 126 (20.52%) Agile
3 122 (19.87%) ITIL
4 92 (14.98%) DevOps
5 85 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
6 76 (12.38%) CI/CD
7 67 (10.91%) Mobile Device Management
8 58 (9.45%) Customer Service
9 57 (9.28%) Service Management
10 56 (9.12%) Release Management
11 52 (8.47%) Security Architecture
12 49 (7.98%) Migration
13 46 (7.49%) Change Management
14 44 (7.17%) Risk Management
15 43 (7.00%) Zero Trust
16 41 (6.68%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
16 41 (6.68%) Threat Intelligence
17 35 (5.70%) Disaster Recovery
17 35 (5.70%) Project Management
18 34 (5.54%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 175 (28.50%) PowerShell
2 73 (11.89%) SQL
3 52 (8.47%) Python
4 41 (6.68%) VBScript
5 31 (5.05%) C#
6 20 (3.26%) Bicep
6 20 (3.26%) VB
7 12 (1.95%) Java
8 9 (1.47%) Bash
9 4 (0.65%) C
9 4 (0.65%) C++
10 3 (0.49%) F#
10 3 (0.49%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.33%) JCL
11 2 (0.33%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.33%) Perl
11 2 (0.33%) REXX
12 1 (0.16%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.16%) PHP
12 1 (0.16%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 282 (45.93%) Security Cleared
2 161 (26.22%) DV Cleared
3 132 (21.50%) SC Cleared
4 98 (15.96%) Degree
5 69 (11.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 51 (8.31%) MCSE
7 27 (4.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 26 (4.23%) MCSA
9 25 (4.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 19 (3.09%) CCNA
10 19 (3.09%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (2.61%) CCNP
12 13 (2.12%) Azure Certification
13 11 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
14 6 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (0.98%) MCP
14 6 (0.98%) RHCT
15 5 (0.81%) MCITP
15 5 (0.81%) MCTS
16 4 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.42%) QA
2 11 (1.79%) SLA
3 7 (1.14%) NIST
3 7 (1.14%) RMADS
4 6 (0.98%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (0.49%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.33%) 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
1 371 (60.42%) Active Directory
2 212 (34.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 84 (13.68%) Hyper-V
4 68 (11.07%) VMware ESXi
5 41 (6.68%) Virtual Desktop
6 30 (4.89%) Virtual Machines
7 26 (4.23%) VMware NSX
8 22 (3.58%) XenApp
9 21 (3.42%) vSphere
10 17 (2.77%) Firmware
11 12 (1.95%) XenDesktop
12 10 (1.63%) Docker
13 9 (1.47%) Terminal Services
14 8 (1.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 7 (1.14%) BitLocker
16 6 (0.98%) KVM
16 6 (0.98%) VMware Workstation
17 5 (0.81%) Microsoft App-V
17 5 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
17 5 (0.81%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 128 (20.85%) SCCM
2 103 (16.78%) WSUS
3 57 (9.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 54 (8.79%) SCOM
4 54 (8.79%) vCenter Server
5 36 (5.86%) Kubernetes
6 32 (5.21%) Ansible
7 29 (4.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 27 (4.40%) Terraform
9 17 (2.77%) NetBackup
10 16 (2.61%) Sysprep
11 14 (2.28%) EMC NetWorker
12 13 (2.12%) MAILsweeper
13 11 (1.79%) Autotask
14 9 (1.47%) Failover Clustering
14 9 (1.47%) Nessus
14 9 (1.47%) Red Hat Satellite
15 7 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
15 7 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
16 6 (0.98%) SCSM
Vendors
1 303 (49.35%) Microsoft
2 284 (46.25%) VMware
3 55 (8.96%) Citrix
4 50 (8.14%) Veeam
5 42 (6.84%) Cisco
6 38 (6.19%) Oracle
7 27 (4.40%) Dell
7 27 (4.40%) Red Hat
8 24 (3.91%) Palo Alto
9 23 (3.75%) HP
10 18 (2.93%) Symantec
11 17 (2.77%) EMC
12 16 (2.61%) Extreme Networks
12 16 (2.61%) Sophos
13 15 (2.44%) Juniper
14 14 (2.28%) 3PAR
15 13 (2.12%) Apple
15 13 (2.12%) Trend Micro
16 12 (1.95%) NetApp
17 11 (1.79%) SolarWinds