Windows Server Contracts in the East of England

Microsoft Windows Server
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East 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 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 58 62
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 +3
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 36 61 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.36% 3.24% 3.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.79% 17.33% 15.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 53 65
10th Percentile £247 £159 £175
25th Percentile £332 £275 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +5.88% +41.67%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £525
90th Percentile - £818 £720
England median daily rate £478 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -0.52% +6.67% +8.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 £16.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +212.50% - -
England median hourly rate £62.19 £48.40 £22.50
% change year-on-year +28.49% +115.11% +11.11%

All Operating Systems
East 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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 261 352 499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 17.08% 18.71% 20.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 236 332
10th Percentile £213 £155 £140
25th Percentile £276 £205 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £375
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +17.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £525
90th Percentile - £675 £643
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 41 74
10th Percentile £44.50 £13.00 £12.13
25th Percentile £55.65 £14.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £21.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +209.52% -58.00% +150.00%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £73.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £57.50 £47.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +21.05% +98.66% +36.63%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the East of England

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in the East of England

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the East of England over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in the East of England

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in the East of England

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in the East 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 East of England region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Hertfordshire +3 25 £550 -4.35% 13
Essex +18 4 - - 6
Bedfordshire -1 4 £438 +173.44% 2
Norfolk -3 2 £290 +2.20% 7
Suffolk +1 1 £185 +10.45% 3
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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 19 (52.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (13.89%) IIS
2 5 (13.89%) SharePoint
2 5 (13.89%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) AutoCAD
1 1 (2.78%) PTC Creo
1 1 (2.78%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.67%) Azure
1 6 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (13.89%) Entra ID
3 4 (11.11%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (44.44%) SMTP
2 4 (11.11%) DHCP
2 4 (11.11%) DNS
3 3 (8.33%) SAN
4 1 (2.78%) IPv4
4 1 (2.78%) IPv6
4 1 (2.78%) NAS
4 1 (2.78%) Network Security
4 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.78%) VLAN
4 1 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Electronics
4 1 (2.78%) Finance
4 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.78%) Marketing
4 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (44.44%) Messaging Engineer
2 11 (30.56%) Support Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Applications Support
3 6 (16.67%) Applications Support Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Administrator
5 2 (5.56%) Server Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Windows Server Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Infrastructure Support
6 1 (2.78%) IT Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Windows Server Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.78%) iPad
2 1 (2.78%) iPhone
2 1 (2.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (8.33%) Windows 10
4 2 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.78%) Android
5 1 (2.78%) Linux
5 1 (2.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (13.89%) Change Management
1 5 (13.89%) Security Patching
1 5 (13.89%) Server Management
2 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (11.11%) ITIL
2 4 (11.11%) Problem Management
2 4 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (11.11%) Release Management
2 4 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (5.56%) Customer Service
3 2 (5.56%) Identity Management
3 2 (5.56%) Mobile Device Management
3 2 (5.56%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 2 (5.56%) Service Management
3 2 (5.56%) Task Automation
4 1 (2.78%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (2.78%) Incident Response
4 1 (2.78%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (2.78%) Patch Management
4 1 (2.78%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.67%) SQL
2 4 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.78%) Bash
3 1 (2.78%) Python
Qualifications
1 23 (63.89%) Security Cleared
2 22 (61.11%) DV Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.33%) Degree
5 2 (5.56%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.78%) DBS Check
6 1 (2.78%) MCP
6 1 (2.78%) MCSE
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) SLA
2 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (38.89%) Active Directory
2 5 (13.89%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (44.44%) MAILsweeper
2 4 (11.11%) SCOM
3 3 (8.33%) SCCM
4 1 (2.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.78%) VxRail
Vendors
1 16 (44.44%) Sophos
1 16 (44.44%) Trend Micro
2 9 (25.00%) VMware
3 8 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.78%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (2.78%) Citrix
4 1 (2.78%) Dell
4 1 (2.78%) SAP
4 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow