Windows Server Contracts in England

Microsoft Windows Server
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 91 80 118
Rank change year-on-year -11 +38 -5
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 893 1,361 1,638
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.38% 2.89% 2.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 17.29% 17.86% 15.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 657 1,009 1,236
10th Percentile £213 £213 £189
25th Percentile £325 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £595 £619 £565
90th Percentile £679 £700 £659
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £433
% change year-on-year -5.00% +15.61% +2.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 50 42
10th Percentile £14.60 £22.38 £16.23
25th Percentile £16.00 £25.75 £18.50
Median hourly rate £38.50 £33.75 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year +14.07% +48.35% -9.00%
75th Percentile £61.60 £49.14 £48.06
90th Percentile £65.46 £64.50 £63.80
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £29.65 £22.75
% change year-on-year +29.85% +30.33% -9.00%

All Operating Systems
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,164 7,622 10,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.77% 16.20% 15.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,456 5,352 7,467
10th Percentile £188 £194 £175
25th Percentile £310 £329 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 378 360 497
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.29 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.53 £18.22 £15.80
Median hourly rate £22.51 £45.06 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.04% +109.56% +21.13%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £51.45
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £46.75 £22.25
% change year-on-year -50.80% +110.11% +27.14%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in England

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in England

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in England

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in England

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Windows Server in England

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
London -21 311 £450 -12.20% 128
South East +10 233 £550 +10.00% 149
North of England -3 127 £488 +21.88% 122
Midlands -1 98 £350 -10.26% 93
North West -9 73 £800 +93.94% 63
South West -49 68 £503 -8.64% 71
West Midlands -2 55 £350 -22.22% 50
East Midlands -2 42 £375 +15.38% 43
Yorkshire +6 40 £325 -13.33% 45
East of England -35 39 £388 -4.62% 49
North East +9 14 £500 +40.85% 15
Windows Server
UK

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 185 (20.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 68 (7.61%) SharePoint
3 27 (3.02%) IIS
4 26 (2.91%) Confluence
5 23 (2.58%) Exchange Server 2013
6 20 (2.24%) Exchange Server 2010
7 12 (1.34%) Apache
8 11 (1.23%) Tomcat
9 10 (1.12%) Exchange Server 2003
9 10 (1.12%) Exchange Server 2007
9 10 (1.12%) Skype for Business
10 7 (0.78%) nginx
11 6 (0.67%) JBoss
12 3 (0.34%) SAS
13 2 (0.22%) WordPress
14 1 (0.11%) IBM Domino
14 1 (0.11%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 59 (6.61%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.22%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.11%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.11%) Trello
5 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (0.67%) Teamcenter
1 6 (0.67%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.11%) Eikon
2 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 278 (31.13%) Azure
2 273 (30.57%) Microsoft 365
3 99 (11.09%) Entra ID
4 86 (9.63%) AWS
5 39 (4.37%) IaaS
6 33 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
7 30 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (3.14%) Azure Storage
9 25 (2.80%) OneDrive
10 18 (2.02%) PaaS
11 17 (1.90%) GCP
12 15 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
13 14 (1.57%) OCI
14 13 (1.46%) SaaS
15 10 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (1.12%) GitHub
15 10 (1.12%) Power Platform
15 10 (1.12%) WhatsApp
16 9 (1.01%) Nutanix
17 8 (0.90%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 232 (25.98%) DNS
2 224 (25.08%) Firewall
3 156 (17.47%) DHCP
4 106 (11.87%) VPN
5 75 (8.40%) SAN
6 59 (6.61%) LAN
6 59 (6.61%) WAN
7 38 (4.26%) TCP/IP
8 25 (2.80%) NAS
9 22 (2.46%) VLAN
10 21 (2.35%) Wireless
11 20 (2.24%) Wi-Fi
12 18 (2.02%) NetScaler
13 17 (1.90%) Remote Desktop
13 17 (1.90%) SMTP
14 14 (1.57%) MPLS
14 14 (1.57%) Skype
15 12 (1.34%) Unified Communications
15 12 (1.34%) VoIP
16 11 (1.23%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (13.21%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
3 17 (1.90%) MySQL
4 13 (1.46%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.12%) Power BI
5 10 (1.12%) RDBMS
6 6 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.45%) Big Data
8 4 (0.45%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.22%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.22%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.22%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.22%) Looker
9 2 (0.22%) Metadata
9 2 (0.22%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.22%) Tableau
10 1 (0.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 50 (5.60%) JIRA
2 26 (2.91%) Jenkins
3 22 (2.46%) Robot Framework
4 17 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
5 16 (1.79%) Git
6 14 (1.57%) GitLab
7 13 (1.46%) Artifactory
7 13 (1.46%) Subversion
8 10 (1.12%) TeamCity
9 8 (0.90%) Selenium
10 7 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 4 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
12 3 (0.34%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.22%) JMeter
13 2 (0.22%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.22%) Visual Studio
14 1 (0.11%) Burp Suite
14 1 (0.11%) Katalon Studio
14 1 (0.11%) Liquibase
14 1 (0.11%) MSI
General
1 223 (24.97%) Social Skills
2 100 (11.20%) Finance
3 83 (9.29%) Public Sector
4 81 (9.07%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
6 21 (2.35%) Banking
7 20 (2.24%) Military
8 17 (1.90%) Legal
9 16 (1.79%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.12%) Mandarin Language
11 9 (1.01%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.67%) Local Government
13 5 (0.56%) Electronics
13 5 (0.56%) Law
13 5 (0.56%) Marketing
13 5 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.45%) Advertising
14 4 (0.45%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 171 (19.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 96 (10.75%) Architect
3 93 (10.41%) Support Engineer
4 55 (6.16%) Analyst
4 55 (6.16%) Windows Engineer
5 51 (5.71%) Senior
6 46 (5.15%) Administrator
6 46 (5.15%) IT Support
6 46 (5.15%) Wintel Engineer
7 45 (5.04%) Technical Architect
8 44 (4.93%) IT Engineer
9 43 (4.82%) Lead
10 39 (4.37%) Integration Engineer
11 34 (3.81%) Lead Architect
11 34 (3.81%) Technical Leader
12 33 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
13 30 (3.36%) Active Directory Support
13 30 (3.36%) Server Engineer
14 26 (2.91%) Support Specialist
14 26 (2.91%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (5.38%) Node.js
2 31 (3.47%) .NET
3 25 (2.80%) ARM Templates
4 17 (1.90%) Middleware
5 13 (1.46%) LDAP
6 12 (1.34%) REST
7 11 (1.23%) CSS
8 9 (1.01%) HTML
9 7 (0.78%) ASP.NET
9 7 (0.78%) Web Services
9 7 (0.78%) XML
10 6 (0.67%) IBM Integration Bus
10 6 (0.67%) Itk
11 5 (0.56%) FIX Protocol
11 5 (0.56%) HTML5
11 5 (0.56%) SOAP
12 4 (0.45%) JSP
12 4 (0.45%) RabbitMQ
13 3 (0.34%) JSON
13 3 (0.34%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 101 (11.31%) PKI
2 46 (5.15%) Public Cloud
3 43 (4.82%) Data Centre
4 36 (4.03%) Clustering
5 35 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (3.58%) Replication
7 25 (2.80%) Client/Server
8 19 (2.13%) Management Information System
8 19 (2.13%) NHS
8 19 (2.13%) Video Conferencing
9 15 (1.68%) Product Ownership
10 13 (1.46%) Driving Licence
11 9 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 9 (1.01%) Fat Client
11 9 (1.01%) Mobile App
11 9 (1.01%) Thin Client
12 8 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (0.67%) Digital Signage
13 6 (0.67%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 890 (99.66%) Windows
2 194 (21.72%) Linux
3 176 (19.71%) Windows Server 2012
4 164 (18.37%) Windows Server 2019
5 161 (18.03%) Windows 10
6 151 (16.91%) Windows Server 2016
7 65 (7.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 56 (6.27%) Apple iOS
9 54 (6.05%) Android
10 33 (3.70%) Windows Server 2008
11 27 (3.02%) Unix
12 24 (2.69%) VMS
12 24 (2.69%) Windows 7
13 20 (2.24%) Mac OS
14 15 (1.68%) Ubuntu
14 15 (1.68%) Windows NT
14 15 (1.68%) Windows XP
15 13 (1.46%) CentOS
15 13 (1.46%) Windows Server 2003
16 7 (0.78%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (23.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 150 (16.80%) ITIL
3 145 (16.24%) Agile
4 137 (15.34%) DevOps
5 108 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
6 106 (11.87%) Migration
7 89 (9.97%) CI/CD
8 79 (8.85%) Mobile Device Management
9 75 (8.40%) Customer Service
10 68 (7.61%) Disaster Recovery
11 60 (6.72%) Service Management
12 58 (6.49%) Release Management
13 55 (6.16%) Change Management
14 54 (6.05%) Infrastructure as Code
15 53 (5.94%) Security Architecture
16 49 (5.49%) Server Management
17 45 (5.04%) Risk Management
18 43 (4.82%) Vulnerability Management
18 43 (4.82%) Zero Trust
19 42 (4.70%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 290 (32.47%) PowerShell
2 127 (14.22%) SQL
3 94 (10.53%) Python
4 51 (5.71%) C#
5 41 (4.59%) VBScript
6 29 (3.25%) Java
7 27 (3.02%) Bash
7 27 (3.02%) VB
8 23 (2.58%) Bicep
9 13 (1.46%) C++
9 13 (1.46%) Shell Script
10 11 (1.23%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.01%) F#
12 5 (0.56%) C
12 5 (0.56%) PHP
13 4 (0.45%) Perl
13 4 (0.45%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.34%) JavaScript
14 3 (0.34%) JCL
14 3 (0.34%) REXX
Qualifications
1 330 (36.95%) Security Cleared
2 190 (21.28%) DV Cleared
3 143 (16.01%) SC Cleared
4 112 (12.54%) Degree
5 80 (8.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 40 (4.48%) MCSE
7 27 (3.02%) MCSA
8 26 (2.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 25 (2.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 20 (2.24%) CCNA
10 20 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
11 19 (2.13%) Azure Certification
12 17 (1.90%) CCNP
13 16 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
14 8 (0.90%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (0.56%) Citrix Certification
15 5 (0.56%) MCITP
15 5 (0.56%) MCTS
16 4 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (3.47%) QA
2 23 (2.58%) SLA
3 11 (1.23%) GDPR
4 10 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.12%) NIST
5 8 (0.90%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.78%) RMADS
7 5 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.34%) COBIT
9 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.22%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.22%) NCSC
10 1 (0.11%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 531 (59.46%) Active Directory
2 273 (30.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 95 (10.64%) Hyper-V
4 68 (7.61%) VMware ESXi
5 45 (5.04%) vSphere
6 44 (4.93%) Virtual Machines
7 43 (4.82%) Virtual Desktop
8 35 (3.92%) VMware NSX
9 28 (3.14%) XenApp
10 22 (2.46%) Firmware
11 20 (2.24%) Docker
12 19 (2.13%) XenDesktop
13 12 (1.34%) Virtual Servers
14 8 (0.90%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 7 (0.78%) Microsoft App-V
16 6 (0.67%) Terminal Services
16 6 (0.67%) VMware Workstation
17 5 (0.56%) VMware Server
18 4 (0.45%) BitLocker
19 3 (0.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 169 (18.92%) SCCM
2 101 (11.31%) WSUS
3 78 (8.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 67 (7.50%) SCOM
5 59 (6.61%) Ansible
6 53 (5.94%) vCenter Server
7 49 (5.49%) Terraform
8 48 (5.38%) Kubernetes
9 43 (4.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 19 (2.13%) EMC NetWorker
11 16 (1.79%) NetBackup
12 15 (1.68%) Sysprep
13 14 (1.57%) MAILsweeper
14 13 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
15 12 (1.34%) Nessus
16 11 (1.23%) Autotask
17 10 (1.12%) Failover Clustering
17 10 (1.12%) Red Hat Satellite
18 9 (1.01%) BladeLogic
18 9 (1.01%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 434 (48.60%) Microsoft
2 379 (42.44%) VMware
3 84 (9.41%) Citrix
4 80 (8.96%) Veeam
5 57 (6.38%) Cisco
6 53 (5.94%) Oracle
7 48 (5.38%) Dell
8 39 (4.37%) HP
9 38 (4.26%) Red Hat
10 33 (3.70%) Palo Alto
11 30 (3.36%) ServiceNow
12 24 (2.69%) Juniper
13 23 (2.58%) EMC
14 19 (2.13%) Apple
15 18 (2.02%) Qualys
15 18 (2.02%) Symantec
16 17 (1.90%) CA
16 17 (1.90%) Sophos
17 16 (1.79%) NetApp
17 16 (1.79%) Splunk