Windows Server Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Windows Server
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 13 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 46 71
Rank change year-on-year -30 +25 -24
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 50 109 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.32% 4.15% 3.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 17.06% 24.33% 19.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 69 90
10th Percentile £210 £172 £162
25th Percentile £341 £363 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +3.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £608 £575 £550
90th Percentile - £652 £632
South East median daily rate £541 £472 £475
% change year-on-year +14.63% -0.74% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 3
10th Percentile £38.93 - £59.75
25th Percentile £43.95 £48.40 £70.63
Median hourly rate £52.77 £55.28 £92.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.54% -40.24% +444.12%
75th Percentile £61.45 £62.75 £96.25
90th Percentile £66.39 £68.49 -
South East median hourly rate £52.77 £60.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -12.05% +4.35% +73.68%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 293 448 631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.62% 17.07% 16.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 329 424
10th Percentile £196 £162 £161
25th Percentile £278 £206 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -20.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £628 £650
South East median daily rate £450 £425 £463
% change year-on-year +5.88% -8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 23 33
10th Percentile £16.32 £19.16 £11.00
25th Percentile £26.58 £22.63 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.08 £30.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.61% +87.50% -14.67%
75th Percentile £57.62 £55.28 £21.75
90th Percentile £58.40 £66.05 £88.00
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £55.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year +13.64% +197.30% +5.71%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the Thames Valley

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in the Thames Valley

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 13 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in the Thames Valley

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in the Thames Valley

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Server in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 13 November 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows Server in the Thames Valley

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 November 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
Berkshire -30 25 £605 +20.76% 7
Buckinghamshire +6 21 £398 -18.46% 18
Oxfordshire +2 4 - - 11
Windows Server
South East

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 33 (66.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (16.00%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (4.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 36 (72.00%) Azure
2 33 (66.00%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (30.00%) Entra ID
4 10 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
4 10 (20.00%) Azure Storage
5 4 (8.00%) OCI
6 3 (6.00%) AWS
7 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.00%) GCP
7 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (4.00%) SaaS
8 1 (2.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (38.00%) DNS
2 18 (36.00%) DHCP
3 15 (30.00%) Firewall
4 4 (8.00%) SAN
5 2 (4.00%) Network Security
5 2 (4.00%) NGFW
5 2 (4.00%) SSL
5 2 (4.00%) WAN
6 1 (2.00%) Internet
6 1 (2.00%) LAN
6 1 (2.00%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.00%) VPN
6 1 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 19 (38.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.00%) Finance
3 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 19 (38.00%) Analyst
2 13 (26.00%) Support Engineer
3 10 (20.00%) Active Directory Engineer
3 10 (20.00%) Active Directory Support
3 10 (20.00%) Active Directory Support Engineer
3 10 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (20.00%) Senior
4 8 (16.00%) Senior Analyst
4 8 (16.00%) Service Analyst
4 8 (16.00%) Service Desk Analyst
5 6 (12.00%) Operations Analyst
5 6 (12.00%) Senior Operations Analyst
6 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (8.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
7 4 (8.00%) Senior Support Analyst
8 3 (6.00%) Architect
8 3 (6.00%) Support Analyst
9 2 (4.00%) IT Support
9 2 (4.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (4.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.00%) PKI
1 10 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.00%) Client/Server
3 2 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 50 (100.00%) Windows
2 22 (44.00%) Windows 10
3 18 (36.00%) Linux
4 15 (30.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (28.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (16.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (4.00%) Windows 7
9 1 (2.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (30.00%) ITIL
3 14 (28.00%) Critical Thinking
4 12 (24.00%) Agile
4 12 (24.00%) DevOps
4 12 (24.00%) RBAC
4 12 (24.00%) Release Management
5 11 (22.00%) Identity Management
5 11 (22.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (20.00%) Analytics
6 10 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 10 (20.00%) Log Analytics
6 10 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 10 (20.00%) Privileged Identity Management
6 10 (20.00%) Service Management
7 6 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (10.00%) Project Management
8 5 (10.00%) Storage Management
9 4 (8.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (44.00%) PowerShell
2 20 (40.00%) SQL
3 12 (24.00%) VBScript
4 10 (20.00%) Bicep
4 10 (20.00%) C#
4 10 (20.00%) VB
5 2 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 36 (72.00%) Security Cleared
2 32 (64.00%) SC Cleared
3 24 (48.00%) DV Cleared
4 15 (30.00%) Degree
5 10 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (8.00%) CCNA
6 4 (8.00%) CCNP
6 4 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (4.00%) CISM
7 2 (4.00%) CISSP
8 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) SLA
2 1 (2.00%) PMO
System Software
1 27 (54.00%) Active Directory
2 13 (26.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (24.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (22.00%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (10.00%) Hyper-V
6 4 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (2.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (28.00%) SCCM
1 14 (28.00%) SCOM
1 14 (28.00%) WSUS
2 12 (24.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 11 (22.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (20.00%) Kubernetes
5 4 (8.00%) EMC NetWorker
5 4 (8.00%) NetBackup
5 4 (8.00%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.00%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 37 (74.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (30.00%) VMware
3 4 (8.00%) 3PAR
3 4 (8.00%) Cisco
3 4 (8.00%) Dell
3 4 (8.00%) EMC
3 4 (8.00%) Extreme Networks
3 4 (8.00%) HP
3 4 (8.00%) Juniper
3 4 (8.00%) Oracle
3 4 (8.00%) Palo Alto
3 4 (8.00%) Symantec
4 3 (6.00%) Citrix
5 2 (4.00%) ArcSight