Windows Server Engineer Contracts

Windows Server Engineer
UK

The median Windows Server Engineer daily rate in the UK is £465, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 660 803
Rank change year-on-year +95 +143 -103
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Server Engineer 19 37 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.067% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.070% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 21 30
10th Percentile £321 £325 £274
25th Percentile £385 £375 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £490 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% +15.29% +6.25%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £450
90th Percentile £525 £700 £528
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £375 £338
% change year-on-year +26.67% +11.11% -5.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Windows Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Windows Server Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server Engineer in the UK

Windows Server Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server Engineer in the UK

Windows Server Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server Engineer in the UK

Windows Server Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server Engineer in the UK

Windows Server Engineer
Top 12 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 Engineer within the UK 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
England +70 14 £450 -10.00%
UK excluding London +28 11 £475 +26.67%
Work from Home +99 7 £413 -6.25%
South East +17 4 £513 +28.13%
London +66 3 £400 -20.00%
North of England +15 3 £475 +18.75%
Midlands +18 2 £338 -
North West +15 2 £488 +21.88%
East Midlands +8 2 £338 -
Yorkshire +13 1 £475 -
South West 0 1 £350 -
East of England - 1 £600 -

Windows Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Windows Server Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Windows Server Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Windows
1 19 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 13 (68.42%) Active Directory
3 9 (47.37%) VMware
3 9 (47.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (36.84%) Hyper-V
4 7 (36.84%) DNS
4 7 (36.84%) DHCP
4 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (36.84%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (31.58%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (31.58%) Azure
5 6 (31.58%) SCCM
6 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
6 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (21.05%) Entra ID
7 4 (21.05%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (21.05%) AWS
7 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
7 4 (21.05%) Migration
7 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
8 3 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
8 3 (15.79%) Intelligent Automation
8 3 (15.79%) Change Management
8 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
8 3 (15.79%) Degree
8 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (15.79%) GitHub

Windows Server Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (5.26%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (21.05%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) Entra ID
3 3 (15.79%) GitHub
3 3 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Storage
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.26%) IaaS
5 1 (5.26%) PaaS
5 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (36.84%) DHCP
1 7 (36.84%) DNS
2 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
2 2 (10.53%) VLAN
3 1 (5.26%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.53%) Power BI
General
1 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Clustering
1 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Client/Server
2 1 (5.26%) Hedge funds
2 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Windows
1 19 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 7 (36.84%) Windows Server 2019
3 6 (31.58%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (5.26%) Linux
5 1 (5.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (21.05%) Migration
4 3 (15.79%) Change Management
4 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
4 3 (15.79%) Intelligent Automation
4 3 (15.79%) Task Automation
5 2 (10.53%) Agile
5 2 (10.53%) DevOps
5 2 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (10.53%) Patch Management
5 2 (10.53%) Project Delivery
5 2 (10.53%) Scrum
5 2 (10.53%) Server Management
6 1 (5.26%) Application Packaging
6 1 (5.26%) Asset Management
6 1 (5.26%) Computer Science
6 1 (5.26%) Network Load Balancing
6 1 (5.26%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 1 (5.26%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.53%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (68.42%) Active Directory
2 9 (47.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (36.84%) Hyper-V
4 2 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (10.53%) vSphere
5 1 (5.26%) Firmware
5 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) SCCM
2 2 (10.53%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (10.53%) vCenter Server
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.26%) Nessus
3 1 (5.26%) SCOM
3 1 (5.26%) SCOrch
3 1 (5.26%) SCVMM
3 1 (5.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) VMware
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.79%) UiPath
4 1 (5.26%) BEA
4 1 (5.26%) CA
4 1 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (5.26%) Qualys
4 1 (5.26%) Varonis