Windows Server Contracts in Central London

Microsoft Windows Server
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 98 113
Rank change year-on-year +6 +15 -9
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 40 80 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.65% 2.12% 2.08%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.74% 14.13% 15.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 64 77
10th Percentile £385 £231 £320
25th Percentile £425 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £495 £513
Median % change year-on-year +16.16% -3.41% +14.40%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £695 £588
London median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £27.60
25th Percentile - - £44.25
Median hourly rate - - £76.00
75th Percentile - - £111.25
90th Percentile - - £130.00
London median hourly rate £20.93 £25.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -16.29% +4.17% -52.94%

All Operating Systems
Central 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 Central London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 314 566 609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 12.95% 15.01% 13.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 406 474
10th Percentile £181 £161 £183
25th Percentile £280 £250 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% +2.15%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £605
90th Percentile £725 £738 £700
London median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 16
10th Percentile - £22.60 -
25th Percentile £21.25 £25.00 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.75 £35.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +42.86% +76.58%
75th Percentile £24.56 - £36.63
90th Percentile £26.03 £64.25 £64.38
London median hourly rate £22.00 £40.00 £24.75
% change year-on-year -45.00% +61.62% -42.44%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Central London

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Central London

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Central London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Central London

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Central London

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
City of London +16 36 £625 +17.92% 12
Windows Server
London

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 9 (22.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (7.50%) IIS
2 3 (7.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.00%) Apache
3 2 (5.00%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (5.00%) JBoss
3 2 (5.00%) nginx
3 2 (5.00%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.50%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (2.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 21 (52.50%) Azure
2 11 (27.50%) Entra ID
3 10 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (17.50%) AWS
5 4 (10.00%) GitHub
5 4 (10.00%) IaaS
5 4 (10.00%) Mimecast
6 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (5.00%) GCP
7 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.50%) Azure API Management
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.50%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.50%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.50%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.50%) Route 53
8 1 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (32.50%) DNS
1 13 (32.50%) Firewall
2 4 (10.00%) MPLS
2 4 (10.00%) SAN
3 3 (7.50%) NAS
3 3 (7.50%) Wireless
4 2 (5.00%) SSL
4 2 (5.00%) VPN
4 2 (5.00%) WAN
5 1 (2.50%) DHCP
5 1 (2.50%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (2.50%) iSCSI
5 1 (2.50%) LAN
5 1 (2.50%) Network Security
5 1 (2.50%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.50%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.00%) RDBMS
2 4 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (7.50%) MySQL
4 2 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.50%) Metadata
5 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.50%) GitLab
2 3 (7.50%) JIRA
3 2 (5.00%) Git
3 2 (5.00%) Subversion
3 2 (5.00%) TeamCity
3 2 (5.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.50%) AppScan
4 1 (2.50%) Burp Suite
4 1 (2.50%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (2.50%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (2.50%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 11 (27.50%) Finance
2 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.00%) French Language
4 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Banking
5 2 (5.00%) Front Office
5 2 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.50%) Back Office
6 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Japanese Language
6 1 (2.50%) Law
6 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (22.50%) Analyst
2 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) IT Analyst
3 5 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Senior
3 5 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
3 5 (12.50%) Senior Systems Analyst
3 5 (12.50%) Systems Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) IT Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Server Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Site Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Administrator
6 2 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (5.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (5.00%) IBM Integration Bus
2 1 (2.50%) .NET
2 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.50%) CSS
2 1 (2.50%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (2.50%) HTML
2 1 (2.50%) HTML5
2 1 (2.50%) LAMP
2 1 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.50%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (5.00%) Hedge funds
3 1 (2.50%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (2.50%) Clustering
3 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.50%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.50%) HP Storage
3 1 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.50%) PKI
3 1 (2.50%) Replication
3 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.50%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 40 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (27.50%) Linux
3 5 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (7.50%) Unix
5 2 (5.00%) VMS
5 2 (5.00%) Windows 7
5 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (2.50%) CentOS
6 1 (2.50%) OpenVMS
6 1 (2.50%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (27.50%) DevOps
2 10 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (17.50%) IT Strategy
4 5 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 5 (12.50%) Identity Management
4 5 (12.50%) Time Management
5 4 (10.00%) Data Loss Prevention
5 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (10.00%) Migration
5 4 (10.00%) Project Delivery
5 4 (10.00%) Scrum
5 4 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (10.00%) Wealth Management
6 3 (7.50%) Agile
6 3 (7.50%) Configuration Management
6 3 (7.50%) ITIL
6 3 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (5.00%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (5.00%) Incident Management
7 2 (5.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 12 (30.00%) SQL
3 11 (27.50%) Python
4 3 (7.50%) Bash
4 3 (7.50%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.00%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.50%) PHP
6 1 (2.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.50%) Degree
3 1 (2.50%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (2.50%) SANS
3 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) NIST
2 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (45.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (22.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (10.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (5.00%) Docker
4 2 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (5.00%) vSphere
5 1 (2.50%) KVM
5 1 (2.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) SCCM
2 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (12.50%) Terraform
3 3 (7.50%) Ansible
3 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.00%) Grafana
4 2 (5.00%) Graylog
4 2 (5.00%) Nagios
4 2 (5.00%) Progress Chef
4 2 (5.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.00%) Puppet
5 1 (2.50%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (2.50%) Kibana
5 1 (2.50%) logstash
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (2.50%) Nessus
5 1 (2.50%) NetBackup
5 1 (2.50%) WebInspect
5 1 (2.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (47.50%) Microsoft
2 13 (32.50%) VMware
3 7 (17.50%) Citrix
4 5 (12.50%) Oracle
5 4 (10.00%) Okta
5 4 (10.00%) Red Hat
6 3 (7.50%) IBM
6 3 (7.50%) Veeam
7 2 (5.00%) Dell
7 2 (5.00%) HP
7 2 (5.00%) Splunk
7 2 (5.00%) Temenos
8 1 (2.50%) CyberArk
8 1 (2.50%) iManage
8 1 (2.50%) Intapp
8 1 (2.50%) Intel
8 1 (2.50%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.50%) Synology
8 1 (2.50%) Veracode
8 1 (2.50%) Zerto