Windows Server 2012 Contracts in England

Microsoft Windows Server 2012
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Windows Server 2012 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server 2012 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 331 402
Rank change year-on-year +3 +71 -55
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2012 217 377 430
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.59% 0.75% 0.60%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.30% 4.56% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 287 321
10th Percentile £200 £202 £163
25th Percentile £283 £349 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +8.97%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £495
90th Percentile £608 £675 £588
UK median daily rate £410 £440 £425
% change year-on-year -6.82% +3.53% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 14
10th Percentile - £18.38 £17.38
25th Percentile - £19.91 £20.00
Median hourly rate - £22.63 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year - +10.39% -28.07%
75th Percentile - £25.25 £26.56
90th Percentile - £53.69 £28.41
UK median hourly rate - £24.32 £21.00
% change year-on-year - +15.79% -26.32%

All Operating Systems
England

Windows Server 2012 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 England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,045 8,260 11,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.65% 16.34% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,433 5,890 7,674
10th Percentile £181 £190 £170
25th Percentile £285 £325 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £470 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -6.93% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 367 390 559
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £14.95 £17.73 £15.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.33% +74.42% +19.44%
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.75 £22.28
% change year-on-year -43.23% +73.92% +23.78%

Windows Server 2012
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Windows Server 2012 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2012 in England

Windows Server 2012
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2012 in England.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2012 in England

Windows Server 2012
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2012 in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2012 in England

Windows Server 2012
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2012 in England.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2012 in England

Windows Server 2012
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 2012 within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
South East +58 83 £575 +19.79% 21
London +18 70 £380 -16.46% 15
North of England +7 22 £328 -20.61% 16
South West -20 20 £538 +19.44% 4
Midlands +11 18 £225 -40.00% 11
North West 0 14 £290 -38.95% 10
West Midlands +26 13 £225 -35.81% 9
Yorkshire +12 8 £400 +6.67% 6
East Midlands +6 3 £210 -44.00% 2
East of England 0 2 £388 +3.33% 9
Windows Server 2012
UK

Windows Server 2012
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 77 (35.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (12.90%) Exchange Server 2010
3 26 (11.98%) Exchange Server 2013
4 17 (7.83%) Confluence
5 14 (6.45%) SharePoint
6 12 (5.53%) Skype for Business
7 11 (5.07%) Exchange Server 2007
8 10 (4.61%) Exchange Server 2003
9 5 (2.30%) IIS
10 3 (1.38%) nginx
11 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (10.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.92%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.38%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.92%) Remedy AR System
2 2 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 73 (33.64%) Microsoft 365
2 61 (28.11%) Azure
3 14 (6.45%) OCI
4 13 (5.99%) Entra ID
5 7 (3.23%) AWS
5 7 (3.23%) IaaS
6 5 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (1.84%) PaaS
8 3 (1.38%) Azure Storage
8 3 (1.38%) GitHub
8 3 (1.38%) SaaS
9 2 (0.92%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.92%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.92%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (0.92%) Route 53
9 2 (0.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.46%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.46%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.46%) Rubrik
10 1 (0.46%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 86 (39.63%) DNS
2 58 (26.73%) Firewall
3 56 (25.81%) DHCP
4 39 (17.97%) SAN
5 15 (6.91%) Skype
5 15 (6.91%) WAN
6 12 (5.53%) LAN
6 12 (5.53%) VPN
7 10 (4.61%) TCP/IP
8 9 (4.15%) VLAN
9 8 (3.69%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (3.23%) Wireless
11 6 (2.76%) VoIP
12 4 (1.84%) Ethernet
12 4 (1.84%) NAS
12 4 (1.84%) Unified Communications
13 3 (1.38%) Cisco IOS
13 3 (1.38%) VSAN
13 3 (1.38%) WLAN
14 2 (0.92%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.22%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.38%) MySQL
3 2 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.46%) Redis
4 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (11.06%) JIRA
2 3 (1.38%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (0.92%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.46%) Hudson
4 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 91 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 36 (16.59%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (10.60%) Public Sector
4 21 (9.68%) Finance
5 15 (6.91%) Military
6 13 (5.99%) Banking
7 7 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.38%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.38%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.46%) Back Office
10 1 (0.46%) Electronics
10 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.46%) French Language
10 1 (0.46%) German Language
10 1 (0.46%) Law
10 1 (0.46%) Marketing
10 1 (0.46%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 34 (15.67%) Support Engineer
3 31 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
4 25 (11.52%) Integration Engineer
5 21 (9.68%) Build Engineer
5 21 (9.68%) Windows Build Engineer
6 16 (7.37%) Administrator
6 16 (7.37%) Systems Administrator
7 15 (6.91%) Test and Integration Engineer
7 15 (6.91%) Test Engineer
8 13 (5.99%) 2nd Line Support
9 10 (4.61%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 10 (4.61%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 10 (4.61%) Analyst
9 10 (4.61%) Server Engineer
10 9 (4.15%) 1st/2nd Line Support
10 9 (4.15%) Architect
10 9 (4.15%) Storage Engineer
11 8 (3.69%) Senior
11 8 (3.69%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.38%) EDI
2 2 (0.92%) ADSI
2 2 (0.92%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.46%) .NET
3 1 (0.46%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.46%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.60%) PKI
2 16 (7.37%) Data Centre
3 15 (6.91%) Video Conferencing
4 13 (5.99%) Clustering
5 9 (4.15%) NHS
6 7 (3.23%) Driving Licence
7 6 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.84%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.38%) CCTV
9 3 (1.38%) CMDB
9 3 (1.38%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.38%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.92%) Fat Client
10 2 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.92%) Thin Client
11 1 (0.46%) EPoS
11 1 (0.46%) Freedom of Information Act
11 1 (0.46%) LIMS
11 1 (0.46%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 217 (100.00%) Windows
2 180 (82.95%) Windows Server
3 89 (41.01%) Windows Server 2016
4 78 (35.94%) Windows 10
5 76 (35.02%) Windows Server 2019
6 45 (20.74%) Windows Server 2008
7 28 (12.90%) Linux
8 27 (12.44%) Windows 7
9 21 (9.68%) Windows NT
10 15 (6.91%) Windows Server 2003
11 13 (5.99%) Windows XP
12 9 (4.15%) Mac OS
13 6 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 5 (2.30%) Ubuntu
15 4 (1.84%) VMS
16 3 (1.38%) Android
17 2 (0.92%) CentOS
17 2 (0.92%) OpenVMS
18 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
18 1 (0.46%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (25.81%) ITIL
2 53 (24.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 41 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (16.59%) Customer Service
5 32 (14.75%) Disaster Recovery
6 28 (12.90%) Migration
7 26 (11.98%) Release Management
8 25 (11.52%) Deployment Automation
8 25 (11.52%) Service Management
9 22 (10.14%) Agile
10 21 (9.68%) User Acceptance Testing
11 20 (9.22%) Project Management
12 17 (7.83%) Critical Thinking
12 17 (7.83%) Server Management
12 17 (7.83%) Storage Management
13 15 (6.91%) Regression Testing
13 15 (6.91%) Test Scripting
14 14 (6.45%) Converged Infrastructure
14 14 (6.45%) Performance Tuning
14 14 (6.45%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 60 (27.65%) PowerShell
2 47 (21.66%) SQL
3 3 (1.38%) Shell Script
4 2 (0.92%) Python
5 1 (0.46%) Bicep
5 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 100 (46.08%) Security Cleared
2 50 (23.04%) DV Cleared
3 43 (19.82%) SC Cleared
4 38 (17.51%) Degree
5 20 (9.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 20 (9.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 17 (7.83%) CCNA
6 17 (7.83%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (7.83%) MCSE
7 15 (6.91%) MCSA
8 14 (6.45%) CCNP
9 5 (2.30%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.68%) QA
2 3 (1.38%) SLA
3 2 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.92%) NIST
3 2 (0.92%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.46%) NCSC
System Software
1 180 (82.95%) Active Directory
2 91 (41.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (16.59%) Hyper-V
4 23 (10.60%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (9.68%) Firmware
6 13 (5.99%) XenApp
7 9 (4.15%) vSphere
8 6 (2.76%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (2.76%) VMware NSX
8 6 (2.76%) XenDesktop
9 5 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (1.38%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.92%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.92%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.46%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.46%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 83 (38.25%) SCCM
2 52 (23.96%) WSUS
3 21 (9.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 21 (9.68%) Sysprep
4 19 (8.76%) vCenter Server
5 17 (7.83%) NetBackup
5 17 (7.83%) SCOM
6 13 (5.99%) EMC NetWorker
7 10 (4.61%) Autotask
8 8 (3.69%) Failover Clustering
9 7 (3.23%) Microsoft Clustering
9 7 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (2.76%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (2.30%) Ansible
11 5 (2.30%) Terraform
12 3 (1.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (1.38%) FortiGate
12 3 (1.38%) PaperCut
12 3 (1.38%) Puppet
13 2 (0.92%) VxRail
Vendors
1 124 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 108 (49.77%) VMware
3 43 (19.82%) Cisco
4 36 (16.59%) HP
5 33 (15.21%) Veeam
6 29 (13.36%) EMC
7 28 (12.90%) Citrix
8 17 (7.83%) Dell
9 16 (7.37%) 3PAR
9 16 (7.37%) Oracle
9 16 (7.37%) Palo Alto
10 15 (6.91%) Juniper
11 14 (6.45%) Avaya
12 13 (5.99%) CheckPoint
12 13 (5.99%) Extreme Networks
12 13 (5.99%) Symantec
13 7 (3.23%) Apple
13 7 (3.23%) Ivanti
13 7 (3.23%) Red Hat
14 6 (2.76%) Remedy