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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 321 420
Rank change year-on-year -7 +99 -81
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2012 219 368 417
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.59% 0.74% 0.59%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.35% 4.47% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 277 314
10th Percentile £199 £204 £163
25th Percentile £281 £350 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +5.88% +8.97%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £500
90th Percentile £608 £680 £588
UK median daily rate £405 £440 £425
% change year-on-year -7.95% +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% -41.84%
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% -40.43%

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 5,039 8,230 11,208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.67% 16.46% 15.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,443 5,843 7,667
10th Percentile £183 £195 £173
25th Percentile £294 £326 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.27% +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 368 391 560
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.96 £13.38
25th Percentile £15.23 £17.72 £15.78
Median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.33% +70.45% +22.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.08 £39.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -43.40% +73.33% +25.80%

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 4 May 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 4 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
South East +61 86 £575 +19.79% 23
London +24 69 £380 -16.46% 14
North of England 0 22 £328 -15.48% 16
South West -20 20 £470 +4.44% 13
Midlands +16 18 £225 -40.00% 12
North West +3 14 £290 -38.95% 8
West Midlands +20 13 £225 -37.97% 9
Yorkshire +13 8 £400 +14.12% 7
East Midlands +11 3 £210 -44.00% 3
East of England -7 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 74 (33.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (12.33%) Exchange Server 2010
3 25 (11.42%) Exchange Server 2013
4 16 (7.31%) Confluence
5 14 (6.39%) SharePoint
6 11 (5.02%) Exchange Server 2007
6 11 (5.02%) Skype for Business
7 10 (4.57%) Exchange Server 2003
8 5 (2.28%) IIS
9 3 (1.37%) nginx
10 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (10.05%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.91%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.37%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.91%) Remedy AR System
2 2 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 75 (34.25%) Microsoft 365
2 63 (28.77%) Azure
3 15 (6.85%) OCI
4 13 (5.94%) Entra ID
5 7 (3.20%) AWS
5 7 (3.20%) IaaS
6 5 (2.28%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (1.83%) PaaS
8 3 (1.37%) Azure Storage
8 3 (1.37%) GitHub
8 3 (1.37%) SaaS
9 2 (0.91%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.91%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.91%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (0.91%) Route 53
9 2 (0.91%) 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 (39.27%) DNS
2 58 (26.48%) Firewall
3 56 (25.57%) DHCP
4 40 (18.26%) SAN
5 15 (6.85%) Skype
5 15 (6.85%) WAN
6 12 (5.48%) LAN
6 12 (5.48%) VPN
7 10 (4.57%) TCP/IP
8 9 (4.11%) VLAN
9 8 (3.65%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (3.20%) Wireless
11 6 (2.74%) VoIP
12 5 (2.28%) NAS
13 4 (1.83%) Ethernet
14 3 (1.37%) Cisco IOS
14 3 (1.37%) Unified Communications
14 3 (1.37%) WLAN
15 2 (0.91%) NetScaler
15 2 (0.91%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.13%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.37%) MySQL
3 2 (0.91%) 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 23 (10.50%) JIRA
2 3 (1.37%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (0.91%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.46%) Hudson
4 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 91 (41.55%) Social Skills
2 35 (15.98%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (10.50%) Public Sector
4 20 (9.13%) Finance
5 15 (6.85%) Military
6 12 (5.48%) Banking
7 7 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.37%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.37%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.91%) 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 43 (19.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 33 (15.07%) Support Engineer
3 30 (13.70%) Windows Engineer
4 26 (11.87%) Integration Engineer
5 21 (9.59%) Build Engineer
5 21 (9.59%) Windows Build Engineer
6 15 (6.85%) Administrator
6 15 (6.85%) Systems Administrator
6 15 (6.85%) Test and Integration Engineer
6 15 (6.85%) Test Engineer
7 13 (5.94%) 2nd Line Support
8 11 (5.02%) Server Engineer
9 10 (4.57%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 10 (4.57%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 10 (4.57%) Analyst
9 10 (4.57%) Storage Engineer
10 9 (4.11%) 1st/2nd Line Support
10 9 (4.11%) Architect
11 8 (3.65%) Support Analyst
11 8 (3.65%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.37%) EDI
2 2 (0.91%) ADSI
2 2 (0.91%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.46%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.50%) PKI
2 17 (7.76%) Data Centre
3 14 (6.39%) Clustering
3 14 (6.39%) Video Conferencing
4 10 (4.57%) NHS
5 7 (3.20%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.83%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.37%) CCTV
8 3 (1.37%) CMDB
8 3 (1.37%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (1.37%) Fat Client
8 3 (1.37%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.37%) Thin Client
9 2 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.46%) Freedom of Information
10 1 (0.46%) Freedom of Information Act
10 1 (0.46%) LIMS
10 1 (0.46%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 219 (100.00%) Windows
2 183 (83.56%) Windows Server
3 90 (41.10%) Windows Server 2016
4 78 (35.62%) Windows 10
5 77 (35.16%) Windows Server 2019
6 44 (20.09%) Windows Server 2008
7 30 (13.70%) Linux
8 25 (11.42%) Windows 7
9 21 (9.59%) Windows NT
10 15 (6.85%) Windows Server 2003
11 14 (6.39%) Windows XP
12 9 (4.11%) Mac OS
13 6 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 5 (2.28%) Ubuntu
15 4 (1.83%) VMS
16 3 (1.37%) Android
17 2 (0.91%) CentOS
17 2 (0.91%) OpenVMS
18 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
18 1 (0.46%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (25.57%) ITIL
2 55 (25.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 42 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (16.44%) Customer Service
5 32 (14.61%) Disaster Recovery
6 29 (13.24%) Migration
7 26 (11.87%) Deployment Automation
7 26 (11.87%) Release Management
8 24 (10.96%) Service Management
9 21 (9.59%) Agile
9 21 (9.59%) Project Management
9 21 (9.59%) User Acceptance Testing
10 18 (8.22%) Server Management
10 18 (8.22%) Storage Management
11 16 (7.31%) Critical Thinking
12 15 (6.85%) Performance Tuning
12 15 (6.85%) Proactive Monitoring
12 15 (6.85%) Regression Testing
12 15 (6.85%) Test Scripting
13 14 (6.39%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 62 (28.31%) PowerShell
2 47 (21.46%) SQL
3 3 (1.37%) Shell Script
4 2 (0.91%) Python
5 1 (0.46%) Bicep
5 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 101 (46.12%) Security Cleared
2 50 (22.83%) DV Cleared
3 43 (19.63%) SC Cleared
4 38 (17.35%) Degree
5 20 (9.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 20 (9.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 18 (8.22%) CCNA
6 18 (8.22%) Cisco Certification
7 17 (7.76%) MCSE
8 15 (6.85%) CCNP
8 15 (6.85%) MCSA
9 5 (2.28%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.59%) QA
2 3 (1.37%) SLA
3 2 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.91%) NIST
3 2 (0.91%) 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
1 181 (82.65%) Active Directory
2 93 (42.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (17.35%) Hyper-V
4 23 (10.50%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (9.59%) Firmware
6 14 (6.39%) XenApp
7 10 (4.57%) vSphere
8 6 (2.74%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (2.74%) VMware NSX
8 6 (2.74%) XenDesktop
9 5 (2.28%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (1.37%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.91%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.91%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.46%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.46%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 84 (38.36%) SCCM
2 53 (24.20%) WSUS
3 21 (9.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 21 (9.59%) Sysprep
4 19 (8.68%) vCenter Server
5 18 (8.22%) NetBackup
5 18 (8.22%) SCOM
6 14 (6.39%) EMC NetWorker
7 10 (4.57%) Autotask
8 9 (4.11%) Failover Clustering
9 8 (3.65%) Microsoft Clustering
10 7 (3.20%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (2.74%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (2.28%) Terraform
13 4 (1.83%) Ansible
14 3 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (1.37%) FortiGate
14 3 (1.37%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 3 (1.37%) PaperCut
15 2 (0.91%) VxRail
Vendors
1 127 (57.99%) Microsoft
2 111 (50.68%) VMware
3 43 (19.63%) Cisco
4 36 (16.44%) HP
5 34 (15.53%) Veeam
6 29 (13.24%) EMC
7 28 (12.79%) Citrix
8 18 (8.22%) Dell
9 17 (7.76%) 3PAR
9 17 (7.76%) Oracle
9 17 (7.76%) Palo Alto
10 16 (7.31%) Juniper
11 14 (6.39%) Extreme Networks
11 14 (6.39%) Symantec
12 13 (5.94%) Avaya
13 12 (5.48%) CheckPoint
14 8 (3.65%) Ivanti
15 7 (3.20%) Apple
15 7 (3.20%) Red Hat
16 6 (2.74%) Remedy