Windows Server Contracts in London

Microsoft Windows Server
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 124 138 169
Rank change year-on-year +14 +31 +6
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 344 521 685
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.94% 1.92% 1.76%
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.32% 13.48% 12.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 391 529
10th Percentile £252 £231 £262
25th Percentile £350 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £589 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £663
England median daily rate £464 £500 £429
% change year-on-year -7.25% +16.69% +7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 15 14
10th Percentile - £22.63 £17.45
25th Percentile £16.00 £23.88 £20.25
Median hourly rate £24.86 £25.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.58% +11.11% -55.00%
75th Percentile £33.75 £34.00 £46.42
90th Percentile £48.00 £50.50 £61.82
England median hourly rate £38.50 £29.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +29.85% +31.78% -10.00%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,108 3,864 5,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.90% 14.27% 13.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,499 2,838 3,882
10th Percentile £200 £213 £225
25th Percentile £325 £400 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £628 £675 £669
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
England median daily rate £463 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 63 107
10th Percentile £15.40 £16.69 £16.08
25th Percentile £18.93 £22.63 £21.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £37.34 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.08% +52.41% -42.69%
75th Percentile £33.31 £64.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.80 £74.70
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -41.33% +74.42% +19.44%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in London

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in London

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in London

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in London

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Server in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows Server in London

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London +2 43 £550 +11.11% 16
East London +6 13 £440 +25.71% 10
West London +14 7 - - 4
South London +13 5 £190 -15.56% 5
North London 0 2 £250 +5.26%
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 67 (19.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (7.56%) Exchange Server 2013
3 25 (7.27%) Exchange Server 2010
4 18 (5.23%) SharePoint
5 15 (4.36%) IIS
6 11 (3.20%) Confluence
7 10 (2.91%) Exchange Server 2007
8 9 (2.62%) Exchange Server 2003
8 9 (2.62%) Skype for Business
9 5 (1.45%) Apache
9 5 (1.45%) JBoss
9 5 (1.45%) nginx
9 5 (1.45%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.58%) IBM Domino
10 2 (0.58%) IBM Notes
11 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (5.81%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.45%) Remedy ITSM
1 5 (1.45%) Temenos T24
2 2 (0.58%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.29%) Eikon
3 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.29%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 130 (37.79%) Azure
2 107 (31.10%) Microsoft 365
3 69 (20.06%) AWS
4 53 (15.41%) Entra ID
5 29 (8.43%) IaaS
6 19 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (5.52%) GCP
7 14 (4.07%) Cloud Computing
7 14 (4.07%) PaaS
8 11 (3.20%) OneDrive
8 11 (3.20%) SaaS
9 10 (2.91%) Nutanix
10 9 (2.62%) GitHub
10 9 (2.62%) Rubrik
11 7 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (2.03%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (2.03%) Mimecast
12 6 (1.74%) Azure AKS
13 5 (1.45%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 96 (27.91%) DNS
2 75 (21.80%) Firewall
3 40 (11.63%) DHCP
4 28 (8.14%) WAN
5 26 (7.56%) LAN
6 25 (7.27%) SAN
6 25 (7.27%) VPN
7 23 (6.69%) NAS
8 22 (6.40%) TCP/IP
9 14 (4.07%) VLAN
10 13 (3.78%) MPLS
11 10 (2.91%) Kerberos
11 10 (2.91%) Skype
12 9 (2.62%) BGP
13 8 (2.33%) Network Security
13 8 (2.33%) Wireless
14 7 (2.03%) OSPF
15 4 (1.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 4 (1.16%) iSCSI
15 4 (1.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (19.19%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (2.62%) MySQL
3 7 (2.03%) RDBMS
3 7 (2.03%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.58%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.58%) Looker
7 2 (0.58%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.29%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.29%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.29%) Metadata
8 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.29%) Power BI
8 1 (0.29%) Redis
8 1 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (8.43%) Jenkins
2 21 (6.10%) Git
3 18 (5.23%) JIRA
4 12 (3.49%) Subversion
5 11 (3.20%) TeamCity
6 9 (2.62%) Artifactory
6 9 (2.62%) GitLab
7 4 (1.16%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.29%) AppScan
9 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.29%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.29%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.29%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 70 (20.35%) Finance
1 70 (20.35%) Social Skills
2 45 (13.08%) Public Sector
3 27 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (4.07%) Mandarin Language
5 11 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (2.62%) Banking
7 8 (2.33%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.03%) Front Office
9 5 (1.45%) French Language
9 5 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.16%) Legal
11 3 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.87%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.87%) Law
11 3 (0.87%) Marketing
11 3 (0.87%) Multimedia
11 3 (0.87%) Retail
12 2 (0.58%) Police
Job Titles
1 73 (21.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 36 (10.47%) Senior
3 33 (9.59%) Analyst
4 30 (8.72%) Administrator
5 29 (8.43%) Support Engineer
6 23 (6.69%) Azure Engineer
7 21 (6.10%) Windows Engineer
7 21 (6.10%) Wintel Engineer
8 19 (5.52%) IT Engineer
9 18 (5.23%) Systems Administrator
10 16 (4.65%) Senior Analyst
11 15 (4.36%) Cloud Engineer
12 14 (4.07%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (3.78%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (3.78%) Desktop Support
14 12 (3.49%) Infrastructure Specialist
15 11 (3.20%) IT Analyst
15 11 (3.20%) Senior Systems Analyst
15 11 (3.20%) Systems Analyst
15 11 (3.20%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.69%) .NET
2 15 (4.36%) LDAP
2 15 (4.36%) Middleware
3 7 (2.03%) ASP.NET
4 5 (1.45%) CSS
4 5 (1.45%) IBM Integration Bus
4 5 (1.45%) YAML
5 4 (1.16%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (1.16%) HTML
5 4 (1.16%) HTML5
6 3 (0.87%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.58%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.58%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (0.58%) SAML
8 1 (0.29%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.29%) Node.js
8 1 (0.29%) REST
8 1 (0.29%) WinForms
8 1 (0.29%) WPF
8 1 (0.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.59%) Replication
2 24 (6.98%) Data Centre
3 15 (4.36%) Management Information System
3 15 (4.36%) PKI
4 14 (4.07%) Video Conferencing
5 10 (2.91%) Clustering
6 7 (2.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 7 (2.03%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.74%) CCTV
7 6 (1.74%) NHS
7 6 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.45%) Smartphone
9 4 (1.16%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.16%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 3 (0.87%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.87%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 341 (99.13%) Windows
2 64 (18.60%) Linux
3 51 (14.83%) Windows Server 2012
4 48 (13.95%) Windows 10
5 40 (11.63%) Windows Server 2016
6 39 (11.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 30 (8.72%) Windows Server 2008
8 20 (5.81%) Windows 7
9 19 (5.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (4.07%) Unix
11 11 (3.20%) VMS
12 10 (2.91%) Windows Server 2003
13 9 (2.62%) Mac OS
13 9 (2.62%) Oracle Linux
14 8 (2.33%) Solaris
15 6 (1.74%) CentOS
16 5 (1.45%) Ubuntu
17 2 (0.58%) OpenVMS
18 1 (0.29%) Android
18 1 (0.29%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (26.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 65 (18.90%) Migration
3 62 (18.02%) DevOps
4 50 (14.53%) ITIL
5 37 (10.76%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (10.47%) Disaster Recovery
7 29 (8.43%) Customer Service
8 28 (8.14%) Vulnerability Management
9 25 (7.27%) Agile
10 23 (6.69%) High Availability
10 23 (6.69%) Infrastructure as Code
10 23 (6.69%) Time Management
11 22 (6.40%) Server Management
12 19 (5.52%) CI/CD
13 18 (5.23%) Configuration Management
14 16 (4.65%) Analytics
14 16 (4.65%) Cybersecurity
14 16 (4.65%) Project Delivery
14 16 (4.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 16 (4.65%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 108 (31.40%) PowerShell
2 54 (15.70%) Python
3 50 (14.53%) SQL
4 27 (7.85%) Bash
5 16 (4.65%) C#
6 11 (3.20%) Java
7 10 (2.91%) Shell Script
8 9 (2.62%) C++
9 6 (1.74%) Ruby
9 6 (1.74%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.74%) VB
10 4 (1.16%) Bicep
10 4 (1.16%) Korn
10 4 (1.16%) Perl
10 4 (1.16%) PHP
11 3 (0.87%) F#
11 3 (0.87%) VBA
12 1 (0.29%) C
12 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 75 (21.80%) Security Cleared
2 38 (11.05%) DV Cleared
3 32 (9.30%) SC Cleared
4 27 (7.85%) Degree
5 17 (4.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.03%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.16%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.16%) MCSA
9 3 (0.87%) CCNA
9 3 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.87%) MCSE
10 2 (0.58%) CCNP
10 2 (0.58%) MCITP
10 2 (0.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.29%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.29%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.65%) SLA
2 11 (3.20%) GDPR
3 9 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.33%) QA
4 8 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.87%) NIST
6 2 (0.58%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 197 (57.27%) Active Directory
2 71 (20.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (6.40%) Hyper-V
4 21 (6.10%) Docker
5 19 (5.52%) vSphere
6 12 (3.49%) VMware NSX
7 10 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (2.91%) Virtual Servers
8 6 (1.74%) Firmware
9 5 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.87%) KVM
10 3 (0.87%) NFS
11 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.29%) vCloud
11 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.29%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 54 (15.70%) SCCM
2 34 (9.88%) Ansible
3 28 (8.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 27 (7.85%) Terraform
5 24 (6.98%) Kubernetes
6 23 (6.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 14 (4.07%) SCOM
8 11 (3.20%) Puppet
9 9 (2.62%) BladeLogic
9 9 (2.62%) ITRS Geneos
10 8 (2.33%) EMC NetWorker
10 8 (2.33%) Netcool
10 8 (2.33%) Prometheus
10 8 (2.33%) Tivoli
10 8 (2.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 7 (2.03%) WSUS
12 6 (1.74%) Grafana
12 6 (1.74%) Progress Chef
13 5 (1.45%) Kibana
13 5 (1.45%) Nagios
Vendors
1 132 (38.37%) Microsoft
2 120 (34.88%) VMware
3 44 (12.79%) Citrix
4 37 (10.76%) Veeam
5 26 (7.56%) Cisco
6 23 (6.69%) Dell
7 21 (6.10%) ServiceNow
8 20 (5.81%) HP
9 19 (5.52%) Oracle
9 19 (5.52%) Qualys
9 19 (5.52%) Red Hat
10 16 (4.65%) Splunk
11 15 (4.36%) IBM
12 13 (3.78%) CA
13 12 (3.49%) Dynatrace
14 10 (2.91%) EMC
14 10 (2.91%) TOWER Software
15 9 (2.62%) Altiris
15 9 (2.62%) CyberArk
15 9 (2.62%) Google