Windows Server 2012 Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows Server 2012
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 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 233 238 232
Rank change year-on-year +5 -6 -9
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2012 155 237 321
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.76% 1.01% 1.05%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.80% 5.23% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 162 239
10th Percentile £190 £163 £158
25th Percentile £281 £286 £234
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% -5.88% +18.06%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £475
90th Percentile £608 £575 £538
UK median daily rate £400 £445 £425
% change year-on-year -10.11% +4.71% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 12
10th Percentile - £18.38 £16.63
25th Percentile - £20.75 -
Median hourly rate - £36.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +83.75% -9.09%
75th Percentile - £49.69 £28.41
90th Percentile - £65.69 £38.84
UK median hourly rate - £24.32 £20.50
% change year-on-year - +18.61% -41.01%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,231 4,532 5,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.74% 19.28% 19.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,147 3,149 3,853
10th Percentile £175 £163 £150
25th Percentile £256 £250 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £675 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £468 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -8.24% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 336 459
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.58
25th Percentile £14.27 £17.29 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £29.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +46.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £61.90 £60.64 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.49 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -42.86% +71.11% +26.76%

Windows Server 2012
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Windows Server 2012 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2012 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2012
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2012 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2012 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2012
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2012 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2012 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2012
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2012 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2012 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2012
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding 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
South East +49 84 £575 +19.79% 24
North of England +3 22 £328 -15.48% 20
Midlands +19 18 £225 -40.00% 11
South West -22 18 £538 +19.44% 16
North West +8 14 £290 -38.95% 8
West Midlands +22 13 £225 -40.00% 9
Scotland +17 9 £325 +18.18%
Yorkshire +19 8 £400 +14.12% 10
Wales +19 3 £365 -22.34% 1
East Midlands +7 3 £210 -44.00% 2
East of England -12 2 £388 +3.33% 10
Windows Server 2012
UK

Windows Server 2012
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 28 (18.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (10.32%) Confluence
3 11 (7.10%) SharePoint
4 9 (5.81%) IIS
5 3 (1.94%) nginx
6 2 (1.29%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.65%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.65%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.65%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.65%) WebSphere
Applications
1 18 (11.61%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.94%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.65%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 44 (28.39%) Microsoft 365
2 41 (26.45%) Azure
3 15 (9.68%) OCI
4 5 (3.23%) AWS
5 4 (2.58%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.29%) IaaS
6 2 (1.29%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.65%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.65%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.65%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.65%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.65%) Azure Stack
7 1 (0.65%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.65%) GitHub
7 1 (0.65%) PaaS
7 1 (0.65%) Serverless
7 1 (0.65%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 66 (42.58%) DNS
2 51 (32.90%) DHCP
3 42 (27.10%) Firewall
4 25 (16.13%) SAN
5 13 (8.39%) WAN
6 12 (7.74%) VLAN
7 10 (6.45%) LAN
7 10 (6.45%) TCP/IP
7 10 (6.45%) VPN
8 7 (4.52%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (3.87%) VoIP
10 4 (2.58%) Ethernet
10 4 (2.58%) Skype
10 4 (2.58%) Wireless
11 3 (1.94%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (1.94%) Unified Communications
12 2 (1.29%) NAS
12 2 (1.29%) NetScaler
12 2 (1.29%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (1.29%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.45%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.94%) MySQL
3 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.65%) Redis
3 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (13.55%) JIRA
2 1 (0.65%) Hudson
2 1 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 74 (47.74%) Social Skills
2 23 (14.84%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (9.68%) Military
4 7 (4.52%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (3.87%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.94%) Finance
6 3 (1.94%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.94%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.65%) Back Office
8 1 (0.65%) Electronics
8 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.65%) Law
8 1 (0.65%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 41 (26.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 26 (16.77%) Windows Engineer
3 25 (16.13%) Integration Engineer
4 22 (14.19%) Support Engineer
5 20 (12.90%) Build Engineer
5 20 (12.90%) Windows Build Engineer
6 15 (9.68%) Test and Integration Engineer
6 15 (9.68%) Test Engineer
7 12 (7.74%) 2nd Line Support
8 10 (6.45%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 10 (6.45%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 10 (6.45%) Storage Engineer
9 9 (5.81%) Architect
10 8 (5.16%) 1st/2nd Line Support
10 8 (5.16%) Server Engineer
11 7 (4.52%) 3rd Line Support
11 7 (4.52%) Infrastructure Technician
12 6 (3.87%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
12 6 (3.87%) Analyst
12 6 (3.87%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.94%) EDI
2 2 (1.29%) ADSI
3 1 (0.65%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.55%) Data Centre
2 20 (12.90%) PKI
3 10 (6.45%) NHS
4 9 (5.81%) Clustering
5 7 (4.52%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.94%) CCTV
6 3 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.94%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (1.94%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.29%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.65%) CMDB
8 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.65%) Freedom of Information Act
8 1 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.65%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.65%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.65%) Replication
8 1 (0.65%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 155 (100.00%) Windows
2 138 (89.03%) Windows Server
3 72 (46.45%) Windows 10
4 67 (43.23%) Windows Server 2016
5 65 (41.94%) Windows Server 2019
6 29 (18.71%) Linux
7 21 (13.55%) Windows Server 2008
8 20 (12.90%) Windows NT
9 14 (9.03%) Windows XP
10 10 (6.45%) Windows 7
11 9 (5.81%) Mac OS
12 7 (4.52%) CentOS
13 6 (3.87%) Debian
13 6 (3.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 3 (1.94%) Android
14 3 (1.94%) Ubuntu
15 2 (1.29%) VMS
15 2 (1.29%) Windows Server 2003
16 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (34.19%) ITIL
2 49 (31.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 31 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (16.77%) Customer Service
5 25 (16.13%) Deployment Automation
6 23 (14.84%) Release Management
6 23 (14.84%) Service Management
7 21 (13.55%) Project Management
8 20 (12.90%) Agile
8 20 (12.90%) User Acceptance Testing
9 19 (12.26%) Disaster Recovery
10 18 (11.61%) Migration
11 17 (10.97%) Critical Thinking
12 16 (10.32%) Proactive Monitoring
12 16 (10.32%) Server Management
13 15 (9.68%) Performance Tuning
13 15 (9.68%) Regression Testing
13 15 (9.68%) Test Scripting
14 14 (9.03%) Converged Infrastructure
14 14 (9.03%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 45 (29.03%) PowerShell
2 30 (19.35%) SQL
3 3 (1.94%) Shell Script
4 2 (1.29%) Python
5 1 (0.65%) Bicep
5 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (46.45%) Security Cleared
2 40 (25.81%) DV Cleared
3 35 (22.58%) SC Cleared
4 32 (20.65%) Degree
5 27 (17.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (15.48%) MCSE
7 21 (13.55%) MCSA
8 20 (12.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 18 (11.61%) CCNA
9 18 (11.61%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (9.68%) CCNP
11 6 (3.87%) RHCT
12 3 (1.94%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.90%) QA
2 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 126 (81.29%) Active Directory
2 77 (49.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (22.58%) Hyper-V
4 25 (16.13%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (12.90%) Firmware
6 13 (8.39%) XenApp
7 6 (3.87%) KVM
8 5 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (3.23%) vSphere
8 5 (3.23%) XenDesktop
9 3 (1.94%) BitLocker
9 3 (1.94%) VMware NSX
10 2 (1.29%) Terminal Services
10 2 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.65%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.65%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 59 (38.06%) SCCM
2 50 (32.26%) WSUS
3 20 (12.90%) Sysprep
4 19 (12.26%) vCenter Server
5 17 (10.97%) NetBackup
6 16 (10.32%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (10.32%) SCOM
7 14 (9.03%) EMC NetWorker
8 10 (6.45%) Autotask
9 6 (3.87%) Failover Clustering
9 6 (3.87%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (2.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (1.94%) PaperCut
12 2 (1.29%) Nessus
12 2 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.29%) VxRail
13 1 (0.65%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.65%) vRealize
Vendors
1 109 (70.32%) Microsoft
2 95 (61.29%) VMware
3 28 (18.06%) Cisco
4 26 (16.77%) Veeam
5 21 (13.55%) HP
6 19 (12.26%) Citrix
7 18 (11.61%) EMC
8 17 (10.97%) 3PAR
9 16 (10.32%) Dell
9 16 (10.32%) Oracle
10 15 (9.68%) Palo Alto
11 14 (9.03%) Extreme Networks
11 14 (9.03%) Juniper
11 14 (9.03%) Symantec
12 13 (8.39%) Red Hat
13 8 (5.16%) Ivanti
14 7 (4.52%) Apple
15 6 (3.87%) Datto
15 6 (3.87%) Nimble Storage
16 5 (3.23%) NetApp