Windows Server Contract Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft Windows Server
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Windows Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 84 87
Rank change year-on-year -21 +3 +25
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 26 43 53
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.25% 2.05% 2.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.77% 15.64% 15.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 32 36
10th Percentile £244 £251 £286
25th Percentile £358 £460 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year - +0.48% +16.11%
75th Percentile £775 £603 £661
90th Percentile £825 £674 £677
London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% -5.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £112.00 -
London median hourly rate £21.46 £112.00 £28.68
% change year-on-year -80.84% +290.55% +14.71%

All Operating Systems
Central London

Windows Server falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 176 275 344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 8.49% 13.09% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 190 249
10th Percentile £189 £229 £184
25th Percentile £313 £363 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +7.89% -8.65%
75th Percentile £651 £625 £638
90th Percentile £772 £697 £725
London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 5
10th Percentile £19.26 £39.40 -
25th Percentile £19.85 £66.63 £18.93
Median hourly rate £22.27 £112.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -80.12% +397.78% +5.88%
75th Percentile £26.60 - £23.75
90th Percentile £28.34 - -
London median hourly rate £24.58 £28.41 £24.93
% change year-on-year -13.50% +13.97% -0.29%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Windows Server job vacancy trend in Central London

Windows Server
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Windows Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Central London over the 6 months to 4 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Central London

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Windows Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Windows Server

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 4 February 2026. 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 26 £525 +0.72% 8
Windows Server
London

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) Azure
2 8 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (11.54%) AWS
3 3 (11.54%) Entra ID
4 2 (7.69%) IaaS
4 2 (7.69%) OCI
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.85%) PaaS
5 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) DNS
2 4 (15.38%) Firewall
3 3 (11.54%) DHCP
4 1 (3.85%) Kerberos
4 1 (3.85%) MPLS
4 1 (3.85%) Softphone
4 1 (3.85%) SSH
4 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.85%) Unified Communications
4 1 (3.85%) VPN
4 1 (3.85%) VSAN
4 1 (3.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Hive
2 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.85%) Impala
2 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.85%) SonarQube
1 1 (3.85%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (34.62%) Finance
1 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Banking
3 3 (11.54%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Front Office
4 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.85%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (15.38%) Support Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) Architect
2 3 (11.54%) Lead
2 3 (11.54%) Programme Manager
3 2 (7.69%) CyberArk Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Desktop Support
3 2 (7.69%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (7.69%) Lead Architect
3 2 (7.69%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 2 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.85%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (3.85%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (3.85%) Middleware
2 1 (3.85%) Regular Expression
2 1 (3.85%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (15.38%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.85%) BYOD
4 1 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.85%) iPad
4 1 (3.85%) Market Risk
4 1 (3.85%) PACS
4 1 (3.85%) Reinsurance
4 1 (3.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (92.31%) Windows
2 6 (23.08%) Linux
3 3 (11.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.85%) Solaris
4 1 (3.85%) Unix
4 1 (3.85%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Migration
2 7 (26.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (19.23%) Change Control
3 5 (19.23%) ITIL
3 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (19.23%) Project Delivery
4 4 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (15.38%) DevOps
4 4 (15.38%) Resource Management
4 4 (15.38%) Server Migrations
5 3 (11.54%) Roadmaps
5 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (7.69%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (7.69%) Observability
6 2 (7.69%) RBAC
6 2 (7.69%) Server Management
6 2 (7.69%) SIEM
6 2 (7.69%) Technology Roadmap
6 2 (7.69%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) PowerShell
2 3 (11.54%) SQL
3 2 (7.69%) Bash
3 2 (7.69%) Python
4 1 (3.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Degree
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 2 (7.69%) CESG Certified Professional
3 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.85%) MCITP
4 1 (3.85%) MCSA
4 1 (3.85%) MCSE
4 1 (3.85%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (15.38%) QA
3 2 (7.69%) GDPR
3 2 (7.69%) NIST
3 2 (7.69%) NIST 800
4 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (3.85%) DICOM
4 1 (3.85%) HL7
4 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (46.15%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.85%) Docker
3 1 (3.85%) HDFS
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (11.54%) Ansible
2 3 (11.54%) SCCM
3 2 (7.69%) Terraform
4 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.85%) Kibana
4 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.85%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) Oracle
2 4 (15.38%) VMware
3 2 (7.69%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.85%) Datto
4 1 (3.85%) Dell
4 1 (3.85%) HP
4 1 (3.85%) Polycom
4 1 (3.85%) Qualys
4 1 (3.85%) Symantec
4 1 (3.85%) Tanium
4 1 (3.85%) Tenable
4 1 (3.85%) Veeam