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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 106 99
Rank change year-on-year +4 -7 -23
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 41 27 36
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.61% 1.32% 1.56%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.47% 10.71% 11.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 16 26
10th Percentile £199 £329 £363
25th Percentile £350 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £594
90th Percentile £668 £679 £648
London median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -16.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - -
75th Percentile £19.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £19.50 £30.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year -35.00% -61.29% +205.66%

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 222 252 313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 8.74% 12.35% 13.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 174 214
10th Percentile £180 £255 £215
25th Percentile £295 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -2.38% +1.00%
75th Percentile £638 £662 £638
90th Percentile £675 £723 £725
London median daily rate £475 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £19.28 £20.33 £23.90
25th Percentile £19.31 £22.53 £25.06
Median hourly rate £20.25 £26.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.12% -3.70% -46.00%
75th Percentile £21.81 £29.13 £28.19
90th Percentile £22.23 £29.80 £28.90
London median hourly rate £21.00 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year -16.50% +14.32% -47.52%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -4 34 £575 +15.00% 6
Kensington and Chelsea - 3 £150 -
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 8 (19.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.88%) Exchange Server 2013
2 2 (4.88%) IIS
2 2 (4.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (29.27%) Azure
2 8 (19.51%) AWS
3 5 (12.20%) GCP
3 5 (12.20%) OpenShift
4 3 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (7.32%) GitHub
4 3 (7.32%) IaaS
4 3 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (7.32%) PaaS
5 2 (4.88%) Azure AKS
5 2 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (43.90%) DNS
2 10 (24.39%) DHCP
3 8 (19.51%) Firewall
3 8 (19.51%) VPN
4 3 (7.32%) SMTP
4 3 (7.32%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.88%) DMZ
5 2 (4.88%) VLAN
5 2 (4.88%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (2.44%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (2.44%) LAN
6 1 (2.44%) SAN
6 1 (2.44%) Wireless
6 1 (2.44%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (36.59%) SQL Server
2 5 (12.20%) Oracle Database
3 3 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (7.32%) Big Data
3 3 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (7.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (4.88%) Power BI
5 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Jenkins
1 4 (9.76%) JIRA
2 2 (4.88%) Artifactory
2 2 (4.88%) Bitbucket
2 2 (4.88%) Git
2 2 (4.88%) GitLab
General
1 9 (21.95%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.76%) Banking
2 4 (9.76%) Finance
3 2 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.44%) Mandarin Language
4 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (29.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 12 (29.27%) Support Engineer
2 6 (14.63%) Infrastructure Support
2 6 (14.63%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) C# Developer
3 5 (12.20%) Developer
4 3 (7.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 3 (7.32%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (7.32%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Service Desk Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Active Directory Support
5 2 (4.88%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.51%) .NET
2 5 (12.20%) .NET Framework
3 2 (4.88%) 802.1X
3 2 (4.88%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (2.44%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.44%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Clustering
1 5 (12.20%) PKI
2 4 (9.76%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.88%) AI Agents
3 2 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.88%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.44%) BYOD
4 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.44%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.44%) Thin Client
4 1 (2.44%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 41 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (21.95%) Linux
3 5 (12.20%) Windows 7
4 4 (9.76%) VMS
4 4 (9.76%) Windows 10
4 4 (9.76%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (4.88%) Mac OS
5 2 (4.88%) OpenVMS
5 2 (4.88%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (4.88%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (36.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (19.51%) DevOps
2 8 (19.51%) ITIL
2 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (17.07%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (14.63%) AI
4 6 (14.63%) Problem Management
5 5 (12.20%) Data Analysis
5 5 (12.20%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (12.20%) Ticket Management
5 5 (12.20%) Unit Testing
6 4 (9.76%) Change Control
6 4 (9.76%) CI/CD
6 4 (9.76%) ITSM
6 4 (9.76%) Mentoring
6 4 (9.76%) Migration
7 3 (7.32%) Customer Experience
7 3 (7.32%) Incident Management
7 3 (7.32%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (7.32%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 13 (31.71%) PowerShell
2 9 (21.95%) SQL
3 7 (17.07%) C#
4 5 (12.20%) PL/SQL
4 5 (12.20%) T-SQL
5 4 (9.76%) Bash
5 4 (9.76%) Python
6 2 (4.88%) Java
7 1 (2.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (41.46%) Security Cleared
2 10 (24.39%) SC Cleared
3 6 (14.63%) DV Cleared
4 4 (9.76%) Degree
5 3 (7.32%) A+ Certification
6 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.44%) CCNA
7 1 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (2.44%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.07%) QA
2 6 (14.63%) SLA
3 2 (4.88%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.44%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 25 (60.98%) Active Directory
2 15 (36.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (24.39%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (12.20%) Docker
4 5 (12.20%) Hyper-V
5 4 (9.76%) vSphere
6 3 (7.32%) BitLocker
6 3 (7.32%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (7.32%) Terminal Services
7 2 (4.88%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (2.44%) Firmware
8 1 (2.44%) UAG
8 1 (2.44%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (2.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (19.51%) vCenter Server
2 7 (17.07%) Ansible
2 7 (17.07%) Kubernetes
3 5 (12.20%) Terraform
4 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (9.76%) SCCM
5 3 (7.32%) Nagios
5 3 (7.32%) Puppet
5 3 (7.32%) vMotion
6 2 (4.88%) FortiGate
6 2 (4.88%) Grafana
6 2 (4.88%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (4.88%) Nessus
6 2 (4.88%) NetBackup
6 2 (4.88%) WSUS
7 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (2.44%) SCOM
Vendors
1 20 (48.78%) VMware
2 19 (46.34%) Microsoft
3 11 (26.83%) Citrix
4 10 (24.39%) Oracle
5 6 (14.63%) ServiceNow
6 5 (12.20%) Google
7 4 (9.76%) Cisco
7 4 (9.76%) Dynatrace
8 3 (7.32%) HP
8 3 (7.32%) Symantec
9 2 (4.88%) EMC
9 2 (4.88%) ION Trading
9 2 (4.88%) Splunk
9 2 (4.88%) Tenable
9 2 (4.88%) Veeam
9 2 (4.88%) Veritas
9 2 (4.88%) Zscaler
10 1 (2.44%) BMC
10 1 (2.44%) Pure Storage
10 1 (2.44%) RedGate