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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 96 79
Rank change year-on-year -4 -17 +43
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 30 40 73
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.54% 1.66% 2.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.64% 13.51% 17.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 28 47
10th Percentile £252 £241 £287
25th Percentile £382 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +9.47%
75th Percentile £700 £575 £594
90th Percentile £825 £617 £665
London median daily rate £500 £475 £511
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.05% +3.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - £112.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - +397.78% +9.76%
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £22.23 £112.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -80.15% +244.62% +30.00%

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 220 296 428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.28% 12.27% 14.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 201 306
10th Percentile £200 £205 £185
25th Percentile £340 £350 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +4.17% -4.95%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £604
90th Percentile £775 £710 £700
London median daily rate £493 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £20.35 £44.00 -
25th Percentile £22.56 £69.50 -
Median hourly rate £27.50 £112.00 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -75.45% +491.65% -7.66%
75th Percentile £29.13 - £21.34
90th Percentile £29.35 - £22.79
London median hourly rate £25.15 £46.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year -45.62% +42.31% +30.00%

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025. 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 -10 26 £525 +5.00% 17
City of Westminster - 3 - -
West End of London +10 1 - -
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 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 16 (53.33%) Azure
2 13 (43.33%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (20.00%) AWS
4 4 (13.33%) Entra ID
5 3 (10.00%) IaaS
6 2 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (6.67%) PaaS
6 2 (6.67%) SaaS
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.33%) GCP
7 1 (3.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (30.00%) Firewall
2 5 (16.67%) DNS
3 3 (10.00%) DHCP
4 2 (6.67%) Softphone
4 2 (6.67%) Wireless
5 1 (3.33%) Kerberos
5 1 (3.33%) LAN
5 1 (3.33%) MPLS
5 1 (3.33%) SSH
5 1 (3.33%) VPN
5 1 (3.33%) VSAN
5 1 (3.33%) WAN
5 1 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Hive
2 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.33%) Impala
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
1 1 (3.33%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (26.67%) Finance
1 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Telecoms
3 3 (10.00%) Banking
3 3 (10.00%) Japanese Language
4 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 4 (13.33%) Lead
1 4 (13.33%) Support Engineer
2 3 (10.00%) Architect
2 3 (10.00%) Programme Manager
3 2 (6.67%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Desktop Support
3 2 (6.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (6.67%) Lead Architect
3 2 (6.67%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 2 (6.67%) Service Manager
3 2 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Team Leader
4 1 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (3.33%) Middleware
1 1 (3.33%) Regular Expression
1 1 (3.33%) REST
1 1 (3.33%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.67%) iPad
3 2 (6.67%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.33%) Fat Client
4 1 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.33%) Market Risk
4 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.33%) Reinsurance
4 1 (3.33%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 28 (93.33%) Windows
2 7 (23.33%) Linux
3 2 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.33%) Solaris
4 1 (3.33%) Unix
4 1 (3.33%) Windows 7
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Migration
2 8 (26.67%) ITIL
3 7 (23.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 5 (16.67%) Change Control
5 5 (16.67%) Service Delivery
6 4 (13.33%) Resource Management
6 4 (13.33%) Server Migrations
7 3 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (10.00%) Server Management
8 2 (6.67%) Agile
8 2 (6.67%) Change Management
8 2 (6.67%) Risk Management
8 2 (6.67%) Service Management
8 2 (6.67%) Software Engineering
8 2 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (6.67%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.67%) Bash
2 2 (6.67%) Python
2 2 (6.67%) SQL
3 1 (3.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (10.00%) Degree
2 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (6.67%) MCITP
4 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.33%) CESG Certified Professional
4 1 (3.33%) MCSA
4 1 (3.33%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (13.33%) QA
3 2 (6.67%) GDPR
3 2 (6.67%) SLA
4 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (3.33%) NIST
4 1 (3.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 17 (56.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.33%) Docker
4 1 (3.33%) HDFS
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (3.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (10.00%) Ansible
2 3 (10.00%) SCCM
3 2 (6.67%) SCOM
3 2 (6.67%) Terraform
4 1 (3.33%) Kibana
4 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.00%) VMware
3 3 (10.00%) Oracle
4 2 (6.67%) HP
4 2 (6.67%) Polycom
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco
5 1 (3.33%) Citrix
5 1 (3.33%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.33%) Datto
5 1 (3.33%) Dell
5 1 (3.33%) Infoblox
5 1 (3.33%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.33%) Qualys
5 1 (3.33%) Symantec
5 1 (3.33%) Tanium
5 1 (3.33%) Tenable
5 1 (3.33%) Veeam