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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 85 90
Rank change year-on-year -30 +5 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 26 41 43
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.99% 2.13% 1.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.13% 16.08% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 28 36
10th Percentile £235 £341 £350
25th Percentile £380 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £555
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -0.90% +10.34%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £652
90th Percentile £668 £729 £675
London median daily rate £488 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -13.88%
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 - £20.93
% change year-on-year - - -16.29%

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 184 255 318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 7.04% 13.25% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 185 227
10th Percentile £186 £243 £213
25th Percentile £250 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +3.50% -3.85%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £651
90th Percentile £668 £711 £725
London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - £22.00 £21.25
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.13 £21.69
Median hourly rate £19.50 £26.50 £24.63
Median % change year-on-year -26.42% +7.61% -29.64%
75th Percentile £19.75 £69.56 £27.00
90th Percentile - £140.33 £28.19
London median hourly rate £39.75 £24.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +65.63% +9.09% -54.87%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -17 25 £600 +9.09% 7
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 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.69%) IIS
2 2 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) Azure
2 6 (23.08%) AWS
3 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (11.54%) GCP
4 3 (11.54%) IaaS
4 3 (11.54%) OpenShift
4 3 (11.54%) PaaS
5 2 (7.69%) Azure AKS
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (7.69%) GitHub
5 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (38.46%) DNS
2 9 (34.62%) DHCP
3 5 (19.23%) Firewall
3 5 (19.23%) VPN
4 3 (11.54%) SMTP
5 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
6 1 (3.85%) DMZ
6 1 (3.85%) Unified Communications
6 1 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (46.15%) SQL Server
2 5 (19.23%) Oracle Database
3 3 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (11.54%) Big Data
3 3 (11.54%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Banking
3 2 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.85%) International Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Mandarin Language
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (30.77%) Support Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) C# Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Support
3 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 3 (11.54%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (11.54%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Active Directory Support
5 2 (7.69%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (3.85%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) .NET
2 5 (19.23%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.85%) .NET Core
3 1 (3.85%) 802.1X
3 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.85%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) PKI
2 4 (15.38%) Clustering
3 3 (11.54%) Data Centre
4 2 (7.69%) BYOD
4 2 (7.69%) Virtual Team
5 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.85%) Fat Client
5 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.85%) Thin Client
5 1 (3.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 26 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (15.38%) Linux
3 2 (7.69%) Mac OS
3 2 (7.69%) Windows 10
3 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (3.85%) VMS
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (26.92%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (19.23%) Data Analysis
3 5 (19.23%) Unit Testing
4 4 (15.38%) AI
4 4 (15.38%) DevOps
4 4 (15.38%) Migration
5 3 (11.54%) High Availability
5 3 (11.54%) Machine Learning
5 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (11.54%) Runbook
5 3 (11.54%) Software Deployment
6 2 (7.69%) Change Control
6 2 (7.69%) Change Management
6 2 (7.69%) CI/CD
6 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (7.69%) ITIL
6 2 (7.69%) Roadmaps
6 2 (7.69%) Server Migrations
6 2 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) PowerShell
2 7 (26.92%) C#
3 6 (23.08%) SQL
4 5 (19.23%) PL/SQL
4 5 (19.23%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.85%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 5 (19.23%) Degree
3 4 (15.38%) DV Cleared
4 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
5 2 (7.69%) MCSE
6 1 (3.85%) CCNA
6 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.85%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.85%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 17 (65.38%) Active Directory
2 9 (34.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (23.08%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (15.38%) Hyper-V
5 3 (11.54%) BitLocker
5 3 (11.54%) Docker
5 3 (11.54%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (11.54%) Terminal Services
6 2 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (7.69%) vSphere
7 1 (3.85%) Firmware
7 1 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
1 5 (19.23%) vCenter Server
2 4 (15.38%) Ansible
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (11.54%) Nagios
3 3 (11.54%) Puppet
3 3 (11.54%) SCCM
3 3 (11.54%) vMotion
4 2 (7.69%) Terraform
5 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (3.85%) FortiGate
5 1 (3.85%) Nessus
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) VMware
2 11 (42.31%) Microsoft
3 10 (38.46%) Citrix
4 6 (23.08%) Oracle
5 3 (11.54%) Cisco
5 3 (11.54%) Google
5 3 (11.54%) HP
5 3 (11.54%) Symantec
6 1 (3.85%) EMC
6 1 (3.85%) RedGate
6 1 (3.85%) Tenable
6 1 (3.85%) Zscaler