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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 104 97
Rank change year-on-year -7 -7 -17
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 44 23 33
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.78% 1.18% 1.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.64% 10.22% 10.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 15 23
10th Percentile £208 £312 £355
25th Percentile £350 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £624 £588
90th Percentile £668 £633 £648
London median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -18.18%
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 £54.75 £30.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year +82.50% -61.29% +201.44%

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 236 225 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.55% 11.56% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 161 199
10th Percentile £177 £250 £250
25th Percentile £290 £325 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £496 £523
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% -5.17% +4.50%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £638
90th Percentile £685 £696 £728
London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.14% -0.90% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £19.30 £20.33 £23.90
25th Percentile £19.38 £22.53 £25.06
Median hourly rate £21.00 £26.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -3.70% -25.52%
75th Percentile £23.25 £29.13 £28.19
90th Percentile £23.70 £29.80 £28.90
London median hourly rate £21.50 £25.15 £26.63
% change year-on-year -14.51% -5.54% -33.44%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -1 37 £575 +15.00% 21
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 9 (20.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.55%) Exchange Server 2013
2 2 (4.55%) IIS
2 2 (4.55%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (29.55%) Azure
2 9 (20.45%) AWS
3 5 (11.36%) GCP
3 5 (11.36%) OpenShift
4 4 (9.09%) GitHub
4 4 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (6.82%) IaaS
5 3 (6.82%) PaaS
6 2 (4.55%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.55%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.27%) BlazeMeter
7 1 (2.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (45.45%) DNS
2 11 (25.00%) DHCP
3 10 (22.73%) Firewall
4 9 (20.45%) VPN
5 3 (6.82%) SMTP
5 3 (6.82%) TCP/IP
6 2 (4.55%) DMZ
6 2 (4.55%) VLAN
6 2 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (2.27%) INAP
7 1 (2.27%) Intelligent Network
7 1 (2.27%) LAN
7 1 (2.27%) RTP
7 1 (2.27%) SAN
7 1 (2.27%) tcpdump
7 1 (2.27%) Unified Communications
7 1 (2.27%) VoIP
7 1 (2.27%) Wireless
7 1 (2.27%) Wireshark
7 1 (2.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (34.09%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.36%) Oracle Database
3 3 (6.82%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.82%) Big Data
3 3 (6.82%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (6.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (4.55%) Power BI
5 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Jenkins
1 5 (11.36%) JIRA
2 3 (6.82%) GitLab
3 2 (4.55%) Artifactory
3 2 (4.55%) Bitbucket
3 2 (4.55%) Git
4 1 (2.27%) JMeter
4 1 (2.27%) Locust
4 1 (2.27%) Newman
4 1 (2.27%) Robot Framework
4 1 (2.27%) TestCafe
General
1 10 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.91%) Finance
3 4 (9.09%) Banking
4 2 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.27%) Mandarin Language
5 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (29.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (27.27%) Support Engineer
3 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure Support
3 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) C# Developer
4 4 (9.09%) Developer
5 3 (6.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 3 (6.82%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (6.82%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Service Desk Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Active Directory Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Active Directory Support
6 2 (4.55%) Active Directory Support Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.91%) .NET
2 6 (13.64%) Terraform
3 4 (9.09%) .NET Framework
4 2 (4.55%) 802.1X
4 2 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (2.27%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.27%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.27%) Blazor
5 1 (2.27%) LDAP
5 1 (2.27%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) Clustering
1 5 (11.36%) PKI
2 4 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.55%) AI Agents
3 2 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.55%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.27%) BYOD
4 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.27%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.27%) Media Streaming
4 1 (2.27%) Thin Client
4 1 (2.27%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 44 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (25.00%) Linux
3 5 (11.36%) Windows 7
4 4 (9.09%) VMS
4 4 (9.09%) Windows 10
4 4 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (4.55%) Mac OS
5 2 (4.55%) OpenVMS
5 2 (4.55%) Unix
5 2 (4.55%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.27%) CentOS
6 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (20.45%) DevOps
2 9 (20.45%) ITIL
3 8 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (13.64%) AI
4 6 (13.64%) CI/CD
4 6 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (13.64%) Problem Management
4 6 (13.64%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (11.36%) Migration
5 5 (11.36%) Ticket Management
6 4 (9.09%) Change Control
6 4 (9.09%) Data Analysis
6 4 (9.09%) ITSM
6 4 (9.09%) Mentoring
6 4 (9.09%) Observability
6 4 (9.09%) Project Delivery
6 4 (9.09%) Unit Testing
6 4 (9.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 15 (34.09%) PowerShell
2 8 (18.18%) SQL
3 6 (13.64%) C#
3 6 (13.64%) Python
4 4 (9.09%) Bash
4 4 (9.09%) PL/SQL
4 4 (9.09%) T-SQL
5 2 (4.55%) Java
6 1 (2.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (38.64%) Security Cleared
2 10 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.64%) DV Cleared
4 5 (11.36%) Degree
5 3 (6.82%) A+ Certification
6 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.27%) CCNA
7 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (2.27%) MCSE
7 1 (2.27%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.91%) QA
2 6 (13.64%) SLA
3 2 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.27%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 26 (59.09%) Active Directory
2 15 (34.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (22.73%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (11.36%) Docker
4 5 (11.36%) Hyper-V
5 4 (9.09%) vSphere
6 3 (6.82%) BitLocker
6 3 (6.82%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (6.82%) Terminal Services
7 2 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (2.27%) Firmware
8 1 (2.27%) UAG
8 1 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (2.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (18.18%) Ansible
1 8 (18.18%) vCenter Server
2 7 (15.91%) Kubernetes
3 5 (11.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (11.36%) SCCM
4 3 (6.82%) Nagios
4 3 (6.82%) Puppet
4 3 (6.82%) vMotion
5 2 (4.55%) FortiGate
5 2 (4.55%) Grafana
5 2 (4.55%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (4.55%) Nessus
5 2 (4.55%) NetBackup
5 2 (4.55%) WSUS
6 1 (2.27%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (2.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 21 (47.73%) Microsoft
2 20 (45.45%) VMware
3 10 (22.73%) Citrix
3 10 (22.73%) Oracle
4 6 (13.64%) ServiceNow
5 5 (11.36%) Cisco
5 5 (11.36%) Google
6 4 (9.09%) Dynatrace
7 3 (6.82%) HP
7 3 (6.82%) Symantec
8 2 (4.55%) EMC
8 2 (4.55%) ION Trading
8 2 (4.55%) Splunk
8 2 (4.55%) Tenable
8 2 (4.55%) Veeam
8 2 (4.55%) Veritas
8 2 (4.55%) Zscaler
9 1 (2.27%) Metaswitch
9 1 (2.27%) Pure Storage
9 1 (2.27%) RedGate