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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 87 81
Rank change year-on-year -19 -6 +28
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 27 39 58
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.30% 1.84% 2.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.08% 14.08% 16.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 28 40
10th Percentile £248 £248 £287
25th Percentile £370 £426 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.72% -0.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £738 £600 £650
90th Percentile £825 £617 £675
London median daily rate £500 £500 £478
% change year-on-year - +4.71% +0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £112.00 -
London median hourly rate £21.46 £112.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -80.84% +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 179 277 350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 8.64% 13.05% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 188 257
10th Percentile £196 £215 £198
25th Percentile £325 £350 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £505 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% +6.37% -9.52%
75th Percentile £649 £625 £638
90th Percentile £775 £710 £738
London median daily rate £500 £500 £523
% change year-on-year - -4.31% -5.00%
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% +9.76%
75th Percentile £26.60 - £23.75
90th Percentile £28.34 - -
London median hourly rate £25.15 £26.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.22% +6.14% -

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 28 January 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 28 January 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 -5 27 £525 +3.19% 11
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 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) Azure
2 9 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (11.11%) AWS
3 3 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 3 (11.11%) IaaS
4 2 (7.41%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (7.41%) OCI
4 2 (7.41%) PaaS
4 2 (7.41%) SaaS
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) DNS
1 5 (18.52%) Firewall
2 3 (11.11%) DHCP
3 1 (3.70%) Kerberos
3 1 (3.70%) MPLS
3 1 (3.70%) Softphone
3 1 (3.70%) SSH
3 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.70%) Unified Communications
3 1 (3.70%) VPN
3 1 (3.70%) VSAN
3 1 (3.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle Database
1 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Hive
2 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.70%) Impala
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
1 1 (3.70%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (33.33%) Finance
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Banking
3 3 (11.11%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Front Office
4 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.70%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (14.81%) Support Engineer
2 3 (11.11%) Architect
2 3 (11.11%) Lead
2 3 (11.11%) Programme Manager
3 2 (7.41%) CyberArk Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Desktop Support
3 2 (7.41%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (7.41%) Lead Architect
3 2 (7.41%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 2 (7.41%) Service Manager
3 2 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.70%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) REST
2 1 (3.70%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (3.70%) Middleware
2 1 (3.70%) Regular Expression
2 1 (3.70%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (14.81%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.70%) BYOD
4 1 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.70%) iPad
4 1 (3.70%) Market Risk
4 1 (3.70%) PACS
4 1 (3.70%) Reinsurance
4 1 (3.70%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 25 (92.59%) Windows
2 7 (25.93%) Linux
3 3 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.70%) Solaris
4 1 (3.70%) Unix
4 1 (3.70%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) Migration
2 7 (25.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (22.22%) ITIL
4 5 (18.52%) Change Control
4 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (18.52%) Project Delivery
5 4 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (14.81%) DevOps
5 4 (14.81%) Resource Management
5 4 (14.81%) Server Migrations
6 3 (11.11%) Roadmaps
6 3 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (7.41%) Agile
7 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (7.41%) Observability
7 2 (7.41%) Server Management
7 2 (7.41%) Service Delivery
7 2 (7.41%) SIEM
7 2 (7.41%) Software Engineering
7 2 (7.41%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) PowerShell
2 3 (11.11%) SQL
3 2 (7.41%) Bash
3 2 (7.41%) Python
4 1 (3.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Degree
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Certification
4 2 (7.41%) CESG Certified Professional
4 2 (7.41%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (7.41%) MCITP
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.70%) MCSA
5 1 (3.70%) MCSE
5 1 (3.70%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (14.81%) QA
3 2 (7.41%) GDPR
3 2 (7.41%) NIST
3 2 (7.41%) NIST 800
3 2 (7.41%) SLA
4 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (3.70%) DICOM
4 1 (3.70%) HL7
System Software
1 13 (48.15%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.70%) Docker
3 1 (3.70%) HDFS
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (11.11%) Ansible
2 3 (11.11%) SCCM
3 2 (7.41%) SCOM
3 2 (7.41%) Terraform
4 1 (3.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.70%) Kibana
4 1 (3.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (40.74%) Microsoft
2 5 (18.52%) Oracle
3 4 (14.81%) VMware
4 2 (7.41%) CyberArk
4 2 (7.41%) HP
5 1 (3.70%) Datto
5 1 (3.70%) Dell
5 1 (3.70%) Polycom
5 1 (3.70%) Qualys
5 1 (3.70%) Symantec
5 1 (3.70%) Tanium
5 1 (3.70%) Tenable
5 1 (3.70%) Veeam