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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 94 81
Rank change year-on-year -11 -13 +35
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 23 36 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.19% 1.54% 2.49%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.22% 11.84% 17.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 26 57
10th Percentile £312 £363 £375
25th Percentile £406 £416 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +23.43%
75th Percentile £624 £594 £645
90th Percentile £633 £645 £700
London median daily rate £500 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £26.50 £77.50 £31.75
% change year-on-year -65.81% +144.09% +54.88%

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 225 304 473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.60% 13.03% 14.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 200 333
10th Percentile £250 £219 £170
25th Percentile £325 £350 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.88% +1.00% -
75th Percentile £663 £638 £638
90th Percentile £696 £725 £725
London median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £20.33 £23.90 £23.88
25th Percentile £22.53 £25.06 £27.81
Median hourly rate £26.00 £27.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -25.52% +79.01%
75th Percentile £29.13 £28.19 £45.31
90th Percentile £29.80 £28.90 £49.63
London median hourly rate £25.15 £26.63 £41.92
% change year-on-year -5.54% -36.48% +75.31%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -3 19 £500 -2.44% 11
City of Westminster - 3 - -
West End of London +1 1 - - 1
Windows Server
London

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.35%) Confluence
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (47.83%) Azure
3 4 (17.39%) AWS
4 3 (13.04%) IaaS
5 2 (8.70%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
5 2 (8.70%) PaaS
5 2 (8.70%) SaaS
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.35%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (43.48%) Firewall
2 5 (21.74%) DNS
3 3 (13.04%) DHCP
4 2 (8.70%) Softphone
4 2 (8.70%) WAN
4 2 (8.70%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (8.70%) Wireless
5 1 (4.35%) Kerberos
5 1 (4.35%) LAN
5 1 (4.35%) MPLS
5 1 (4.35%) SAN
5 1 (4.35%) SSH
5 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
5 1 (4.35%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Hive
2 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.35%) Impala
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
1 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
1 1 (4.35%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (17.39%) Finance
1 4 (17.39%) Front Office
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Banking
2 3 (13.04%) Japanese Language
3 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.35%) International Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (13.04%) Analyst
1 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (13.04%) Support Analyst
1 3 (13.04%) Trade Floor Support Analyst
2 2 (8.70%) Applications Support
2 2 (8.70%) Architect
2 2 (8.70%) Lead
2 2 (8.70%) Service Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Applications Specialist
3 1 (4.35%) Applications Support Specialist
3 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Team Leader
3 1 (4.35%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) IT Manager
3 1 (4.35%) IT Operations Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Security Architect
3 1 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Server Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Software Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (4.35%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (13.04%) Equities
3 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.70%) iPad
3 2 (8.70%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.35%) Fat Client
4 1 (4.35%) Fixed Income
4 1 (4.35%) HP Storage
4 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Market Risk
4 1 (4.35%) Thin Client
4 1 (4.35%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 23 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (21.74%) Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
3 1 (4.35%) Mac OS
3 1 (4.35%) Unix
3 1 (4.35%) Windows 7
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) ITIL
1 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (21.74%) Migration
3 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (17.39%) Service Delivery
4 3 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (13.04%) Server Management
4 3 (13.04%) Service Management
5 2 (8.70%) Business Continuity
5 2 (8.70%) Change Management
5 2 (8.70%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (8.70%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (8.70%) Decision-Making
5 2 (8.70%) DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) Project Delivery
5 2 (8.70%) Software Engineering
5 2 (8.70%) Task Automation
5 2 (8.70%) User Experience
6 1 (4.35%) Observability
6 1 (4.35%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) PowerShell
2 3 (13.04%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) Java
3 2 (8.70%) SQL
4 1 (4.35%) Bash
4 1 (4.35%) C
4 1 (4.35%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (13.04%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) Degree
3 2 (8.70%) MCITP
4 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.35%) MCSA
4 1 (4.35%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.70%) SLA
3 1 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.35%) GDPR
3 1 (4.35%) HIPAA
3 1 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (65.22%) Active Directory
2 4 (17.39%) Hyper-V
3 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.35%) Docker
4 1 (4.35%) HDFS
4 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (8.70%) SCOM
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (4.35%) Kibana
3 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (69.57%) Microsoft
2 5 (21.74%) VMware
3 4 (17.39%) Citrix
4 3 (13.04%) Bloomberg
4 3 (13.04%) HP
4 3 (13.04%) Refinitiv
4 3 (13.04%) Reuters
5 2 (8.70%) Dell
5 2 (8.70%) Oracle
5 2 (8.70%) Polycom
6 1 (4.35%) Cisco
6 1 (4.35%) CyberArk
6 1 (4.35%) Infoblox
6 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow