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

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 94 81
Rank change year-on-year -12 -13 +35
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 22 36 70
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.17% 1.55% 2.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.43% 12.20% 16.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 24 46
10th Percentile £319 £271 £268
25th Percentile £406 £394 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £523
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -13.88% +17.75%
75th Percentile £623 £566 £580
90th Percentile £631 £643 £665
London median daily rate £500 £450 £515
% change year-on-year +11.11% -12.62% +7.29%
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 £26.50 £112.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -76.34% +244.62% +58.54%

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 211 295 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.21% 12.68% 14.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 198 294
10th Percentile £201 £218 £178
25th Percentile £322 £350 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +1.01% -1.00%
75th Percentile £654 £638 £618
90th Percentile £700 £725 £707
London median daily rate £496 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -0.90% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 2
10th Percentile £20.82 £24.29 £23.88
25th Percentile £23.75 £26.03 £27.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £69.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -60.43% +91.72% +81.25%
75th Percentile £29.50 £112.00 £45.31
90th Percentile £29.95 - £49.63
London median hourly rate £25.15 £27.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -6.85% -38.41% +75.34%

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 October 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 October 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 -14 18 £500 +11.11% 24
City of Westminster - 3 - -
West End of London +6 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 (4.55%) Confluence
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (54.55%) Azure
1 12 (54.55%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (18.18%) AWS
3 3 (13.64%) IaaS
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 2 (9.09%) PaaS
4 2 (9.09%) SaaS
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.55%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (36.36%) Firewall
2 5 (22.73%) DNS
3 3 (13.64%) DHCP
4 2 (9.09%) Softphone
4 2 (9.09%) WAN
4 2 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (9.09%) Wireless
5 1 (4.55%) Kerberos
5 1 (4.55%) LAN
5 1 (4.55%) MPLS
5 1 (4.55%) SAN
5 1 (4.55%) SSH
5 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
5 1 (4.55%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Hive
2 1 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.55%) Impala
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
1 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
1 1 (4.55%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (18.18%) Finance
1 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Front Office
2 3 (13.64%) Japanese Language
3 2 (9.09%) Banking
3 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) Applications Support
2 2 (9.09%) Architect
2 2 (9.09%) Lead
2 2 (9.09%) Service Manager
3 1 (4.55%) Active Directory Architect
3 1 (4.55%) Applications Support Specialist
3 1 (4.55%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Security Architect
3 1 (4.55%) Senior
3 1 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Server Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Subject Matter Expert
3 1 (4.55%) Team Leader
3 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (4.55%) Middleware
1 1 (4.55%) Regular Expression
1 1 (4.55%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 2 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (9.09%) iPad
1 2 (9.09%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.55%) Fat Client
2 1 (4.55%) Fixed Income
2 1 (4.55%) HP Storage
2 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Market Risk
2 1 (4.55%) Thin Client
2 1 (4.55%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 21 (95.45%) Windows
2 6 (27.27%) Linux
3 2 (9.09%) Unix
4 1 (4.55%) Apple iOS
4 1 (4.55%) Mac OS
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.55%) Solaris
4 1 (4.55%) Windows 7
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) ITIL
1 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (22.73%) Migration
3 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (18.18%) Service Delivery
4 3 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (13.64%) Server Management
4 3 (13.64%) Service Management
5 2 (9.09%) Agile
5 2 (9.09%) Business Continuity
5 2 (9.09%) Change Management
5 2 (9.09%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (9.09%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (9.09%) Decision-Making
5 2 (9.09%) DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) Project Delivery
5 2 (9.09%) Software Engineering
5 2 (9.09%) Task Automation
5 2 (9.09%) User Experience
6 1 (4.55%) Key Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) PowerShell
2 4 (18.18%) Python
3 2 (9.09%) Bash
3 2 (9.09%) Java
3 2 (9.09%) SQL
4 1 (4.55%) C
4 1 (4.55%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (13.64%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) Degree
3 2 (9.09%) MCITP
4 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.55%) MCSA
4 1 (4.55%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (9.09%) SLA
3 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.55%) GDPR
3 1 (4.55%) HIPAA
3 1 (4.55%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (68.18%) Active Directory
2 4 (18.18%) Hyper-V
3 3 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.55%) Docker
4 1 (4.55%) HDFS
4 1 (4.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (9.09%) SCOM
3 1 (4.55%) Ansible
3 1 (4.55%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (4.55%) Kibana
3 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.55%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 6 (27.27%) VMware
3 3 (13.64%) HP
4 2 (9.09%) Dell
4 2 (9.09%) Oracle
4 2 (9.09%) Polycom
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco
5 1 (4.55%) Citrix
5 1 (4.55%) CyberArk
5 1 (4.55%) Infoblox
5 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.55%) Qualys
5 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.55%) Symantec
5 1 (4.55%) Tanium
5 1 (4.55%) Tenable