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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 78 93
Rank change year-on-year -44 +15 +4
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 16 43 41
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.64% 2.30% 1.70%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.06% 17.06% 12.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 30 31
10th Percentile £235 £364 £350
25th Percentile £369 £509 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £634 £666
90th Percentile £668 £723 £675
London median daily rate £491 £526 £450
% change year-on-year -6.52% +16.78% -10.54%
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 - - -18.60%

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 159 252 318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 6.38% 13.48% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 183 224
10th Percentile £187 £232 £198
25th Percentile £231 £325 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +13.89% -13.46%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £683 £696 £725
London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile £19.41 £22.00 -
25th Percentile £19.64 £23.13 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.88 £26.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.20% +15.22% -45.88%
75th Percentile £22.72 £69.56 £27.00
90th Percentile £23.31 £140.33 £28.43
London median hourly rate £27.00 £24.66 £22.00
% change year-on-year +9.49% +12.09% -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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -31 16 £550 - 14
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 (6.25%) IIS
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.25%) OCI
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) DHCP
1 4 (25.00%) DNS
2 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.25%) Firewall
3 1 (6.25%) Unified Communications
3 1 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) SQL Server
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle Database
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Banking
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.25%) International Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Mandarin Language
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) C# Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Support
3 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Support Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) CyberArk Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) IT Support
3 1 (6.25%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Project Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) .NET
2 2 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
3 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET
3 1 (6.25%) Blazor
3 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) BYOD
1 2 (12.50%) PKI
2 1 (6.25%) Clustering
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.25%) Fat Client
2 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) PACS
2 1 (6.25%) Thin Client
2 1 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Windows 10
3 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (6.25%) VMS
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (18.75%) High Availability
1 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (18.75%) Migration
2 2 (12.50%) Change Management
2 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis
2 2 (12.50%) DevOps
2 2 (12.50%) ITIL
2 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
2 2 (12.50%) Runbook
2 2 (12.50%) Unit Testing
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science
3 1 (6.25%) E-Discovery
3 1 (6.25%) Informatics
3 1 (6.25%) Line Management
3 1 (6.25%) Mentoring
3 1 (6.25%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (6.25%) Problem Management
3 1 (6.25%) SIEM
3 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 4 (25.00%) SQL
3 3 (18.75%) C#
4 2 (12.50%) PL/SQL
4 2 (12.50%) T-SQL
5 1 (6.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) MCSE
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (6.25%) CCNA
3 1 (6.25%) CESG Certified Professional
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.25%) MCSA
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) DICOM
2 1 (6.25%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (6.25%) HL7
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
2 1 (6.25%) NIST 800
System Software
1 9 (56.25%) Active Directory
2 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.25%) Firmware
3 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (12.50%) SCCM
3 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 6 (37.50%) VMware
2 5 (31.25%) Oracle
3 3 (18.75%) Citrix
4 2 (12.50%) Cisco
5 1 (6.25%) CyberArk
5 1 (6.25%) EMC
5 1 (6.25%) RedGate