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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 77 93
Rank change year-on-year -42 +16 +3
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 22 47 40
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.90% 2.35% 1.65%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.75% 16.85% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 34 28
10th Percentile £312 £296 £385
25th Percentile £475 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +16.16%
75th Percentile £775 £610 £675
90th Percentile £825 £712 £680
London median daily rate £500 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -10.00%
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 £21.46 - £24.86
% change year-on-year - - -0.58%

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 160 279 310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 6.52% 13.95% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 203 222
10th Percentile £188 £243 £181
25th Percentile £261 £350 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +13.89% -13.46%
75th Percentile £650 £639 £649
90th Percentile £763 £710 £725
London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile £19.41 £35.38 £19.86
25th Percentile £19.64 £56.56 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.88 £98.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -78.85% +338.89% -35.71%
75th Percentile £22.72 £146.56 £23.75
90th Percentile £23.31 £171.13 £25.70
London median hourly rate £22.27 £24.66 £22.00
% change year-on-year -9.71% +12.09% -43.11%

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 6 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 6 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 -25 22 £550 +4.66% 19
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%) IIS
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (13.64%) AWS
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 2 (9.09%) OCI
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) DHCP
1 3 (13.64%) DNS
1 3 (13.64%) Firewall
2 2 (9.09%) VPN
3 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.55%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle Database
3 2 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Banking
4 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.55%) International Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 3 (13.64%) Programme Manager
1 3 (13.64%) Support Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) Architect
2 2 (9.09%) CyberArk Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 2 (9.09%) Lead
2 2 (9.09%) Lead Architect
2 2 (9.09%) Lead Solutions Architect
2 2 (9.09%) Project Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.55%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Active Directory Specialist
3 1 (4.55%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (4.55%) IT Support
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (4.55%) .NET
2 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (18.18%) Data Centre
3 2 (9.09%) BYOD
3 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.55%) Clustering
4 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.55%) Fat Client
4 1 (4.55%) PACS
4 1 (4.55%) PKI
4 1 (4.55%) Reinsurance
4 1 (4.55%) Thin Client
4 1 (4.55%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 22 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (18.18%) Linux
3 2 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (9.09%) Windows 10
4 1 (4.55%) VMS
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Migration
2 6 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (22.73%) Change Control
3 5 (22.73%) Server Migrations
4 4 (18.18%) ITIL
4 4 (18.18%) Project Delivery
4 4 (18.18%) Resource Management
4 4 (18.18%) Roadmaps
5 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (13.64%) DevOps
5 3 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (9.09%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (9.09%) RBAC
6 2 (9.09%) Runbook
6 2 (9.09%) Technology Roadmap
6 2 (9.09%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) PowerShell
2 3 (13.64%) SQL
3 2 (9.09%) C#
4 1 (4.55%) Bash
4 1 (4.55%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.55%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.55%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Degree
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 2 (9.09%) CESG Certified Professional
3 2 (9.09%) MCSE
3 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (4.55%) CCNA
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.55%) MCSA
4 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) QA
2 4 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (9.09%) GDPR
3 2 (9.09%) NIST
3 2 (9.09%) NIST 800
4 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (4.55%) DICOM
4 1 (4.55%) HL7
System Software
1 11 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (22.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.55%) Firmware
3 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (18.18%) SCCM
3 3 (13.64%) Ansible
3 3 (13.64%) Terraform
4 1 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) VMware
2 5 (22.73%) Oracle
3 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 2 (9.09%) Citrix
4 2 (9.09%) CyberArk
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco
5 1 (4.55%) Datto
5 1 (4.55%) EMC
5 1 (4.55%) RedGate
5 1 (4.55%) Veeam