Windows Server Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Windows Server
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Windows Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 98 69
Rank change year-on-year +6 -29 +61
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 29 27 61
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.58% 1.36% 2.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.13% 11.16% 18.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 17 41
10th Percentile £259 £323 £375
25th Percentile £406 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £638
90th Percentile £825 £618 £675
Central London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £112.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £112.00 -

All Operating Systems
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 160 242 335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.72% 12.22% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 158 238
10th Percentile £200 £231 £206
25th Percentile £325 £353 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -6.76%
75th Percentile £675 £634 £638
90th Percentile £775 £710 £716
Central London median daily rate £518 £500 £480
% change year-on-year +3.50% +4.17% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £21.91 - £19.16
25th Percentile £23.54 - £19.51
Median hourly rate £27.50 £112.00 £20.72
Median % change year-on-year -75.45% +440.67% +1.05%
75th Percentile £29.13 - £22.55
90th Percentile £29.35 - £23.27
Central London median hourly rate £24.88 £112.00 £18.93
% change year-on-year -77.78% +491.65% -7.66%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Windows Server job vacancy trend in the City of London

Windows Server
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Windows Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in the City of London

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Windows Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 13 (44.83%) Azure
2 11 (37.93%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (13.79%) AWS
3 4 (13.79%) Entra ID
4 3 (10.34%) IaaS
5 2 (6.90%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (6.90%) OCI
5 2 (6.90%) PaaS
5 2 (6.90%) SaaS
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.69%) Firewall
2 5 (17.24%) DNS
3 3 (10.34%) DHCP
4 2 (6.90%) Softphone
4 2 (6.90%) Wireless
5 1 (3.45%) Kerberos
5 1 (3.45%) LAN
5 1 (3.45%) MPLS
5 1 (3.45%) SSH
5 1 (3.45%) Unified Communications
5 1 (3.45%) VPN
5 1 (3.45%) VSAN
5 1 (3.45%) WAN
5 1 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle Database
1 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Hive
2 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.45%) Impala
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.45%) SonarQube
1 1 (3.45%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (31.03%) Finance
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Banking
3 4 (13.79%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Front Office
4 1 (3.45%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (13.79%) Lead
1 4 (13.79%) Support Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) Architect
2 3 (10.34%) Programme Manager
3 2 (6.90%) CyberArk Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Desktop Support
3 2 (6.90%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (6.90%) Lead Architect
3 2 (6.90%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 2 (6.90%) Service Manager
3 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.45%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Active Directory Architect
4 1 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Migration Manager
4 1 (3.45%) Project Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) REST
2 1 (3.45%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (3.45%) Middleware
2 1 (3.45%) Regular Expression
2 1 (3.45%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (17.24%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.90%) iPad
3 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.90%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.45%) BYOD
4 1 (3.45%) Fat Client
4 1 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.45%) Market Risk
4 1 (3.45%) PACS
4 1 (3.45%) Reinsurance
4 1 (3.45%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 27 (93.10%) Windows
2 8 (27.59%) Linux
3 3 (10.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.45%) Solaris
4 1 (3.45%) Unix
4 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Migration
2 8 (27.59%) ITIL
3 7 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (20.69%) Project Delivery
5 5 (17.24%) Change Control
6 4 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (13.79%) Resource Management
6 4 (13.79%) Server Migrations
7 3 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (10.34%) DevOps
7 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (10.34%) Roadmaps
7 3 (10.34%) Server Management
7 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (6.90%) Agile
8 2 (6.90%) Service Delivery
8 2 (6.90%) Service Management
8 2 (6.90%) SIEM
8 2 (6.90%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (34.48%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.34%) SQL
3 2 (6.90%) Bash
3 2 (6.90%) Python
4 1 (3.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Degree
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.90%) CESG Certified Professional
3 2 (6.90%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (6.90%) MCITP
3 2 (6.90%) MCSA
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.45%) MCSE
4 1 (3.45%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (13.79%) QA
3 2 (6.90%) GDPR
3 2 (6.90%) NIST
3 2 (6.90%) NIST 800
3 2 (6.90%) SLA
4 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (3.45%) DICOM
4 1 (3.45%) HL7
System Software
1 15 (51.72%) Active Directory
2 4 (13.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.90%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.45%) Docker
4 1 (3.45%) HDFS
4 1 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (3.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (31.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (10.34%) Ansible
2 3 (10.34%) SCCM
3 2 (6.90%) SCOM
3 2 (6.90%) Terraform
4 1 (3.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.45%) Kibana
4 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (44.83%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.69%) VMware
3 5 (17.24%) Oracle
4 2 (6.90%) CyberArk
4 2 (6.90%) HP
4 2 (6.90%) Polycom
5 1 (3.45%) Cisco
5 1 (3.45%) Citrix
5 1 (3.45%) Datto
5 1 (3.45%) Dell
5 1 (3.45%) Infoblox
5 1 (3.45%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.45%) Qualys
5 1 (3.45%) Symantec
5 1 (3.45%) Tanium
5 1 (3.45%) Tenable
5 1 (3.45%) Veeam