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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 90 84
Rank change year-on-year -25 -6 +13
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 22 35 38
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.91% 2.04% 1.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.84% 16.28% 13.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 25 31
10th Percentile £282 £308 £400
25th Percentile £413 £500 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -1.79% +5.66%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £666
90th Percentile £668 £738 £675
Central London median daily rate £600 £550 £555
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.90% +11.00%
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 - - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 - -

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 159 215 280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 6.59% 12.54% 12.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 158 194
10th Percentile £189 £254 £225
25th Percentile £275 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% -1.43% -1.18%
75th Percentile £622 £663 £675
90th Percentile £662 £725 £738
Central London median daily rate £475 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £19.41 £24.35 -
25th Percentile £19.64 £25.25 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.88 £28.50 £24.38
Median % change year-on-year -26.73% +16.92% -51.25%
75th Percentile £22.72 £108.88 £27.59
90th Percentile £23.31 £156.05 £28.66
Central London median hourly rate £20.88 £26.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.20% +15.22% -45.88%

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 16 June 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 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (9.09%) IIS
3 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) Azure
2 6 (27.27%) AWS
3 3 (13.64%) GCP
3 3 (13.64%) IaaS
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (13.64%) OpenShift
3 3 (13.64%) PaaS
4 2 (9.09%) Azure AKS
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (9.09%) GitHub
4 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (40.91%) DNS
2 8 (36.36%) DHCP
3 4 (18.18%) Firewall
3 4 (18.18%) VPN
4 3 (13.64%) SMTP
5 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
6 1 (4.55%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (18.18%) Oracle Database
3 3 (13.64%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (13.64%) Big Data
3 3 (13.64%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Banking
3 2 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.55%) International Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Mandarin Language
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) Support Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Support
3 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) C# Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Developer
5 3 (13.64%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 3 (13.64%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (13.64%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) 1st Line Support
7 1 (4.55%) Active Directory Specialist
7 1 (4.55%) IT Support
7 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.55%) Windows Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) .NET
2 4 (18.18%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.55%) .NET Core
3 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET
3 1 (4.55%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) PKI
2 4 (18.18%) Clustering
3 3 (13.64%) Data Centre
4 2 (9.09%) BYOD
5 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (4.55%) Fat Client
5 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (4.55%) Thin Client
5 1 (4.55%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (18.18%) Linux
3 2 (9.09%) Windows 10
3 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (4.55%) Mac OS
4 1 (4.55%) VMS
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (18.18%) AI
3 4 (18.18%) Data Analysis
3 4 (18.18%) DevOps
3 4 (18.18%) Migration
3 4 (18.18%) Unit Testing
4 3 (13.64%) High Availability
4 3 (13.64%) Machine Learning
4 3 (13.64%) Runbook
4 3 (13.64%) Software Deployment
5 2 (9.09%) Change Control
5 2 (9.09%) Change Management
5 2 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (9.09%) Mentoring
5 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (9.09%) Roadmaps
5 2 (9.09%) Server Migrations
5 2 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) PowerShell
2 6 (27.27%) C#
3 5 (22.73%) SQL
4 4 (18.18%) PL/SQL
4 4 (18.18%) T-SQL
5 1 (4.55%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) Degree
3 4 (18.18%) DV Cleared
4 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (9.09%) MCSE
5 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
6 1 (4.55%) CCNA
6 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (4.55%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 14 (63.64%) Active Directory
2 7 (31.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (18.18%) Hyper-V
3 4 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (13.64%) BitLocker
4 3 (13.64%) Docker
4 3 (13.64%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (13.64%) Terminal Services
5 2 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (4.55%) Firmware
6 1 (4.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 4 (18.18%) Ansible
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (13.64%) Nagios
3 3 (13.64%) Puppet
3 3 (13.64%) vCenter Server
3 3 (13.64%) vMotion
4 2 (9.09%) SCCM
4 2 (9.09%) Terraform
5 1 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 10 (45.45%) Microsoft
1 10 (45.45%) VMware
2 8 (36.36%) Citrix
3 5 (22.73%) Oracle
4 3 (13.64%) Google
4 3 (13.64%) HP
4 3 (13.64%) Symantec
5 2 (9.09%) Cisco
6 1 (4.55%) EMC
6 1 (4.55%) RedGate