Windows Server Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Windows Server
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Windows Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 89 109
Rank change year-on-year +11 +20 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 41 38 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.33% 1.73% 1.89%
As % of the Operating Systems category 17.01% 13.48% 13.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 26 55
10th Percentile £261 £419 £263
25th Percentile £500 £478 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £530
Median % change year-on-year -15.96% +17.92% +0.95%
75th Percentile £614 £675 £621
90th Percentile £723 £683 £700
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £495
% change year-on-year -4.35% +16.16% -1.05%

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 241 282 505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 13.72% 12.84% 13.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 198 362
10th Percentile £260 £195 £158
25th Percentile £364 £322 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -6.98% +2.38%
75th Percentile £664 £655 £663
90th Percentile £711 £729 £737
Central London median daily rate £513 £450 £523
% change year-on-year +13.89% -13.88% +4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £162.50 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £175.00 £22.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +677.78% -35.71% +42.86%
75th Percentile £187.50 £25.38 £59.38
90th Percentile - £26.35 £74.00
Central London median hourly rate £98.75 £22.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +338.89% -35.71% +42.86%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the City of London

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in the City of London

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in the City of London

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in the City of London

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (12.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (7.32%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (68.29%) Azure
2 17 (41.46%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (31.71%) Entra ID
4 6 (14.63%) AWS
4 6 (14.63%) IaaS
4 6 (14.63%) SaaS
5 5 (12.20%) GitHub
6 4 (9.76%) Nutanix
7 3 (7.32%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (7.32%) GCP
7 3 (7.32%) PaaS
8 2 (4.88%) Azure AKS
8 2 (4.88%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (4.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (4.88%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (4.88%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (4.88%) Serverless
9 1 (2.44%) Azure Stack
9 1 (2.44%) Rubrik
9 1 (2.44%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 10 (24.39%) Firewall
2 8 (19.51%) DNS
3 3 (7.32%) MPLS
4 2 (4.88%) DHCP
4 2 (4.88%) Kerberos
4 2 (4.88%) Network Security
5 1 (2.44%) HTTP
5 1 (2.44%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (2.44%) SMTP
5 1 (2.44%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.44%) VLAN
5 1 (2.44%) VRRP
5 1 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.95%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (9.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (4.88%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (2.44%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) JIRA
2 2 (4.88%) Git
3 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.44%) Serena SBM
3 1 (2.44%) Subversion
3 1 (2.44%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (53.66%) Finance
2 11 (26.83%) Social Skills
3 6 (14.63%) Banking
4 2 (4.88%) Spanish Language
5 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Front Office
5 1 (2.44%) International Banking
5 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (21.95%) Analyst
1 9 (21.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (14.63%) Support Analyst
3 5 (12.20%) Applications Support
3 5 (12.20%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Senior
3 5 (12.20%) Support Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Active Directory Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Applications Support Analyst
4 3 (7.32%) Architect
4 3 (7.32%) Trade Floor Support Analyst
4 3 (7.32%) VMware Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (4.88%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Service Analyst
5 2 (4.88%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (4.88%) Technical Specialist
5 2 (4.88%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.88%) ARM Templates
1 2 (4.88%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (2.44%) LDAP
2 1 (2.44%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.32%) Clustering
2 3 (7.32%) Equities
2 3 (7.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (7.32%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.88%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.88%) Reinsurance
3 2 (4.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 2 (4.88%) Wiki
4 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.44%) Grid Computing
4 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.44%) Replication
4 1 (2.44%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (17.07%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (12.20%) Windows 10
4 4 (9.76%) Linux
4 4 (9.76%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (4.88%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.44%) Android
6 1 (2.44%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.44%) Solaris
6 1 (2.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (24.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (12.20%) Configuration Management
4 4 (9.76%) CRM
4 4 (9.76%) ITIL
4 4 (9.76%) Migration
4 4 (9.76%) Project Delivery
5 3 (7.32%) Data Loss Prevention
5 3 (7.32%) DevOps
5 3 (7.32%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (7.32%) High Availability
5 3 (7.32%) Time Management
6 2 (4.88%) Analytics
6 2 (4.88%) Data Protection
6 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (4.88%) ITSM
6 2 (4.88%) Patch Management
6 2 (4.88%) Risk Management
6 2 (4.88%) Security Hardening
6 2 (4.88%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (39.02%) PowerShell
2 11 (26.83%) SQL
3 4 (9.76%) Python
4 3 (7.32%) Bash
5 2 (4.88%) Bicep
5 2 (4.88%) C#
5 2 (4.88%) Java
6 1 (2.44%) C++
6 1 (2.44%) Perl
6 1 (2.44%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.44%) Ruby
6 1 (2.44%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (12.20%) Degree
2 3 (7.32%) SC Cleared
2 3 (7.32%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) VCAP
3 2 (4.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.44%) MCSE
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) GDPR
2 2 (4.88%) SLA
2 2 (4.88%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (51.22%) Active Directory
2 7 (17.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.32%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (7.32%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (4.88%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.44%) BitLocker
5 1 (2.44%) Docker
5 1 (2.44%) Firmware
5 1 (2.44%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (2.44%) Platform Symphony
5 1 (2.44%) XenApp
5 1 (2.44%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (9.76%) SCCM
2 3 (7.32%) Ansible
3 2 (4.88%) FortiGate
3 2 (4.88%) Progress Chef
3 2 (4.88%) Terraform
4 1 (2.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.44%) Control-M
4 1 (2.44%) Data Guard
4 1 (2.44%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 1 (2.44%) Grafana
4 1 (2.44%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (2.44%) Kibana
4 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.44%) QRadar
4 1 (2.44%) Tivoli
4 1 (2.44%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (2.44%) VxRail
4 1 (2.44%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (39.02%) Microsoft
2 12 (29.27%) VMware
3 7 (17.07%) Citrix
4 4 (9.76%) Commvault
5 3 (7.32%) Bloomberg
5 3 (7.32%) Oracle
5 3 (7.32%) Refinitiv
5 3 (7.32%) Reuters
5 3 (7.32%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.88%) Atempo
6 2 (4.88%) Databricks
6 2 (4.88%) EMC
6 2 (4.88%) F5
6 2 (4.88%) Fortinet
6 2 (4.88%) IBM
6 2 (4.88%) Mellanox
6 2 (4.88%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.44%) NETGEAR
7 1 (2.44%) Qualys
7 1 (2.44%) Serena