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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 105 97
Rank change year-on-year +6 -8 -16
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 41 20 34
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.89% 1.16% 1.61%
As % of the Operating Systems category 19.16% 11.24% 12.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 16 21
10th Percentile £313 £319 £350
25th Percentile £408 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £653 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £631 £650
Central London median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £112.00
75th Percentile £19.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 - £112.00
% change year-on-year - - +397.78%

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 214 178 269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.88% 10.30% 12.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 133 177
10th Percentile £219 £225 £252
25th Percentile £338 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +1.19%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £638
90th Percentile £725 £728 £725
Central London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.80% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £19.33 £24.25 £24.68
25th Percentile £19.44 £25.00 -
Median hourly rate £22.50 £27.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +1.85% -25.52%
75th Percentile £33.38 £29.50 £112.00
90th Percentile £50.25 £29.95 -
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £26.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -13.46% -3.70% -25.52%

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 14 October 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 6 (14.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (7.32%) IIS
3 2 (4.88%) Confluence
3 2 (4.88%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (4.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (36.59%) Azure
2 10 (24.39%) AWS
3 6 (14.63%) GitHub
4 5 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (12.20%) GCP
4 5 (12.20%) OpenShift
5 4 (9.76%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (7.32%) IaaS
6 3 (7.32%) PaaS
7 2 (4.88%) Azure AKS
7 2 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (4.88%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.44%) BlazeMeter
8 1 (2.44%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.44%) NuGet
8 1 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (53.66%) DNS
2 12 (29.27%) DHCP
3 10 (24.39%) Firewall
3 10 (24.39%) VPN
4 4 (9.76%) TCP/IP
5 3 (7.32%) SMTP
5 3 (7.32%) VLAN
6 2 (4.88%) DMZ
6 2 (4.88%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (2.44%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (2.44%) INAP
7 1 (2.44%) Intelligent Network
7 1 (2.44%) LAN
7 1 (2.44%) RTP
7 1 (2.44%) SAN
7 1 (2.44%) tcpdump
7 1 (2.44%) Unified Communications
7 1 (2.44%) VoIP
7 1 (2.44%) Wireless
7 1 (2.44%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (41.46%) SQL Server
2 5 (12.20%) Oracle Database
3 3 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (7.32%) Big Data
3 3 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (7.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (4.88%) Power BI
5 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) Jenkins
1 6 (14.63%) JIRA
2 4 (9.76%) Artifactory
2 4 (9.76%) Git
3 3 (7.32%) Bitbucket
3 3 (7.32%) GitLab
4 1 (2.44%) JMeter
4 1 (2.44%) Locust
4 1 (2.44%) MSBuild
4 1 (2.44%) Newman
4 1 (2.44%) NUnit
4 1 (2.44%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (2.44%) Robot Framework
4 1 (2.44%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.44%) TestCafe
4 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (29.27%) Finance
2 9 (21.95%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.07%) Banking
4 3 (7.32%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (34.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (31.71%) Support Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) Infrastructure Support
3 6 (14.63%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) C# Developer
4 4 (9.76%) Developer
5 3 (7.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 3 (7.32%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (7.32%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Applications Support
5 3 (7.32%) Applications Support Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Server Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Windows Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Active Directory Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Active Directory Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.95%) .NET
2 8 (19.51%) Terraform
3 5 (12.20%) .NET Framework
4 2 (4.88%) 802.1X
4 2 (4.88%) ASP.NET
4 2 (4.88%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (4.88%) REST
5 1 (2.44%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (2.44%) Blazor
5 1 (2.44%) Entity Framework
5 1 (2.44%) LDAP
5 1 (2.44%) Middleware
5 1 (2.44%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Clustering
2 4 (9.76%) Data Centre
2 4 (9.76%) PKI
3 3 (7.32%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (7.32%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.88%) AI Agents
4 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.88%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.44%) BYOD
5 1 (2.44%) CMDB
5 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.44%) Fat Client
5 1 (2.44%) Media Streaming
5 1 (2.44%) Thin Client
5 1 (2.44%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 41 (100.00%) Windows
2 15 (36.59%) Linux
3 4 (9.76%) VMS
3 4 (9.76%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (7.32%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (4.88%) CentOS
5 2 (4.88%) macOS
5 2 (4.88%) OpenVMS
5 2 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.88%) Unix
5 2 (4.88%) Windows 7
5 2 (4.88%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.44%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (41.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (29.27%) DevOps
3 7 (17.07%) CI/CD
3 7 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (17.07%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 6 (14.63%) AI
4 6 (14.63%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (14.63%) ITIL
4 6 (14.63%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (12.20%) Change Control
5 5 (12.20%) ITSM
5 5 (12.20%) Migration
6 4 (9.76%) Data Analysis
6 4 (9.76%) Incident Management
6 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (9.76%) Mentoring
6 4 (9.76%) Observability
6 4 (9.76%) Project Delivery
6 4 (9.76%) Unit Testing
7 3 (7.32%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (46.34%) PowerShell
2 8 (19.51%) SQL
3 7 (17.07%) C#
3 7 (17.07%) Python
4 6 (14.63%) Bash
5 4 (9.76%) PL/SQL
5 4 (9.76%) T-SQL
6 3 (7.32%) Java
7 1 (2.44%) CodeQL
7 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (36.59%) Security Cleared
2 9 (21.95%) SC Cleared
3 6 (14.63%) DV Cleared
4 5 (12.20%) Degree
5 1 (2.44%) CCNA
5 1 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.44%) MCSE
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.44%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.07%) QA
2 2 (4.88%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.44%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.44%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (53.66%) Active Directory
2 15 (36.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (19.51%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (14.63%) Docker
4 6 (14.63%) Hyper-V
5 4 (9.76%) vSphere
6 3 (7.32%) BitLocker
6 3 (7.32%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (7.32%) Terminal Services
7 2 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (2.44%) Firmware
8 1 (2.44%) UAG
8 1 (2.44%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (24.39%) Ansible
2 8 (19.51%) Kubernetes
3 7 (17.07%) SCCM
4 6 (14.63%) vCenter Server
5 5 (12.20%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (7.32%) Grafana
6 3 (7.32%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (7.32%) Nagios
6 3 (7.32%) Puppet
6 3 (7.32%) vMotion
6 3 (7.32%) WSUS
7 2 (4.88%) FortiGate
7 2 (4.88%) Nessus
7 2 (4.88%) NetBackup
8 1 (2.44%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (2.44%) SCOM
Vendors
1 20 (48.78%) VMware
2 17 (41.46%) Microsoft
3 11 (26.83%) Oracle
4 10 (24.39%) Citrix
5 6 (14.63%) ServiceNow
6 5 (12.20%) Cisco
6 5 (12.20%) Dynatrace
6 5 (12.20%) Google
7 3 (7.32%) HP
7 3 (7.32%) ION Trading
7 3 (7.32%) Splunk
7 3 (7.32%) Symantec
8 2 (4.88%) CyberArk
8 2 (4.88%) EMC
8 2 (4.88%) Tenable
8 2 (4.88%) Veeam
8 2 (4.88%) Veritas
8 2 (4.88%) Zscaler
9 1 (2.44%) Metaswitch
9 1 (2.44%) Pure Storage