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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 88 95
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 +32
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 35 38 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.97% 1.78% 2.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.22% 13.01% 15.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 31 54
10th Percentile £308 £350 £263
25th Percentile £500 £419 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £531
Median % change year-on-year - +3.53% -0.23%
75th Percentile £660 £648 £645
90th Percentile £738 £675 £700
Central London median daily rate £550 £538 £520
% change year-on-year +2.33% +3.37% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £22.50
% change year-on-year - - +12.50%

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 230 292 482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.93% 13.70% 13.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 207 337
10th Percentile £255 £228 £152
25th Percentile £356 £350 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £501 £526
Median % change year-on-year +3.40% -4.76% +3.29%
75th Percentile £662 £666 £650
90th Percentile £722 £725 £732
Central London median daily rate £518 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +3.50% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £24.35 £21.81 £26.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.66 £34.38
Median hourly rate £28.50 £26.63 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.04% -46.75% +194.12%
75th Percentile £108.88 £27.59 £68.13
90th Percentile £156.05 £28.66 £77.50
Central London median hourly rate £28.50 £26.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year +8.57% -30.00% +87.50%

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 2 July 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 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (54.29%) Azure
2 15 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (25.71%) Entra ID
4 5 (14.29%) AWS
4 5 (14.29%) IaaS
4 5 (14.29%) SaaS
5 4 (11.43%) GitHub
6 3 (8.57%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (5.71%) Azure AKS
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (5.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (5.71%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (5.71%) GCP
7 2 (5.71%) PaaS
7 2 (5.71%) Serverless
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.86%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 10 (28.57%) Firewall
2 7 (20.00%) DNS
3 3 (8.57%) MPLS
4 2 (5.71%) Network Security
4 2 (5.71%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.86%) DHCP
5 1 (2.86%) HTTP
5 1 (2.86%) SAN
5 1 (2.86%) SMTP
5 1 (2.86%) WAN
5 1 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (11.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (11.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) JIRA
2 2 (5.71%) Git
3 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (51.43%) Finance
2 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Banking
4 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Front Office
5 2 (5.71%) Spanish Language
6 1 (2.86%) International Banking
6 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) Analyst
3 6 (17.14%) Applications Support
3 6 (17.14%) Support Analyst
4 5 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Support Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Senior
6 3 (8.57%) Applications Support Analyst
6 3 (8.57%) Architect
6 3 (8.57%) Trade Floor Support Analyst
6 3 (8.57%) VMware Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Applications Specialist
7 2 (5.71%) Applications Support Specialist
7 2 (5.71%) CRM Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Integration Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Server Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) ARM Templates
1 2 (5.71%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (2.86%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Data Centre
1 4 (11.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (8.57%) Equities
2 3 (8.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.71%) Clustering
3 2 (5.71%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (5.71%) Reinsurance
3 2 (5.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 2 (5.71%) Wiki
4 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.86%) Grid Computing
4 1 (2.86%) HP Storage
4 1 (2.86%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (14.29%) Linux
4 3 (8.57%) Windows 10
5 2 (5.71%) Apple iOS
5 2 (5.71%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.86%) Android
6 1 (2.86%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.86%) Unix
6 1 (2.86%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (14.29%) ITIL
3 4 (11.43%) CRM
3 4 (11.43%) Data Loss Prevention
3 4 (11.43%) DevOps
3 4 (11.43%) Project Delivery
4 3 (8.57%) Configuration Management
4 3 (8.57%) Data Protection
4 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (8.57%) Migration
4 3 (8.57%) Time Management
5 2 (5.71%) Capacity Management
5 2 (5.71%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (5.71%) High Availability
5 2 (5.71%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (5.71%) ITSM
5 2 (5.71%) Security Hardening
5 2 (5.71%) SIEM
5 2 (5.71%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 14 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 9 (25.71%) SQL
3 5 (14.29%) Python
4 3 (8.57%) Bash
5 2 (5.71%) Bicep
5 2 (5.71%) C#
5 2 (5.71%) Java
6 1 (2.86%) C
6 1 (2.86%) C++
6 1 (2.86%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Degree
2 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (5.71%) VCAP
3 2 (5.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) GDPR
2 2 (5.71%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.86%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.86%) NIST
3 1 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (45.71%) Active Directory
2 7 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.71%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.71%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.86%) BitLocker
4 1 (2.86%) Docker
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (2.86%) Platform Symphony
4 1 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.86%) XenApp
4 1 (2.86%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (8.57%) Ansible
3 2 (5.71%) FortiGate
3 2 (5.71%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (5.71%) Progress Chef
3 2 (5.71%) SCCM
3 2 (5.71%) Terraform
4 1 (2.86%) Grafana
4 1 (2.86%) Kibana
4 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.86%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (28.57%) VMware
3 5 (14.29%) Citrix
4 3 (8.57%) Bloomberg
4 3 (8.57%) Refinitiv
4 3 (8.57%) Reuters
5 2 (5.71%) Atempo
5 2 (5.71%) Databricks
5 2 (5.71%) F5
5 2 (5.71%) Fortinet
5 2 (5.71%) Mellanox
5 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.86%) Commvault
6 1 (2.86%) Dell
6 1 (2.86%) HP
6 1 (2.86%) Juniper
6 1 (2.86%) NetApp
6 1 (2.86%) NETGEAR
6 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.86%) TIBCO