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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 100 84
Rank change year-on-year 0 -16 +30
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 19 30 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.08% 1.43% 2.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.05% 10.79% 17.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 20 52
10th Percentile £312 £347 £418
25th Percentile £406 £404 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +9.95%
75th Percentile £624 £606 £646
90th Percentile £633 £651 £700
Central London median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +23.43%
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 - - +9.76%

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 189 278 418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.72% 13.25% 14.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 180 288
10th Percentile £254 £255 £182
25th Percentile £325 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile £673 £643 £639
90th Percentile £722 £726 £725
Central London median daily rate £496 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -3.79% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £24.25 £23.90 £23.88
25th Percentile £25.00 £25.06 £27.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -25.52% +81.25%
75th Percentile £29.50 £28.19 £45.31
90th Percentile £29.95 £28.90 £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £26.00 £27.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year -3.70% -25.52% +79.01%

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
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 18 September 2025.

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 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 1 (5.26%) Confluence
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (42.11%) Azure
3 3 (15.79%) IaaS
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
4 2 (10.53%) PaaS
4 2 (10.53%) SaaS
5 1 (5.26%) AWS
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (36.84%) Firewall
2 5 (26.32%) DNS
3 3 (15.79%) DHCP
4 2 (10.53%) Softphone
4 2 (10.53%) WAN
4 2 (10.53%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (10.53%) Wireless
5 1 (5.26%) Kerberos
5 1 (5.26%) LAN
5 1 (5.26%) MPLS
5 1 (5.26%) SAN
5 1 (5.26%) SSH
5 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
5 1 (5.26%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Hive
2 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.26%) Impala
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
1 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
1 1 (5.26%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (21.05%) Finance
1 4 (21.05%) Front Office
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Banking
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.26%) International Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (15.79%) Analyst
1 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (15.79%) Support Analyst
1 3 (15.79%) Trade Floor Support Analyst
2 2 (10.53%) Architect
2 2 (10.53%) Lead
2 2 (10.53%) Service Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Active Directory Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Applications Support Specialist
3 1 (5.26%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Security Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Senior
3 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Server Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Subject Matter Expert
3 1 (5.26%) Team Leader
3 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (5.26%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (15.79%) Equities
3 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
3 2 (10.53%) iPad
3 2 (10.53%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (5.26%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.26%) Fat Client
4 1 (5.26%) Fixed Income
4 1 (5.26%) HP Storage
4 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Market Risk
4 1 (5.26%) Thin Client
4 1 (5.26%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (26.32%) Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.26%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.26%) Unix
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) ITIL
1 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (15.79%) Server Management
3 3 (15.79%) Service Management
4 2 (10.53%) Business Continuity
4 2 (10.53%) Change Management
4 2 (10.53%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (10.53%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (10.53%) Decision-Making
4 2 (10.53%) DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) Migration
4 2 (10.53%) Project Delivery
4 2 (10.53%) Software Engineering
4 2 (10.53%) Task Automation
4 2 (10.53%) User Experience
5 1 (5.26%) Data Centre Operations
5 1 (5.26%) Mentoring
5 1 (5.26%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.79%) Python
3 2 (10.53%) Java
3 2 (10.53%) SQL
4 1 (5.26%) Bash
4 1 (5.26%) C
4 1 (5.26%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (15.79%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) Degree
3 2 (10.53%) MCITP
4 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.26%) MCSA
4 1 (5.26%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.53%) SLA
3 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.26%) GDPR
3 1 (5.26%) HIPAA
3 1 (5.26%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (63.16%) Active Directory
2 4 (21.05%) Hyper-V
3 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (5.26%) Docker
4 1 (5.26%) HDFS
4 1 (5.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (10.53%) SCOM
3 1 (5.26%) Ansible
3 1 (5.26%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (5.26%) Kibana
3 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (68.42%) Microsoft
2 5 (26.32%) VMware
3 4 (21.05%) Citrix
4 3 (15.79%) Bloomberg
4 3 (15.79%) HP
4 3 (15.79%) Refinitiv
4 3 (15.79%) Reuters
5 2 (10.53%) Dell
5 2 (10.53%) Oracle
5 2 (10.53%) Polycom
6 1 (5.26%) Cisco
6 1 (5.26%) CyberArk
6 1 (5.26%) Infoblox
6 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto
6 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow