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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 111 95
Rank change year-on-year +8 -16 -11
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 34 21 33
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.44% 1.13% 1.59%
As % of the Operating Systems category 17.00% 9.59% 11.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 15 23
10th Percentile £282 £320 £355
25th Percentile £410 £451 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £624 £613
90th Percentile £668 £687 £649
Central London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
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 200 219 280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.48% 11.77% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 158 189
10th Percentile £192 £261 £250
25th Percentile £368 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £675 £728 £725
Central London median daily rate £500 £496 £510
% change year-on-year +0.91% -2.84% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £19.28 £24.50 £23.90
25th Percentile £19.31 £25.63 £25.06
Median hourly rate £20.25 £28.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.68% +3.70% -46.00%
75th Percentile £21.81 £69.56 £28.19
90th Percentile £22.23 £140.33 £28.90
Central London median hourly rate £20.25 £27.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -26.36% +1.85% -46.00%

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 15 August 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 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.88%) Exchange Server 2013
2 2 (5.88%) IIS
2 2 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (35.29%) Azure
2 8 (23.53%) AWS
3 5 (14.71%) GCP
3 5 (14.71%) OpenShift
4 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (8.82%) GitHub
4 3 (8.82%) IaaS
4 3 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (8.82%) PaaS
5 2 (5.88%) Azure AKS
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (52.94%) DNS
2 10 (29.41%) DHCP
3 8 (23.53%) Firewall
3 8 (23.53%) VPN
4 3 (8.82%) SMTP
4 3 (8.82%) TCP/IP
5 2 (5.88%) DMZ
5 2 (5.88%) VLAN
5 2 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (2.94%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (2.94%) LAN
6 1 (2.94%) SAN
6 1 (2.94%) Wireless
6 1 (2.94%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (44.12%) SQL Server
2 5 (14.71%) Oracle Database
3 3 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (8.82%) Big Data
3 3 (8.82%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (8.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (5.88%) Power BI
5 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Jenkins
1 4 (11.76%) JIRA
2 2 (5.88%) Artifactory
2 2 (5.88%) Bitbucket
2 2 (5.88%) Git
2 2 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Banking
2 4 (11.76%) Finance
3 2 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.94%) Mandarin Language
4 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (35.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 12 (35.29%) Support Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure Support
2 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) C# Developer
3 5 (14.71%) Developer
4 3 (8.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 3 (8.82%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (8.82%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Active Directory Support
5 2 (5.88%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) .NET
2 5 (14.71%) .NET Framework
3 2 (5.88%) 802.1X
3 2 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (2.94%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.94%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Clustering
1 5 (14.71%) PKI
2 4 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.88%) AI Agents
3 2 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.88%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.94%) BYOD
4 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.94%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.94%) Thin Client
4 1 (2.94%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 34 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (26.47%) Linux
3 4 (11.76%) VMS
3 4 (11.76%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (5.88%) Mac OS
4 2 (5.88%) OpenVMS
4 2 (5.88%) Windows 7
4 2 (5.88%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.94%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (44.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (23.53%) DevOps
3 7 (20.59%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (17.65%) AI
4 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (14.71%) Data Analysis
5 5 (14.71%) Unit Testing
6 4 (11.76%) Change Control
6 4 (11.76%) CI/CD
6 4 (11.76%) ITSM
6 4 (11.76%) Mentoring
6 4 (11.76%) Migration
7 3 (8.82%) Incident Management
7 3 (8.82%) ITIL
7 3 (8.82%) Machine Learning
7 3 (8.82%) Observability
7 3 (8.82%) Problem Management
7 3 (8.82%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (8.82%) Service Delivery
7 3 (8.82%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 13 (38.24%) PowerShell
2 9 (26.47%) SQL
3 7 (20.59%) C#
4 5 (14.71%) PL/SQL
4 5 (14.71%) T-SQL
5 4 (11.76%) Bash
5 4 (11.76%) Python
6 2 (5.88%) Java
7 1 (2.94%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (44.12%) Security Cleared
2 8 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 6 (17.65%) DV Cleared
4 4 (11.76%) Degree
5 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.94%) CCNA
6 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.94%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.59%) QA
2 2 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.94%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (58.82%) Active Directory
2 13 (38.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (23.53%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (14.71%) Docker
4 5 (14.71%) Hyper-V
5 3 (8.82%) BitLocker
5 3 (8.82%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (8.82%) Terminal Services
5 3 (8.82%) vSphere
6 2 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (2.94%) Firmware
7 1 (2.94%) UAG
7 1 (2.94%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (20.59%) Ansible
1 7 (20.59%) Kubernetes
2 6 (17.65%) vCenter Server
3 5 (14.71%) Terraform
4 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (11.76%) SCCM
5 3 (8.82%) Nagios
5 3 (8.82%) Puppet
5 3 (8.82%) vMotion
6 2 (5.88%) FortiGate
6 2 (5.88%) Grafana
6 2 (5.88%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (5.88%) Nessus
6 2 (5.88%) NetBackup
6 2 (5.88%) WSUS
7 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (2.94%) SCOM
Vendors
1 18 (52.94%) VMware
2 14 (41.18%) Microsoft
3 11 (32.35%) Citrix
4 10 (29.41%) Oracle
5 5 (14.71%) Google
6 4 (11.76%) Cisco
6 4 (11.76%) Dynatrace
6 4 (11.76%) ServiceNow
7 3 (8.82%) HP
7 3 (8.82%) Symantec
8 2 (5.88%) EMC
8 2 (5.88%) ION Trading
8 2 (5.88%) Splunk
8 2 (5.88%) Tenable
8 2 (5.88%) Veeam
8 2 (5.88%) Veritas
8 2 (5.88%) Zscaler
9 1 (2.94%) Pure Storage
9 1 (2.94%) RedGate
9 1 (2.94%) Remedy