Windows Server Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Windows Server
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Windows Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 107 115
Rank change year-on-year +19 +8 -15
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 36 67 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.66% 1.85% 1.93%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.90% 13.24% 14.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 53 66
10th Percentile £416 £263 £361
25th Percentile £484 £450 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year +17.92% +0.95% +26.51%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £583
90th Percentile £686 £700 £594
Central London median daily rate £575 £495 £507
% change year-on-year +16.16% -2.27% +15.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £27.60
25th Percentile - - £44.25
Median hourly rate - - £76.00
75th Percentile - - £111.25
90th Percentile - - £130.00
Central London median hourly rate - - £76.00

All Operating Systems
City of London

Windows Server is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 279 506 558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.85% 13.95% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 362 429
10th Percentile £190 £160 £207
25th Percentile £313 £270 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% +1.90% +7.25%
75th Percentile £671 £663 £625
90th Percentile £744 £737 £700
Central London median daily rate £450 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 15
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +42.86% +75.00%
75th Percentile £25.38 £59.38 £31.38
90th Percentile £26.35 £74.00 £67.25
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -35.71% +42.86% +75.00%

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 4 May 2024.

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 8 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (8.33%) IIS
3 2 (5.56%) Apache
3 2 (5.56%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (5.56%) JBoss
3 2 (5.56%) nginx
3 2 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.56%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.78%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (2.78%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 18 (50.00%) Azure
2 9 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (22.22%) Entra ID
4 6 (16.67%) AWS
5 4 (11.11%) GitHub
5 4 (11.11%) IaaS
5 4 (11.11%) Mimecast
6 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (5.56%) GCP
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.78%) Azure API Management
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.78%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.78%) Route 53
8 1 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (2.78%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 12 (33.33%) DNS
1 12 (33.33%) Firewall
2 4 (11.11%) MPLS
2 4 (11.11%) SAN
3 3 (8.33%) NAS
4 2 (5.56%) SSL
4 2 (5.56%) VPN
4 2 (5.56%) Wireless
5 1 (2.78%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (2.78%) iSCSI
5 1 (2.78%) Network Security
5 1 (2.78%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.78%) Skype
5 1 (2.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.78%) SQL Server
2 4 (11.11%) RDBMS
2 4 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 3 (8.33%) MySQL
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.78%) Metadata
4 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.33%) GitLab
2 3 (8.33%) JIRA
3 2 (5.56%) Git
3 2 (5.56%) Subversion
3 2 (5.56%) TeamCity
3 2 (5.56%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.78%) AppScan
4 1 (2.78%) Burp Suite
4 1 (2.78%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (2.78%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 9 (25.00%) Finance
2 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.11%) French Language
4 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Banking
5 2 (5.56%) Front Office
5 2 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.78%) Back Office
6 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Law
6 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Analyst
2 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (16.67%) IT Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) Operations Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Senior
3 5 (13.89%) Senior Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) Senior Systems Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) Systems Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) IT Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Site Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Windows Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Administrator
6 2 (5.56%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Server Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (5.56%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Wintel Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Exchange Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) ARM Templates
1 2 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (5.56%) IBM Integration Bus
2 1 (2.78%) .NET
2 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.78%) CSS
2 1 (2.78%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (2.78%) HTML
2 1 (2.78%) HTML5
2 1 (2.78%) LAMP
2 1 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (5.56%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.78%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (2.78%) Clustering
2 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.78%) Fat Client
2 1 (2.78%) HP Storage
2 1 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.78%) PKI
2 1 (2.78%) Replication
2 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
2 1 (2.78%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 36 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (30.56%) Linux
3 5 (13.89%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (13.89%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (13.89%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (8.33%) Unix
5 2 (5.56%) VMS
5 2 (5.56%) Windows 7
5 2 (5.56%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (2.78%) CentOS
6 1 (2.78%) OpenVMS
6 1 (2.78%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.78%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (30.56%) DevOps
2 10 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (16.67%) IT Strategy
4 5 (13.89%) CI/CD
4 5 (13.89%) Identity Management
4 5 (13.89%) Time Management
5 4 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
5 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (11.11%) Migration
5 4 (11.11%) Project Delivery
5 4 (11.11%) Scrum
5 4 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (8.33%) Agile
6 3 (8.33%) Configuration Management
6 3 (8.33%) ITIL
6 3 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (5.56%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (5.56%) Information Security
7 2 (5.56%) Project Management
7 2 (5.56%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (61.11%) PowerShell
2 11 (30.56%) Python
3 10 (27.78%) SQL
4 3 (8.33%) Bash
4 3 (8.33%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.56%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.78%) PHP
6 1 (2.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.78%) Degree
3 1 (2.78%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (2.78%) SANS
3 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.78%) NIST
2 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (41.67%) Active Directory
2 9 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (11.11%) Hyper-V
4 2 (5.56%) Docker
4 2 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (5.56%) vSphere
5 1 (2.78%) KVM
5 1 (2.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) SCCM
2 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (13.89%) Terraform
3 3 (8.33%) Ansible
3 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.56%) Grafana
4 2 (5.56%) Graylog
4 2 (5.56%) Nagios
4 2 (5.56%) Progress Chef
4 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.56%) Puppet
5 1 (2.78%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (2.78%) HP Fortify
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (2.78%) Nessus
5 1 (2.78%) NetBackup
5 1 (2.78%) Packer
5 1 (2.78%) WebInspect
5 1 (2.78%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (47.22%) Microsoft
2 12 (33.33%) VMware
3 7 (19.44%) Citrix
4 4 (11.11%) Okta
4 4 (11.11%) Oracle
4 4 (11.11%) Red Hat
5 3 (8.33%) IBM
5 3 (8.33%) Veeam
6 2 (5.56%) Dell
6 2 (5.56%) HP
6 2 (5.56%) Splunk
6 2 (5.56%) Temenos
7 1 (2.78%) Aruba
7 1 (2.78%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.78%) Intel
7 1 (2.78%) NetApp
7 1 (2.78%) ProCurve
7 1 (2.78%) Sun
7 1 (2.78%) Synology
7 1 (2.78%) Veritas