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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 92 85
Rank change year-on-year -6 -7 +38
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 18 34 65
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.06% 1.61% 2.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.40% 12.73% 15.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 21 42
10th Percentile £319 £321 £375
25th Percentile £406 £400 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £623 £563 £600
90th Percentile £631 £650 £676
Central London median daily rate £500 £450 £523
% change year-on-year +11.11% -13.88% +16.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - £112.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - +397.78% +9.76%
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £112.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year - +397.78% +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 173 267 407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.20% 12.67% 14.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 177 273
10th Percentile £218 £240 £196
25th Percentile £340 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £625
90th Percentile £735 £725 £713
Central London median daily rate £513 £500 £495
% change year-on-year +2.50% +1.01% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £24.25 £24.29 £23.88
25th Percentile £25.00 £26.03 £27.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £69.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -60.43% +91.72% +81.25%
75th Percentile £29.50 £112.00 £45.31
90th Percentile £29.95 - £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £26.00 £69.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -62.59% +91.72% +79.01%

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 21 October 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 & 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 1 (5.56%) Confluence
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (44.44%) Azure
3 3 (16.67%) IaaS
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 2 (11.11%) PaaS
4 2 (11.11%) SaaS
5 1 (5.56%) AWS
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) Firewall
2 5 (27.78%) DNS
3 3 (16.67%) DHCP
4 2 (11.11%) Softphone
4 2 (11.11%) WAN
4 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (11.11%) Wireless
5 1 (5.56%) Kerberos
5 1 (5.56%) LAN
5 1 (5.56%) MPLS
5 1 (5.56%) SAN
5 1 (5.56%) SSH
5 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
5 1 (5.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Hive
2 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.56%) Impala
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
1 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
1 1 (5.56%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (16.67%) Finance
1 3 (16.67%) Front Office
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Architect
2 2 (11.11%) Lead
2 2 (11.11%) Service Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Applications Support Specialist
3 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Team Leader
3 1 (5.56%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Security Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Senior
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Server Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Subject Matter Expert
3 1 (5.56%) Team Leader
3 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (5.56%) Middleware
1 1 (5.56%) Regular Expression
1 1 (5.56%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) iPad
2 2 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.56%) Equities
3 1 (5.56%) Fat Client
3 1 (5.56%) Fixed Income
3 1 (5.56%) HP Storage
3 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Market Risk
3 1 (5.56%) Thin Client
3 1 (5.56%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (11.11%) Unix
4 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
4 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
4 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.56%) Solaris
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) ITIL
1 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (16.67%) Server Management
3 3 (16.67%) Service Management
4 2 (11.11%) Agile
4 2 (11.11%) Business Continuity
4 2 (11.11%) Change Management
4 2 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
4 2 (11.11%) DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) Migration
4 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
4 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) Task Automation
4 2 (11.11%) User Experience
5 1 (5.56%) Business Continuity Planning
5 1 (5.56%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) PowerShell
2 4 (22.22%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) Bash
3 2 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) C
4 1 (5.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Degree
3 2 (11.11%) MCITP
4 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.56%) MCSA
4 1 (5.56%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (11.11%) SLA
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.56%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) HIPAA
3 1 (5.56%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (22.22%) Hyper-V
3 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (5.56%) Docker
4 1 (5.56%) HDFS
4 1 (5.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (11.11%) SCOM
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (5.56%) Kibana
3 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (72.22%) Microsoft
2 6 (33.33%) VMware
3 3 (16.67%) HP
4 2 (11.11%) Citrix
4 2 (11.11%) Dell
4 2 (11.11%) Oracle
4 2 (11.11%) Polycom
5 1 (5.56%) Bloomberg
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco
5 1 (5.56%) CyberArk
5 1 (5.56%) Infoblox
5 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto
5 1 (5.56%) Qualys
5 1 (5.56%) Refinitiv
5 1 (5.56%) Reuters
5 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.56%) Symantec
5 1 (5.56%) Tanium
5 1 (5.56%) Tenable