Windows Server 2019 Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Windows Server 2019
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Windows Server 2019 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 80 98
Rank change year-on-year -15 +18 +9
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2019 7 7 17
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.47% 0.55% 0.91%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.57% 3.15% 5.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 16
10th Percentile £449 £117 £288
25th Percentile £525 £223 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -23.81% -8.70%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £728
90th Percentile £590 £560 £844
England median daily rate £588 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +17.50% +5.26% -

All Operating Systems
East of England

Windows Server 2019 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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 272 222 339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 18.19% 17.45% 18.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 88 227
10th Percentile £163 £213 £143
25th Percentile £190 £277 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year -31.49% -6.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £491 £575 £595
90th Percentile £575 £583 £715
England median daily rate £450 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 31 44
10th Percentile £13.00 £40.00 £13.29
25th Percentile £19.57 £52.13 £14.16
Median hourly rate £42.50 £65.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.62% +182.61% -11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £70.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £67.50 £74.63
England median hourly rate £23.00 £57.50 £39.08
% change year-on-year -60.00% +47.14% +56.31%

Windows Server 2019
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows Server 2019 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Windows Server 2019 job vacancy trend in the East of England

Windows Server 2019
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Windows Server 2019.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Windows Server 2019

Windows Server 2019
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2019 in the East of England over the 6 months to 17 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2019 in the East of England

Windows Server 2019
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2019 within the East of England region over the 6 months to 17 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -11 5 £550 -8.33% 4
Cambridgeshire - 1 £575 -
Essex - 1 £335 - 1
Windows Server 2019
England

Windows Server 2019
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Cohesity
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) DNS
2 5 (71.43%) SAN
3 2 (28.57%) DHCP
4 1 (14.29%) Firewall
4 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
1 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (28.57%) Linux
4 1 (14.29%) CentOS
4 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Build Automation
1 4 (57.14%) Deployment Automation
1 4 (57.14%) Operations Management
1 4 (57.14%) SIEM
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) DV Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
1 6 (85.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 4 (57.14%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
1 4 (57.14%) SCCM
1 4 (57.14%) WSUS
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
1 6 (85.71%) VMware
2 4 (57.14%) NetApp
2 4 (57.14%) Splunk
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) Veeam