Windows Server 2012 Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Windows Server 2012 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server 2012 over the 3 months to 27 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 UK / England
Location	3 months to 27 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	176	143	120
Rank change year-on-year	-33	-23
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2012	638	871	952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	1.48%	1.76%	1.90%
As % of the Operating Systems category	7.18%	7.66%	8.48%
Number of daily rates quoted	390	545	586
Median daily rate	£325	£350	£338
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-7.14%	+3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£175	£225	£195
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£450	£500	£450
UK excluding London median daily rate	£325	£340	£340
% change year-on-year	-4.41%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	28	35	72
Median hourly rate	£17.00	£18.50	£21.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-8.10%	-11.90%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.20	£12.20	£10.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£83.75	£40.60	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.00	£21.50	£21.00
% change year-on-year	-20.93%	+2.38%

Windows Server 2012 is in the operating system skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract Operating System Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills	8881	11374	11222
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	20.54%	22.94%	22.35%
Number of daily rates quoted	5537	7301	6668
Median daily rate	£413	£400	£360
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+3.12%	+11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£175	£205	£175
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£560	£550	£525
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£363	£350
% change year-on-year	+3.44%	+3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted	516	593	877
Median hourly rate	£16.50	£16.50	£17.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-	-2.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.00	£11.50	£11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.50	£42.00	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£15.50	£17.50	£16.50
% change year-on-year	-11.42%	+6.06%

Windows Server 2012
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing Windows Server 2012 as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Operating Systems category.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2012 in England

Windows Server 2012
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Windows Server 2012 in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for Windows Server 2012 in England

Windows Server 2012
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Windows Server 2012 in England over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2012 in England

Windows Server 2012
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2012 in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2012 in England

Windows Server 2012
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Windows Server 2012 in England over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Windows Server 2012 in England

Windows Server 2012
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2012 within the England region over the 3 months to 27 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	-43	228	£325	-13.33%	72
South East	-8	162	£333	-6.33%	51
North West	-3	55	£300	-11.11%	32
South West	-11	52	£338	-3.57%	22
Yorkshire	+17	40	£325	-	18
West Midlands	+11	35	£263	-20.45%	20
East Midlands	+6	33	£253	-32.66%	7
East of England	-18	30	£381	-4.68%	11
North East	+33	12	£400	+70.21%	2
Windows Server 2012 UK

Windows Server 2012
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 27 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Windows Server 2012 also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for Windows Server 2012.

1	1262 (100.00%)	Windows
2	909 (72.03%)	Windows Server
3	786 (62.28%)	Active Directory
4	760 (60.22%)	Windows Server 2008
5	607 (48.10%)	VMware
6	554 (43.90%)	Microsoft
7	376 (29.79%)	PowerShell
8	347 (27.50%)	VMware Infrastructure
9	301 (23.85%)	SQL Server
10	291 (23.06%)	DNS
11	279 (22.11%)	MS Exchange
12	262 (20.76%)	Windows Server 2003
13	247 (19.57%)	SQL
13	247 (19.57%)	Office 365
14	232 (18.38%)	Citrix

15	229 (18.15%)	Hyper-V
16	228 (18.07%)	Microsoft Azure
17	227 (17.99%)	Cisco
18	226 (17.91%)	ITIL
18	226 (17.91%)	Windows 7
19	225 (17.83%)	Migration
20	220 (17.43%)	Linux
21	218 (17.27%)	SCCM
22	214 (16.96%)	HP
23	200 (15.85%)	Security Cleared
24	197 (15.61%)	Microsoft Certification
25	194 (15.37%)	Exchange Server 2010
26	193 (15.29%)	Firewall
27	190 (15.06%)	Finance
28	184 (14.58%)	DHCP

Windows Server 2012
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	279 (22.11%)	MS Exchange
2	194 (15.37%)	Exchange Server 2010
3	142 (11.25%)	Exchange Server 2013
4	134 (10.62%)	IIS
5	100 (7.92%)	SharePoint
6	74 (5.86%)	Skype for Business
7	52 (4.12%)	Exchange Server 2007
8	37 (2.93%)	SharePoint 2013
9	27 (2.14%)	Tomcat
10	23 (1.82%)	JBoss
10	23 (1.82%)	SharePoint 2010
11	13 (1.03%)	Apache
11	13 (1.03%)	BizTalk Server
12	12 (0.95%)	WildFly
13	11 (0.87%)	Confluence
14	10 (0.79%)	Exchange Server 2003
15	9 (0.71%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
15	9 (0.71%)	OpenStack
16	7 (0.55%)	WebSphere
17	6 (0.48%)	SharePoint Server

Applications
1	117 (9.27%)	Microsoft Office
2	18 (1.43%)	Microsoft Excel
3	5 (0.40%)	MS Visio
4	3 (0.24%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
4	3 (0.24%)	Spreadsheet
4	3 (0.24%)	Stata
5	2 (0.16%)	3ds Max
5	2 (0.16%)	AutoCAD
5	2 (0.16%)	CINEMA 4D
5	2 (0.16%)	Microsoft Project
5	2 (0.16%)	SketchUp
6	1 (0.079%)	Adobe Creative Suite

Business Applications
1	20 (1.58%)	Dynamics CRM
2	14 (1.11%)	SAP Oil and Gas
3	12 (0.95%)	Dynamics AX
3	12 (0.95%)	Oracle Applications
4	7 (0.55%)	Oracle 11i
5	6 (0.48%)	Unit4 Business World
6	4 (0.32%)	Pegasus Opera
7	3 (0.24%)	Demantra
7	3 (0.24%)	SnowdropKCS
8	2 (0.16%)	Bankmaster
8	2 (0.16%)	Primavera
8	2 (0.16%)	Teamcenter
9	1 (0.079%)	BusinessWorks
9	1 (0.079%)	Cognos Business Intelligence
9	1 (0.079%)	Exstream
9	1 (0.079%)	NetSuite
9	1 (0.079%)	Remedy AR System
9	1 (0.079%)	Remedy ITSM
9	1 (0.079%)	ResourceLink
9	1 (0.079%)	SAP Business One

Cloud Services
1	247 (19.57%)	Office 365
2	228 (18.07%)	Microsoft Azure
3	77 (6.10%)	Amazon AWS
4	55 (4.36%)	Azure Active Directory
5	25 (1.98%)	IaaS
6	16 (1.27%)	SaaS
7	13 (1.03%)	GitHub
7	13 (1.03%)	PaaS
8	12 (0.95%)	Mimecast
9	6 (0.48%)	AWS CloudFormation
10	3 (0.24%)	Amazon CloudWatch
10	3 (0.24%)	Mailgun
10	3 (0.24%)	OneDrive
10	3 (0.24%)	Virtual Private Cloud
11	2 (0.16%)	Amazon EC2
11	2 (0.16%)	Amazon S3
11	2 (0.16%)	AWS OpsWorks
12	1 (0.079%)	Amazon ELB
12	1 (0.079%)	Cloud Computing
12	1 (0.079%)	Route 53

Communications & Networking
1	291 (23.06%)	DNS
2	193 (15.29%)	Firewall
3	184 (14.58%)	DHCP
4	180 (14.26%)	SAN
5	154 (12.20%)	LAN
6	127 (10.06%)	WAN
7	96 (7.61%)	TCP/IP
8	69 (5.47%)	NAS
9	68 (5.39%)	VPN
10	46 (3.65%)	Skype
11	40 (3.17%)	Remote Desktop
12	39 (3.09%)	Wireless
13	38 (3.01%)	Internet
14	34 (2.69%)	VLAN
15	33 (2.61%)	LDAP
16	32 (2.54%)	NetScaler
16	32 (2.54%)	VoIP
17	29 (2.30%)	Wi-Fi
18	26 (2.06%)	MPLS
18	26 (2.06%)	SSL

Database & Business Intelligence
1	301 (23.85%)	SQL Server
2	144 (11.41%)	SQL Server 2012
3	85 (6.74%)	SQL Server 2008
4	49 (3.88%)	SQL Server 2005
5	44 (3.49%)	Oracle Database
6	42 (3.33%)	SQL Server 2014
7	30 (2.38%)	Relational Database
8	29 (2.30%)	Oracle Reports
9	28 (2.22%)	SQL Server Integration Services
10	27 (2.14%)	Oracle Database 10g
10	27 (2.14%)	Oracle Database 11g
11	26 (2.06%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
12	20 (1.58%)	RDBMS
13	14 (1.11%)	MySQL
13	14 (1.11%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
14	13 (1.03%)	PostgreSQL
15	11 (0.87%)	Data Warehouse
16	9 (0.71%)	BusinessObjects
16	9 (0.71%)	SQL Server 2016
17	8 (0.63%)	SAP BW

Development Applications
1	44 (3.49%)	Team Foundation Server
2	34 (2.69%)	TeamCity
3	31 (2.46%)	Jenkins
4	24 (1.90%)	Octopus Deploy
5	20 (1.58%)	Git (software)
6	19 (1.51%)	HP UFT
6	19 (1.51%)	Oracle APEX
6	19 (1.51%)	Selenium
6	19 (1.51%)	SpecFlow
7	16 (1.27%)	Eclipse
8	15 (1.19%)	MSI
8	15 (1.19%)	SoapUI
8	15 (1.19%)	Visual Studio
9	13 (1.03%)	Ant
9	13 (1.03%)	TestNG
9	13 (1.03%)	Toad
10	11 (0.87%)	JIRA
11	10 (0.79%)	LoadRunner
12	7 (0.55%)	Oracle Forms
12	7 (0.55%)	Subversion

General
1	190 (15.06%)	Finance
2	85 (6.74%)	Banking
3	35 (2.77%)	Retail
4	29 (2.30%)	Manufacturing
5	25 (1.98%)	Telecoms
6	21 (1.66%)	Law
7	18 (1.43%)	Back Office
7	18 (1.43%)	Legal
8	17 (1.35%)	Marketing
9	14 (1.11%)	Electronics
9	14 (1.11%)	Investment Banking
10	11 (0.87%)	Military
11	8 (0.63%)	Games
12	7 (0.55%)	Local Government
13	5 (0.40%)	Advertising
14	4 (0.32%)	Publishing
15	3 (0.24%)	Billing
16	2 (0.16%)	Financial Institution
16	2 (0.16%)	Front Office
16	2 (0.16%)	Pharmaceutical

Job Titles
1	173 (13.71%)	Infrastructure Engineer
2	155 (12.28%)	Analyst
3	139 (11.01%)	Support Engineer
4	130 (10.30%)	Windows Engineer
5	115 (9.11%)	3rd Line Engineer
6	93 (7.37%)	3rd Line Support
7	85 (6.74%)	Server Engineer
8	80 (6.34%)	Consultant
9	79 (6.26%)	Administrator
10	64 (5.07%)	Systems Engineer
11	60 (4.75%)	Architect
12	58 (4.60%)	2nd Line Support
13	50 (3.96%)	3rd Line Support Engineer
13	50 (3.96%)	VMware Engineer
14	48 (3.80%)	Active Directory Engineer
14	48 (3.80%)	Support Analyst
15	44 (3.49%)	Wintel Engineer
16	41 (3.25%)	Systems Administrator
16	41 (3.25%)	Windows Server Engineer
17	38 (3.01%)	DBA

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	72 (5.71%)	.NET
2	39 (3.09%)	Web Services
3	20 (1.58%)	XML
4	18 (1.43%)	Middleware
5	17 (1.35%)	ASP.NET
6	16 (1.27%)	HTML
7	14 (1.11%)	CSS
8	9 (0.71%)	SAML
9	8 (0.63%)	JSON
10	7 (0.55%)	SOAP
10	7 (0.55%)	XSLT
11	6 (0.48%)	.NET Framework
12	5 (0.40%)	ADSI
12	5 (0.40%)	REST
12	5 (0.40%)	Software Packaging
13	4 (0.32%)	LAMP
13	4 (0.32%)	MSMQ
13	4 (0.32%)	WAP
13	4 (0.32%)	WebSphere MQ
13	4 (0.32%)	X-Windows

Miscellaneous
1	138 (10.94%)	Data Centre
2	92 (7.29%)	Clustering
3	77 (6.10%)	Analytical Skills
4	52 (4.12%)	Replication
5	33 (2.61%)	Client/Server
6	32 (2.54%)	PKI
7	28 (2.22%)	Computer Science
8	27 (2.14%)	Management Information System
9	19 (1.51%)	Blackberry
10	18 (1.43%)	Video Conferencing
11	16 (1.27%)	EPoS
12	14 (1.11%)	Driving Licence
13	9 (0.71%)	Enterprise Software
13	9 (0.71%)	Private Cloud
14	8 (0.63%)	Public Cloud
15	7 (0.55%)	EMC VNX
15	7 (0.55%)	Virtual Team
16	6 (0.48%)	Life Science
16	6 (0.48%)	Linux Command Line
16	6 (0.48%)	User Experience

Operating Systems
1	1262 (100.00%)	Windows
2	909 (72.03%)	Windows Server
3	760 (60.22%)	Windows Server 2008
4	262 (20.76%)	Windows Server 2003
5	226 (17.91%)	Windows 7
6	220 (17.43%)	Linux
7	183 (14.50%)	Windows 10
8	95 (7.53%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9	78 (6.18%)	Unix
10	73 (5.78%)	Windows 8
11	31 (2.46%)	CentOS
12	27 (2.14%)	Windows XP
13	26 (2.06%)	Android
14	16 (1.27%)	SUSE
15	15 (1.19%)	Windows Vista
16	14 (1.11%)	AIX
17	12 (0.95%)	Solaris
18	11 (0.87%)	Apple iOS
18	11 (0.87%)	Ubuntu
18	11 (0.87%)	Windows 2000 Server

Processes & Methodologies
1	226 (17.91%)	ITIL
2	225 (17.83%)	Migration
3	95 (7.53%)	Project Management
4	90 (7.13%)	Change Management
5	81 (6.42%)	Agile Software Development
6	76 (6.02%)	Disaster Recovery
7	75 (5.94%)	DevOps
8	60 (4.75%)	Configuration Management
9	58 (4.60%)	Service Management
10	48 (3.80%)	High Availability
11	43 (3.41%)	Incident Management
11	43 (3.41%)	ITIL V3
12	41 (3.25%)	Service Delivery
13	39 (3.09%)	Business Intelligence
13	39 (3.09%)	Virtual Environments
14	34 (2.69%)	PRINCE2
15	33 (2.61%)	Problem Management
16	32 (2.54%)	Capacity Management
16	32 (2.54%)	Task Automation
16	32 (2.54%)	Virtual Infrastructure

Programming Languages
1	376 (29.79%)	PowerShell
2	247 (19.57%)	SQL
3	66 (5.23%)	VBScript
4	49 (3.88%)	Java
5	36 (2.85%)	C#
5	36 (2.85%)	VB
6	31 (2.46%)	Python
7	30 (2.38%)	JavaScript
8	25 (1.98%)	T-SQL
9	24 (1.90%)	Perl
10	20 (1.58%)	Bash Shell
11	19 (1.51%)	F#
12	15 (1.19%)	C
13	13 (1.03%)	PL/SQL
13	13 (1.03%)	Ruby
14	11 (0.87%)	PHP
14	11 (0.87%)	VB.NET
15	7 (0.55%)	Shell Script
16	6 (0.48%)	C++
17	4 (0.32%)	XPath

Qualifications
1	200 (15.85%)	Security Cleared
2	197 (15.61%)	Microsoft Certification
3	137 (10.86%)	SC Cleared
4	129 (10.22%)	MCSE
5	59 (4.68%)	Cisco Certification
5	59 (4.68%)	MCP
6	57 (4.52%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7	54 (4.28%)	MCSA
8	52 (4.12%)	DV Cleared
9	50 (3.96%)	Degree
10	45 (3.57%)	CCNA
11	40 (3.17%)	MCITP
12	24 (1.90%)	CCNP
13	22 (1.74%)	Computer Science Degree
14	18 (1.43%)	ITIL Certification
15	17 (1.35%)	MCTS
16	16 (1.27%)	Citrix Certification
17	15 (1.19%)	DBS Check
17	15 (1.19%)	ISEB
18	10 (0.79%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	55 (4.36%)	SLA
2	19 (1.51%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	14 (1.11%)	QA
4	13 (1.03%)	PCI DSS
5	11 (0.87%)	JSP 440
6	7 (0.55%)	GDPR
6	7 (0.55%)	PMO
7	6 (0.48%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
8	4 (0.32%)	Disclosure Scotland
9	3 (0.24%)	Data Quality
9	3 (0.24%)	ISO 9001
10	2 (0.16%)	PMBOK
11	1 (0.079%)	Cyber Essentials
11	1 (0.079%)	Cyber Essentials PLUS
11	1 (0.079%)	GMP
11	1 (0.079%)	MiFID

System Software
1	786 (62.28%)	Active Directory
2	347 (27.50%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	229 (18.15%)	Hyper-V
4	128 (10.14%)	vSphere
5	98 (7.77%)	VMware ESXi
6	94 (7.45%)	XenApp
7	54 (4.28%)	XenDesktop
8	53 (4.20%)	Virtual Machines
9	43 (3.41%)	Microsoft App-V
10	39 (3.09%)	Virtual Servers
11	19 (1.51%)	DFS Replication
12	14 (1.11%)	Terminal Services
12	14 (1.11%)	VMware Server
13	13 (1.03%)	Virtual Desktop
14	11 (0.87%)	Docker
14	11 (0.87%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
15	10 (0.79%)	VMware Workstation
16	8 (0.63%)	Forefront TMG
16	8 (0.63%)	ISA Server
16	8 (0.63%)	UAG

Systems Management
1	218 (17.27%)	SCCM
2	71 (5.63%)	SCOM
3	59 (4.68%)	WSUS
4	50 (3.96%)	NetBackup
5	40 (3.17%)	Microsoft Clustering
6	37 (2.93%)	vCenter Server
7	29 (2.30%)	AirWatch
8	28 (2.22%)	Puppet
9	26 (2.06%)	Opscode Chef
10	23 (1.82%)	vRealize
11	22 (1.74%)	Norton AntiVirus
12	20 (1.58%)	BladeLogic
12	20 (1.58%)	PowerCLI
13	19 (1.51%)	Ansible
14	18 (1.43%)	Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14	18 (1.43%)	OpenView Configuration Management
15	17 (1.35%)	Failover Clustering
16	16 (1.27%)	Nagios
17	15 (1.19%)	Microsoft Intune
17	15 (1.19%)	Symantec Enterprise Vault

Vendors
1	607 (48.10%)	VMware
2	554 (43.90%)	Microsoft
3	232 (18.38%)	Citrix
4	227 (17.99%)	Cisco
5	214 (16.96%)	HP
6	111 (8.80%)	Red Hat
7	92 (7.29%)	NetApp
8	79 (6.26%)	Oracle
8	79 (6.26%)	Symantec
9	70 (5.55%)	Dell
10	46 (3.65%)	McAfee
11	43 (3.41%)	Sophos
12	39 (3.09%)	EMC
13	37 (2.93%)	Veeam
14	32 (2.54%)	Apple
15	29 (2.30%)	SAP
16	28 (2.22%)	IBM
17	26 (2.06%)	ServiceNow
18	22 (1.74%)	3PAR
19	20 (1.58%)	Lumension