Windows Server 2012 Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Windows Server 2012
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Windows Server 2012 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 601 474 368
Rank change year-on-year -127 -106 -41
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2012 38 43 156
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.083% 0.16% 0.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.85% 1.15% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 25 99
10th Percentile £408 £153 £242
25th Percentile £416 £158 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £395 £470
Median % change year-on-year +13.92% -15.96% +8.05%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £591
90th Percentile £635 £588 £626
UK median daily rate £475 £375 £470
% change year-on-year +26.67% -20.21% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £34.91 - -
25th Percentile £36.75 - -
Median hourly rate £41.00 - £100.00
75th Percentile £41.71 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £41.00 - £100.00
% change year-on-year - - +105.13%

All Operating Systems
England

Windows Server 2012 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,490 3,737 4,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.76% 13.66% 14.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,877 2,463 3,032
10th Percentile £190 £190 £200
25th Percentile £313 £305 £332
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £588
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £470 £453 £475
% change year-on-year +3.75% -4.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 235 242
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £15.18
25th Percentile £18.63 £18.51 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.00 £52.75
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -52.61% +14.97%
75th Percentile £67.84 £60.63 £69.92
90th Percentile £75.75 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £48.56
% change year-on-year +2.47% -48.21% +5.84%

Windows Server 2012
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows Server 2012 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Windows Server 2012 job vacancy trend in England

Windows Server 2012
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Windows Server 2012.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Windows Server 2012

Windows Server 2012
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2012 in England over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2012 in England

Windows Server 2012
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Windows Server 2012.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Windows Server 2012

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 6 months to 8 September 2026. 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
London -64 13 £475 -7.77% 21
South West -51 7 £500 -9.09% 4
Midlands -52 7 £425 -5.56% 5
North of England -75 7 £500 +104.08% 3
North West -56 5 £450 +38.46% 2
East Midlands -12 4 £413 -8.33% 4
South East -82 4 £513 +230.65% 8
West Midlands - 3 £450 - 1
Yorkshire -40 2 £563 +240.91% 1
Windows Server 2012
UK

Windows Server 2012
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 10 (26.32%) IIS
1 10 (26.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (7.89%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (5.26%) Apache
3 2 (5.26%) nginx
3 2 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.26%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (31.58%) Azure
2 3 (7.89%) IaaS
2 3 (7.89%) Nutanix
3 2 (5.26%) AWS
3 2 (5.26%) Cloudflare
3 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.63%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.63%) PaaS
4 1 (2.63%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 23 (60.53%) DNS
2 10 (26.32%) DHCP
3 7 (18.42%) Firewall
4 4 (10.53%) WAN
5 3 (7.89%) BGP
5 3 (7.89%) LAN
5 3 (7.89%) MPLS
5 3 (7.89%) TCP/IP
5 3 (7.89%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (5.26%) SAN
6 2 (5.26%) VPN
7 1 (2.63%) BIG-IP
7 1 (2.63%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (2.63%) DMZ
7 1 (2.63%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (2.63%) Network Security
7 1 (2.63%) OSPF
7 1 (2.63%) SD-WAN
7 1 (2.63%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 5 (13.16%) Oracle Database
3 2 (5.26%) MySQL
4 1 (2.63%) DTS
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Banking
3 3 (7.89%) Finance
4 2 (5.26%) Aviation
4 2 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Military
5 1 (2.63%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.63%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.63%) Law
5 1 (2.63%) Legal
5 1 (2.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (13.16%) Administrator
2 5 (13.16%) Database Manager
2 5 (13.16%) Windows Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) Server Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) Support Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) Windows Server Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 3 (7.89%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (7.89%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Lead
4 3 (7.89%) Network Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Senior
5 2 (5.26%) Service Desk Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) Terraform
2 2 (5.26%) LAMP
2 2 (5.26%) LEMP Stack
2 2 (5.26%) Software Packaging
2 2 (5.26%) YAML
3 1 (2.63%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) PKI
2 6 (15.79%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.89%) Clustering
4 2 (5.26%) iPhone
4 2 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.63%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Replication
5 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 38 (100.00%) Windows
2 30 (78.95%) Windows Server
3 13 (34.21%) Windows Server 2019
4 11 (28.95%) Linux
5 10 (26.32%) Windows 10
6 7 (18.42%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (15.79%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (13.16%) Solaris
9 4 (10.53%) VMS
9 4 (10.53%) Windows 7
10 3 (7.89%) CentOS
10 3 (7.89%) OpenVMS
10 3 (7.89%) Ubuntu
11 1 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (23.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (18.42%) Configuration Management
2 7 (18.42%) ITIL
2 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (15.79%) Change Control
3 6 (15.79%) Migration
3 6 (15.79%) Runbook
4 5 (13.16%) Change Management
5 4 (10.53%) Patch Management
5 4 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (10.53%) Problem Management
5 4 (10.53%) Server Management
5 4 (10.53%) Validation
6 3 (7.89%) Customer Service
6 3 (7.89%) High Availability
6 3 (7.89%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (7.89%) Project Delivery
6 3 (7.89%) Task Automation
6 3 (7.89%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (7.89%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.68%) PowerShell
2 6 (15.79%) SQL
3 3 (7.89%) Bash
3 3 (7.89%) Python
4 1 (2.63%) Bicep
4 1 (2.63%) Korn
4 1 (2.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (52.63%) Security Cleared
2 10 (26.32%) DV Cleared
3 9 (23.68%) SC Cleared
4 4 (10.53%) Degree
5 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (5.26%) CCNA
6 2 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (5.26%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (2.63%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) SLA
2 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (76.32%) Active Directory
2 18 (47.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (15.79%) vSphere
4 4 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (7.89%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (5.26%) Dovecot
6 2 (5.26%) Postfix
6 2 (5.26%) XenApp
6 2 (5.26%) XenDesktop
7 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (26.32%) SCCM
2 7 (18.42%) WSUS
3 3 (7.89%) Ansible
3 3 (7.89%) NetBackup
3 3 (7.89%) SCOM
4 2 (5.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (5.26%) AirWatch
4 2 (5.26%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (5.26%) HAProxy
4 2 (5.26%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.63%) NetApp OnCommand
5 1 (2.63%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.63%) Tivoli
5 1 (2.63%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (2.63%) vMotion
5 1 (2.63%) VxRail
Vendors
1 22 (57.89%) VMware
2 19 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (21.05%) Cisco
3 8 (21.05%) Oracle
4 7 (18.42%) Juniper
5 4 (10.53%) Citrix
6 3 (7.89%) HP
6 3 (7.89%) Veeam
6 3 (7.89%) Veritas
7 2 (5.26%) Bloomberg
7 2 (5.26%) Dell
7 2 (5.26%) F5
7 2 (5.26%) Fortinet
7 2 (5.26%) Palo Alto
7 2 (5.26%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.63%) ForeScout
8 1 (2.63%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (2.63%) Meraki
8 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
8 1 (2.63%) SolarWinds