Windows Server 2012 Contracts in England

Microsoft Windows Server 2012
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Windows Server 2012 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server 2012 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 434 329 322
Rank change year-on-year -105 -7 +89
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2012 51 219 377
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.59% 0.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.49% 4.32% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 170 287
10th Percentile £256 £200 £202
25th Percentile £350 £284 £349
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £421 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.69% -6.39% +5.88%
75th Percentile £578 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £608 £675
UK median daily rate £425 £421 £440
% change year-on-year +0.89% -4.26% +3.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £18.38
25th Percentile - - £19.91
Median hourly rate - - £22.63
75th Percentile - - £25.25
90th Percentile - - £53.69
UK median hourly rate - - £24.32
% change year-on-year - - +15.79%

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 3,414 5,072 8,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.02% 13.64% 16.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,320 3,461 5,863
10th Percentile £200 £181 £193
25th Percentile £313 £289 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 369 384
10th Percentile £15.26 £12.75 £13.97
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.17 £17.74
Median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%
75th Percentile £64.38 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

Windows Server 2012
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Windows Server 2012 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2012 in England

Windows Server 2012
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2012 in England.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2012 in England

Windows Server 2012
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2012 in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2012 in England

Windows Server 2012
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2012 in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 6 months to 1 May 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
South West +43 17 £588 +9.30% 5
North of England +13 16 £350 +6.87% 9
North West +18 15 £350 +20.69% 6
London -26 6 £475 +25.00% 6
South East -32 6 £500 -13.04% 8
East Midlands +12 5 - - 2
Midlands +9 5 - - 4
Yorkshire +1 1 £351 -12.38% 1
Windows Server 2012
UK

Windows Server 2012
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 16 (31.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (15.69%) SharePoint
3 7 (13.73%) Confluence
3 7 (13.73%) IIS
4 4 (7.84%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (15.69%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (9.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (9.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 9 (17.65%) Azure
2 8 (15.69%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 5 (9.80%) OneDrive
5 3 (5.88%) AWS
6 1 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.96%) GitHub
6 1 (1.96%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 18 (35.29%) DNS
2 17 (33.33%) DHCP
3 8 (15.69%) Skype
3 8 (15.69%) VPN
4 7 (13.73%) Firewall
4 7 (13.73%) SAN
5 6 (11.76%) LAN
6 4 (7.84%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (5.88%) TCP/IP
7 3 (5.88%) VLAN
8 2 (3.92%) HTTP
8 2 (3.92%) HTTPS
8 2 (3.92%) iSCSI
8 2 (3.92%) SSL
8 2 (3.92%) Wireless
9 1 (1.96%) FIX Connectivity
9 1 (1.96%) NAS
9 1 (1.96%) Network Security
9 1 (1.96%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (1.96%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (7.84%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (13.73%) JIRA
2 1 (1.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (1.96%) Git
General
1 20 (39.22%) Social Skills
2 15 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (15.69%) Public Sector
4 5 (9.80%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (9.80%) Manufacturing
4 5 (9.80%) Military
4 5 (9.80%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (7.84%) Legal
6 3 (5.88%) Finance
7 2 (3.92%) Banking
8 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.96%) Law
8 1 (1.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (27.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (13.73%) Administrator
2 7 (13.73%) VMWare Administrator
2 7 (13.73%) Wintel Administrator
3 6 (11.76%) 2nd Line Support
3 6 (11.76%) Support Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
4 5 (9.80%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Desktop Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Desktop Support
4 5 (9.80%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Senior
4 5 (9.80%) Wintel Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Senior Wintel Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Analyst
6 3 (5.88%) Test Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Architect
7 2 (3.92%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.92%) Flash
2 1 (1.96%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 15 (29.41%) PKI
2 5 (9.80%) Data Centre
2 5 (9.80%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.88%) Clustering
4 2 (3.92%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.96%) CESG
5 1 (1.96%) Equities
5 1 (1.96%) Eurex
5 1 (1.96%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 51 (100.00%) Windows
2 47 (92.16%) Windows Server
3 26 (50.98%) Windows Server 2016
4 21 (41.18%) Windows 10
5 18 (35.29%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (17.65%) Linux
7 6 (11.76%) Windows 8
7 6 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (9.80%) Windows XP
9 4 (7.84%) Unix
10 3 (5.88%) Solaris
10 3 (5.88%) VMS
11 2 (3.92%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (3.92%) Windows 7
12 1 (1.96%) Android
12 1 (1.96%) CentOS
12 1 (1.96%) Fedora
12 1 (1.96%) SUSE
12 1 (1.96%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (35.29%) ITIL
2 16 (31.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (19.61%) High Availability
3 10 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (17.65%) Critical Thinking
5 8 (15.69%) Agile
5 8 (15.69%) Service Management
6 7 (13.73%) Patch Management
6 7 (13.73%) Root Cause Analysis
6 7 (13.73%) System Testing
7 6 (11.76%) Asset Management
7 6 (11.76%) NsoIT
7 6 (11.76%) Project Delivery
7 6 (11.76%) Time Management
8 5 (9.80%) Business Case
8 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure Monitoring
8 5 (9.80%) Mentoring
8 5 (9.80%) Migration
8 5 (9.80%) Proactive Maintenance
8 5 (9.80%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 14 (27.45%) SQL
2 13 (25.49%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.92%) Python
3 2 (3.92%) VBScript
4 1 (1.96%) Bash
4 1 (1.96%) Java
4 1 (1.96%) Perl
Qualifications
1 31 (60.78%) Security Cleared
2 25 (49.02%) SC Cleared
3 22 (43.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (27.45%) MCSE
5 9 (17.65%) DV Cleared
5 9 (17.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 7 (13.73%) Degree
6 7 (13.73%) MCSA
7 3 (5.88%) CCNA
7 3 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (5.88%) Master's Degree
8 2 (3.92%) CCNP
9 1 (1.96%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.80%) SLA
2 1 (1.96%) JSP 440
2 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 43 (84.31%) Active Directory
2 27 (52.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (41.18%) Hyper-V
4 15 (29.41%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (17.65%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (7.84%) vSphere
7 2 (3.92%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (3.92%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (3.92%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.96%) Firmware
8 1 (1.96%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 19 (37.25%) SCCM
2 16 (31.37%) WSUS
3 14 (27.45%) vCenter Server
4 5 (9.80%) Microsoft Clustering
5 4 (7.84%) NetApp OnCommand
5 4 (7.84%) vMotion
6 2 (3.92%) OPNET
6 2 (3.92%) SCOM
7 1 (1.96%) Ansible
7 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.96%) Packer
7 1 (1.96%) PowerCLI
7 1 (1.96%) Rundeck
7 1 (1.96%) Terraform
7 1 (1.96%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 36 (70.59%) Microsoft
2 31 (60.78%) VMware
3 10 (19.61%) Cisco
4 5 (9.80%) Canon
4 5 (9.80%) Citrix
5 3 (5.88%) Atlassian
5 3 (5.88%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.92%) Oracle
6 2 (3.92%) Veeam
7 1 (1.96%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.96%) Blue Prism
7 1 (1.96%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.96%) D-Link
7 1 (1.96%) Kaseya
7 1 (1.96%) Meraki
7 1 (1.96%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.96%) Reuters
7 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.96%) Trayport
7 1 (1.96%) Veritas