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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 594 462 356
Rank change year-on-year -132 -106 -28
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2012 32 52 180
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.071% 0.19% 0.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.73% 1.40% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 29 126
10th Percentile £416 £153 £203
25th Percentile £444 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £575
90th Percentile £719 £591 £618
UK median daily rate £500 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +8.11% +2.78% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £27.21 - -
25th Percentile £34.45 - -
Median hourly rate £39.75 - £100.00
75th Percentile £41.66 - -
90th Percentile £41.71 - -
UK median hourly rate £39.75 - £100.00
% change year-on-year - - +270.37%

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 4,368 3,726 4,928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.68% 13.60% 14.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,814 2,489 3,269
10th Percentile £190 £200 £200
25th Percentile £313 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% -3.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £468 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +1.19% -2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 223 348
10th Percentile £16.04 £15.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.04 £16.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £23.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.30% -8.00% -41.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.09 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.60 £68.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £23.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.88% -43.11%

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 25 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Server 2012 in England over the 6 months to 25 July 2026.

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 6 months to 25 July 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 -63 8 £500 - 2
South East -77 7 £475 +134.57% 2
North of England -82 7 £563 +60.71%
South West -39 6 £500 -13.04% 2
North West -58 5 - -
Midlands -56 3 £425 -5.56% 4
Yorkshire - 2 £563 -
West Midlands - 2 £450 - 2
East Midlands -19 1 £400 -11.11% 2
East of England - 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 9 (28.13%) IIS
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (6.25%) Apache
3 2 (6.25%) nginx
3 2 (6.25%) SharePoint
3 2 (6.25%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (43.75%) Azure
2 5 (15.63%) Nutanix
3 3 (9.38%) AWS
3 3 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.25%) Cloudflare
4 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.25%) IaaS
5 1 (3.13%) PaaS
5 1 (3.13%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 17 (53.13%) DNS
2 11 (34.38%) DHCP
3 6 (18.75%) Firewall
4 5 (15.63%) TCP/IP
5 4 (12.50%) LAN
5 4 (12.50%) WAN
6 3 (9.38%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (6.25%) BGP
7 2 (6.25%) BIG-IP
7 2 (6.25%) MPLS
8 1 (3.13%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (3.13%) DMZ
8 1 (3.13%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (3.13%) NetScaler
8 1 (3.13%) Network Security
8 1 (3.13%) OSPF
8 1 (3.13%) SAN
8 1 (3.13%) Unified Communications
8 1 (3.13%) VPN
8 1 (3.13%) X.400
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) Oracle Database
1 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.25%) MySQL
3 1 (3.13%) DTS
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Banking
4 2 (6.25%) Aviation
4 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Law
5 1 (3.13%) Local Government
5 1 (3.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (15.63%) Database Manager
2 4 (12.50%) Administrator
2 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Lead
3 3 (9.38%) Network Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 2 (6.25%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Automation Specialist
4 2 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Compliance Specialist
4 2 (6.25%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Lead Network Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Service Desk Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Service Desk Support
4 2 (6.25%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) LAMP
1 2 (6.25%) LEMP Stack
1 2 (6.25%) Software Packaging
1 2 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) PKI
2 3 (9.38%) Clustering
2 3 (9.38%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.25%) iPhone
3 2 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Replication
4 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 32 (100.00%) Windows
2 24 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 11 (34.38%) Linux
4 10 (31.25%) Windows 10
4 10 (31.25%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (21.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (21.88%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (15.63%) Solaris
7 4 (12.50%) Ubuntu
8 2 (6.25%) CentOS
8 2 (6.25%) Windows 7
8 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (3.13%) AIX
9 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.00%) Migration
2 7 (21.88%) ITIL
3 6 (18.75%) Change Control
3 6 (18.75%) Configuration Management
3 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (18.75%) Patch Management
4 5 (15.63%) Change Management
4 5 (15.63%) Runbook
5 4 (12.50%) Asset Management
5 4 (12.50%) High Availability
5 4 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (12.50%) Problem Management
5 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (9.38%) BCP
6 3 (9.38%) Project Delivery
6 3 (9.38%) Risk Management
6 3 (9.38%) Validation
6 3 (9.38%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 2 (6.25%) Change Advisory Board
7 2 (6.25%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (34.38%) PowerShell
2 4 (12.50%) Bash
3 3 (9.38%) SQL
4 2 (6.25%) Python
5 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (34.38%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.88%) Degree
3 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared
4 4 (12.50%) DV Cleared
5 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (6.25%) CCNA
6 2 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (3.13%) CCNP
7 1 (3.13%) HNC
7 1 (3.13%) HND
7 1 (3.13%) MCSE
7 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) SLA
2 2 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 20 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 10 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (9.38%) vSphere
4 2 (6.25%) Dovecot
4 2 (6.25%) Postfix
4 2 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (6.25%) XenApp
4 2 (6.25%) XenDesktop
5 1 (3.13%) Docker
5 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (3.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (28.13%) SCCM
2 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (12.50%) WSUS
4 3 (9.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (9.38%) Ansible
5 2 (6.25%) AirWatch
5 2 (6.25%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (6.25%) HAProxy
5 2 (6.25%) Nessus
5 2 (6.25%) SCOM
5 2 (6.25%) Terraform
6 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (3.13%) NetApp OnCommand
6 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (3.13%) Tivoli
6 1 (3.13%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (3.13%) vMotion
6 1 (3.13%) VxRail
Vendors
1 16 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (40.63%) VMware
3 6 (18.75%) Cisco
3 6 (18.75%) Oracle
4 5 (15.63%) Juniper
5 4 (12.50%) Citrix
5 4 (12.50%) F5
6 3 (9.38%) HP
7 2 (6.25%) Bloomberg
7 2 (6.25%) Dell
7 2 (6.25%) Red Hat
7 2 (6.25%) Snow
7 2 (6.25%) Sophos
7 2 (6.25%) Tenable
8 1 (3.13%) ForeScout
8 1 (3.13%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (3.13%) Meraki
8 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto
8 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
8 1 (3.13%) Veeam