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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 601 481 389
Rank change year-on-year -120 -92 -64
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2012 37 40 145
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.080% 0.14% 0.44%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.81% 1.05% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 25 92
10th Percentile £408 £153 £252
25th Percentile £414 £158 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £475
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -26.32% +8.57%
75th Percentile £531 £550 £608
90th Percentile £649 £588 £637
UK median daily rate £463 £375 £475
% change year-on-year +23.33% -21.05% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £35.21 - -
25th Percentile £36.75 - -
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 - - +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 4,569 3,817 4,724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.87% 13.74% 14.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,904 2,517 3,008
10th Percentile £190 £190 £200
25th Percentile £313 £293 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £675 £676
UK median daily rate £470 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 352 256 229
10th Percentile £16.03 £15.50 £15.60
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.74 £20.50
Median hourly rate £38.61 £25.15 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.52% -56.26% +20.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.31 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.45 £67.00 -
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +9.34% -49.70% +5.26%

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 20 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 20 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 -71 13 £475 -5.00% 18
South West -38 8 £500 -11.11% 4
Midlands -47 7 £425 -5.56% 9
North of England -68 5 £538 +119.39%
East Midlands -17 4 £413 -8.33% 5
North West -48 4 £450 +38.46%
South East -71 4 £513 +230.65% 6
West Midlands - 3 £450 - 4
Yorkshire -46 1 £625 +278.79%
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 (27.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (24.32%) IIS
3 3 (8.11%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (5.41%) Apache
4 2 (5.41%) nginx
4 2 (5.41%) SharePoint
4 2 (5.41%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.03%) Azure
2 3 (8.11%) IaaS
2 3 (8.11%) Nutanix
3 2 (5.41%) AWS
3 2 (5.41%) Cloudflare
3 2 (5.41%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.70%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.70%) PaaS
4 1 (2.70%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 23 (62.16%) DNS
2 10 (27.03%) DHCP
3 8 (21.62%) Firewall
4 3 (8.11%) BGP
4 3 (8.11%) MPLS
4 3 (8.11%) WAN
5 2 (5.41%) LAN
5 2 (5.41%) SAN
5 2 (5.41%) TCP/IP
5 2 (5.41%) VPN
5 2 (5.41%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (2.70%) BIG-IP
6 1 (2.70%) DMZ
6 1 (2.70%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (2.70%) Network Security
6 1 (2.70%) OSPF
6 1 (2.70%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.70%) SMTP
6 1 (2.70%) Unified Communications
6 1 (2.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.92%) SQL Server
2 6 (16.22%) Oracle Database
3 2 (5.41%) MySQL
4 1 (2.70%) DTS
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Aviation
3 2 (5.41%) Banking
3 2 (5.41%) Finance
3 2 (5.41%) Military
4 1 (2.70%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.70%) Law
4 1 (2.70%) Legal
4 1 (2.70%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 6 (16.22%) Database Manager
1 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Administrator
3 4 (10.81%) Server Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Windows Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Windows Server Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Lead
4 3 (8.11%) Network Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Support Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (5.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Cisco Administrator
5 2 (5.41%) Citrix Administrator
5 2 (5.41%) DBA
5 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Support
5 2 (5.41%) Senior
5 2 (5.41%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) Terraform
2 2 (5.41%) LAMP
2 2 (5.41%) LEMP Stack
2 2 (5.41%) YAML
3 1 (2.70%) JSON
3 1 (2.70%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Data Centre
1 6 (16.22%) PKI
2 3 (8.11%) Clustering
3 2 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) iPhone
4 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.70%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 37 (100.00%) Windows
2 28 (75.68%) Windows Server
3 13 (35.14%) Windows Server 2019
4 12 (32.43%) Linux
5 10 (27.03%) Windows 10
6 7 (18.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (18.92%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (16.22%) Solaris
7 6 (16.22%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (10.81%) VMS
8 4 (10.81%) Windows 7
9 3 (8.11%) CentOS
9 3 (8.11%) OpenVMS
9 3 (8.11%) Ubuntu
10 1 (2.70%) Unix
10 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (2.70%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (18.92%) Change Control
2 7 (18.92%) Configuration Management
2 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (16.22%) Change Management
3 6 (16.22%) ITIL
3 6 (16.22%) Migration
3 6 (16.22%) Runbook
4 4 (10.81%) Patch Management
4 4 (10.81%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (10.81%) Server Management
4 4 (10.81%) Validation
5 3 (8.11%) Customer Service
5 3 (8.11%) High Availability
5 3 (8.11%) Incident Management
5 3 (8.11%) Mentoring
5 3 (8.11%) Problem Management
5 3 (8.11%) Project Delivery
5 3 (8.11%) Service Management
5 3 (8.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.62%) PowerShell
2 5 (13.51%) SQL
3 3 (8.11%) Bash
3 3 (8.11%) Python
4 1 (2.70%) Bicep
4 1 (2.70%) Korn
4 1 (2.70%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 21 (56.76%) Security Cleared
2 11 (29.73%) DV Cleared
2 11 (29.73%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.81%) Degree
4 2 (5.41%) CCNA
4 2 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.70%) CCNP
5 1 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) SLA
2 1 (2.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (75.68%) Active Directory
2 17 (45.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (16.22%) vSphere
4 4 (10.81%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (5.41%) Dovecot
6 2 (5.41%) Postfix
6 2 (5.41%) XenApp
6 2 (5.41%) XenDesktop
7 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (24.32%) SCCM
2 6 (16.22%) WSUS
3 3 (8.11%) NetBackup
3 3 (8.11%) SCOM
4 2 (5.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (5.41%) Ansible
4 2 (5.41%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (5.41%) HAProxy
4 2 (5.41%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.70%) AirWatch
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (2.70%) NetApp OnCommand
5 1 (2.70%) Tivoli
5 1 (2.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (2.70%) vMotion
5 1 (2.70%) VxRail
Vendors
1 21 (56.76%) VMware
2 17 (45.95%) Microsoft
3 9 (24.32%) Oracle
4 8 (21.62%) Cisco
5 7 (18.92%) Juniper
6 4 (10.81%) Citrix
7 3 (8.11%) Veeam
7 3 (8.11%) Veritas
8 2 (5.41%) Dell
8 2 (5.41%) F5
8 2 (5.41%) Fortinet
8 2 (5.41%) HP
8 2 (5.41%) Palo Alto
8 2 (5.41%) Red Hat
9 1 (2.70%) Bloomberg
9 1 (2.70%) BMC
9 1 (2.70%) CheckPoint
9 1 (2.70%) EMC
9 1 (2.70%) NetApp
9 1 (2.70%) Remedy