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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 551 405 322
Rank change year-on-year -146 -83 +9
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2012 36 68 237
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.095% 0.28% 0.63%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.87% 1.96% 4.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 42 176
10th Percentile £350 £210 £190
25th Percentile £408 £350 £282
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £409
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +16.21% -9.66%
75th Percentile £725 £538 £575
90th Percentile - £638 £599
UK median daily rate £515 £425 £438
% change year-on-year +21.18% -2.86% -0.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £65.75
Median hourly rate £6.00 - £66.50
75th Percentile £18.19 - £67.25
90th Percentile £23.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £6.00 - £66.50
% change year-on-year - - +155.77%

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 4,148 3,464 5,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.93% 14.28% 13.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,748 2,379 3,550
10th Percentile £181 £200 £178
25th Percentile £300 £313 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -13.46%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £588
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -12.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 298 137 377
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.40 £13.09
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.16 £28.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.30% +27.27% -23.34%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.60 £69.75 £68.68
UK median hourly rate £23.50 £24.83 £22.00
% change year-on-year -5.36% +12.86% -24.14%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 28 March 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
East of England - 8 £550 - 7
South East -57 7 £675 +170.00% 4
North of England -81 6 £330 -5.71% 1
North West -51 5 £330 -5.71% 1
London -55 5 £540 +13.68% 2
Midlands -78 5 £415 +3.75% 1
East Midlands -36 4 £415 - 1
South West -39 4 £700 +21.74%
Yorkshire -54 1 £500 +42.65%
West Midlands -57 1 £450 +12.50%
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 11 (30.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (8.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.56%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (2.78%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 14 (38.89%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (36.11%) Azure
3 5 (13.89%) Nutanix
4 4 (11.11%) AWS
4 4 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 14 (38.89%) DNS
2 11 (30.56%) DHCP
3 9 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 5 (13.89%) LAN
5 4 (11.11%) Firewall
5 4 (11.11%) NetScaler
6 3 (8.33%) BIG-IP
6 3 (8.33%) RS-232
6 3 (8.33%) Skype
6 3 (8.33%) X.400
7 2 (5.56%) WAN
8 1 (2.78%) VoIP
8 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) SQL Server
General
1 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.78%) Public Sector
3 9 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.89%) Finance
5 2 (5.56%) Banking
5 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Support Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) Technical Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Lead
5 3 (8.33%) Lead Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Senior
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Technical Support
5 3 (8.33%) Technical Support Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Windows Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Wintel Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Automation Specialist
6 2 (5.56%) IT Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) LDAP
2 1 (2.78%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) PKI
2 5 (13.89%) NHS
3 4 (11.11%) Private Cloud
3 4 (11.11%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.56%) iPhone
4 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.56%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.78%) Clustering
5 1 (2.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 36 (100.00%) Windows
2 32 (88.89%) Windows Server
3 10 (27.78%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (22.22%) Windows 10
4 8 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (19.44%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (13.89%) Linux
7 3 (8.33%) CentOS
8 2 (5.56%) AIX
8 2 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (5.56%) Ubuntu
8 2 (5.56%) Windows 7
9 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (38.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (27.78%) ITIL
3 9 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (22.22%) Project Delivery
4 8 (22.22%) Service Management
5 7 (19.44%) Business Continuity
5 7 (19.44%) Load Balancing
6 6 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (16.67%) Migration
7 5 (13.89%) ITSM
8 4 (11.11%) Asset Management
8 4 (11.11%) BCP
8 4 (11.11%) Change Management
8 4 (11.11%) Critical Thinking
8 4 (11.11%) High Availability
8 4 (11.11%) Information Governance
8 4 (11.11%) Operational Stability
8 4 (11.11%) Problem Management
8 4 (11.11%) Risk Management
8 4 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 17 (47.22%) PowerShell
2 5 (13.89%) SQL
3 2 (5.56%) Bash
4 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.78%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (36.11%) Degree
1 13 (36.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (30.56%) MCSE
2 11 (30.56%) Security Cleared
3 10 (27.78%) SC Cleared
4 7 (19.44%) HNC
4 7 (19.44%) HND
4 7 (19.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 5 (13.89%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.78%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 17 (47.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (16.67%) vSphere
4 4 (11.11%) Docker
4 4 (11.11%) Hyper-V
4 4 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (8.33%) VMware NSX
6 2 (5.56%) Sendmail
7 1 (2.78%) Firmware
7 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (2.78%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (38.89%) SCCM
2 12 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (13.89%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (13.89%) WSUS
4 4 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
5 3 (8.33%) SCOM
6 2 (5.56%) Nessus
7 1 (2.78%) AirWatch
7 1 (2.78%) Ansible
7 1 (2.78%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (2.78%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.78%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 18 (50.00%) VMware
3 7 (19.44%) F5
4 5 (13.89%) Cisco
4 5 (13.89%) Veeam
5 3 (8.33%) Red Hat
6 2 (5.56%) Citrix
6 2 (5.56%) Oracle
6 2 (5.56%) Snow
6 2 (5.56%) Sophos
6 2 (5.56%) Tenable
6 2 (5.56%) Veritas
7 1 (2.78%) Bloomberg
7 1 (2.78%) Dell
7 1 (2.78%) HP
7 1 (2.78%) Infoblox
7 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow