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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 472 397
Rank change year-on-year -111 -75 -66
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2012 39 39 138
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.084% 0.14% 0.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.85% 1.03% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 24 85
10th Percentile £408 £153 £240
25th Percentile £416 £158 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £475
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -26.32% +7.34%
75th Percentile £556 £535 £608
90th Percentile £690 £584 £645
UK median daily rate £475 £375 £475
% change year-on-year +26.67% -21.05% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £35.52 - -
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 - - +110.53%

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 4,578 3,799 4,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.84% 13.76% 14.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,910 2,496 2,917
10th Percentile £190 £190 £202
25th Percentile £313 £290 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £584
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £470 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 262 221
10th Percentile £16.13 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £19.46 £18.87 £22.00
Median hourly rate £38.50 £25.08 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.54% -58.21% +25.36%
75th Percentile £67.84 £59.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £67.00 -
UK median hourly rate £27.33 £25.15 £54.00
% change year-on-year +8.67% -53.43% +15.66%

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 23 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 23 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 -75 14 £475 -5.00% 10
South West -38 9 £500 -9.09% 4
Midlands -45 7 £425 -5.56% 10
North of England -80 5 £538 +119.39% 1
East Midlands -18 4 £413 -8.33% 5
North West -50 4 £450 +38.46%
South East -73 4 £513 +230.65% 6
West Midlands - 3 £450 - 5
Yorkshire -46 1 £625 +278.79% 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 (25.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (23.08%) IIS
3 3 (7.69%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (5.13%) Apache
4 2 (5.13%) nginx
4 2 (5.13%) SharePoint
4 2 (5.13%) Tomcat
5 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.21%) Azure
2 3 (7.69%) AWS
2 3 (7.69%) IaaS
2 3 (7.69%) Nutanix
3 2 (5.13%) Cloudflare
3 2 (5.13%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.56%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.56%) PaaS
4 1 (2.56%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 23 (58.97%) DNS
2 10 (25.64%) DHCP
3 8 (20.51%) Firewall
4 3 (7.69%) BGP
4 3 (7.69%) MPLS
4 3 (7.69%) WAN
5 2 (5.13%) LAN
5 2 (5.13%) SAN
5 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
5 2 (5.13%) VPN
5 2 (5.13%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (2.56%) BIG-IP
6 1 (2.56%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (2.56%) DMZ
6 1 (2.56%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (2.56%) Network Security
6 1 (2.56%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.56%) SMTP
6 1 (2.56%) Unified Communications
6 1 (2.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) Oracle Database
1 7 (17.95%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.13%) MySQL
3 1 (2.56%) DTS
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.69%) Finance
4 2 (5.13%) Aviation
4 2 (5.13%) Banking
4 2 (5.13%) Military
5 1 (2.56%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Law
5 1 (2.56%) Legal
5 1 (2.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 7 (17.95%) Database Manager
2 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Administrator
3 5 (12.82%) Server Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Windows Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Windows Server Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Lead
5 3 (7.69%) Network Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Support Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) VMware Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (5.13%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Cisco Administrator
6 2 (5.13%) Citrix Administrator
6 2 (5.13%) DBA
6 2 (5.13%) Lead Network Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior
6 2 (5.13%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) Terraform
2 2 (5.13%) LAMP
2 2 (5.13%) LEMP Stack
2 2 (5.13%) YAML
3 1 (2.56%) JSON
3 1 (2.56%) Middleware
3 1 (2.56%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Data Centre
1 6 (15.38%) PKI
2 3 (7.69%) Clustering
3 2 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.56%) CMDB
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) iPhone
4 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.56%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 39 (100.00%) Windows
2 29 (74.36%) Windows Server
3 14 (35.90%) Linux
4 13 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 11 (28.21%) Windows 10
6 9 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (20.51%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (17.95%) Solaris
8 7 (17.95%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (10.26%) CentOS
9 4 (10.26%) VMS
9 4 (10.26%) Windows 7
10 3 (7.69%) OpenVMS
10 3 (7.69%) Ubuntu
11 1 (2.56%) Unix
11 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (2.56%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (23.08%) Change Control
1 9 (23.08%) Configuration Management
2 8 (20.51%) Change Management
2 8 (20.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (17.95%) ITIL
3 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (15.38%) Migration
4 6 (15.38%) Runbook
5 4 (10.26%) Patch Management
5 4 (10.26%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (10.26%) Server Management
5 4 (10.26%) Validation
6 3 (7.69%) Computer Science
6 3 (7.69%) High Availability
6 3 (7.69%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (7.69%) Incident Management
6 3 (7.69%) Mentoring
6 3 (7.69%) Problem Management
6 3 (7.69%) Server Hardening
6 3 (7.69%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 5 (12.82%) SQL
3 3 (7.69%) Bash
3 3 (7.69%) Python
4 1 (2.56%) Bicep
4 1 (2.56%) Korn
4 1 (2.56%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 21 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 11 (28.21%) DV Cleared
2 11 (28.21%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.82%) Degree
4 2 (5.13%) CCNA
4 2 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.56%) CCNP
5 1 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) SLA
2 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (71.79%) Active Directory
2 18 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (15.38%) vSphere
4 4 (10.26%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (5.13%) Dovecot
6 2 (5.13%) Hyper-V
6 2 (5.13%) Postfix
6 2 (5.13%) XenApp
6 2 (5.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (25.64%) SCCM
2 7 (17.95%) WSUS
3 3 (7.69%) Ansible
3 3 (7.69%) NetBackup
3 3 (7.69%) SCOM
4 2 (5.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (5.13%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (5.13%) HAProxy
4 2 (5.13%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.56%) AirWatch
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (2.56%) NetApp OnCommand
5 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (2.56%) Tivoli
5 1 (2.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (2.56%) vMotion
5 1 (2.56%) VxRail
Vendors
1 22 (56.41%) VMware
2 17 (43.59%) Microsoft
3 10 (25.64%) Oracle
4 8 (20.51%) Cisco
5 7 (17.95%) Juniper
6 4 (10.26%) Citrix
7 3 (7.69%) Veeam
7 3 (7.69%) Veritas
8 2 (5.13%) Dell
8 2 (5.13%) F5
8 2 (5.13%) Fortinet
8 2 (5.13%) HP
8 2 (5.13%) Palo Alto
8 2 (5.13%) Red Hat
9 1 (2.56%) BMC
9 1 (2.56%) CheckPoint
9 1 (2.56%) EMC
9 1 (2.56%) IBM
9 1 (2.56%) NetApp
9 1 (2.56%) Sybase