Windows Server 2012 Contracts in England

Microsoft Windows Server 2012
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Windows Server 2012 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server 2012 over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 334 405
Rank change year-on-year -10 +71 -54
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2012 208 342 425
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.57% 0.71% 0.60%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.21% 4.35% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 252 321
10th Percentile £193 £200 £163
25th Percentile £279 £349 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £452 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +6.46% +9.68%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £500
90th Percentile £608 £688 £588
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 13
10th Percentile - £18.25 £17.00
25th Percentile - £19.00 -
Median hourly rate - £22.63 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.15% -42.45%
75th Percentile - £26.00 £28.41
90th Percentile - £59.22 -
UK median hourly rate - £26.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year - +26.83% -41.01%

All Operating Systems
England

Windows Server 2012 is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,941 7,857 10,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.59% 16.27% 15.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,373 5,557 7,534
10th Percentile £185 £193 £175
25th Percentile £300 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £623
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £470 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -6.09% +0.10% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 360 372 533
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.03 £13.40
25th Percentile £14.72 £17.78 £15.93
Median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.33% +70.45% +23.80%
75th Percentile £60.40 £64.63 £51.45
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% +67.39% +29.50%

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 15 May 2024.

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 15 May 2024. 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 East +52 79 £575 +19.79% 23
London +37 67 £380 -19.32% 16
North of England -3 22 £328 -20.61% 19
South West -22 19 £520 +15.56% 12
Midlands +18 16 £210 -44.00% 10
North West +3 14 £290 -38.95% 5
West Midlands +14 12 £225 -40.00% 7
Yorkshire +13 8 £400 +10.27% 13
East Midlands +3 3 £210 -44.00% 3
East of England -2 2 £388 +24.00% 10
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 73 (35.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (12.98%) Exchange Server 2010
3 25 (12.02%) Exchange Server 2013
4 18 (8.65%) Confluence
5 11 (5.29%) Exchange Server 2007
5 11 (5.29%) SharePoint
5 11 (5.29%) Skype for Business
6 10 (4.81%) Exchange Server 2003
7 5 (2.40%) IIS
8 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.96%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Remedy AR System
1 2 (0.96%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 68 (32.69%) Microsoft 365
2 57 (27.40%) Azure
3 15 (7.21%) OCI
4 10 (4.81%) Entra ID
5 7 (3.37%) IaaS
6 4 (1.92%) AWS
6 4 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (1.92%) PaaS
7 3 (1.44%) Azure Storage
7 3 (1.44%) GitHub
7 3 (1.44%) SaaS
8 2 (0.96%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (0.96%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.48%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.48%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.48%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.48%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.48%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.48%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.48%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 87 (41.83%) DNS
2 59 (28.37%) DHCP
3 54 (25.96%) Firewall
4 33 (15.87%) SAN
5 15 (7.21%) Skype
6 13 (6.25%) WAN
7 12 (5.77%) LAN
8 9 (4.33%) TCP/IP
8 9 (4.33%) VLAN
8 9 (4.33%) VPN
8 9 (4.33%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (2.88%) VoIP
10 5 (2.40%) Unified Communications
11 4 (1.92%) Ethernet
12 3 (1.44%) NAS
13 2 (0.96%) NetScaler
13 2 (0.96%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (0.96%) Wireless
14 1 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
14 1 (0.48%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.48%) Redis
2 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (12.02%) JIRA
2 3 (1.44%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.48%) Hudson
4 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 90 (43.27%) Social Skills
2 35 (16.83%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (10.58%) Public Sector
4 19 (9.13%) Finance
5 17 (8.17%) Military
6 12 (5.77%) Banking
7 7 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.96%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.48%) Back Office
9 1 (0.48%) Electronics
9 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.48%) French Language
9 1 (0.48%) German Language
9 1 (0.48%) Law
9 1 (0.48%) Marketing
9 1 (0.48%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (20.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 32 (15.38%) Support Engineer
3 28 (13.46%) Windows Engineer
4 25 (12.02%) Integration Engineer
5 19 (9.13%) Build Engineer
5 19 (9.13%) Windows Build Engineer
6 17 (8.17%) Test Engineer
7 16 (7.69%) Test and Integration Engineer
8 15 (7.21%) Administrator
8 15 (7.21%) Systems Administrator
9 13 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
10 11 (5.29%) Server Engineer
11 10 (4.81%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 10 (4.81%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 10 (4.81%) Analyst
11 10 (4.81%) Storage Engineer
12 9 (4.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support
12 9 (4.33%) Architect
13 8 (3.85%) Support Analyst
13 8 (3.85%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.96%) ADSI
1 2 (0.96%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (0.48%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.54%) PKI
2 16 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 14 (6.73%) Video Conferencing
4 12 (5.77%) Clustering
5 10 (4.81%) NHS
6 7 (3.37%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.92%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.44%) CMDB
9 3 (1.44%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.48%) EPoS
10 1 (0.48%) Fat Client
10 1 (0.48%) Freedom of Information
10 1 (0.48%) Freedom of Information Act
10 1 (0.48%) LIMS
10 1 (0.48%) Replication
10 1 (0.48%) Smartphone
10 1 (0.48%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 208 (100.00%) Windows
2 177 (85.10%) Windows Server
3 83 (39.90%) Windows Server 2016
4 74 (35.58%) Windows 10
5 66 (31.73%) Windows Server 2019
6 41 (19.71%) Windows Server 2008
7 24 (11.54%) Windows 7
8 23 (11.06%) Linux
9 19 (9.13%) Windows NT
10 15 (7.21%) Windows Server 2003
11 14 (6.73%) Windows XP
12 6 (2.88%) Mac OS
13 4 (1.92%) VMS
14 2 (0.96%) CentOS
14 2 (0.96%) OpenVMS
15 1 (0.48%) Android
15 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (25.48%) ITIL
2 52 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 37 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (16.35%) Customer Service
5 30 (14.42%) Disaster Recovery
6 28 (13.46%) Migration
7 24 (11.54%) Service Management
8 23 (11.06%) Deployment Automation
9 22 (10.58%) Release Management
10 20 (9.62%) Agile
10 20 (9.62%) Critical Thinking
11 19 (9.13%) Project Management
11 19 (9.13%) Server Management
11 19 (9.13%) User Acceptance Testing
12 17 (8.17%) Regression Testing
12 17 (8.17%) Storage Management
12 17 (8.17%) Test Scripting
13 15 (7.21%) Change Management
13 15 (7.21%) Performance Tuning
13 15 (7.21%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 61 (29.33%) PowerShell
2 45 (21.63%) SQL
3 2 (0.96%) Python
4 1 (0.48%) Bicep
4 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 95 (45.67%) Security Cleared
2 47 (22.60%) DV Cleared
3 42 (20.19%) SC Cleared
4 38 (18.27%) Degree
5 26 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 22 (10.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 21 (10.10%) MCSE
8 18 (8.65%) CCNA
8 18 (8.65%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (8.17%) MCSA
10 15 (7.21%) CCNP
11 5 (2.40%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.13%) QA
2 3 (1.44%) SLA
3 2 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.96%) NIST
3 2 (0.96%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 172 (82.69%) Active Directory
2 91 (43.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (16.35%) Hyper-V
4 22 (10.58%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (9.13%) Firmware
6 13 (6.25%) XenApp
7 6 (2.88%) vSphere
8 5 (2.40%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.92%) VMware NSX
9 4 (1.92%) XenDesktop
10 3 (1.44%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.96%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.48%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.48%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.48%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 76 (36.54%) SCCM
2 50 (24.04%) WSUS
3 19 (9.13%) Sysprep
3 19 (9.13%) vCenter Server
4 18 (8.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (8.65%) SCOM
5 16 (7.69%) NetBackup
6 14 (6.73%) EMC NetWorker
7 10 (4.81%) Autotask
8 7 (3.37%) Failover Clustering
8 7 (3.37%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (2.88%) Jamf Pro
9 6 (2.88%) Microsoft Clustering
10 3 (1.44%) Terraform
11 2 (0.96%) Ansible
11 2 (0.96%) Kibana
11 2 (0.96%) logstash
11 2 (0.96%) Nessus
11 2 (0.96%) Packer
11 2 (0.96%) VxRail
Vendors
1 126 (60.58%) Microsoft
2 105 (50.48%) VMware
3 37 (17.79%) Cisco
4 32 (15.38%) Veeam
5 30 (14.42%) HP
6 29 (13.94%) EMC
7 27 (12.98%) Citrix
8 18 (8.65%) Dell
8 18 (8.65%) Juniper
9 16 (7.69%) Oracle
10 15 (7.21%) 3PAR
11 14 (6.73%) Extreme Networks
11 14 (6.73%) Palo Alto
11 14 (6.73%) Symantec
12 13 (6.25%) Avaya
13 12 (5.77%) CheckPoint
14 9 (4.33%) Ivanti
15 7 (3.37%) Apple
16 6 (2.88%) Datto
16 6 (2.88%) Remedy