Windows Server 2019 Contracts in England

Microsoft Windows Server 2019
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Windows Server 2019 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server 2019 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 412 348 369
Rank change year-on-year -64 +21 +150
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2019 73 196 315
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.53% 0.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.14% 3.86% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 129 265
10th Percentile £316 £210 £223
25th Percentile £350 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £650 £608 £625
90th Percentile £690 - £700
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +17.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 7
10th Percentile - £50.86 £19.10
25th Percentile - £56.50 £23.24
Median hourly rate - £59.80 £26.48
Median % change year-on-year - +125.83% +32.40%
75th Percentile - £61.60 £50.45
90th Percentile - - £64.05
UK median hourly rate - £59.80 £26.48
% change year-on-year - +125.83% +32.40%

All Operating Systems
England

Windows Server 2019 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 3,414 5,072 8,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.02% 13.64% 16.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,320 3,461 5,863
10th Percentile £200 £181 £193
25th Percentile £313 £289 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 369 384
10th Percentile £15.26 £12.75 £13.97
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.17 £17.74
Median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%
75th Percentile £64.38 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

Windows Server 2019
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Windows Server 2019 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2019 in England

Windows Server 2019
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2019 in England.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2019 in England

Windows Server 2019
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2019 in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2019 in England

Windows Server 2019
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2019 in England.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2019 in England

Windows Server 2019
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 2019 within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 -36 22 £603 +4.78% 14
North of England +26 21 £350 -10.26% 12
North West +31 19 £350 +59.09% 9
London +9 17 £525 +7.69% 9
South West +52 9 £575 +155.56% 12
Midlands +6 3 £300 -14.29% 18
West Midlands +1 3 £300 -14.29% 6
East of England +25 2 £575 -11.54% 9
Yorkshire +2 2 £375 -33.29%
Windows Server 2019
UK

Windows Server 2019
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 18 (24.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (15.07%) SharePoint
3 6 (8.22%) IIS
3 6 (8.22%) Skype for Business
4 4 (5.48%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (2.74%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (1.37%) Apache
6 1 (1.37%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (1.37%) Confluence
6 1 (1.37%) DataSynapse
6 1 (1.37%) WinCC
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 22 (30.14%) Azure
2 12 (16.44%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (15.07%) Entra ID
4 8 (10.96%) AWS
5 7 (9.59%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (6.85%) OneDrive
7 4 (5.48%) GitHub
8 2 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.37%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.37%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.37%) Azure Storage
9 1 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.37%) Cohesity
9 1 (1.37%) IaaS
9 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.37%) Mimecast
9 1 (1.37%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (41.10%) DNS
2 17 (23.29%) DHCP
3 10 (13.70%) SAN
4 6 (8.22%) Skype
5 5 (6.85%) Fibre Channel
5 5 (6.85%) Firewall
5 5 (6.85%) LAN
5 5 (6.85%) TCP/IP
5 5 (6.85%) VPN
5 5 (6.85%) VSAN
6 4 (5.48%) iSCSI
6 4 (5.48%) PSTN
6 4 (5.48%) SMTP
7 3 (4.11%) Network Security
7 3 (4.11%) WAN
7 3 (4.11%) WLAN
8 2 (2.74%) NAS
8 2 (2.74%) SSL
9 1 (1.37%) NetScaler
9 1 (1.37%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.22%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.85%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.37%) GIS
5 1 (1.37%) MSDE
5 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Jenkins
1 3 (4.11%) JIRA
2 1 (1.37%) Git
General
1 11 (15.07%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.96%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.85%) Legal
4 3 (4.11%) Finance
5 2 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.74%) Publishing
6 1 (1.37%) Banking
6 1 (1.37%) Front Office
6 1 (1.37%) Local Government
6 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.37%) Marketing
6 1 (1.37%) Military
6 1 (1.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (26.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (12.33%) Administrator
3 8 (10.96%) Architect
4 7 (9.59%) Lead
4 7 (9.59%) VMWare Administrator
4 7 (9.59%) Wintel Administrator
5 5 (6.85%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 5 (6.85%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (6.85%) Senior
6 4 (5.48%) Collaboration Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) Grid Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) Infrastructure Architect
6 4 (5.48%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 4 (5.48%) VMware Architect
7 3 (4.11%) Citrix Specialist
7 3 (4.11%) Exchange Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Industrial Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Server Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Technical Architect
7 3 (4.11%) TIBCO Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.37%) .NET
1 1 (1.37%) ARM Templates
1 1 (1.37%) ASP.NET
1 1 (1.37%) LDAP
1 1 (1.37%) SOAP
1 1 (1.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.07%) Data Centre
2 6 (8.22%) PKI
3 5 (6.85%) Grid Computing
4 4 (5.48%) Blackberry
4 4 (5.48%) Clustering
4 4 (5.48%) Enterprise Storage
4 4 (5.48%) Handset
5 3 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.74%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.74%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.37%) CESG
7 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.37%) Equities
7 1 (1.37%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.37%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.37%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 69 (94.52%) Windows
2 63 (86.30%) Windows Server
3 32 (43.84%) Windows Server 2016
4 20 (27.40%) Windows 10
5 19 (26.03%) Linux
6 18 (24.66%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (8.22%) Android
8 5 (6.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (5.48%) Unix
10 3 (4.11%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (2.74%) Apple iOS
11 2 (2.74%) Mac OS
12 1 (1.37%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (1.37%) CentOS
12 1 (1.37%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (1.37%) Rocky
12 1 (1.37%) Ubuntu
12 1 (1.37%) VMS
12 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (35.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (26.03%) ITIL
3 15 (20.55%) High Availability
4 10 (13.70%) Root Cause Analysis
5 9 (12.33%) Analytics
5 9 (12.33%) Patch Management
5 9 (12.33%) Performance Tuning
5 9 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (10.96%) Migration
7 7 (9.59%) Log Analytics
8 6 (8.22%) Performance Monitoring
8 6 (8.22%) Server Building
9 5 (6.85%) API Integration
9 5 (6.85%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 5 (6.85%) Power Management
9 5 (6.85%) Project Delivery
9 5 (6.85%) RBAC
9 5 (6.85%) Technical Leadership
10 4 (5.48%) DevSecOps
10 4 (5.48%) Edge Virtualization
Programming Languages
1 25 (34.25%) PowerShell
2 12 (16.44%) SQL
3 7 (9.59%) Java
4 6 (8.22%) C#
4 6 (8.22%) Python
5 5 (6.85%) C++
5 5 (6.85%) VBScript
6 3 (4.11%) VB
7 1 (1.37%) Bicep
7 1 (1.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (57.53%) Security Cleared
2 34 (46.58%) SC Cleared
3 16 (21.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (16.44%) DV Cleared
4 12 (16.44%) MCSE
5 8 (10.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 7 (9.59%) Degree
7 4 (5.48%) MCSA
7 4 (5.48%) VCP5
7 4 (5.48%) VCP6
8 3 (4.11%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (2.74%) MCP
10 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.37%) Citrix Certification
10 1 (1.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (1.37%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.33%) SLA
2 4 (5.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.11%) QA
4 2 (2.74%) GDPR
4 2 (2.74%) NCSC
5 1 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.37%) IEC 61131
5 1 (1.37%) JSP 440
5 1 (1.37%) NIST
System Software
1 40 (54.79%) Active Directory
2 31 (42.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (26.03%) Hyper-V
4 17 (23.29%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (17.81%) vSphere
6 10 (13.70%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (8.22%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (6.85%) NFS
9 4 (5.48%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 4 (5.48%) Platform Symphony
10 3 (4.11%) Docker
11 2 (2.74%) BitLocker
11 2 (2.74%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (1.37%) Firmware
12 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (1.37%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (1.37%) VMware NSX
12 1 (1.37%) XenApp
12 1 (1.37%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 18 (24.66%) vCenter Server
2 15 (20.55%) WSUS
3 11 (15.07%) SCCM
4 6 (8.22%) Microsoft Clustering
5 5 (6.85%) Grafana
5 5 (6.85%) ITRS Geneos
5 5 (6.85%) Kibana
5 5 (6.85%) Kubernetes
5 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (5.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (5.48%) NetApp OnCommand
6 4 (5.48%) NetBackup
6 4 (5.48%) Norton AntiVirus
6 4 (5.48%) vMotion
7 3 (4.11%) Ansible
7 3 (4.11%) Backup Exec
7 3 (4.11%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (4.11%) Terraform
8 2 (2.74%) OPNET
8 2 (2.74%) SCOM
Vendors
1 44 (60.27%) VMware
2 38 (52.05%) Microsoft
3 10 (13.70%) Citrix
3 10 (13.70%) Symantec
4 9 (12.33%) Veeam
5 8 (10.96%) HP
6 7 (9.59%) Cisco
6 7 (9.59%) NetApp
7 6 (8.22%) Dell
7 6 (8.22%) Red Hat
7 6 (8.22%) Splunk
8 5 (6.85%) Juniper
8 5 (6.85%) NETGEAR
8 5 (6.85%) SolarWinds
8 5 (6.85%) TIBCO
8 5 (6.85%) TP-LINK
9 4 (5.48%) Clearswift
9 4 (5.48%) IBM
9 4 (5.48%) McAfee
9 4 (5.48%) Veritas