Windows Server 2019 Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Windows Server 2019
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Windows Server 2019 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 402 345
Rank change year-on-year -119 -57 +17
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2019 53 74 197
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.30% 0.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.32% 2.14% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 56 130
10th Percentile £303 £316 £210
25th Percentile £406 £350 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £552
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -4.89% +4.15%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £608
90th Percentile £625 £706 -
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £50.86
25th Percentile - - £56.50
Median hourly rate - - £59.80
75th Percentile - - £61.60
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 - £59.80
% change year-on-year - - +125.83%

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 4,030 3,454 5,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.11% 14.05% 13.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,678 2,349 3,464
10th Percentile £185 £200 £181
25th Percentile £313 £313 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% -10.19%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £468
% change year-on-year -5.26% +1.50% -8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 150 370
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.16 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.10 £14.83
Median hourly rate £42.71 £24.66 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.18% +12.09% -37.14%
75th Percentile £67.84 £64.69 £59.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £24.18 £22.00
% change year-on-year +73.45% +9.91% -41.33%

Windows Server 2019
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows Server 2019 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Windows Server 2019 job vacancy trend in England

Windows Server 2019
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Windows Server 2019.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Windows Server 2019

Windows Server 2019
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2019 in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2019 in England

Windows Server 2019
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Windows Server 2019.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Windows Server 2019

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 25 April 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 -61 21 £481 -8.33% 12
South East -74 11 £600 -0.83% 21
North West -49 9 £238 -32.14%
North of England -81 9 £238 -32.14% 1
East of England -36 5 £463 -19.57% 6
South West -49 3 £525 -8.70% 1
West Midlands -57 3 £450 +50.00%
Midlands -58 3 £450 +50.00% 1
Windows Server 2019
UK

Windows Server 2019
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 6 (11.32%) nginx
1 6 (11.32%) Tomcat
2 4 (7.55%) IIS
3 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (5.66%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.66%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (13.21%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (9.43%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.74%) Azure
2 15 (28.30%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (18.87%) AWS
4 8 (15.09%) Entra ID
5 6 (11.32%) Nutanix
6 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.77%) GCP
6 2 (3.77%) IaaS
6 2 (3.77%) MinIO
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 28 (52.83%) DNS
2 27 (50.94%) DHCP
3 9 (16.98%) NetScaler
4 8 (15.09%) LAN
4 8 (15.09%) WAN
5 6 (11.32%) Firewall
5 6 (11.32%) TCP/IP
6 4 (7.55%) HTTP
7 3 (5.66%) BIG-IP
7 3 (5.66%) VSAN
8 2 (3.77%) SSL
9 1 (1.89%) DSL
9 1 (1.89%) Internet
9 1 (1.89%) VLAN
9 1 (1.89%) VoIP
9 1 (1.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.21%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.55%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (3.77%) GIS
3 2 (3.77%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.77%) AdminStudio
1 2 (3.77%) InstallShield
1 2 (3.77%) MSI
2 1 (1.89%) Git
2 1 (1.89%) JIRA
General
1 8 (15.09%) Documentation Skills
1 8 (15.09%) Public Sector
2 7 (13.21%) Legal
3 6 (11.32%) Social Skills
4 5 (9.43%) Finance
5 4 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.77%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.89%) Back Office
7 1 (1.89%) Electronics
7 1 (1.89%) Front Office
7 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.89%) Marketing
7 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (26.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (15.09%) Platform Engineer
3 7 (13.21%) Senior
4 5 (9.43%) 3rd Line Support
4 5 (9.43%) Administrator
4 5 (9.43%) Architect
4 5 (9.43%) Citrix Support
4 5 (9.43%) Infrastructure Architect
4 5 (9.43%) Lead
4 5 (9.43%) Server Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Analyst
5 4 (7.55%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) IT Analyst
5 4 (7.55%) IT Support
5 4 (7.55%) IT Support Analyst
5 4 (7.55%) Support Analyst
6 3 (5.66%) Lead Architect
6 3 (5.66%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (5.66%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.66%) EJB
1 3 (5.66%) JSON
1 3 (5.66%) Middleware
2 2 (3.77%) ADO
2 2 (3.77%) Java EE
2 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (3.77%) OpenLayers
2 2 (3.77%) Spring
3 1 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.89%) JavaBeans
3 1 (1.89%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.43%) Client/Server
1 5 (9.43%) Data Centre
2 4 (7.55%) Clustering
2 4 (7.55%) Legacy Applications
2 4 (7.55%) PKI
2 4 (7.55%) Private Cloud
2 4 (7.55%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.77%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.77%) Fat Client
3 2 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.77%) Thin Client
4 1 (1.89%) Device Driver
4 1 (1.89%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) iPhone
4 1 (1.89%) Lidar
4 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (98.11%) Windows
2 46 (86.79%) Windows Server
3 28 (52.83%) Windows Server 2016
4 13 (24.53%) Windows Server 2012
5 12 (22.64%) Linux
6 7 (13.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (13.21%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (11.32%) Solaris
7 6 (11.32%) Windows 10
8 4 (7.55%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.89%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (1.89%) Debian
9 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (28.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (18.87%) Change Management
2 10 (18.87%) DevOps
2 10 (18.87%) ITIL
2 10 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (15.09%) High Availability
4 7 (13.21%) Business Continuity
4 7 (13.21%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (13.21%) Load Balancing
4 7 (13.21%) Mentoring
4 7 (13.21%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (11.32%) ETL
5 6 (11.32%) Project Delivery
6 5 (9.43%) CI/CD
6 5 (9.43%) Master Data Management
6 5 (9.43%) Migration
6 5 (9.43%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (7.55%) Patch Management
7 4 (7.55%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (7.55%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 20 (37.74%) PowerShell
2 13 (24.53%) SQL
3 5 (9.43%) Java
3 5 (9.43%) PL/SQL
4 3 (5.66%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.77%) Python
6 1 (1.89%) Bash
6 1 (1.89%) Ladder Logic
6 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (37.74%) Security Cleared
2 18 (33.96%) SC Cleared
3 11 (20.75%) Degree
4 5 (9.43%) CCA
4 5 (9.43%) Citrix Certification
5 4 (7.55%) DV Cleared
6 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (3.77%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.89%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.77%) SLA
2 1 (1.89%) NCSC
2 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 37 (69.81%) Active Directory
2 36 (67.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (33.96%) vSphere
4 14 (26.42%) Hyper-V
5 9 (16.98%) Docker
6 8 (15.09%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (13.21%) VMware NSX
7 7 (13.21%) XenApp
7 7 (13.21%) XenDesktop
8 6 (11.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (5.66%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (5.66%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (3.77%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (1.89%) KVM
11 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (1.89%) QEMU
11 1 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (43.40%) SCCM
2 10 (18.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (13.21%) WSUS
4 5 (9.43%) SCVMM
5 4 (7.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (7.55%) Failover Clustering
5 4 (7.55%) Kubernetes
5 4 (7.55%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (7.55%) vCenter Server
6 3 (5.66%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (5.66%) SCOM
7 2 (3.77%) Ansible
7 2 (3.77%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (1.89%) Grafana
8 1 (1.89%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (1.89%) NetApp OnCommand
8 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (73.58%) VMware
2 19 (35.85%) Microsoft
3 9 (16.98%) Citrix
4 8 (15.09%) Dell
5 7 (13.21%) F5
5 7 (13.21%) Oracle
6 6 (11.32%) IBM
6 6 (11.32%) Red Hat
6 6 (11.32%) Veeam
7 4 (7.55%) Cisco
8 3 (5.66%) NetApp
8 3 (5.66%) NVIDIA
9 2 (3.77%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.89%) Google
10 1 (1.89%) HP
10 1 (1.89%) Infoblox
10 1 (1.89%) McAfee
10 1 (1.89%) Remedy
10 1 (1.89%) SAP
10 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow