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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 399 364 394
Rank change year-on-year -35 +30 +118
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2019 95 194 252
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.52% 0.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.64% 3.74% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 123 196
10th Percentile £350 £219 £263
25th Percentile £503 £369 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.00% +17.22%
75th Percentile £647 £608 £636
90th Percentile £661 £628 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -2.22% +7.14% +16.67%
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 3,598 5,191 7,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.93% 13.91% 16.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,418 3,440 5,328
10th Percentile £200 £190 £193
25th Percentile £313 £313 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 394 368
10th Percentile £15.17 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.33 £16.00 £18.47
Median hourly rate £19.36 £24.93 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.33% -41.35% +88.89%
75th Percentile £49.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.90 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £22.25 £24.93 £42.50
% change year-on-year -10.74% -41.35% +88.89%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -12 40 £600 -0.83% 46
East of England +34 21 £550 -15.38% 20
North of England +11 15 £350 -6.67% 26
North West +18 14 £350 +59.09% 16
London +18 14 £593 +18.50% 61
Midlands -16 3 £300 -14.29% 17
South West +32 2 £525 -8.70% 23
West Midlands -8 2 £300 -14.29% 7
East Midlands -1 1 - - 10
Yorkshire -8 1 £400 -28.89% 7
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 12 (12.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.26%) Apache
2 5 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.21%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (4.21%) IIS
3 4 (4.21%) Skype for Business
4 1 (1.05%) Confluence
4 1 (1.05%) DataSynapse
4 1 (1.05%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 20 (21.05%) Azure
1 20 (21.05%) Cohesity
2 11 (11.58%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (9.47%) Entra ID
4 8 (8.42%) AWS
5 7 (7.37%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (4.21%) GitHub
6 4 (4.21%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.05%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.05%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.05%) IaaS
7 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.05%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.05%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.05%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (44.21%) DNS
2 29 (30.53%) SAN
3 13 (13.68%) DHCP
3 13 (13.68%) Fibre Channel
3 13 (13.68%) iSCSI
4 6 (6.32%) VSAN
5 5 (5.26%) LAN
5 5 (5.26%) TCP/IP
6 4 (4.21%) Firewall
6 4 (4.21%) PSTN
6 4 (4.21%) Skype
6 4 (4.21%) SMTP
7 3 (3.16%) Network Security
7 3 (3.16%) WAN
7 3 (3.16%) WLAN
8 1 (1.05%) NAS
8 1 (1.05%) NetScaler
8 1 (1.05%) SSL
8 1 (1.05%) VLAN
8 1 (1.05%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (4.21%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (4.21%) MSI
1 4 (4.21%) Robot Framework
1 4 (4.21%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (3.16%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.05%) Git
3 1 (1.05%) JIRA
General
1 8 (8.42%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.32%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.26%) Legal
4 3 (3.16%) Finance
4 3 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.05%) Banking
6 1 (1.05%) Front Office
6 1 (1.05%) Local Government
6 1 (1.05%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.05%) Marketing
6 1 (1.05%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (16.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (13.68%) Architect
2 13 (13.68%) Infrastructure Architect
3 12 (12.63%) VMware Architect
4 9 (9.47%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 7 (7.37%) Administrator
5 7 (7.37%) Lead
6 5 (5.26%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (5.26%) Senior
7 4 (4.21%) Collaboration Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) Grid Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 4 (4.21%) Integration Engineer
8 3 (3.16%) Citrix Specialist
8 3 (3.16%) Exchange Engineer
8 3 (3.16%) Industrial Engineer
8 3 (3.16%) Server Administrator
8 3 (3.16%) TIBCO Engineer
8 3 (3.16%) VMWare Administrator
8 3 (3.16%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.05%) ARM Templates
1 1 (1.05%) LDAP
1 1 (1.05%) SOAP
1 1 (1.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.47%) Data Centre
1 9 (9.47%) PKI
2 5 (5.26%) Grid Computing
3 4 (4.21%) Blackberry
3 4 (4.21%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (4.21%) Handset
4 3 (3.16%) Clustering
4 3 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.05%) CESG
5 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.05%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.05%) Equities
5 1 (1.05%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.05%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.05%) Replication
5 1 (1.05%) SCADA
5 1 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 89 (93.68%) Windows
2 84 (88.42%) Windows Server
3 43 (45.26%) Windows Server 2016
4 22 (23.16%) Linux
5 12 (12.63%) Windows 10
6 9 (9.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (9.47%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (7.37%) Unix
8 6 (6.32%) CentOS
9 4 (4.21%) Android
10 3 (3.16%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (2.11%) Ubuntu
12 1 (1.05%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (1.05%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (1.05%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (26.32%) Deployment Automation
2 23 (24.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 21 (22.11%) Build Automation
3 21 (22.11%) SIEM
4 20 (21.05%) Operations Management
5 14 (14.74%) ITIL
6 11 (11.58%) High Availability
7 10 (10.53%) Edge Virtualization
7 10 (10.53%) Performance Analysis
8 9 (9.47%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (7.37%) Analytics
9 7 (7.37%) Log Analytics
9 7 (7.37%) Performance Tuning
10 6 (6.32%) Agile
11 5 (5.26%) API Integration
11 5 (5.26%) DevOps
11 5 (5.26%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 5 (5.26%) Power Management
11 5 (5.26%) Prototyping
11 5 (5.26%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 48 (50.53%) PowerShell
2 23 (24.21%) SQL
3 10 (10.53%) Python
4 7 (7.37%) Java
5 6 (6.32%) C#
6 5 (5.26%) C++
7 4 (4.21%) PHP
8 3 (3.16%) VBScript
9 1 (1.05%) Bicep
9 1 (1.05%) VB
Qualifications
1 62 (65.26%) Security Cleared
2 41 (43.16%) DV Cleared
3 24 (25.26%) SC Cleared
4 21 (22.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (17.89%) MCSE
6 15 (15.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 11 (11.58%) VCP5
7 11 (11.58%) VCP6
8 5 (5.26%) Degree
9 3 (3.16%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (1.05%) Citrix Certification
10 1 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.32%) SLA
2 4 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.16%) QA
4 2 (2.11%) GDPR
5 1 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.05%) IEC 61131
5 1 (1.05%) JSP 440
5 1 (1.05%) NIST
System Software
1 56 (58.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 50 (52.63%) Active Directory
3 22 (23.16%) VMware ESXi
4 21 (22.11%) Virtual Servers
4 21 (22.11%) vSphere
5 20 (21.05%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 16 (16.84%) NFS
7 11 (11.58%) Hyper-V
8 9 (9.47%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (4.21%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 4 (4.21%) Platform Symphony
10 3 (3.16%) Docker
10 3 (3.16%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (1.05%) VMware NSX
11 1 (1.05%) XenApp
11 1 (1.05%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 35 (36.84%) WSUS
2 29 (30.53%) Ansible
3 24 (25.26%) SCCM
4 14 (14.74%) vCenter Server
5 10 (10.53%) Terraform
6 5 (5.26%) Grafana
6 5 (5.26%) ITRS Geneos
6 5 (5.26%) Kibana
7 4 (4.21%) Kubernetes
7 4 (4.21%) NetBackup
7 4 (4.21%) WMI
8 3 (3.16%) Backup Exec
8 3 (3.16%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (3.16%) Norton AntiVirus
9 2 (2.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (2.11%) NetApp OnCommand
9 2 (2.11%) vMotion
9 2 (2.11%) VxRail
Vendors
1 70 (73.68%) VMware
2 61 (64.21%) Microsoft
3 35 (36.84%) NetApp
4 34 (35.79%) Splunk
5 18 (18.95%) Veeam
6 10 (10.53%) Citrix
7 7 (7.37%) Dell
7 7 (7.37%) Red Hat
7 7 (7.37%) Symantec
8 6 (6.32%) Cisco
9 5 (5.26%) HP
9 5 (5.26%) Juniper
9 5 (5.26%) NETGEAR
9 5 (5.26%) SolarWinds
9 5 (5.26%) TIBCO
9 5 (5.26%) TP-LINK
10 4 (4.21%) 3PAR
10 4 (4.21%) Clearswift
10 4 (4.21%) Ribbon
10 4 (4.21%) Veritas