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 11 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 426 388
Rank change year-on-year -65 -38 +53
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2019 53 81 184
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.27% 0.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.26% 1.89% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 56 104
10th Percentile £236 £284 £215
25th Percentile £425 £360 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year +29.21% -6.32% -5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £608 £564
90th Percentile £650 £700 £600
UK median daily rate £563 £440 £466
% change year-on-year +27.84% -5.58% -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 11
10th Percentile - - £48.40
25th Percentile £16.25 - £49.07
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £56.00
75th Percentile £18.75 - £64.25
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £48.75 - £56.00
% change year-on-year - - +117.48%

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 4,191 4,284 5,930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.53% 14.13% 15.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,747 2,655 4,080
10th Percentile £180 £200 £182
25th Percentile £263 £321 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% -6.34%
75th Percentile £565 £588 £613
90th Percentile £675 £699 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 161 319
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.49 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £57.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.26% +76.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £58.88 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.84 £70.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year -50.00% +56.25% +28.00%

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 11 December 2025.

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 11 December 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 -25 27 £600 - 16
London -11 14 £400 -21.95% 14
South West -13 5 £525 +41.80% 7
North West -13 3 £238 -36.67% 3
East of England -16 3 £550 +145.81% 3
North of England -44 3 £238 -37.09% 8
East Midlands -17 1 - - 3
Midlands -33 1 - - 3
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 8 (15.09%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.77%) Apache
3 2 (3.77%) IIS
4 1 (1.89%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (15.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.89%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (20.75%) Azure
2 6 (11.32%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (5.66%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.77%) GitHub
4 2 (3.77%) Nutanix
5 1 (1.89%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.89%) IaaS
5 1 (1.89%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.89%) PaaS
5 1 (1.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (37.74%) DNS
2 17 (32.08%) DHCP
3 12 (22.64%) Fibre Channel
3 12 (22.64%) iSCSI
4 9 (16.98%) TCP/IP
4 9 (16.98%) VPN
5 8 (15.09%) Firewall
5 8 (15.09%) LAN
5 8 (15.09%) WAN
6 7 (13.21%) VSAN
7 6 (11.32%) SAN
8 2 (3.77%) Internet
8 2 (3.77%) Network Security
8 2 (3.77%) Skype
8 2 (3.77%) SSL
9 1 (1.89%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (1.89%) NAS
9 1 (1.89%) NetScaler
9 1 (1.89%) SD-WAN
9 1 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.43%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.89%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (3.77%) MSI
1 2 (3.77%) Robot Framework
1 2 (3.77%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.89%) JIRA
General
1 15 (28.30%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.21%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.89%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.89%) Back Office
4 1 (1.89%) Finance
4 1 (1.89%) Front Office
4 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 19 (35.85%) Architect
2 15 (28.30%) Infrastructure Architect
3 10 (18.87%) VMware Architect
4 8 (15.09%) IT Support
5 7 (13.21%) 2nd Line Support
5 7 (13.21%) Administrator
6 4 (7.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Backup Administrator
6 4 (7.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Storage Administrator
6 4 (7.55%) Storage and Backup Administrator
7 3 (5.66%) Server Administrator
8 2 (3.77%) 3rd Line Support
8 2 (3.77%) Azure Architect
8 2 (3.77%) Integration Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) IT Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Security Architect
8 2 (3.77%) Support Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Technical Architect
9 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) ModSecurity
2 1 (1.89%) Middleware
2 1 (1.89%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) PKI
2 4 (7.55%) Data Centre
2 4 (7.55%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (3.77%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (3.77%) Private Cloud
3 2 (3.77%) Replication
3 2 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.89%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.89%) Clustering
4 1 (1.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.89%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 50 (94.34%) Windows
2 36 (67.92%) Windows Server
3 24 (45.28%) Windows Server 2016
4 16 (30.19%) Linux
5 11 (20.75%) Windows 10
6 9 (16.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (11.32%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (7.55%) CentOS
8 4 (7.55%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (5.66%) Unix
10 2 (3.77%) Ubuntu
11 1 (1.89%) Android
11 1 (1.89%) Windows 7
11 1 (1.89%) Windows 8
11 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (20.75%) ITIL
2 9 (16.98%) Customer Requirements
2 9 (16.98%) Mentoring
3 8 (15.09%) Agile
3 8 (15.09%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (11.32%) Service Management
6 5 (9.43%) DevOps
6 5 (9.43%) Edge Virtualization
6 5 (9.43%) Performance Analysis
6 5 (9.43%) Project Delivery
6 5 (9.43%) Prototyping
7 4 (7.55%) Operational Stability
7 4 (7.55%) Roadmaps
8 3 (5.66%) CI/CD
8 3 (5.66%) Identity Access Management
8 3 (5.66%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 3 (5.66%) Server Management
8 3 (5.66%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 24 (45.28%) SQL
2 13 (24.53%) PowerShell
3 4 (7.55%) Shell Script
4 2 (3.77%) PHP
4 2 (3.77%) Python
5 1 (1.89%) Java
Qualifications
1 27 (50.94%) Security Cleared
2 15 (28.30%) DV Cleared
3 13 (24.53%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (22.64%) MCSE
5 10 (18.87%) SC Cleared
6 9 (16.98%) Degree
7 6 (11.32%) VCP5
7 6 (11.32%) VCP6
7 6 (11.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.89%) CCA
9 1 (1.89%) CCNA
9 1 (1.89%) CCNP
9 1 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.89%) Citrix Certification
9 1 (1.89%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.77%) NCSC
2 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
System Software
1 20 (37.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (33.96%) Active Directory
3 15 (28.30%) NFS
3 15 (28.30%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (26.42%) vSphere
5 4 (7.55%) Hyper-V
6 3 (5.66%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (5.66%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.89%) XenApp
7 1 (1.89%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (13.21%) Terraform
2 5 (9.43%) Ansible
3 4 (7.55%) NetBackup
3 4 (7.55%) SCCM
4 3 (5.66%) vCenter Server
4 3 (5.66%) WSUS
5 2 (3.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (3.77%) OPNET
5 2 (3.77%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.77%) VxRail
5 2 (3.77%) WMI
6 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.89%) SCOM
6 1 (1.89%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 29 (54.72%) Microsoft
2 28 (52.83%) VMware
3 15 (28.30%) NetApp
4 14 (26.42%) Veeam
5 12 (22.64%) Splunk
6 6 (11.32%) Red Hat
7 4 (7.55%) 3PAR
7 4 (7.55%) Citrix
7 4 (7.55%) HP
7 4 (7.55%) Veritas
8 3 (5.66%) Cisco
8 3 (5.66%) Nimble Storage
9 2 (3.77%) Dell
10 1 (1.89%) EMC
10 1 (1.89%) Juniper
10 1 (1.89%) Oracle
10 1 (1.89%) Palo Alto
10 1 (1.89%) QNAP
10 1 (1.89%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.89%) Zerto