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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 420 370
Rank change year-on-year -143 -50 +29
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2019 70 90 169
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.33% 0.50%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.61% 2.42% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 72 106
10th Percentile £353 £350 £262
25th Percentile £408 £509 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £569
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -3.30% +8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £602 £608
90th Percentile £625 £650 £624
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +6.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £19.43 - £48.60
25th Percentile £24.94 - £53.68
Median hourly rate £35.75 - £59.80
75th Percentile £47.44 - £61.60
90th Percentile £53.48 - -
UK median hourly rate £35.75 - £59.80
% change year-on-year - - +20.25%

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 4,359 3,714 4,809
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.62% 13.50% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,797 2,480 3,201
10th Percentile £190 £200 £200
25th Percentile £313 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -3.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £663 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £470 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +1.62% -2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 230 321
10th Percentile £16.07 £15.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.13 £16.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £23.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.30% -16.36% -35.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £24.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% -36.47%

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 31 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Server 2019 in England over the 6 months to 31 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 31 July 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 -50 27 £475 -9.52% 7
South East -77 26 £538 -10.42% 7
North of England -79 6 £400 +18.52% 8
East of England -36 4 £335 -39.09% 4
South West -39 4 £425 -19.05% 4
Yorkshire -49 4 £469 +17.19% 1
Midlands -52 3 £388 +29.17% 6
West Midlands -61 2 £450 +50.00% 5
North West -64 2 £400 +23.08% 5
East Midlands -12 1 £325 - 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 9 (12.86%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (12.86%) nginx
1 9 (12.86%) Tomcat
2 7 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 6 (8.57%) IIS
4 3 (4.29%) WebLogic
5 2 (2.86%) Apache
5 2 (2.86%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.43%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 20 (28.57%) Azure
2 12 (17.14%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (15.71%) AWS
4 10 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 4 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.29%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (4.29%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (4.29%) AWS CloudTrail
6 3 (4.29%) AWS KMS
6 3 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.29%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (4.29%) Datadog
6 3 (4.29%) IaaS
6 3 (4.29%) MinIO
6 3 (4.29%) Serverless
6 3 (4.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (2.86%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 36 (51.43%) DNS
2 15 (21.43%) DHCP
3 10 (14.29%) Firewall
4 9 (12.86%) WAN
5 8 (11.43%) LAN
6 5 (7.14%) SAN
6 5 (7.14%) VPN
7 4 (5.71%) HTTP
7 4 (5.71%) SSL
8 3 (4.29%) VLAN
8 3 (4.29%) VSAN
9 2 (2.86%) BIG-IP
9 2 (2.86%) NAS
9 2 (2.86%) TCP/IP
10 1 (1.43%) BGP
10 1 (1.43%) DMZ
10 1 (1.43%) DSL
10 1 (1.43%) MPLS
10 1 (1.43%) OSPF
10 1 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.43%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (4.29%) GIS
3 3 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.86%) MySQL
4 2 (2.86%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Jenkins
1 3 (4.29%) MSI
2 2 (2.86%) AdminStudio
2 2 (2.86%) Git
2 2 (2.86%) InstallShield
2 2 (2.86%) JIRA
3 1 (1.43%) Robot Framework
3 1 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.71%) Legal
5 3 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.86%) Law
7 1 (1.43%) Finance
7 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (18.57%) Lead
3 10 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 9 (12.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 8 (11.43%) Support Engineer
5 8 (11.43%) Team Leader
6 5 (7.14%) Network Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) Senior
7 4 (5.71%) Administrator
7 4 (5.71%) Infrastructure Support
7 4 (5.71%) Server Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Analyst
8 3 (4.29%) Applications Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) IT Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Lead Software Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Support Analyst
9 2 (2.86%) Cloud Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.71%) EJB
2 3 (4.29%) Jakarta EE
2 3 (4.29%) JSON
2 3 (4.29%) OpenLayers
2 3 (4.29%) Spring
3 2 (2.86%) ADO
3 2 (2.86%) LAMP
3 2 (2.86%) LEMP Stack
3 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (2.86%) Middleware
3 2 (2.86%) YAML
4 1 (1.43%) .NET
4 1 (1.43%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.43%) JavaBeans
4 1 (1.43%) JSP
4 1 (1.43%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.57%) PKI
2 5 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.71%) Clustering
3 4 (5.71%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (4.29%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.29%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (4.29%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.29%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.86%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.86%) Fat Client
5 2 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.86%) Thin Client
5 2 (2.86%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.43%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.43%) Device Driver
6 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.43%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 69 (98.57%) Windows
2 57 (81.43%) Windows Server
3 25 (35.71%) Windows Server 2016
4 21 (30.00%) Linux
5 12 (17.14%) Windows Server 2012
6 11 (15.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
8 7 (10.00%) Solaris
9 6 (8.57%) Ubuntu
10 5 (7.14%) Windows 10
11 3 (4.29%) Windows 7
12 2 (2.86%) CentOS
12 2 (2.86%) OpenVMS
12 2 (2.86%) VMS
13 1 (1.43%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (1.43%) Debian
13 1 (1.43%) Mac OS
13 1 (1.43%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (25.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 18 (25.71%) ITIL
2 16 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (18.57%) Agile
4 11 (15.71%) Technical Leadership
5 10 (14.29%) ITSM
5 10 (14.29%) Service Delivery
6 9 (12.86%) CI/CD
6 9 (12.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (12.86%) DevOps
6 9 (12.86%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 8 (11.43%) Coaching
7 8 (11.43%) Problem Management
8 7 (10.00%) Capacity Management
8 7 (10.00%) Change Management
8 7 (10.00%) ETL
8 7 (10.00%) Migration
8 7 (10.00%) Task Automation
9 6 (8.57%) Master Data Management
9 6 (8.57%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 23 (32.86%) PowerShell
2 14 (20.00%) SQL
3 7 (10.00%) Python
4 6 (8.57%) PL/SQL
5 5 (7.14%) Java
6 4 (5.71%) Bash
7 3 (4.29%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.43%) C
8 1 (1.43%) C#
8 1 (1.43%) Groovy
8 1 (1.43%) Ladder Logic
8 1 (1.43%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (52.86%) Security Cleared
2 21 (30.00%) DV Cleared
3 18 (25.71%) SC Cleared
4 7 (10.00%) Degree
4 7 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.86%) MCSA
6 1 (1.43%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.43%) CCA
6 1 (1.43%) CCNA
6 1 (1.43%) CCNP
6 1 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.43%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (4.29%) SLA
2 2 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.43%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.43%) NCSC
3 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 51 (72.86%) Active Directory
2 46 (65.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (21.43%) VMware ESXi
4 13 (18.57%) vSphere
5 6 (8.57%) Hyper-V
6 5 (7.14%) Docker
6 5 (7.14%) VMware NSX
7 4 (5.71%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (4.29%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (4.29%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (4.29%) XenApp
8 3 (4.29%) XenDesktop
9 2 (2.86%) Dovecot
9 2 (2.86%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (2.86%) Postfix
9 2 (2.86%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (1.43%) KVM
10 1 (1.43%) QEMU
10 1 (1.43%) Squid
10 1 (1.43%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 13 (18.57%) vCenter Server
2 11 (15.71%) SCCM
2 11 (15.71%) Terraform
3 10 (14.29%) Ansible
4 8 (11.43%) SCOM
4 8 (11.43%) WSUS
5 7 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (5.71%) Dell DRAC
7 3 (4.29%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (4.29%) Packer
7 3 (4.29%) Puppet
7 3 (4.29%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (2.86%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (2.86%) HAProxy
8 2 (2.86%) NetBackup
9 1 (1.43%) Kibana
9 1 (1.43%) logstash
9 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (1.43%) vMotion
Vendors
1 49 (70.00%) VMware
2 32 (45.71%) Microsoft
3 13 (18.57%) Red Hat
4 12 (17.14%) Juniper
5 11 (15.71%) Oracle
6 10 (14.29%) Cisco
7 8 (11.43%) IBM
8 7 (10.00%) Citrix
8 7 (10.00%) Dell
9 6 (8.57%) Broadcom
9 6 (8.57%) SolarWinds
10 3 (4.29%) F5
10 3 (4.29%) Meraki
10 3 (4.29%) NVIDIA
10 3 (4.29%) PagerDuty
10 3 (4.29%) Veeam
11 2 (2.86%) HP
11 2 (2.86%) NetApp
11 2 (2.86%) Remedy
11 2 (2.86%) Veritas