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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 385 351 372
Rank change year-on-year -34 +21 +141
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2019 93 182 286
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.50% 0.59%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.73% 3.67% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 123 230
10th Percentile £328 £202 £253
25th Percentile £388 £380 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £604 £608 £629
90th Percentile £670 - £700
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +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 3,409 4,959 7,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.01% 13.61% 16.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,320 3,385 5,525
10th Percentile £200 £185 £193
25th Percentile £313 £300 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% -7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £591 £588 £638
90th Percentile £699 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £468 £470 £500
% change year-on-year -0.53% -6.01% +0.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 362 367
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £17.41 £14.83 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.28 £22.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% -41.33% +70.45%
75th Percentile £58.75 £61.20 £64.50
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £22.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year +2.27% -42.86% +71.11%

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 19 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 19 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 -38 23 £605 +5.22% 33
North of England +25 22 £350 -10.26% 19
East of England +35 20 £550 -15.38% 15
North West +29 20 £350 +59.09% 14
London +23 17 £525 +5.00% 13
South West +48 9 £575 - 16
Midlands +3 3 £300 -4.00% 22
West Midlands -8 3 £300 -4.00% 8
Yorkshire +7 2 £375 -33.29% 2
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 (19.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (11.83%) SharePoint
3 7 (7.53%) IIS
4 6 (6.45%) Skype for Business
5 4 (4.30%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (2.15%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (1.08%) Apache
7 1 (1.08%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (1.08%) Confluence
7 1 (1.08%) DataSynapse
7 1 (1.08%) WinCC
Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 22 (23.66%) Azure
2 19 (20.43%) Cohesity
3 12 (12.90%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (11.83%) Entra ID
5 8 (8.60%) AWS
6 7 (7.53%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (5.38%) OneDrive
8 4 (4.30%) GitHub
9 2 (2.15%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.08%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.08%) Azure Stack
10 1 (1.08%) Azure Storage
10 1 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.08%) IaaS
10 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (1.08%) Mimecast
10 1 (1.08%) Nutanix
10 1 (1.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (52.69%) DNS
2 28 (30.11%) SAN
3 18 (19.35%) DHCP
4 6 (6.45%) Fibre Channel
4 6 (6.45%) Skype
5 5 (5.38%) Firewall
5 5 (5.38%) iSCSI
5 5 (5.38%) LAN
5 5 (5.38%) TCP/IP
5 5 (5.38%) VPN
5 5 (5.38%) VSAN
6 4 (4.30%) PSTN
6 4 (4.30%) SMTP
7 3 (3.23%) Network Security
7 3 (3.23%) WAN
7 3 (3.23%) WLAN
8 2 (2.15%) NAS
8 2 (2.15%) SSL
9 1 (1.08%) VRRP
9 1 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.45%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.38%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.08%) GIS
5 1 (1.08%) MSDE
5 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Jenkins
1 3 (3.23%) JIRA
2 1 (1.08%) Git
General
1 11 (11.83%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.68%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.38%) Legal
4 3 (3.23%) Finance
5 2 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.15%) Publishing
6 1 (1.08%) Banking
6 1 (1.08%) Front Office
6 1 (1.08%) Local Government
6 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.08%) Marketing
6 1 (1.08%) Military
6 1 (1.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (20.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (10.75%) Administrator
3 9 (9.68%) Architect
4 8 (8.60%) VMWare Administrator
4 8 (8.60%) Wintel Administrator
5 7 (7.53%) Lead
6 5 (5.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 5 (5.38%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (5.38%) Infrastructure Architect
6 5 (5.38%) Senior
6 5 (5.38%) VMware Architect
7 4 (4.30%) Collaboration Engineer
7 4 (4.30%) Grid Engineer
7 4 (4.30%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 3 (3.23%) Citrix Specialist
8 3 (3.23%) Exchange Engineer
8 3 (3.23%) Industrial Engineer
8 3 (3.23%) Server Engineer
8 3 (3.23%) Technical Architect
8 3 (3.23%) TIBCO Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.08%) .NET
1 1 (1.08%) ARM Templates
1 1 (1.08%) ASP.NET
1 1 (1.08%) LDAP
1 1 (1.08%) SOAP
1 1 (1.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.83%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.45%) PKI
3 5 (5.38%) Grid Computing
4 4 (4.30%) Blackberry
4 4 (4.30%) Clustering
4 4 (4.30%) Enterprise Storage
4 4 (4.30%) Handset
5 3 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.15%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.08%) CESG
7 1 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.08%) Equities
7 1 (1.08%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.08%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.08%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 89 (95.70%) Windows
2 83 (89.25%) Windows Server
3 51 (54.84%) Windows Server 2016
4 20 (21.51%) Windows 10
5 19 (20.43%) Linux
5 19 (20.43%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (6.45%) Android
7 5 (5.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (4.30%) Unix
9 3 (3.23%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (2.15%) Apple iOS
10 2 (2.15%) Mac OS
11 1 (1.08%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (1.08%) CentOS
11 1 (1.08%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (1.08%) Rocky
11 1 (1.08%) Ubuntu
11 1 (1.08%) VMS
11 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (27.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (21.51%) Build Automation
2 20 (21.51%) Deployment Automation
2 20 (21.51%) ITIL
2 20 (21.51%) SIEM
3 19 (20.43%) Operations Management
4 16 (17.20%) High Availability
5 11 (11.83%) Root Cause Analysis
6 10 (10.75%) Patch Management
6 10 (10.75%) Performance Tuning
7 9 (9.68%) Analytics
7 9 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (8.60%) Migration
9 7 (7.53%) Log Analytics
10 6 (6.45%) Performance Monitoring
10 6 (6.45%) Server Building
11 5 (5.38%) API Integration
11 5 (5.38%) Performance Analysis
11 5 (5.38%) Power Management
11 5 (5.38%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (46.24%) PowerShell
2 13 (13.98%) SQL
3 7 (7.53%) Java
4 6 (6.45%) C#
4 6 (6.45%) Python
5 5 (5.38%) C++
5 5 (5.38%) VBScript
6 3 (3.23%) VB
7 1 (1.08%) Bicep
7 1 (1.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 35 (37.63%) SC Cleared
3 31 (33.33%) DV Cleared
4 17 (18.28%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (13.98%) MCSE
6 9 (9.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 7 (7.53%) Degree
8 5 (5.38%) VCP5
8 5 (5.38%) VCP6
9 4 (4.30%) MCSA
10 3 (3.23%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (2.15%) MCP
12 1 (1.08%) Azure Certification
12 1 (1.08%) Citrix Certification
12 1 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (1.08%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.75%) SLA
2 4 (4.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.23%) QA
4 2 (2.15%) GDPR
4 2 (2.15%) NCSC
5 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.08%) IEC 61131
5 1 (1.08%) JSP 440
5 1 (1.08%) NIST
System Software
1 59 (63.44%) Active Directory
2 51 (54.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (21.51%) Hyper-V
4 19 (20.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 19 (20.43%) Virtual Servers
4 19 (20.43%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (15.05%) vSphere
6 11 (11.83%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (6.45%) NFS
7 6 (6.45%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (4.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 4 (4.30%) Platform Symphony
9 3 (3.23%) Docker
10 2 (2.15%) BitLocker
10 2 (2.15%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (1.08%) Firmware
11 1 (1.08%) VMware NSX
11 1 (1.08%) XenApp
11 1 (1.08%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 34 (36.56%) WSUS
2 29 (31.18%) SCCM
3 21 (22.58%) Ansible
4 19 (20.43%) vCenter Server
5 7 (7.53%) Microsoft Clustering
6 5 (5.38%) Grafana
6 5 (5.38%) ITRS Geneos
6 5 (5.38%) Kibana
6 5 (5.38%) Kubernetes
6 5 (5.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (5.38%) NetApp OnCommand
6 5 (5.38%) vMotion
7 4 (4.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (4.30%) NetBackup
7 4 (4.30%) Norton AntiVirus
8 3 (3.23%) Backup Exec
8 3 (3.23%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (3.23%) Terraform
9 2 (2.15%) OPNET
9 2 (2.15%) SCOM
Vendors
1 64 (68.82%) VMware
2 58 (62.37%) Microsoft
3 26 (27.96%) NetApp
4 25 (26.88%) Splunk
5 10 (10.75%) Citrix
5 10 (10.75%) Symantec
5 10 (10.75%) Veeam
6 8 (8.60%) HP
7 7 (7.53%) Cisco
8 6 (6.45%) Dell
8 6 (6.45%) Red Hat
9 5 (5.38%) Juniper
9 5 (5.38%) NETGEAR
9 5 (5.38%) SolarWinds
9 5 (5.38%) TIBCO
9 5 (5.38%) TP-LINK
10 4 (4.30%) 3PAR
10 4 (4.30%) IBM
10 4 (4.30%) McAfee
10 4 (4.30%) Ribbon