Windows Server 2012 Contracts in England

Microsoft Windows Server 2012
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Windows Server 2012 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server 2012 over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 334 414
Rank change year-on-year -1 +80 -69
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2012 216 356 421
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.59% 0.73% 0.60%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.32% 4.43% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 267 319
10th Percentile £199 £202 £163
25th Percentile £281 £349 £284
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +5.88% +8.97%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £500
90th Percentile £608 £688 £588
UK median daily rate £400 £440 £425
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.53% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 13
10th Percentile - £18.38 £17.00
25th Percentile - £19.91 -
Median hourly rate - £22.63 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.15% -42.45%
75th Percentile - £25.25 £28.41
90th Percentile - £53.69 -
UK median hourly rate - £24.32 £20.50
% change year-on-year - +18.61% -41.01%

All Operating Systems
England

Windows Server 2012 is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,004 8,030 10,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.60% 16.37% 15.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,426 5,688 7,514
10th Percentile £185 £195 £173
25th Percentile £300 £330 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £468 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -8.24% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 360 383 541
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.29 £13.38
25th Percentile £14.72 £17.72 £15.93
Median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.33% +70.45% +23.94%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% +67.39% +29.58%

Windows Server 2012
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Windows Server 2012 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2012 in England

Windows Server 2012
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2012 in England.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2012 in England

Windows Server 2012
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2012 in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2012 in England

Windows Server 2012
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2012 in England.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2012 in England

Windows Server 2012
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 2012 within the England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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 +65 84 £575 +19.79% 24
London +18 70 £380 -15.56% 15
North of England +4 22 £328 -18.13% 20
Midlands +23 18 £225 -40.00% 9
South West -28 18 £538 +19.44% 16
North West -1 14 £290 -38.95% 8
West Midlands +18 13 £225 -40.00% 7
Yorkshire +11 8 £400 +14.12% 10
East Midlands +12 3 £210 -44.00% 2
East of England -8 2 £388 +19.23% 10
Windows Server 2012
UK

Windows Server 2012
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 75 (34.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
3 25 (11.57%) Exchange Server 2013
4 16 (7.41%) Confluence
5 12 (5.56%) SharePoint
6 11 (5.09%) Exchange Server 2007
6 11 (5.09%) Skype for Business
7 10 (4.63%) Exchange Server 2003
8 5 (2.31%) IIS
9 3 (1.39%) nginx
10 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (10.65%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.93%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.39%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.93%) Remedy AR System
2 2 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 73 (33.80%) Microsoft 365
2 63 (29.17%) Azure
3 15 (6.94%) OCI
4 13 (6.02%) Entra ID
5 8 (3.70%) IaaS
6 7 (3.24%) AWS
7 5 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.85%) PaaS
9 3 (1.39%) Azure Storage
9 3 (1.39%) GitHub
9 3 (1.39%) SaaS
10 2 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.93%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.93%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (0.93%) Route 53
10 2 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.46%) Mimecast
11 1 (0.46%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.46%) Rubrik
11 1 (0.46%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 86 (39.81%) DNS
2 59 (27.31%) Firewall
3 57 (26.39%) DHCP
4 38 (17.59%) SAN
5 16 (7.41%) WAN
6 14 (6.48%) Skype
7 13 (6.02%) LAN
8 12 (5.56%) VPN
9 10 (4.63%) TCP/IP
10 9 (4.17%) VLAN
10 9 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (3.24%) Wireless
12 6 (2.78%) VoIP
13 4 (1.85%) Ethernet
13 4 (1.85%) Unified Communications
14 3 (1.39%) Cisco IOS
14 3 (1.39%) NAS
14 3 (1.39%) WLAN
15 2 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
15 2 (0.93%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.26%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.39%) MySQL
3 2 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.46%) Redis
4 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (10.65%) JIRA
2 3 (1.39%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (0.93%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.46%) Hudson
4 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 92 (42.59%) Social Skills
2 36 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (10.19%) Public Sector
4 20 (9.26%) Finance
5 15 (6.94%) Military
6 12 (5.56%) Banking
7 7 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.39%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.93%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.46%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.46%) Back Office
10 1 (0.46%) Electronics
10 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.46%) French Language
10 1 (0.46%) German Language
10 1 (0.46%) Law
10 1 (0.46%) Marketing
10 1 (0.46%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (19.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 33 (15.28%) Support Engineer
3 29 (13.43%) Windows Engineer
4 25 (11.57%) Integration Engineer
5 20 (9.26%) Build Engineer
5 20 (9.26%) Windows Build Engineer
6 15 (6.94%) Administrator
6 15 (6.94%) Systems Administrator
6 15 (6.94%) Test and Integration Engineer
6 15 (6.94%) Test Engineer
7 13 (6.02%) 2nd Line Support
8 11 (5.09%) Server Engineer
9 10 (4.63%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 10 (4.63%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 10 (4.63%) Analyst
9 10 (4.63%) Storage Engineer
10 9 (4.17%) 1st/2nd Line Support
10 9 (4.17%) Architect
11 8 (3.70%) Senior
11 8 (3.70%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.39%) EDI
2 2 (0.93%) ADSI
2 2 (0.93%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.46%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.72%) PKI
2 17 (7.87%) Data Centre
3 14 (6.48%) Video Conferencing
4 12 (5.56%) Clustering
5 10 (4.63%) NHS
6 7 (3.24%) Driving Licence
7 6 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.85%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.39%) CCTV
9 3 (1.39%) CMDB
9 3 (1.39%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.39%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.46%) Fat Client
11 1 (0.46%) Freedom of Information
11 1 (0.46%) Freedom of Information Act
11 1 (0.46%) LIMS
11 1 (0.46%) Replication
11 1 (0.46%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 216 (100.00%) Windows
2 180 (83.33%) Windows Server
3 87 (40.28%) Windows Server 2016
4 76 (35.19%) Windows 10
5 75 (34.72%) Windows Server 2019
6 44 (20.37%) Windows Server 2008
7 29 (13.43%) Linux
8 25 (11.57%) Windows 7
9 20 (9.26%) Windows NT
10 15 (6.94%) Windows Server 2003
11 14 (6.48%) Windows XP
12 9 (4.17%) Mac OS
13 6 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 5 (2.31%) Ubuntu
15 4 (1.85%) VMS
16 3 (1.39%) Android
16 3 (1.39%) CentOS
17 2 (0.93%) OpenVMS
18 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (26.39%) ITIL
2 55 (25.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 42 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (16.20%) Customer Service
5 32 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
6 30 (13.89%) Migration
7 25 (11.57%) Release Management
8 24 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
8 24 (11.11%) Service Management
9 21 (9.72%) Project Management
10 20 (9.26%) Agile
10 20 (9.26%) User Acceptance Testing
11 19 (8.80%) Server Management
11 19 (8.80%) Storage Management
12 17 (7.87%) Critical Thinking
13 15 (6.94%) Change Management
13 15 (6.94%) Performance Tuning
13 15 (6.94%) Proactive Monitoring
13 15 (6.94%) Regression Testing
13 15 (6.94%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 61 (28.24%) PowerShell
2 45 (20.83%) SQL
3 3 (1.39%) Shell Script
4 2 (0.93%) Python
5 1 (0.46%) Bicep
5 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 97 (44.91%) Security Cleared
2 48 (22.22%) DV Cleared
3 43 (19.91%) SC Cleared
4 39 (18.06%) Degree
5 22 (10.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (9.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 18 (8.33%) CCNA
7 18 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (8.33%) MCSE
8 15 (6.94%) CCNP
8 15 (6.94%) MCSA
9 5 (2.31%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.26%) QA
2 3 (1.39%) SLA
3 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.93%) NIST
3 2 (0.93%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.46%) NCSC
System Software
1 178 (82.41%) Active Directory
2 90 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (16.20%) Hyper-V
4 22 (10.19%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (9.26%) Firmware
6 14 (6.48%) XenApp
7 8 (3.70%) vSphere
8 5 (2.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (2.31%) VMware NSX
8 5 (2.31%) XenDesktop
9 3 (1.39%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.93%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.46%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.46%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.46%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 81 (37.50%) SCCM
2 52 (24.07%) WSUS
3 21 (9.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (9.26%) Sysprep
5 19 (8.80%) vCenter Server
6 18 (8.33%) NetBackup
6 18 (8.33%) SCOM
7 14 (6.48%) EMC NetWorker
8 10 (4.63%) Autotask
9 7 (3.24%) Failover Clustering
9 7 (3.24%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (2.78%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (2.78%) Microsoft Clustering
11 5 (2.31%) Terraform
12 4 (1.85%) Ansible
13 3 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (1.39%) FortiGate
13 3 (1.39%) PaperCut
14 2 (0.93%) Packer
14 2 (0.93%) VxRail
Vendors
1 124 (57.41%) Microsoft
2 108 (50.00%) VMware
3 43 (19.91%) Cisco
4 36 (16.67%) HP
5 34 (15.74%) Veeam
6 29 (13.43%) EMC
7 28 (12.96%) Citrix
8 18 (8.33%) Dell
9 17 (7.87%) 3PAR
9 17 (7.87%) Juniper
9 17 (7.87%) Palo Alto
10 16 (7.41%) Oracle
11 14 (6.48%) Extreme Networks
11 14 (6.48%) Symantec
12 13 (6.02%) Avaya
13 12 (5.56%) CheckPoint
14 9 (4.17%) Ivanti
15 7 (3.24%) Apple
15 7 (3.24%) Red Hat
16 6 (2.78%) Remedy