Windows Server 2019 Contracts in England

Microsoft Windows Server 2019
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Windows Server 2019 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server 2019 over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 357 371 514
Rank change year-on-year +14 +143 -52
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2019 195 323 276
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.64% 0.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.84% 3.89% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 271 209
10th Percentile £210 £223 £188
25th Percentile £383 £413 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £533 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% +18.33% +18.42%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £538
90th Percentile - £700 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £450
% change year-on-year - +16.67% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 3
10th Percentile £50.86 £19.10 £16.80
25th Percentile £56.50 £23.24 £18.00
Median hourly rate £59.80 £26.48 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.83% +32.40% -27.27%
75th Percentile £61.60 £50.45 -
90th Percentile - £64.05 -
UK median hourly rate £59.80 £26.48 £20.00
% change year-on-year +125.83% +32.40% -33.33%

All Operating Systems
England

Windows Server 2019 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 5,079 8,312 11,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.64% 16.39% 15.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,465 5,922 7,663
10th Percentile £180 £194 £170
25th Percentile £280 £325 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £516 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.41% +3.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £465 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.27% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 370 399 566
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.14 £13.31
25th Percentile £15.19 £17.72 £15.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% +62.79% +20.99%
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.00 £22.39
% change year-on-year -42.11% +69.72% +26.00%

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 25 April 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Server 2019 in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 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 +66 105 £575 +17.95% 29
London +62 47 £500 - 16
Midlands +25 19 £350 +56.95% 15
West Midlands +34 16 £350 +27.27% 9
North of England +20 14 £390 -8.45% 24
Yorkshire +32 8 £563 +73.08% 8
East of England -32 7 £650 -7.14% 18
North West +2 5 £220 -54.87% 13
South West -47 3 £225 -60.87% 10
East Midlands +10 2 - - 6
North East +15 1 £600 +280.95% 3
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 44 (22.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (7.18%) SharePoint
3 12 (6.15%) IIS
4 3 (1.54%) nginx
4 3 (1.54%) WordPress
5 2 (1.03%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (1.03%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (1.03%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 12 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (3.08%) Teamcenter
2 3 (1.54%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 71 (36.41%) Azure
2 61 (31.28%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (13.85%) Entra ID
4 14 (7.18%) Azure Monitor
4 14 (7.18%) Azure Storage
5 13 (6.67%) OCI
6 11 (5.64%) OneDrive
7 6 (3.08%) Power Automate
7 6 (3.08%) Power Platform
7 6 (3.08%) PowerApps
8 5 (2.56%) WhatsApp
9 4 (2.05%) AWS
10 3 (1.54%) GCP
11 2 (1.03%) GitHub
12 1 (0.51%) Azure Stack
12 1 (0.51%) IaaS
12 1 (0.51%) Mimecast
12 1 (0.51%) Nutanix
12 1 (0.51%) Rubrik
12 1 (0.51%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 63 (32.31%) DNS
2 53 (27.18%) Firewall
3 49 (25.13%) DHCP
4 31 (15.90%) SAN
5 16 (8.21%) VPN
6 14 (7.18%) WAN
7 11 (5.64%) LAN
7 11 (5.64%) Wireless
8 10 (5.13%) NAS
8 10 (5.13%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (4.10%) VLAN
9 8 (4.10%) VoIP
10 6 (3.08%) Unified Communications
11 5 (2.56%) Network Security
11 5 (2.56%) TCP/IP
12 4 (2.05%) Fibre Channel
13 3 (1.54%) Cisco IOS
13 3 (1.54%) iSCSI
13 3 (1.54%) VSAN
14 2 (1.03%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (25.64%) SQL Server
2 11 (5.64%) MySQL
3 6 (3.08%) Power BI
4 4 (2.05%) Big Data
4 4 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (7.18%) Robot Framework
1 14 (7.18%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (2.05%) JIRA
3 2 (1.03%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.51%) MSI
General
1 83 (42.56%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.44%) Public Sector
3 11 (5.64%) Finance
4 10 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.10%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.03%) Back Office
8 1 (0.51%) Advertising
8 1 (0.51%) Legal
8 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.51%) Russian Language
8 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (31.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 26 (13.33%) Windows Engineer
3 25 (12.82%) Support Engineer
4 21 (10.77%) Build Engineer
4 21 (10.77%) Windows Build Engineer
5 19 (9.74%) Wintel Engineer
6 15 (7.69%) Support Specialist
7 14 (7.18%) Active Directory Specialist
7 14 (7.18%) Active Directory Support
7 14 (7.18%) Architect
7 14 (7.18%) Azure Specialist
8 13 (6.67%) Senior
9 12 (6.15%) 2nd Line Support
9 12 (6.15%) Administrator
9 12 (6.15%) Security Architect
9 12 (6.15%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (5.64%) Systems Administrator
11 10 (5.13%) 1st/2nd Line Support
12 9 (4.62%) Infrastructure Support
12 9 (4.62%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.18%) ARM Templates
2 6 (3.08%) Itk
3 4 (2.05%) CSS
3 4 (2.05%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (2.05%) HTML
3 4 (2.05%) HTML5
4 3 (1.54%) EDI
4 3 (1.54%) LAMP
4 3 (1.54%) LDAP
5 2 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 47 (24.10%) PKI
2 23 (11.79%) Replication
3 18 (9.23%) Data Centre
4 17 (8.72%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (7.18%) Clustering
6 6 (3.08%) Digital Signage
6 6 (3.08%) Driving Licence
6 6 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.05%) Fat Client
7 4 (2.05%) Thin Client
8 3 (1.54%) CCTV
8 3 (1.54%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.03%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.03%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.51%) CMDB
10 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.51%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.51%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 189 (96.92%) Windows
2 160 (82.05%) Windows Server
3 141 (72.31%) Windows Server 2016
4 76 (38.97%) Windows Server 2012
5 66 (33.85%) Windows 10
6 57 (29.23%) Linux
7 21 (10.77%) Windows NT
8 20 (10.26%) Windows Server 2008
9 16 (8.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (6.15%) Windows XP
11 11 (5.64%) Mac OS
12 10 (5.13%) Ubuntu
13 9 (4.62%) VMS
13 9 (4.62%) Windows 7
14 6 (3.08%) CentOS
15 3 (1.54%) Android
15 3 (1.54%) Windows Server 2003
16 2 (1.03%) OpenVMS
17 1 (0.51%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (34.87%) ITIL
2 65 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 44 (22.56%) Service Management
4 39 (20.00%) Release Management
5 38 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (18.97%) Migration
7 33 (16.92%) Customer Service
8 30 (15.38%) Agile
9 25 (12.82%) Deployment Automation
10 21 (10.77%) User Acceptance Testing
11 20 (10.26%) DevOps
11 20 (10.26%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 18 (9.23%) Disaster Recovery
13 16 (8.21%) CI/CD
14 15 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
15 14 (7.18%) Analytics
15 14 (7.18%) Identity Management
15 14 (7.18%) Privileged Identity Management
15 14 (7.18%) Project Management
15 14 (7.18%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 83 (42.56%) PowerShell
2 26 (13.33%) SQL
3 16 (8.21%) Python
4 15 (7.69%) VB
5 14 (7.18%) Bicep
5 14 (7.18%) C#
5 14 (7.18%) VBScript
6 7 (3.59%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.05%) Bash
7 4 (2.05%) C
7 4 (2.05%) C++
7 4 (2.05%) PHP
7 4 (2.05%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 120 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 88 (45.13%) DV Cleared
3 44 (22.56%) Degree
4 39 (20.00%) SC Cleared
5 14 (7.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 12 (6.15%) CCNA
6 12 (6.15%) CCNP
6 12 (6.15%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.56%) DBS Check
8 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.03%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.03%) MCSE
10 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.51%) MCSA
10 1 (0.51%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.51%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.77%) QA
2 7 (3.59%) RMADS
3 3 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.03%) NIST
4 2 (1.03%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.51%) GDPR
5 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 158 (81.03%) Active Directory
2 67 (34.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (18.97%) Hyper-V
4 23 (11.79%) VMware ESXi
5 22 (11.28%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (10.77%) Firmware
7 17 (8.72%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (5.13%) vSphere
9 7 (3.59%) XenApp
10 6 (3.08%) XenDesktop
11 3 (1.54%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (1.54%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.51%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 75 (38.46%) SCCM
2 58 (29.74%) WSUS
3 40 (20.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 38 (19.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (15.38%) SCOM
6 21 (10.77%) Sysprep
7 20 (10.26%) Ansible
7 20 (10.26%) vCenter Server
8 18 (9.23%) Terraform
9 16 (8.21%) NetBackup
10 15 (7.69%) Kubernetes
11 13 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
12 12 (6.15%) EMC NetWorker
13 9 (4.62%) Failover Clustering
14 8 (4.10%) Jamf Pro
15 7 (3.59%) Nessus
16 6 (3.08%) Autotask
17 4 (2.05%) Red Hat Satellite
17 4 (2.05%) ZABBIX
18 3 (1.54%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 116 (59.49%) Microsoft
2 84 (43.08%) VMware
3 44 (22.56%) Veeam
4 25 (12.82%) Oracle
5 22 (11.28%) HP
5 22 (11.28%) Red Hat
6 17 (8.72%) Cisco
7 15 (7.69%) 3PAR
7 15 (7.69%) Palo Alto
8 14 (7.18%) Symantec
9 13 (6.67%) EMC
9 13 (6.67%) Juniper
10 12 (6.15%) Dell
10 12 (6.15%) Extreme Networks
11 9 (4.62%) Citrix
12 8 (4.10%) Aruba
13 6 (3.08%) Apple
13 6 (3.08%) Datto
13 6 (3.08%) NetApp
13 6 (3.08%) Nimble Storage
114 Windows Server 2019 jobs Nationwide