Windows Server 2003 Contracts in London

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Windows Server 2003 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server 2003 over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 388 472
Rank change year-on-year +37 +84 +117
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2003 3 12 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.023% 0.069% 0.059%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.20% 0.57% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 13
10th Percentile £518 £214 £190
25th Percentile £525 £346 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £380 £490
Median % change year-on-year +44.74% -22.45% +16.95%
75th Percentile £575 £410 £519
90th Percentile £583 - £530
England median daily rate £550 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +29.41% -5.56% +7.14%

All Operating Systems
London

Windows Server 2003 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,534 2,093 3,772
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.90% 11.98% 14.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,047 1,472 2,739
10th Percentile £245 £213 £213
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £629 £611 £666
90th Percentile £738 £749 £765
England median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 68 60
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.19 £18.93
25th Percentile £20.63 £18.13 £22.75
Median hourly rate £24.00 £22.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -56.00% +109.12%
75th Percentile £25.15 £27.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £44.85 £60.00 £83.88
England median hourly rate £19.27 £25.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.92% -41.18% +88.89%

Windows Server 2003
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Windows Server 2003 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2003 in London

Windows Server 2003
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2003 in London.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2003 in London

Windows Server 2003
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2003 in London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2003 in London

Windows Server 2003
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 within the London region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Central London - 1 - - 3
Windows Server 2003
England

Windows Server 2003
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
1 1 (33.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) SMTP
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Support
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
1 2 (66.67%) PKI
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) ETRM
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 1 (33.33%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) BitLocker
1 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft App-V
1 2 (66.67%) Terminal Services
1 2 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) vCenter Server
1 2 (66.67%) vMotion
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Nagios
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) Symantec