Windows Server 2019 Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft Windows Server 2019
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Windows Server 2019 skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 353 411
Rank change year-on-year +5 +58 +84
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2019 13 27 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.098% 0.17% 0.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.86% 1.31% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 38
10th Percentile £238 £264 £221
25th Percentile £294 £475 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £544 £500
Median % change year-on-year -26.44% +8.75% +10.13%
75th Percentile £481 £619 £575
90th Percentile £493 £650 £650
England median daily rate £550 £563 £475
% change year-on-year -2.22% +18.42% +5.56%

All Operating Systems
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,518 2,057 3,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.46% 12.79% 14.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 998 1,380 2,377
10th Percentile £225 £231 £210
25th Percentile £361 £359 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.25% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £663
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 32 57
10th Percentile £18.87 £20.05 £18.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £22.00 £22.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £26.63 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.54% -33.44% +67.29%
75th Percentile £25.25 £52.44 £60.00
90th Percentile £58.90 £64.19 £84.42
England median hourly rate £25.15 £57.25 £47.67
% change year-on-year -56.07% +20.11% +99.35%

Windows Server 2019
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Windows Server 2019 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2019 in London

Windows Server 2019
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Windows Server 2019.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Windows Server 2019

Windows Server 2019
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2019 in London over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2019 in London

Windows Server 2019
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Windows Server 2019.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Windows Server 2019

Windows Server 2019
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 2019 within the London region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
West London +1 6 - -
Central London -1 2 - - 2
East London - 1 £200 -
South London - 1 £450 -
Windows Server 2019
England

Windows Server 2019
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 6 (46.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Entra ID
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub
3 2 (15.38%) IaaS
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (15.38%) PaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (69.23%) VPN
2 8 (61.54%) DHCP
2 8 (61.54%) DNS
2 8 (61.54%) WAN
3 7 (53.85%) LAN
4 6 (46.15%) TCP/IP
5 4 (30.77%) Firewall
6 2 (15.38%) SD-WAN
7 1 (7.69%) BGP
7 1 (7.69%) Internet
7 1 (7.69%) MPLS
7 1 (7.69%) NAS
7 1 (7.69%) Network Security
7 1 (7.69%) OSPF
7 1 (7.69%) SAN
7 1 (7.69%) VSAN
7 1 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Legal
2 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) 2nd Line Support
2 6 (46.15%) IT Support
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Architect
4 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (7.69%) NHS
1 1 (7.69%) PKI
1 1 (7.69%) Replication
1 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (76.92%) Windows Server 2016
3 6 (46.15%) Windows 10
3 6 (46.15%) Windows Server
4 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (15.38%) DevOps
1 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (15.38%) Migration
1 2 (15.38%) Zero Trust
2 1 (7.69%) Agile
2 1 (7.69%) Batch Processing
2 1 (7.69%) Change Control
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security
2 1 (7.69%) Customer Service
2 1 (7.69%) High Availability
2 1 (7.69%) Identity Management
2 1 (7.69%) Incident Response
2 1 (7.69%) ITIL
2 1 (7.69%) Password Management
2 1 (7.69%) Risk Management
2 1 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (7.69%) Security Architecture
2 1 (7.69%) Service Management
2 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.69%) CCNA
3 1 (7.69%) CCNP
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Cisco
2 3 (23.08%) VMware
3 2 (15.38%) Dell
3 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
4 1 (7.69%) Citrix
4 1 (7.69%) EMC
4 1 (7.69%) ForeScout
4 1 (7.69%) Juniper
4 1 (7.69%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (7.69%) Meraki
4 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.69%) SonicWALL