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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 352 360
Rank change year-on-year -58 +8 +35
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2019 24 10 29
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.12% 0.075% 0.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.43% 0.65% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 4 14
10th Percentile £395 £268 £264
25th Percentile £402 £369 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £544
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -12.64% +2.59%
75th Percentile £547 £509 £604
90th Percentile £606 £526 £642
England median daily rate £538 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -2.27% -2.22% +12.50%

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 1,674 1,535 2,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.33% 11.47% 12.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,103 1,025 1,378
10th Percentile £206 £225 £225
25th Percentile £350 £363 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £491 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -1.90% -9.09%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £600
90th Percentile £706 £738 £725
England median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 44
10th Percentile £17.77 £18.87 £18.69
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.15 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -16.50% +5.67% -43.22%
75th Percentile £25.78 £25.18 £41.25
90th Percentile £53.28 £58.93 £61.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £24.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year +35.42% -30.43% -13.75%

Windows Server 2019
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows Server 2019 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Windows Server 2019 job vacancy trend 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 27 August 2026.

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 27 August 2026. 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 -19 3 £415 - 3
West London -22 1 £500 -
Windows Server 2019
England

Windows Server 2019
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (16.67%) nginx
2 4 (16.67%) Tomcat
3 3 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
4 2 (8.33%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) AWS
3 4 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 3 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
4 3 (12.50%) AWS KMS
4 3 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (12.50%) Datadog
4 3 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (12.50%) Serverless
4 3 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (8.33%) GitHub
5 2 (8.33%) MinIO
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 12 (50.00%) DNS
2 6 (25.00%) DHCP
3 5 (20.83%) Firewall
4 4 (16.67%) WAN
5 3 (12.50%) HTTP
5 3 (12.50%) VPN
6 1 (4.17%) BGP
6 1 (4.17%) DSL
6 1 (4.17%) LAN
6 1 (4.17%) MPLS
6 1 (4.17%) NAS
6 1 (4.17%) OSPF
6 1 (4.17%) SAN
6 1 (4.17%) SD-WAN
6 1 (4.17%) SSL
6 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
6 1 (4.17%) VLAN
6 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (8.33%) GIS
3 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) AdminStudio
2 2 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) InstallShield
2 2 (8.33%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) MSI
General
1 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Banking
2 2 (8.33%) Finance
2 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (8.33%) Active Directory Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Lead
3 2 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Applications Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Windows Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (12.50%) EJB
2 3 (12.50%) JSON
3 2 (8.33%) ADO
3 2 (8.33%) Jakarta EE
3 2 (8.33%) JSP
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (8.33%) OpenLayers
4 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.17%) Java SE
4 1 (4.17%) JavaBeans
4 1 (4.17%) Middleware
4 1 (4.17%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Legacy Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (12.50%) Security Posture
2 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.33%) PKI
2 2 (8.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Clustering
3 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Device Driver
3 1 (4.17%) Lidar
3 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Replication
3 1 (4.17%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 24 (100.00%) Windows
2 20 (83.33%) Windows Server
3 14 (58.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 11 (45.83%) Linux
5 7 (29.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (29.17%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (20.83%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (16.67%) Solaris
8 3 (12.50%) OpenVMS
8 3 (12.50%) VMS
8 3 (12.50%) Windows 7
9 1 (4.17%) Debian
9 1 (4.17%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (4.17%) Ubuntu
9 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (33.33%) DevOps
3 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
3 7 (29.17%) ITIL
4 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (20.83%) Incident Management
5 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.83%) Service Management
5 5 (20.83%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 4 (16.67%) Agile
6 4 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (12.50%) Change Management
7 3 (12.50%) ETL
7 3 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (12.50%) Release Management
7 3 (12.50%) Security Hardening
7 3 (12.50%) SIEM
8 2 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) PowerShell
2 6 (25.00%) SQL
3 5 (20.83%) Python
4 4 (16.67%) Java
5 3 (12.50%) PL/SQL
6 2 (8.33%) Bash
7 1 (4.17%) C
7 1 (4.17%) Groovy
7 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
7 1 (4.17%) Ladder Logic
7 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (8.33%) Degree
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
6 1 (4.17%) CCNA
6 1 (4.17%) CCNP
6 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) QA
1 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 13 (54.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (16.67%) Docker
5 3 (12.50%) Hyper-V
5 3 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (12.50%) vSphere
6 2 (8.33%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (8.33%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (4.17%) Firmware
7 1 (4.17%) KVM
7 1 (4.17%) QEMU
7 1 (4.17%) Squid
7 1 (4.17%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Ansible
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (16.67%) SCCM
3 3 (12.50%) NetBackup
3 3 (12.50%) Packer
3 3 (12.50%) Puppet
4 2 (8.33%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (8.33%) Grafana
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.33%) SCOM
4 2 (8.33%) vCenter Server
4 2 (8.33%) WSUS
5 1 (4.17%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (4.17%) Kibana
5 1 (4.17%) logstash
5 1 (4.17%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 15 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 14 (58.33%) VMware
3 8 (33.33%) Oracle
4 7 (29.17%) Red Hat
5 4 (16.67%) Citrix
5 4 (16.67%) IBM
5 4 (16.67%) Veeam
6 3 (12.50%) Cisco
6 3 (12.50%) Meraki
6 3 (12.50%) PagerDuty
6 3 (12.50%) Veritas
7 2 (8.33%) Dell
7 2 (8.33%) Juniper
8 1 (4.17%) Forcepoint
8 1 (4.17%) ForeScout
8 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
8 1 (4.17%) Qualys
8 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
8 1 (4.17%) Splunk
8 1 (4.17%) Trend Micro