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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 338 347
Rank change year-on-year -47 +9 +64
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2019 20 17 49
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.11% 0.13% 0.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.41% 1.13% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 14 23
10th Percentile £406 £366 £167
25th Percentile £425 £438 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £525 £724 £569
90th Percentile £588 £738 £770
England median daily rate £488 £525 £558
% change year-on-year -7.14% -5.96% +5.33%

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 1,415 1,505 2,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.12% 11.84% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 945 1,048 1,526
10th Percentile £206 £250 £200
25th Percentile £358 £375 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £642 £636
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
England median daily rate £450 £475 £459
% change year-on-year -5.26% +3.49% -11.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 73
10th Percentile £20.82 £17.85 £14.68
25th Percentile £21.12 £21.13 £18.93
Median hourly rate £23.71 £24.66 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.86% +12.09% -26.67%
75th Percentile £38.69 £31.50 £36.84
90th Percentile £59.60 £52.45 £60.00
England median hourly rate £34.13 £24.66 £22.00
% change year-on-year +38.40% +12.09% -24.91%

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 20 April 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 20 April 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 -15 1 £413 -28.88% 1
West London - 1 £500 - 2
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 (30.00%) nginx
1 6 (30.00%) Tomcat
2 3 (15.00%) WebLogic
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (15.00%) AWS
4 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (10.00%) MinIO
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (35.00%) LAN
1 7 (35.00%) WAN
2 6 (30.00%) DHCP
2 6 (30.00%) DNS
3 5 (25.00%) NetScaler
4 4 (20.00%) HTTP
5 1 (5.00%) DSL
5 1 (5.00%) VLAN
5 1 (5.00%) VoIP
5 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (10.00%) GIS
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) AdminStudio
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) InstallShield
1 1 (5.00%) MSI
General
1 5 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (25.00%) Legal
1 5 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 5 (25.00%) Citrix Support
2 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Server Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Applications Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) EJB
2 2 (10.00%) Java EE
2 2 (10.00%) JSON
2 2 (10.00%) Middleware
2 2 (10.00%) OpenLayers
2 2 (10.00%) Spring
3 1 (5.00%) ADO
3 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.00%) JavaBeans
3 1 (5.00%) JSP
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Client/Server
2 4 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (5.00%) Device Driver
5 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (5.00%) iPhone
5 1 (5.00%) Lidar
5 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (5.00%) Robotics
5 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (100.00%) Windows
2 15 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 11 (55.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (35.00%) Linux
5 6 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (30.00%) Solaris
5 6 (30.00%) Windows 10
5 6 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (5.00%) Debian
6 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
6 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Change Management
2 5 (25.00%) ETL
2 5 (25.00%) Master Data Management
3 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (20.00%) DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (15.00%) Refactoring
4 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (10.00%) Asset Management
5 2 (10.00%) Configuration Management
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
5 2 (10.00%) ITSM
5 2 (10.00%) Microservices
5 2 (10.00%) Migration
5 2 (10.00%) SDLC
5 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
6 1 (5.00%) Containerisation
6 1 (5.00%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) SQL
2 8 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (25.00%) PL/SQL
4 4 (20.00%) Java
5 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.00%) Bash
6 1 (5.00%) Ladder Logic
6 1 (5.00%) Python
6 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (30.00%) Degree
3 5 (25.00%) CCA
3 5 (25.00%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 10 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (30.00%) vSphere
4 5 (25.00%) Docker
4 5 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 5 (25.00%) XenApp
4 5 (25.00%) XenDesktop
5 4 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (15.00%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (5.00%) KVM
7 1 (5.00%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (5.00%) QEMU
7 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (5.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) SCCM
2 5 (25.00%) SCVMM
3 3 (15.00%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (5.00%) Ansible
4 1 (5.00%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (5.00%) Grafana
4 1 (5.00%) Kibana
4 1 (5.00%) logstash
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) VMware
2 7 (35.00%) Dell
3 6 (30.00%) IBM
3 6 (30.00%) Oracle
3 6 (30.00%) Red Hat
4 5 (25.00%) Citrix
5 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
6 1 (5.00%) Cisco
6 1 (5.00%) Equitrac
6 1 (5.00%) Meraki
6 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
6 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds
6 1 (5.00%) Zerto