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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 362 358
Rank change year-on-year -55 -4 +42
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2019 26 7 34
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.13% 0.052% 0.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.59% 0.46% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 3 18
10th Percentile £398 £245 £182
25th Percentile £406 £313 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -14.29% -0.94%
75th Percentile £556 £506 £584
90th Percentile £594 £525 £631
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 1,635 1,530 1,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.15% 11.39% 12.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,082 1,026 1,376
10th Percentile £208 £236 £220
25th Percentile £353 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £482 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -3.65% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
England median daily rate £470 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +4.44% -7.83% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 44 47
10th Percentile £17.60 £18.87 £16.62
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.50% +14.32% -47.52%
75th Percentile £25.34 £25.18 £39.75
90th Percentile £54.40 £58.93 £60.57
England median hourly rate £34.68 £24.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +44.48% -26.15% -12.96%

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 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 20 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 -9 3 £415 - 1
West London -21 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 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (23.08%) nginx
1 6 (23.08%) Tomcat
2 3 (11.54%) Exchange Server 2013
2 3 (11.54%) WebLogic
3 2 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) Azure
2 6 (23.08%) AWS
3 4 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon S3
4 3 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (11.54%) AWS CloudTrail
4 3 (11.54%) AWS KMS
4 3 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (11.54%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (11.54%) Datadog
4 3 (11.54%) Entra ID
4 3 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (11.54%) MinIO
4 3 (11.54%) Serverless
4 3 (11.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (7.69%) GitHub
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 12 (46.15%) DNS
2 6 (23.08%) DHCP
3 5 (19.23%) Firewall
4 4 (15.38%) HTTP
4 4 (15.38%) WAN
5 3 (11.54%) VPN
6 1 (3.85%) BGP
6 1 (3.85%) DSL
6 1 (3.85%) LAN
6 1 (3.85%) MPLS
6 1 (3.85%) NAS
6 1 (3.85%) OSPF
6 1 (3.85%) SAN
6 1 (3.85%) SD-WAN
6 1 (3.85%) SSL
6 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
6 1 (3.85%) VLAN
6 1 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (11.54%) GIS
3 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) AdminStudio
2 2 (7.69%) Git
2 2 (7.69%) InstallShield
2 2 (7.69%) JIRA
2 2 (7.69%) MSI
General
1 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Banking
3 2 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Network Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Senior
3 3 (11.54%) Lead
3 3 (11.54%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Active Directory Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Lead Software Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Applications Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Support Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (30.77%) Terraform
2 4 (15.38%) EJB
3 3 (11.54%) Jakarta EE
3 3 (11.54%) JSON
3 3 (11.54%) OpenLayers
4 2 (7.69%) ADO
4 2 (7.69%) JSP
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (7.69%) Middleware
4 2 (7.69%) Spring
5 1 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (3.85%) Java SE
5 1 (3.85%) JavaBeans
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (11.54%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (11.54%) Security Posture
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.69%) PKI
3 2 (7.69%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.85%) Clustering
4 1 (3.85%) Device Driver
4 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.85%) Lidar
4 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Replication
4 1 (3.85%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 26 (100.00%) Windows
2 22 (84.62%) Windows Server
3 15 (57.69%) Windows Server 2016
4 13 (50.00%) Linux
5 9 (34.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (34.62%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (23.08%) Solaris
7 5 (19.23%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (11.54%) OpenVMS
8 3 (11.54%) VMS
8 3 (11.54%) Windows 7
9 1 (3.85%) Debian
9 1 (3.85%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (3.85%) Ubuntu
9 1 (3.85%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) DevOps
1 9 (34.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 7 (26.92%) ITIL
4 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (19.23%) ETL
5 5 (19.23%) Incident Management
5 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (19.23%) Service Management
5 5 (19.23%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 4 (15.38%) Agile
6 4 (15.38%) Master Data Management
6 4 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (11.54%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (11.54%) Migration
7 3 (11.54%) Refactoring
7 3 (11.54%) Security Hardening
7 3 (11.54%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 11 (42.31%) PowerShell
2 8 (30.77%) SQL
3 5 (19.23%) Java
3 5 (19.23%) PL/SQL
3 5 (19.23%) Python
4 2 (7.69%) Bash
4 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.85%) C
5 1 (3.85%) Groovy
5 1 (3.85%) Ladder Logic
5 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 4 (15.38%) DV Cleared
4 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (7.69%) Degree
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.85%) CCNA
6 1 (3.85%) CCNP
6 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) QA
1 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (53.85%) Active Directory
1 14 (53.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (26.92%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (19.23%) Docker
4 3 (11.54%) Hyper-V
4 3 (11.54%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (11.54%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (11.54%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (11.54%) vSphere
5 2 (7.69%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (7.69%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (3.85%) Firmware
6 1 (3.85%) KVM
6 1 (3.85%) QEMU
6 1 (3.85%) Squid
6 1 (3.85%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Ansible
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (15.38%) SCCM
3 3 (11.54%) NetBackup
3 3 (11.54%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (11.54%) Packer
3 3 (11.54%) Puppet
4 2 (7.69%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (7.69%) Grafana
4 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 2 (7.69%) SCOM
4 2 (7.69%) vCenter Server
4 2 (7.69%) WSUS
5 1 (3.85%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (3.85%) Kibana
5 1 (3.85%) logstash
5 1 (3.85%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 15 (57.69%) Microsoft
1 15 (57.69%) VMware
2 10 (38.46%) Oracle
3 9 (34.62%) Red Hat
4 6 (23.08%) IBM
5 4 (15.38%) Citrix
5 4 (15.38%) Veeam
6 3 (11.54%) Cisco
6 3 (11.54%) Meraki
6 3 (11.54%) PagerDuty
6 3 (11.54%) Veritas
7 2 (7.69%) Dell
7 2 (7.69%) Juniper
8 1 (3.85%) Forcepoint
8 1 (3.85%) ForeScout
8 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto
8 1 (3.85%) Qualys
8 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
8 1 (3.85%) Splunk
8 1 (3.85%) Trend Micro