Windows Server Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft Windows Server
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Windows Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 157 116
Rank change year-on-year -73 -41 +35
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 178 206 377
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.07% 1.62% 2.08%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.18% 13.60% 16.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 146 238
10th Percentile £265 £278 £236
25th Percentile £415 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% +12.44% -10.00%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £594
90th Percentile £642 £732 £693
England median daily rate £500 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile - - £16.00
25th Percentile - - £18.11
Median hourly rate £21.46 - £28.68
75th Percentile - - £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £22.50 £45.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -50.00% -14.29% +79.18%

All Operating Systems
London

Windows Server 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 1,461 1,515 2,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.78% 11.89% 12.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 959 1,052 1,585
10th Percentile £204 £243 £195
25th Percentile £357 £369 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £750
England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -13.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 20 71
10th Percentile £20.57 £17.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.19 £18.93
Median hourly rate £24.00 £24.66 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +12.09% -14.43%
75th Percentile £25.15 £38.69 £37.80
90th Percentile £41.95 £64.03 £62.50
England median hourly rate £22.68 £29.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -21.79% +31.82% -16.98%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Windows Server job vacancy trend in London

Windows Server
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in London over the 6 months to 21 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in London

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Windows Server
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 21 March 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 -36 20 £550 +4.66% 19
South London -14 5 £165 -49.23% 3
West London -21 4 £500 +25.00% 6
North London -2 1 £225 -16.67% 2
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
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 33 (18.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (5.62%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.81%) IIS
4 4 (2.25%) nginx
4 4 (2.25%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.69%) SAS
6 2 (1.12%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.56%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (4.49%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.56%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 95 (53.37%) Azure
2 47 (26.40%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (23.03%) Entra ID
4 15 (8.43%) IaaS
5 12 (6.74%) AWS
6 9 (5.06%) PaaS
6 9 (5.06%) SaaS
7 5 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.25%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.69%) GitHub
9 3 (1.69%) OCI
9 3 (1.69%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.12%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.12%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (1.12%) GCP
10 2 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.12%) Mimecast
10 2 (1.12%) MinIO
10 2 (1.12%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 60 (33.71%) DNS
2 47 (26.40%) DHCP
3 44 (24.72%) Firewall
4 21 (11.80%) WAN
5 20 (11.24%) VPN
6 16 (8.99%) LAN
7 14 (7.87%) Kerberos
8 7 (3.93%) MPLS
8 7 (3.93%) SMTP
8 7 (3.93%) TCP/IP
8 7 (3.93%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (3.37%) SD-WAN
10 5 (2.81%) Wireless
11 4 (2.25%) IPv4
11 4 (2.25%) Network Security
11 4 (2.25%) VoIP
12 3 (1.69%) BGP
12 3 (1.69%) HTTP
12 3 (1.69%) NetScaler
13 2 (1.12%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (18.54%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.62%) Oracle Database
3 8 (4.49%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.12%) Big Data
4 2 (1.12%) GIS
4 2 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.12%) Power BI
5 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.56%) Redis
5 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.56%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 11 (6.18%) Visual Studio
2 4 (2.25%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.25%) JIRA
3 2 (1.12%) GitLab
4 1 (0.56%) Fiddler
4 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
General
1 43 (24.16%) Finance
2 40 (22.47%) Social Skills
3 16 (8.99%) Banking
4 15 (8.43%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.18%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (6.18%) Legal
6 7 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.81%) Spanish Language
8 4 (2.25%) Front Office
8 4 (2.25%) Local Government
9 3 (1.69%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.12%) Law
10 2 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.12%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.56%) Back Office
11 1 (0.56%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.56%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.56%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 27 (15.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 22 (12.36%) Developer
3 18 (10.11%) C# Developer
4 13 (7.30%) Senior
5 12 (6.74%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (6.18%) Analyst
7 10 (5.62%) Server Engineer
7 10 (5.62%) Support Engineer
8 9 (5.06%) Windows Engineer
9 8 (4.49%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 8 (4.49%) Desktop Engineer
9 8 (4.49%) Desktop Support
9 8 (4.49%) Lead
9 8 (4.49%) Security Engineer
10 7 (3.93%) Integration Engineer
10 7 (3.93%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 7 (3.93%) Support Analyst
11 6 (3.37%) .NET Developer
11 6 (3.37%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (3.37%) NetApp Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.80%) .NET
2 18 (10.11%) .NET Framework
3 16 (8.99%) LDAP
3 16 (8.99%) OAuth
4 14 (7.87%) SAML
5 6 (3.37%) Middleware
6 5 (2.81%) REST
7 3 (1.69%) React
7 3 (1.69%) WinForms
8 2 (1.12%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.12%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (1.12%) EJB
8 2 (1.12%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.12%) Express.js
8 2 (1.12%) ISPF
8 2 (1.12%) Java EE
8 2 (1.12%) OpenLayers
8 2 (1.12%) SOAP
8 2 (1.12%) Spring
8 2 (1.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.61%) Data Centre
2 22 (12.36%) Replication
3 16 (8.99%) PKI
4 12 (6.74%) Clustering
5 10 (5.62%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (3.93%) Enterprise Storage
7 6 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.25%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.25%) Hedge funds
8 4 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.69%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.69%) Educational Technology
9 3 (1.69%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.12%) Mainframe
10 2 (1.12%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.12%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.12%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 176 (98.88%) Windows
2 41 (23.03%) Linux
3 13 (7.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (7.30%) Windows 10
4 12 (6.74%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (5.62%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (3.37%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (2.81%) Android
7 5 (2.81%) Solaris
7 5 (2.81%) Ubuntu
7 5 (2.81%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (2.81%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.69%) VMS
9 2 (1.12%) AIX
9 2 (1.12%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.12%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.12%) Unix
9 2 (1.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (26.40%) Disaster Recovery
2 36 (20.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 31 (17.42%) Migration
4 27 (15.17%) ITIL
5 22 (12.36%) High Availability
6 21 (11.80%) Task Automation
7 18 (10.11%) Business Intelligence
7 18 (10.11%) Change Management
7 18 (10.11%) Identity Access Management
7 18 (10.11%) Project Delivery
8 17 (9.55%) Incident Management
9 16 (8.99%) Agile
9 16 (8.99%) RBAC
10 15 (8.43%) Unit Testing
11 14 (7.87%) Cybersecurity
11 14 (7.87%) Data Analysis
12 13 (7.30%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (7.30%) Performance Tuning
12 13 (7.30%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (6.74%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 74 (41.57%) PowerShell
2 38 (21.35%) SQL
3 22 (12.36%) PL/SQL
4 21 (11.80%) C#
5 20 (11.24%) T-SQL
6 7 (3.93%) Python
7 4 (2.25%) Bash
7 4 (2.25%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.69%) Java
9 2 (1.12%) JCL
9 2 (1.12%) REXX
9 2 (1.12%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 43 (24.16%) Security Cleared
2 34 (19.10%) Degree
3 31 (17.42%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.74%) DV Cleared
5 11 (6.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (3.93%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.37%) CCNP
7 6 (3.37%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.25%) CCNA
8 4 (2.25%) MCITP
8 4 (2.25%) MCTS
9 3 (1.69%) CISSP
10 2 (1.12%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.12%) CESG Certified Professional
10 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.56%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.36%) QA
2 20 (11.24%) GDPR
3 15 (8.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 10 (5.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (3.93%) NIST
6 4 (2.25%) NIST 800
7 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (1.12%) NCSC
7 2 (1.12%) SLA
8 1 (0.56%) Basel III
8 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.56%) DICOM
8 1 (0.56%) GAAP
8 1 (0.56%) HL7
8 1 (0.56%) IFRS
8 1 (0.56%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.56%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 108 (60.67%) Active Directory
2 35 (19.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (8.43%) Docker
4 14 (7.87%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (6.74%) Hyper-V
6 9 (5.06%) vSphere
7 7 (3.93%) BitLocker
7 7 (3.93%) Microsoft App-V
8 6 (3.37%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (2.81%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (1.69%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (1.69%) VMware NSX
11 2 (1.12%) Firmware
11 2 (1.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 2 (1.12%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (1.12%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.56%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.56%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 34 (19.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (14.04%) SCCM
3 19 (10.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 16 (8.99%) Ansible
5 15 (8.43%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (6.74%) Kubernetes
7 11 (6.18%) Terraform
8 10 (5.62%) SCOM
9 8 (4.49%) vCenter Server
10 7 (3.93%) Puppet
10 7 (3.93%) vMotion
11 6 (3.37%) FortiGate
12 5 (2.81%) CASB
12 5 (2.81%) SCOrch
13 3 (1.69%) Control-M
14 2 (1.12%) Grafana
14 2 (1.12%) Oracle RMAN
14 2 (1.12%) Prometheus
14 2 (1.12%) QRadar
14 2 (1.12%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 93 (52.25%) Microsoft
2 44 (24.72%) VMware
3 31 (17.42%) Citrix
4 26 (14.61%) Oracle
5 15 (8.43%) Dell
6 14 (7.87%) Okta
7 10 (5.62%) Cisco
7 10 (5.62%) Red Hat
7 10 (5.62%) ServiceNow
8 7 (3.93%) NetApp
9 6 (3.37%) Qualys
9 6 (3.37%) Veeam
10 5 (2.81%) IBM
11 4 (2.25%) HP
11 4 (2.25%) Reuters
11 4 (2.25%) Splunk
12 3 (1.69%) Bloomberg
12 3 (1.69%) CyberArk
12 3 (1.69%) Meraki
12 3 (1.69%) Palo Alto