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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 174 115
Rank change year-on-year -65 -59 +24
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 172 204 370
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.99% 1.61% 2.06%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.18% 13.55% 17.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 142 242
10th Percentile £263 £313 £245
25th Percentile £415 £405 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £613 £622 £592
90th Percentile £640 £738 £687
England median daily rate £500 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -4.81% +16.72% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile - - £16.00
25th Percentile - - £20.21
Median hourly rate £21.46 - £32.50
75th Percentile - - £33.75
90th Percentile - - £43.25
England median hourly rate £27.16 £35.88 £32.50
% change year-on-year -24.29% +10.38% +10.92%

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 1,412 1,505 2,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.15% 11.88% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 948 1,050 1,554
10th Percentile £206 £250 £200
25th Percentile £356 £375 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £631
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -12.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 74
10th Percentile £20.82 £17.85 £14.79
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% -17.31%
75th Percentile £38.69 £31.50 £36.07
90th Percentile £59.60 £52.45 £60.00
England median hourly rate £28.74 £24.66 £21.50
% change year-on-year +16.55% +14.70% -25.86%

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 16 April 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 16 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 -41 20 £550 - 23
West London -26 6 £500 +25.00% 2
South London -14 5 £165 -49.23% 3
North London -1 1 £225 -21.05% 1
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 29 (16.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.23%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.49%) nginx
3 6 (3.49%) Tomcat
4 4 (2.33%) IIS
5 3 (1.74%) SAS
5 3 (1.74%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.58%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (5.81%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.74%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 91 (52.91%) Azure
2 43 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (22.09%) Entra ID
4 16 (9.30%) IaaS
5 13 (7.56%) AWS
6 10 (5.81%) PaaS
7 8 (4.65%) SaaS
8 6 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.74%) GitHub
10 3 (1.74%) OCI
11 2 (1.16%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (1.16%) GCP
11 2 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.16%) Mimecast
11 2 (1.16%) MinIO
11 2 (1.16%) OneDrive
11 2 (1.16%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.58%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 62 (36.05%) DNS
2 48 (27.91%) DHCP
3 43 (25.00%) Firewall
4 23 (13.37%) VPN
5 20 (11.63%) WAN
6 16 (9.30%) LAN
7 15 (8.72%) Kerberos
8 9 (5.23%) TCP/IP
9 8 (4.65%) SMTP
10 7 (4.07%) MPLS
10 7 (4.07%) SD-WAN
11 5 (2.91%) Wireless
12 4 (2.33%) HTTP
12 4 (2.33%) IPv4
12 4 (2.33%) VoIP
12 4 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (1.74%) VSAN
14 2 (1.16%) NetScaler
14 2 (1.16%) Network Security
14 2 (1.16%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (19.19%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.40%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (6.40%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.16%) Big Data
4 2 (1.16%) GIS
4 2 (1.16%) Power BI
5 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.58%) MySQL
5 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (6.40%) Visual Studio
2 4 (2.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.33%) JIRA
3 1 (0.58%) TeamCity
General
1 44 (25.58%) Finance
2 41 (23.84%) Social Skills
3 16 (9.30%) Banking
4 15 (8.72%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.98%) Legal
6 9 (5.23%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.33%) Local Government
8 4 (2.33%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.74%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.74%) Front Office
9 3 (1.74%) Law
10 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.16%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.58%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.58%) Police
11 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (17.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 22 (12.79%) Developer
3 19 (11.05%) C# Developer
4 12 (6.98%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (6.40%) Analyst
6 9 (5.23%) Desktop Engineer
6 9 (5.23%) Lead
6 9 (5.23%) Senior
6 9 (5.23%) Server Engineer
6 9 (5.23%) Support Engineer
7 8 (4.65%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 8 (4.65%) Integration Engineer
7 8 (4.65%) Windows Engineer
8 7 (4.07%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (4.07%) Desktop Support
8 7 (4.07%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 7 (4.07%) NetApp Engineer
8 7 (4.07%) Storage Engineer
8 7 (4.07%) Support Analyst
9 6 (3.49%) Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (12.79%) .NET
2 19 (11.05%) .NET Framework
3 17 (9.88%) LDAP
4 15 (8.72%) OAuth
5 14 (8.14%) SAML
6 5 (2.91%) Middleware
6 5 (2.91%) REST
7 3 (1.74%) EJB
7 3 (1.74%) React
7 3 (1.74%) WinForms
8 2 (1.16%) ADO
8 2 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.16%) ISPF
8 2 (1.16%) Java EE
8 2 (1.16%) JSON
8 2 (1.16%) SOAP
8 2 (1.16%) Spring
8 2 (1.16%) WCF
8 2 (1.16%) Web Services
8 2 (1.16%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.79%) Replication
2 21 (12.21%) Data Centre
3 13 (7.56%) Clustering
3 13 (7.56%) PKI
4 10 (5.81%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (5.23%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.33%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.33%) Hedge funds
8 4 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.74%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.74%) Educational Technology
9 3 (1.74%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.16%) iPhone
10 2 (1.16%) Mainframe
10 2 (1.16%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.16%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.58%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 170 (98.84%) Windows
2 41 (23.84%) Linux
3 14 (8.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (7.56%) Windows 10
4 13 (7.56%) Windows Server 2016
4 13 (7.56%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (4.07%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (4.07%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (3.49%) Solaris
6 6 (3.49%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (2.91%) Android
7 5 (2.91%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.74%) VMS
9 2 (1.16%) AIX
9 2 (1.16%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.16%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.16%) zOS
10 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (26.74%) Disaster Recovery
2 37 (21.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 29 (16.86%) Migration
4 28 (16.28%) ITIL
5 23 (13.37%) High Availability
6 20 (11.63%) Task Automation
7 19 (11.05%) Business Intelligence
7 19 (11.05%) Change Management
8 16 (9.30%) Identity Access Management
8 16 (9.30%) RBAC
9 15 (8.72%) Data Analysis
9 15 (8.72%) Incident Management
9 15 (8.72%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (8.72%) Project Delivery
9 15 (8.72%) Unit Testing
10 14 (8.14%) Agile
11 13 (7.56%) DevOps
11 13 (7.56%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (6.98%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 66 (38.37%) PowerShell
2 37 (21.51%) SQL
3 24 (13.95%) PL/SQL
4 22 (12.79%) C#
5 21 (12.21%) T-SQL
6 4 (2.33%) Java
6 4 (2.33%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.33%) Python
7 3 (1.74%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.16%) Bash
8 2 (1.16%) JCL
8 2 (1.16%) REXX
9 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 47 (27.33%) Security Cleared
2 34 (19.77%) Degree
3 33 (19.19%) SC Cleared
4 16 (9.30%) DV Cleared
5 9 (5.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (4.07%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.49%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.91%) CCNP
9 4 (2.33%) CCNA
9 4 (2.33%) MCITP
9 4 (2.33%) MCTS
10 2 (1.16%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.16%) CESG Certified Professional
10 2 (1.16%) CISSP
10 2 (1.16%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.58%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.58%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.79%) QA
2 20 (11.63%) GDPR
3 15 (8.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 10 (5.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.91%) NIST
6 3 (1.74%) NIST 800
6 3 (1.74%) SLA
7 2 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.58%) Basel III
8 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.58%) DICOM
8 1 (0.58%) GAAP
8 1 (0.58%) HL7
8 1 (0.58%) IFRS
8 1 (0.58%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.58%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.58%) NCSC
System Software
1 103 (59.88%) Active Directory
2 39 (22.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (9.88%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (9.30%) Docker
4 16 (9.30%) Hyper-V
5 9 (5.23%) vSphere
6 8 (4.65%) BitLocker
6 8 (4.65%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (2.91%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (1.74%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (1.74%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (1.16%) Firmware
9 2 (1.16%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 2 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.16%) VMware NSX
9 2 (1.16%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.58%) NFS
10 1 (0.58%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.58%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 31 (18.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (13.95%) SCCM
3 18 (10.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 15 (8.72%) Ansible
4 15 (8.72%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (6.40%) Kubernetes
6 9 (5.23%) SCOM
6 9 (5.23%) Terraform
6 9 (5.23%) vCenter Server
7 8 (4.65%) Puppet
7 8 (4.65%) vMotion
8 5 (2.91%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.74%) Control-M
9 3 (1.74%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (1.16%) CASB
10 2 (1.16%) QRadar
10 2 (1.16%) SCOrch
10 2 (1.16%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.58%) vRealize
Vendors
1 90 (52.33%) Microsoft
2 45 (26.16%) VMware
3 31 (18.02%) Citrix
4 30 (17.44%) Oracle
5 14 (8.14%) Cisco
5 14 (8.14%) Okta
6 12 (6.98%) Dell
7 11 (6.40%) Red Hat
8 10 (5.81%) ServiceNow
9 8 (4.65%) NetApp
10 7 (4.07%) IBM
11 5 (2.91%) Qualys
11 5 (2.91%) Veeam
12 4 (2.33%) HP
12 4 (2.33%) Meraki
12 4 (2.33%) Palo Alto
12 4 (2.33%) Reuters
13 3 (1.74%) Bloomberg
13 3 (1.74%) CheckPoint
13 3 (1.74%) Juniper