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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 233 176
Rank change year-on-year -6 -57 -70
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 229 142 244
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.14% 1.06% 1.51%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.56% 9.30% 11.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 99 169
10th Percentile £261 £350 £244
25th Percentile £369 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £550
90th Percentile £674 £755 £628
England median daily rate £483 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.95% +5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £26.08 - £57.25
25th Percentile £36.31 - £64.38
Median hourly rate £54.75 £30.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +82.50% -61.29% +201.44%
75th Percentile £74.31 - £89.38
90th Percentile £85.23 - £95.75
England median hourly rate £63.14 £22.03 £50.00
% change year-on-year +186.65% -55.95% +3.31%

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 1,689 1,527 2,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.38% 11.44% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,119 1,005 1,390
10th Percentile £205 £225 £231
25th Percentile £350 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £496 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% -0.90% -7.41%
75th Percentile £599 £625 £600
90th Percentile £713 £738 £725
England median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 45 32
10th Percentile £18.26 £18.87 £20.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £25.15 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -12.52% -5.54% -33.44%
75th Percentile £27.00 £25.25 £52.44
90th Percentile £57.65 £58.90 £64.19
England median hourly rate £35.79 £25.15 £57.38
% change year-on-year +42.30% -56.17% +20.37%

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 14 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Server in London over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows Server in London

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 14 September 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 +1 44 £550 +10.00% 17
West London -22 8 £500 - 7
South London -12 2 £425 -5.56% 5
East London +2 1 £150 -25.00% 4
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 26 (11.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (6.55%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.06%) IIS
4 6 (2.62%) nginx
5 5 (2.18%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.31%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.87%) Apache
7 2 (0.87%) Confluence
7 2 (0.87%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.44%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) OpenText MBPM
1 2 (0.87%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 113 (49.34%) Azure
2 53 (23.14%) Entra ID
3 42 (18.34%) AWS
4 37 (16.16%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (6.11%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (5.68%) GCP
7 12 (5.24%) GitHub
8 11 (4.80%) IaaS
9 10 (4.37%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (3.49%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (3.06%) OneDrive
12 6 (2.62%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.62%) OpenShift
12 6 (2.62%) PaaS
13 5 (2.18%) Azure Stack
13 5 (2.18%) Datadog
13 5 (2.18%) Nutanix
13 5 (2.18%) SaaS
14 4 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 73 (31.88%) DNS
2 51 (22.27%) DHCP
3 41 (17.90%) Firewall
4 24 (10.48%) TCP/IP
5 22 (9.61%) VPN
6 18 (7.86%) WAN
7 13 (5.68%) LAN
8 12 (5.24%) Network Security
9 8 (3.49%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (3.06%) SAN
11 6 (2.62%) SMTP
12 5 (2.18%) VLAN
13 4 (1.75%) HTTP
13 4 (1.75%) NAS
13 4 (1.75%) SSH
13 4 (1.75%) VoIP
14 3 (1.31%) DMZ
14 3 (1.31%) VSAN
15 2 (0.87%) Internet
15 2 (0.87%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (27.95%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.37%) Oracle Database
3 8 (3.49%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.75%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.31%) Big Data
7 3 (1.31%) GIS
7 3 (1.31%) Power BI
7 3 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.87%) MySQL
8 2 (0.87%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.44%) Metadata
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle BI EE
9 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (4.80%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.93%) Git
3 7 (3.06%) JIRA
4 6 (2.62%) GitLab
5 3 (1.31%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.31%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.87%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.87%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.87%) InstallShield
6 2 (0.87%) MSI
6 2 (0.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.44%) JMeter
7 1 (0.44%) Locust
7 1 (0.44%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.44%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.44%) Subversion
7 1 (0.44%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.44%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.44%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 76 (33.19%) Social Skills
2 55 (24.02%) Finance
3 32 (13.97%) Banking
4 23 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.24%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (4.80%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.06%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.75%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.75%) Law
8 4 (1.75%) Local Government
9 3 (1.31%) Legal
10 1 (0.44%) Games
10 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.44%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.44%) Military
10 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (26.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 25 (10.92%) Senior
3 23 (10.04%) Support Engineer
4 14 (6.11%) Cloud Engineer
5 12 (5.24%) Applications Support
5 12 (5.24%) Architect
6 11 (4.80%) Infrastructure Support
7 10 (4.37%) Developer
7 10 (4.37%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 10 (4.37%) VMware Engineer
8 9 (3.93%) C# Developer
8 9 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (3.93%) Server Engineer
9 8 (3.49%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (3.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (3.49%) Windows Engineer
10 7 (3.06%) Lead
10 7 (3.06%) Wintel Engineer
11 6 (2.62%) Consultant
11 6 (2.62%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (12.66%) Terraform
2 21 (9.17%) .NET
3 11 (4.80%) .NET Framework
4 6 (2.62%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (2.18%) LDAP
6 4 (1.75%) ASP.NET
6 4 (1.75%) Azure Blueprints
6 4 (1.75%) JSON
7 3 (1.31%) 802.1X
7 3 (1.31%) ADO
7 3 (1.31%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.31%) EJB
7 3 (1.31%) REST
8 2 (0.87%) Jakarta EE
8 2 (0.87%) Java SE
8 2 (0.87%) JSP
8 2 (0.87%) Middleware
8 2 (0.87%) Node.js
8 2 (0.87%) OpenLayers
8 2 (0.87%) React
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.17%) Data Centre
2 19 (8.30%) Onboarding
3 17 (7.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (6.55%) PKI
5 11 (4.80%) Clustering
6 9 (3.93%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.49%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.62%) CMDB
8 6 (2.62%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (2.62%) Replication
8 6 (2.62%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.62%) Virtual Team
9 5 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.18%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.75%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.87%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 229 (100.00%) Windows
2 81 (35.37%) Linux
3 25 (10.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (9.17%) Windows Server 2019
5 17 (7.42%) Windows 10
6 16 (6.99%) Windows Server 2016
7 14 (6.11%) Ubuntu
8 13 (5.68%) Windows Server 2012
9 10 (4.37%) Unix
10 9 (3.93%) Windows Server 2008
11 7 (3.06%) VMS
12 6 (2.62%) Windows 7
13 5 (2.18%) Solaris
14 4 (1.75%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (1.75%) Mac OS
15 3 (1.31%) CentOS
15 3 (1.31%) OpenVMS
15 3 (1.31%) Windows Server 2003
16 1 (0.44%) AIX
16 1 (0.44%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (35.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 48 (20.96%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (20.09%) Disaster Recovery
4 42 (18.34%) ITIL
5 37 (16.16%) DevOps
6 35 (15.28%) Migration
7 34 (14.85%) Root Cause Analysis
8 32 (13.97%) CI/CD
8 32 (13.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (13.97%) Stakeholder Management
9 31 (13.54%) Infrastructure as Code
10 30 (13.10%) Change Management
11 28 (12.23%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 25 (10.92%) Incident Management
13 23 (10.04%) Identity Access Management
13 23 (10.04%) Runbook
14 19 (8.30%) Project Delivery
14 19 (8.30%) Service Management
14 19 (8.30%) Validation
15 18 (7.86%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 93 (40.61%) PowerShell
2 34 (14.85%) SQL
3 31 (13.54%) Python
4 29 (12.66%) Bash
5 20 (8.73%) C#
6 17 (7.42%) PL/SQL
6 17 (7.42%) T-SQL
7 9 (3.93%) Bicep
7 9 (3.93%) Java
8 4 (1.75%) Go
9 3 (1.31%) Korn
10 2 (0.87%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.44%) F#
11 1 (0.44%) Groovy
11 1 (0.44%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.44%) Ladder Logic
11 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.44%) VB
11 1 (0.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 66 (28.82%) Security Cleared
2 44 (19.21%) SC Cleared
3 24 (10.48%) DV Cleared
4 23 (10.04%) Degree
5 11 (4.80%) Azure Certification
6 10 (4.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.93%) AWS Certification
8 6 (2.62%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.62%) CISSP
9 5 (2.18%) CISM
9 5 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.75%) CCNP
10 4 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.31%) A+ Certification
11 3 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.31%) CCNA
12 2 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.87%) ISSAP
12 2 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.44%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.86%) SLA
2 16 (6.99%) QA
3 9 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (3.49%) NIST
5 6 (2.62%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (2.18%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.31%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.87%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.87%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.44%) GDPR
System Software
1 121 (52.84%) Active Directory
2 64 (27.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (13.10%) VMware ESXi
4 27 (11.79%) Hyper-V
5 26 (11.35%) vSphere
6 23 (10.04%) Docker
7 13 (5.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (5.68%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (4.37%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (2.62%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (2.18%) Firmware
11 4 (1.75%) BitLocker
11 4 (1.75%) VMware NSX
12 3 (1.31%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (1.31%) Terminal Services
12 3 (1.31%) UAG
13 1 (0.44%) NFS
13 1 (0.44%) Squid
13 1 (0.44%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.44%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 27 (11.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (10.92%) Ansible
3 22 (9.61%) Kubernetes
3 22 (9.61%) SCCM
4 19 (8.30%) vCenter Server
5 10 (4.37%) Grafana
6 9 (3.93%) Prometheus
7 7 (3.06%) SCOM
8 6 (2.62%) Nagios
9 5 (2.18%) Puppet
10 4 (1.75%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (1.75%) NetBackup
10 4 (1.75%) vMotion
10 4 (1.75%) WSUS
11 3 (1.31%) Kibana
11 3 (1.31%) Nessus
11 3 (1.31%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.87%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.87%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 126 (55.02%) Microsoft
2 99 (43.23%) VMware
3 38 (16.59%) Oracle
4 26 (11.35%) Cisco
5 22 (9.61%) Citrix
6 20 (8.73%) Splunk
7 18 (7.86%) ServiceNow
8 14 (6.11%) Red Hat
9 13 (5.68%) CyberArk
9 13 (5.68%) Google
9 13 (5.68%) Qualys
9 13 (5.68%) Zscaler
10 11 (4.80%) Tenable
11 9 (3.93%) BeyondTrust
11 9 (3.93%) WALLIX
12 7 (3.06%) CrowdStrike
12 7 (3.06%) Fortinet
12 7 (3.06%) HP
12 7 (3.06%) Meraki
12 7 (3.06%) Rapid7