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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 178 96
Rank change year-on-year -51 -82 +96
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 157 206 430
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.09% 1.45% 2.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.72% 12.07% 16.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 144 281
10th Percentile £325 £258 £200
25th Percentile £415 £399 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £596 £575 £600
90th Percentile £713 £625 £700
England median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile - £102.40 -
25th Percentile - £106.00 £31.25
Median hourly rate £21.46 £112.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -80.84% +244.62% +30.00%
75th Percentile £22.23 - £33.75
90th Percentile £22.69 - -
England median hourly rate £21.00 £62.75 £56.06
% change year-on-year -66.53% +11.93% +117.71%

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 1,464 1,707 2,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.21% 12.00% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 945 1,133 1,835
10th Percentile £204 £225 £200
25th Percentile £359 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 18 44
10th Percentile £20.82 £16.30 £18.28
25th Percentile £21.46 £21.89 £20.67
Median hourly rate £25.15 £31.71 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.67% -1.69% +29.00%
75th Percentile £28.75 £67.69 £60.00
90th Percentile £61.85 £103.60 £70.78
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year -46.49% +51.61% +24.00%

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 6 January 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 6 January 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 -6 29 £525 +5.00% 16
West London -20 4 £344 -14.06% 1
East London - 1 £200 - 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 29 (18.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.82%) SAS
2 6 (3.82%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.18%) IIS
4 1 (0.64%) Confluence
4 1 (0.64%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.64%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.64%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (0.64%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.64%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.64%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.64%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 3 (1.91%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 1 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 78 (49.68%) Azure
2 45 (28.66%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (18.47%) Entra ID
4 18 (11.46%) IaaS
5 16 (10.19%) AWS
6 11 (7.01%) SaaS
7 7 (4.46%) GitHub
8 6 (3.82%) PaaS
9 5 (3.18%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.18%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (3.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.55%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.91%) OCI
11 3 (1.91%) Serverless
12 2 (1.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (1.27%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 38 (24.20%) DNS
2 37 (23.57%) Firewall
3 25 (15.92%) DHCP
4 17 (10.83%) VPN
5 10 (6.37%) WAN
6 9 (5.73%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (4.46%) LAN
7 7 (4.46%) Network Security
8 6 (3.82%) TCP/IP
8 6 (3.82%) Wireless
9 5 (3.18%) MPLS
10 4 (2.55%) IPv4
11 3 (1.91%) NetScaler
11 3 (1.91%) SMTP
11 3 (1.91%) SSH
12 2 (1.27%) iSCSI
12 2 (1.27%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (1.27%) Softphone
12 2 (1.27%) VLAN
12 2 (1.27%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (15.92%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.82%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.27%) Apache Hive
4 2 (1.27%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.27%) Impala
4 2 (1.27%) Power BI
5 1 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.64%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.64%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.64%) Redis
5 1 (0.64%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (4.46%) Jenkins
1 7 (4.46%) Visual Studio
2 3 (1.91%) GitLab
2 3 (1.91%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.27%) Git
3 2 (1.27%) JIRA
3 2 (1.27%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.64%) Fiddler
General
1 42 (26.75%) Finance
2 31 (19.75%) Social Skills
3 20 (12.74%) Banking
4 8 (5.10%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.82%) Spanish Language
7 5 (3.18%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.55%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.55%) Front Office
8 4 (2.55%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.27%) International Banking
9 2 (1.27%) Local Government
9 2 (1.27%) Marketing
9 2 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.27%) Retail
10 1 (0.64%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.64%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.64%) Police
10 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (17.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (8.92%) Developer
2 14 (8.92%) Platform Engineer
3 13 (8.28%) Windows Engineer
4 12 (7.64%) Senior
5 11 (7.01%) Architect
6 10 (6.37%) C# Developer
6 10 (6.37%) Security Engineer
7 9 (5.73%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 8 (5.10%) Lead
8 8 (5.10%) Support Engineer
8 8 (5.10%) Wintel Engineer
9 7 (4.46%) Analyst
9 7 (4.46%) Server Engineer
9 7 (4.46%) Support Analyst
10 6 (3.82%) Desktop Support
10 6 (3.82%) Infrastructure Manager
10 6 (3.82%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 6 (3.82%) Senior Wintel Engineer
11 5 (3.18%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.92%) .NET
2 10 (6.37%) .NET Framework
3 5 (3.18%) Middleware
3 5 (3.18%) REST
4 4 (2.55%) YAML
5 3 (1.91%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (1.91%) LDAP
5 3 (1.91%) WinForms
6 2 (1.27%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.27%) Bootstrap
6 2 (1.27%) Express.js
6 2 (1.27%) ISPF
6 2 (1.27%) OAuth
6 2 (1.27%) React
6 2 (1.27%) SAML
6 2 (1.27%) SOAP
6 2 (1.27%) Swing
6 2 (1.27%) WCF
6 2 (1.27%) Web Services
6 2 (1.27%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.92%) Data Centre
2 15 (9.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (7.64%) PKI
4 10 (6.37%) Replication
5 7 (4.46%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (4.46%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (3.82%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.55%) Clustering
7 4 (2.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.55%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.91%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.91%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.91%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (1.27%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.27%) BYOD
9 2 (1.27%) iPad
9 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 155 (98.73%) Windows
2 43 (27.39%) Linux
3 10 (6.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (5.10%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (3.82%) Windows 10
5 6 (3.82%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.18%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.55%) Unix
7 4 (2.55%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.27%) AIX
8 2 (1.27%) Android
8 2 (1.27%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.27%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (1.27%) zOS
9 1 (0.64%) CentOS
9 1 (0.64%) Solaris
9 1 (0.64%) VMS
9 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (22.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 30 (19.11%) ITIL
3 29 (18.47%) Migration
4 24 (15.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 21 (13.38%) DevOps
6 20 (12.74%) Agile
7 19 (12.10%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (10.83%) CI/CD
9 16 (10.19%) Project Delivery
10 15 (9.55%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (8.28%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (7.64%) Business Intelligence
13 11 (7.01%) Change Control
13 11 (7.01%) Computer Science
13 11 (7.01%) Cybersecurity
13 11 (7.01%) Information Security
13 11 (7.01%) Platform Engineering
14 10 (6.37%) Architectural Design
14 10 (6.37%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (6.37%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 59 (37.58%) PowerShell
2 27 (17.20%) SQL
3 18 (11.46%) Python
4 13 (8.28%) C#
4 13 (8.28%) T-SQL
5 11 (7.01%) PL/SQL
6 6 (3.82%) Bash
7 5 (3.18%) Bicep
8 3 (1.91%) Java
9 2 (1.27%) JCL
9 2 (1.27%) REXX
10 1 (0.64%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (19.11%) Degree
2 17 (10.83%) Security Cleared
3 12 (7.64%) SC Cleared
4 11 (7.01%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (5.10%) Azure Certification
6 7 (4.46%) DV Cleared
7 5 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.91%) CCNP
8 3 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.91%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.27%) CCNA
9 2 (1.27%) CESG Certified Professional
9 2 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.27%) MCITP
9 2 (1.27%) MCSA
9 2 (1.27%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.19%) QA
2 8 (5.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (4.46%) NIST
4 6 (3.82%) GDPR
5 5 (3.18%) SLA
6 3 (1.91%) NIST 800
7 2 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.64%) Basel III
8 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.64%) DICOM
8 1 (0.64%) GAAP
8 1 (0.64%) HL7
8 1 (0.64%) IFRS
8 1 (0.64%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.64%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.64%) NCSC
System Software
1 85 (54.14%) Active Directory
2 26 (16.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (6.37%) Docker
3 10 (6.37%) Hyper-V
4 8 (5.10%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (4.46%) vSphere
6 6 (3.82%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (3.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (3.18%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (1.91%) VMware NSX
9 2 (1.27%) BitLocker
9 2 (1.27%) HDFS
9 2 (1.27%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 2 (1.27%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.64%) Firmware
10 1 (0.64%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 28 (17.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (16.56%) SCCM
3 22 (14.01%) Terraform
4 14 (8.92%) Ansible
4 14 (8.92%) SCOM
5 6 (3.82%) CASB
5 6 (3.82%) Kubernetes
5 6 (3.82%) Puppet
5 6 (3.82%) SCOrch
6 4 (2.55%) NetBackup
6 4 (2.55%) Packer
7 3 (1.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.91%) Control-M
7 3 (1.91%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.91%) Kibana
7 3 (1.91%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.27%) Grafana
8 2 (1.27%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.27%) QRadar
8 2 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 80 (50.96%) Microsoft
2 37 (23.57%) VMware
3 18 (11.46%) Oracle
4 17 (10.83%) Citrix
5 13 (8.28%) Dell
6 10 (6.37%) Cisco
7 7 (4.46%) Red Hat
8 6 (3.82%) Veeam
9 5 (3.18%) HP
9 5 (3.18%) Qualys
10 4 (2.55%) Commvault
10 4 (2.55%) CyberArk
10 4 (2.55%) Reuters
10 4 (2.55%) SnapLogic
10 4 (2.55%) Splunk
11 3 (1.91%) NetApp
11 3 (1.91%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.91%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.91%) Tenable
12 2 (1.27%) Veritas