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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 179 98
Rank change year-on-year -34 -81 +91
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 166 201 418
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.15% 1.43% 2.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.25% 11.94% 16.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 139 271
10th Percentile £325 £270 £200
25th Percentile £415 £398 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% +4.21%
75th Percentile £609 £575 £600
90th Percentile £710 £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 4
10th Percentile - £102.40 £20.58
25th Percentile - £106.00 £27.44
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 £21.23 £62.75 £56.06
% change year-on-year -66.17% +11.93% +86.87%

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 1,476 1,683 2,510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.25% 11.99% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 962 1,119 1,813
10th Percentile £204 £230 £200
25th Percentile £358 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £726 £738 £750
England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 19 46
10th Percentile £20.69 £16.45 £18.00
25th Percentile £21.35 £22.53 £19.51
Median hourly rate £25.15 £28.41 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -11.47% -7.61% +23.00%
75th Percentile £28.75 £62.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £61.35 £102.40 £73.13
England median hourly rate £25.00 £52.50 £32.00
% change year-on-year -52.38% +64.06% +28.00%

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 16 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 16 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 -3 28 £513 - 10
West London -22 4 £344 -14.06% 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 (17.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.61%) SAS
3 5 (3.01%) IIS
3 5 (3.01%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.60%) Confluence
4 1 (0.60%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.60%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.60%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.60%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.60%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 3 (1.81%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 87 (52.41%) Azure
2 45 (27.11%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (18.07%) Entra ID
4 18 (10.84%) IaaS
5 16 (9.64%) AWS
6 12 (7.23%) SaaS
7 7 (4.22%) GitHub
7 7 (4.22%) PaaS
8 5 (3.01%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.41%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (2.41%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.81%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.81%) OCI
10 3 (1.81%) Serverless
11 2 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.20%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 44 (26.51%) DNS
2 40 (24.10%) Firewall
3 30 (18.07%) DHCP
4 19 (11.45%) VPN
5 17 (10.24%) WAN
6 10 (6.02%) LAN
7 9 (5.42%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (4.22%) Network Security
9 6 (3.61%) Kerberos
9 6 (3.61%) SD-WAN
9 6 (3.61%) TCP/IP
9 6 (3.61%) Wireless
10 5 (3.01%) MPLS
11 4 (2.41%) IPv4
11 4 (2.41%) SMTP
12 3 (1.81%) NetScaler
12 3 (1.81%) SSH
13 2 (1.20%) iSCSI
13 2 (1.20%) VLAN
13 2 (1.20%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (16.27%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.61%) Oracle Database
3 5 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.20%) Apache Hive
4 2 (1.20%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.20%) Impala
4 2 (1.20%) Power BI
5 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.60%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.60%) Redis
5 1 (0.60%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 9 (5.42%) Visual Studio
2 7 (4.22%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.41%) JIRA
4 3 (1.81%) GitLab
4 3 (1.81%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.20%) Git
5 2 (1.20%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.60%) Fiddler
General
1 44 (26.51%) Finance
2 32 (19.28%) Social Skills
3 19 (11.45%) Banking
4 8 (4.82%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (4.22%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (4.22%) Legal
6 6 (3.61%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.61%) Spanish Language
7 4 (2.41%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.41%) Front Office
7 4 (2.41%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.20%) International Banking
8 2 (1.20%) Marketing
8 2 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.20%) Retail
9 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Local Government
9 1 (0.60%) Police
9 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (16.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (10.24%) Developer
3 15 (9.04%) Platform Engineer
4 13 (7.83%) Senior
5 12 (7.23%) C# Developer
6 11 (6.63%) Security Engineer
7 10 (6.02%) Architect
7 10 (6.02%) Windows Engineer
8 9 (5.42%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 9 (5.42%) Lead
9 8 (4.82%) Support Engineer
9 8 (4.82%) Wintel Engineer
10 7 (4.22%) Analyst
10 7 (4.22%) Infrastructure Manager
10 7 (4.22%) Server Engineer
11 6 (3.61%) Desktop Support
11 6 (3.61%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 6 (3.61%) Senior Wintel Engineer
11 6 (3.61%) Support Analyst
12 5 (3.01%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.64%) .NET
2 12 (7.23%) .NET Framework
3 7 (4.22%) LDAP
4 6 (3.61%) OAuth
4 6 (3.61%) SAML
5 5 (3.01%) Middleware
5 5 (3.01%) REST
6 3 (1.81%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (1.81%) WinForms
6 3 (1.81%) YAML
7 2 (1.20%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.20%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (1.20%) Bootstrap
7 2 (1.20%) Express.js
7 2 (1.20%) ISPF
7 2 (1.20%) React
7 2 (1.20%) SOAP
7 2 (1.20%) WCF
7 2 (1.20%) Web Services
7 2 (1.20%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.06%) Data Centre
2 14 (8.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (7.83%) PKI
3 13 (7.83%) Replication
4 8 (4.82%) Enterprise Storage
5 7 (4.22%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.61%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.01%) Clustering
8 4 (2.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (2.41%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.81%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.81%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.81%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (1.20%) Derivative
10 2 (1.20%) EPoS
10 2 (1.20%) Mainframe
10 2 (1.20%) NHS
10 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.20%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 164 (98.80%) Windows
2 45 (27.11%) Linux
3 9 (5.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (4.82%) Windows 10
4 8 (4.82%) Windows Server 2016
4 8 (4.82%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (2.41%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.41%) Unix
5 4 (2.41%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (1.81%) Android
6 3 (1.81%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (1.20%) AIX
7 2 (1.20%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.20%) zOS
8 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.60%) CentOS
8 1 (0.60%) Solaris
8 1 (0.60%) VMS
8 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (22.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 31 (18.67%) ITIL
3 29 (17.47%) Disaster Recovery
4 28 (16.87%) Migration
5 24 (14.46%) Agile
6 20 (12.05%) DevOps
7 19 (11.45%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (9.64%) CI/CD
8 16 (9.64%) Project Delivery
9 15 (9.04%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (9.04%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (8.43%) Business Intelligence
11 13 (7.83%) Change Management
12 12 (7.23%) Information Security
12 12 (7.23%) Platform Engineering
12 12 (7.23%) Service Management
12 12 (7.23%) Task Automation
12 12 (7.23%) Unit Testing
13 11 (6.63%) Change Control
13 11 (6.63%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 64 (38.55%) PowerShell
2 29 (17.47%) SQL
3 17 (10.24%) Python
4 15 (9.04%) C#
4 15 (9.04%) T-SQL
5 13 (7.83%) PL/SQL
6 6 (3.61%) Bash
7 4 (2.41%) Bicep
8 3 (1.81%) Java
9 2 (1.20%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.20%) JCL
9 2 (1.20%) REXX
10 1 (0.60%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (19.28%) Degree
2 22 (13.25%) Security Cleared
3 16 (9.64%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.02%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (4.82%) DV Cleared
6 7 (4.22%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.41%) CCNP
8 4 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.81%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.20%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.20%) CCNA
10 2 (1.20%) CESG Certified Professional
10 2 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (1.20%) MCITP
10 2 (1.20%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.60%) PMP
11 1 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.84%) QA
2 10 (6.02%) GDPR
3 9 (5.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (4.22%) NIST
4 7 (4.22%) SLA
5 6 (3.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.81%) NIST 800
7 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.60%) Basel III
8 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.60%) DICOM
8 1 (0.60%) GAAP
8 1 (0.60%) HL7
8 1 (0.60%) IFRS
8 1 (0.60%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.60%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.60%) NCSC
System Software
1 90 (54.22%) Active Directory
2 29 (17.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (6.63%) Docker
4 10 (6.02%) Hyper-V
4 10 (6.02%) vSphere
5 8 (4.82%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (4.22%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (3.01%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (3.01%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (1.81%) BitLocker
8 3 (1.81%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (1.81%) VMware NSX
9 2 (1.20%) HDFS
9 2 (1.20%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 1 (0.60%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.60%) Firmware
10 1 (0.60%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 28 (16.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (14.46%) SCCM
3 22 (13.25%) Terraform
4 15 (9.04%) Ansible
5 14 (8.43%) SCOM
6 7 (4.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (4.22%) Kubernetes
6 7 (4.22%) Puppet
7 6 (3.61%) CASB
7 6 (3.61%) SCOrch
7 6 (3.61%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.41%) FortiGate
8 4 (2.41%) NetBackup
8 4 (2.41%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.81%) Control-M
9 3 (1.81%) Kibana
9 3 (1.81%) Packer
9 3 (1.81%) vMotion
10 2 (1.20%) Grafana
10 2 (1.20%) QRadar
Vendors
1 81 (48.80%) Microsoft
2 40 (24.10%) VMware
3 20 (12.05%) Citrix
3 20 (12.05%) Oracle
4 16 (9.64%) Dell
5 13 (7.83%) Cisco
6 6 (3.61%) Qualys
6 6 (3.61%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.61%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.61%) Veeam
7 5 (3.01%) HP
7 5 (3.01%) Okta
8 4 (2.41%) Commvault
8 4 (2.41%) CyberArk
8 4 (2.41%) NetApp
8 4 (2.41%) Palo Alto
8 4 (2.41%) Reuters
8 4 (2.41%) SnapLogic
8 4 (2.41%) Splunk
9 3 (1.81%) Tenable