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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 222 157
Rank change year-on-year -26 -65 -41
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 218 143 260
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.08% 1.05% 1.61%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.68% 9.14% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 101 184
10th Percentile £263 £363 £250
25th Percentile £360 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -16.28%
75th Percentile £588 £660 £550
90th Percentile £655 £750 £638
England median daily rate £484 £536 £500
% change year-on-year -9.79% +7.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £57.25
25th Percentile £19.25 - £64.38
Median hourly rate £19.50 £30.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% -61.29% +205.66%
75th Percentile £19.75 - £89.38
90th Percentile - - £95.75
England median hourly rate £38.72 £30.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +29.07% -51.30% +54.00%

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 1,593 1,565 1,981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.86% 11.45% 12.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,053 1,057 1,382
10th Percentile £206 £244 £218
25th Percentile £350 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £600
90th Percentile £688 £738 £725
England median daily rate £470 £454 £488
% change year-on-year +3.45% -6.96% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 43 48
10th Percentile £17.60 £18.93 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.50% +14.32% -56.18%
75th Percentile £25.34 £27.00 £31.72
90th Percentile £54.40 £60.80 £60.43
England median hourly rate £32.50 £23.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year +41.30% -32.35% -20.00%

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 9 August 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 9 August 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 -7 40 £525 +5.00% 15
West London -19 8 £500 - 3
South London -14 2 £425 -5.56% 6
East London +1 1 £150 -25.00% 3
North London -2 1 £225 -59.09% 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 31 (14.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (6.42%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.67%) nginx
3 8 (3.67%) Tomcat
4 6 (2.75%) IIS
5 3 (1.38%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (1.38%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.46%) Apache
6 1 (0.46%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.46%) Confluence
6 1 (0.46%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (5.05%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.92%) OpenText MBPM
1 2 (0.92%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 108 (49.54%) Azure
2 48 (22.02%) Entra ID
3 38 (17.43%) AWS
4 35 (16.06%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (6.88%) IaaS
6 14 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (5.50%) Azure Monitor
7 12 (5.50%) GCP
7 12 (5.50%) GitHub
8 9 (4.13%) PaaS
9 7 (3.21%) Azure Sentinel
9 7 (3.21%) OneDrive
10 6 (2.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.75%) OpenShift
11 5 (2.29%) Azure AKS
11 5 (2.29%) Azure Stack
11 5 (2.29%) Datadog
12 4 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.83%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 76 (34.86%) DNS
2 54 (24.77%) DHCP
3 45 (20.64%) Firewall
4 24 (11.01%) VPN
5 22 (10.09%) TCP/IP
6 16 (7.34%) WAN
7 15 (6.88%) LAN
8 7 (3.21%) SMTP
8 7 (3.21%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (2.75%) Network Security
10 5 (2.29%) VoIP
11 4 (1.83%) DMZ
11 4 (1.83%) HTTP
11 4 (1.83%) SAN
12 3 (1.38%) Internet
12 3 (1.38%) MPLS
12 3 (1.38%) VLAN
12 3 (1.38%) VSAN
12 3 (1.38%) Wireless
13 2 (0.92%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (27.98%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.96%) Oracle Database
3 11 (5.05%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.29%) Big Data
6 4 (1.83%) GIS
7 3 (1.38%) Power BI
7 3 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.92%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.92%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.92%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.46%) MySQL
9 1 (0.46%) Oracle BI EE
9 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 7 (3.21%) Git
1 7 (3.21%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.38%) GitLab
2 3 (1.38%) JIRA
2 3 (1.38%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.92%) AdminStudio
3 2 (0.92%) Artifactory
3 2 (0.92%) InstallShield
3 2 (0.92%) MSI
4 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.46%) MSBuild
4 1 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.46%) Subversion
4 1 (0.46%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.46%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 71 (32.57%) Social Skills
2 48 (22.02%) Finance
3 26 (11.93%) Banking
4 24 (11.01%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (7.34%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.59%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.75%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.83%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.83%) Law
9 4 (1.83%) Legal
9 4 (1.83%) Local Government
10 2 (0.92%) Front Office
10 2 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.46%) Games
11 1 (0.46%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 61 (27.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 20 (9.17%) Support Engineer
3 19 (8.72%) Senior
4 13 (5.96%) Developer
5 12 (5.50%) C# Developer
5 12 (5.50%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (5.05%) Infrastructure Support
7 10 (4.59%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 10 (4.59%) Server Engineer
8 9 (4.13%) Architect
8 9 (4.13%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (3.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 8 (3.67%) Lead
9 8 (3.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.21%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.21%) Analyst
10 7 (3.21%) Applications Support
10 7 (3.21%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (3.21%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.21%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.72%) .NET
2 14 (6.42%) .NET Framework
3 7 (3.21%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (1.83%) ADO
4 4 (1.83%) ARM Templates
4 4 (1.83%) ASP.NET
4 4 (1.83%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (1.83%) EJB
4 4 (1.83%) JSON
5 3 (1.38%) Jakarta EE
5 3 (1.38%) LDAP
5 3 (1.38%) Middleware
5 3 (1.38%) OpenLayers
5 3 (1.38%) Spring
6 2 (0.92%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.92%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.92%) Blazor
6 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.92%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (0.92%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.72%) Data Centre
2 18 (8.26%) PKI
3 17 (7.80%) Onboarding
4 14 (6.42%) Clustering
5 12 (5.50%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (4.13%) Cloud Native
7 8 (3.67%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.75%) CMDB
8 6 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.75%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (2.75%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.75%) Virtual Team
9 5 (2.29%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.83%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.92%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.92%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 218 (100.00%) Windows
2 74 (33.94%) Linux
3 25 (11.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (10.09%) Windows Server 2019
5 21 (9.63%) Windows 10
6 16 (7.34%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (5.96%) Ubuntu
8 12 (5.50%) Windows Server 2008
8 12 (5.50%) Windows Server 2012
9 8 (3.67%) Solaris
9 8 (3.67%) VMS
10 6 (2.75%) Unix
10 6 (2.75%) Windows 7
11 4 (1.83%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (1.83%) Mac OS
11 4 (1.83%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (1.38%) OpenVMS
13 2 (0.92%) Android
13 2 (0.92%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.46%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (35.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 48 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (16.97%) Disaster Recovery
4 35 (16.06%) ITIL
5 33 (15.14%) DevOps
5 33 (15.14%) Migration
6 29 (13.30%) Change Management
7 28 (12.84%) CI/CD
8 27 (12.39%) Infrastructure as Code
9 26 (11.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (11.01%) Incident Management
10 24 (11.01%) Root Cause Analysis
11 23 (10.55%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 22 (10.09%) Stakeholder Management
13 21 (9.63%) High Availability
13 21 (9.63%) Identity Access Management
14 20 (9.17%) Runbook
15 17 (7.80%) AI
15 17 (7.80%) Project Delivery
15 17 (7.80%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 84 (38.53%) PowerShell
2 39 (17.89%) SQL
3 23 (10.55%) Bash
4 22 (10.09%) PL/SQL
5 21 (9.63%) Python
6 19 (8.72%) C#
7 15 (6.88%) T-SQL
8 9 (4.13%) Bicep
9 8 (3.67%) Java
10 3 (1.38%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.38%) Korn
10 3 (1.38%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.46%) CodeQL
11 1 (0.46%) Ladder Logic
11 1 (0.46%) VB
Qualifications
1 65 (29.82%) Security Cleared
2 40 (18.35%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.09%) Degree
4 21 (9.63%) DV Cleared
5 16 (7.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.67%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.75%) CISSP
8 5 (2.29%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.29%) CISM
9 4 (1.83%) CCNA
9 4 (1.83%) CCNP
9 4 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.83%) MCITP
9 4 (1.83%) MCTS
10 3 (1.38%) A+ Certification
11 2 (0.92%) ISSAP
11 2 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.46%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.80%) QA
1 17 (7.80%) SLA
2 9 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.21%) NIST
4 5 (2.29%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.38%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.92%) GDPR
6 2 (0.92%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.92%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.46%) NCSC
7 1 (0.46%) NIST 800
System Software
1 122 (55.96%) Active Directory
2 59 (27.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (13.76%) VMware ESXi
4 25 (11.47%) Hyper-V
5 23 (10.55%) Docker
6 20 (9.17%) vSphere
7 11 (5.05%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (4.59%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (4.13%) Microsoft App-V
9 9 (4.13%) Virtual Servers
10 7 (3.21%) BitLocker
11 5 (2.29%) Firmware
11 5 (2.29%) VMware NSX
12 4 (1.83%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (1.83%) Terminal Services
13 3 (1.38%) UAG
13 3 (1.38%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.46%) NFS
14 1 (0.46%) QEMU
14 1 (0.46%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 30 (13.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (12.84%) Terraform
3 26 (11.93%) Ansible
4 23 (10.55%) Kubernetes
5 20 (9.17%) vCenter Server
6 18 (8.26%) SCCM
7 8 (3.67%) Grafana
8 7 (3.21%) vMotion
9 6 (2.75%) Prometheus
9 6 (2.75%) Puppet
9 6 (2.75%) SCOM
10 4 (1.83%) Nagios
10 4 (1.83%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (1.38%) FortiGate
11 3 (1.38%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.38%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Clustering
12 2 (0.92%) Nessus
12 2 (0.92%) Thomson Reuters DACS
12 2 (0.92%) WSUS
Vendors
1 118 (54.13%) Microsoft
2 89 (40.83%) VMware
3 36 (16.51%) Oracle
4 29 (13.30%) Citrix
5 25 (11.47%) Cisco
6 17 (7.80%) ServiceNow
7 16 (7.34%) Red Hat
7 16 (7.34%) Splunk
8 13 (5.96%) Google
9 12 (5.50%) Qualys
10 11 (5.05%) CyberArk
10 11 (5.05%) Zscaler
11 10 (4.59%) Tenable
12 8 (3.67%) BeyondTrust
12 8 (3.67%) HP
12 8 (3.67%) IBM
12 8 (3.67%) NetApp
12 8 (3.67%) WALLIX
13 7 (3.21%) Meraki
13 7 (3.21%) Rapid7