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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 163 104
Rank change year-on-year -60 -59 +62
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 172 210 410
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.13% 1.56% 2.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.57% 12.79% 16.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 144 264
10th Percentile £318 £254 £207
25th Percentile £415 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.52%
75th Percentile £613 £576 £613
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £440
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile - - £16.00
25th Percentile - - £18.11
Median hourly rate £21.46 £112.00 £28.68
Median % change year-on-year -80.84% +290.55% +14.71%
75th Percentile £22.23 - £33.75
90th Percentile £22.69 - -
England median hourly rate £22.50 £62.75 £54.56
% change year-on-year -64.14% +15.01% +60.47%

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 1,486 1,642 2,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.75% 12.19% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 985 1,081 1,741
10th Percentile £204 £221 £200
25th Percentile £356 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
England median daily rate £447 £473 £450
% change year-on-year -5.40% +5.00% -13.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 22 58
10th Percentile £20.82 £16.89 £15.48
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.06 £18.93
Median hourly rate £24.00 £24.66 £24.93
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% -1.07% -1.28%
75th Percentile £25.15 £46.06 £49.13
90th Percentile £41.75 £70.23 £63.25
England median hourly rate £22.50 £38.00 £25.25
% change year-on-year -40.79% +50.50% -4.65%

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 February 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 February 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 -35 23 £540 +2.86% 16
West London -21 5 £500 +25.00%
South London -10 3 £165 -49.23% 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 30 (17.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.23%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.91%) IIS
4 4 (2.33%) SAS
5 2 (1.16%) nginx
5 2 (1.16%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.58%) Confluence
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.58%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.58%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.58%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.58%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.58%) OmniGraffle
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
2 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 93 (54.07%) Azure
2 46 (26.74%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (23.84%) Entra ID
4 14 (8.14%) IaaS
5 12 (6.98%) AWS
6 10 (5.81%) SaaS
7 6 (3.49%) PaaS
8 4 (2.33%) GitHub
9 3 (1.74%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.74%) OCI
9 3 (1.74%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.74%) Serverless
10 2 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.58%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.58%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.58%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 51 (29.65%) DNS
2 38 (22.09%) DHCP
3 37 (21.51%) Firewall
4 19 (11.05%) WAN
5 17 (9.88%) VPN
6 15 (8.72%) Kerberos
7 13 (7.56%) LAN
8 8 (4.65%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (4.07%) Network Security
10 6 (3.49%) SD-WAN
10 6 (3.49%) TCP/IP
11 5 (2.91%) MPLS
11 5 (2.91%) Wireless
12 4 (2.33%) IPv4
12 4 (2.33%) SMTP
13 3 (1.74%) NetScaler
14 2 (1.16%) BGP
14 2 (1.16%) HTTP
14 2 (1.16%) iSCSI
14 2 (1.16%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.53%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.49%) Oracle Database
3 5 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.16%) Power BI
5 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.58%) GIS
5 1 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.58%) Redis
5 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.58%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 11 (6.40%) Visual Studio
2 4 (2.33%) JIRA
3 3 (1.74%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.16%) GitLab
5 1 (0.58%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.58%) Git
5 1 (0.58%) TeamCity
General
1 39 (22.67%) Finance
2 34 (19.77%) Social Skills
3 18 (10.47%) Banking
4 10 (5.81%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (5.81%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.23%) Legal
6 8 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.49%) Spanish Language
9 4 (2.33%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.74%) Front Office
10 3 (1.74%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.16%) International Banking
11 2 (1.16%) Local Government
11 2 (1.16%) Marketing
11 2 (1.16%) Retail
12 1 (0.58%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.58%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.58%) Italian Language
12 1 (0.58%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 30 (17.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (11.05%) Developer
3 15 (8.72%) C# Developer
4 13 (7.56%) Senior
5 12 (6.98%) Platform Engineer
5 12 (6.98%) Security Engineer
6 10 (5.81%) Windows Engineer
7 9 (5.23%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 9 (5.23%) Lead
7 9 (5.23%) Support Engineer
8 8 (4.65%) Analyst
8 8 (4.65%) Architect
8 8 (4.65%) Infrastructure Manager
8 8 (4.65%) Wintel Engineer
9 7 (4.07%) Server Engineer
10 6 (3.49%) Desktop Engineer
10 6 (3.49%) Desktop Support
10 6 (3.49%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 6 (3.49%) Senior Wintel Engineer
10 6 (3.49%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.47%) .NET
2 16 (9.30%) LDAP
2 16 (9.30%) OAuth
3 15 (8.72%) .NET Framework
3 15 (8.72%) SAML
4 5 (2.91%) Middleware
4 5 (2.91%) REST
5 3 (1.74%) React
5 3 (1.74%) WinForms
6 2 (1.16%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.16%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (1.16%) Bootstrap
6 2 (1.16%) Express.js
6 2 (1.16%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (1.16%) ISPF
6 2 (1.16%) SOAP
6 2 (1.16%) Swing
6 2 (1.16%) WCF
6 2 (1.16%) Web Services
6 2 (1.16%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.95%) Data Centre
2 22 (12.79%) Replication
3 14 (8.14%) PKI
4 11 (6.40%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.49%) Clustering
5 6 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.49%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (2.33%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.74%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.74%) Educational Technology
7 3 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.74%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.16%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.16%) EPoS
8 2 (1.16%) iPhone
8 2 (1.16%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.16%) NHS
8 2 (1.16%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 170 (98.84%) Windows
2 40 (23.26%) Linux
3 12 (6.98%) Windows Server 2019
4 10 (5.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (5.81%) Windows 10
5 9 (5.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (2.91%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (2.33%) Android
7 4 (2.33%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.33%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (1.74%) Solaris
8 3 (1.74%) Unix
8 3 (1.74%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (1.16%) AIX
9 2 (1.16%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.16%) VMS
9 2 (1.16%) zOS
10 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (22.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 39 (22.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (16.86%) Migration
3 26 (15.12%) ITIL
4 21 (12.21%) Agile
5 20 (11.63%) Task Automation
6 19 (11.05%) High Availability
7 18 (10.47%) Identity Access Management
8 16 (9.30%) Business Intelligence
8 16 (9.30%) RBAC
8 16 (9.30%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (8.72%) DevOps
9 15 (8.72%) Project Delivery
10 14 (8.14%) Change Management
10 14 (8.14%) Unit Testing
11 13 (7.56%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (6.98%) Cybersecurity
12 12 (6.98%) Incident Management
12 12 (6.98%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (6.40%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 67 (38.95%) PowerShell
2 27 (15.70%) SQL
3 17 (9.88%) C#
3 17 (9.88%) PL/SQL
3 17 (9.88%) T-SQL
4 7 (4.07%) Python
5 3 (1.74%) Bash
5 3 (1.74%) Java
5 3 (1.74%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.16%) JCL
6 2 (1.16%) REXX
7 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (20.35%) Degree
2 31 (18.02%) Security Cleared
3 24 (13.95%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.23%) DV Cleared
5 8 (4.65%) Azure Certification
5 8 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.33%) CCNP
6 4 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.16%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.16%) CCNA
7 2 (1.16%) CESG Certified Professional
7 2 (1.16%) CISSP
7 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.16%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.16%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.58%) MCSA
8 1 (0.58%) MCSE
8 1 (0.58%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.63%) QA
2 19 (11.05%) GDPR
3 15 (8.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 8 (4.65%) NIST
5 7 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
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 98 (56.98%) Active Directory
2 33 (19.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.98%) vSphere
4 11 (6.40%) Docker
5 9 (5.23%) Hyper-V
5 9 (5.23%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (3.49%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (2.91%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (2.33%) BitLocker
9 4 (2.33%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (1.16%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 2 (1.16%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.58%) Firmware
11 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.58%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 32 (18.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (16.28%) SCCM
3 19 (11.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 17 (9.88%) Terraform
5 15 (8.72%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (6.98%) Ansible
6 12 (6.98%) SCOM
7 8 (4.65%) Kubernetes
8 6 (3.49%) CASB
8 6 (3.49%) Puppet
8 6 (3.49%) SCOrch
9 5 (2.91%) FortiGate
9 5 (2.91%) vCenter Server
10 4 (2.33%) vMotion
11 3 (1.74%) Control-M
12 2 (1.16%) NetBackup
12 2 (1.16%) QRadar
12 2 (1.16%) vRealize
13 1 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.58%) Grafana
Vendors
1 87 (50.58%) Microsoft
2 42 (24.42%) VMware
3 22 (12.79%) Citrix
4 21 (12.21%) Oracle
5 17 (9.88%) Dell
6 14 (8.14%) Okta
7 10 (5.81%) Cisco
8 7 (4.07%) Qualys
8 7 (4.07%) Red Hat
8 7 (4.07%) ServiceNow
9 6 (3.49%) Veeam
10 5 (2.91%) NetApp
11 4 (2.33%) CyberArk
12 3 (1.74%) HP
12 3 (1.74%) IBM
12 3 (1.74%) Palo Alto
12 3 (1.74%) Reuters
12 3 (1.74%) Splunk
12 3 (1.74%) Tenable
13 2 (1.16%) SAP