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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 193 143
Rank change year-on-year -50 -50 -25
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 187 163 308
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.00% 1.33% 1.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.99% 11.38% 14.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 114 207
10th Percentile £263 £363 £256
25th Percentile £413 £425 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +16.67% -12.20%
75th Percentile £613 £662 £569
90th Percentile £647 £750 £675
England median daily rate £483 £538 £482
% change year-on-year -10.22% +11.62% -3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - £16.00
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £20.93
75th Percentile £19.75 - £33.34
90th Percentile - - £47.83
England median hourly rate £26.22 £17.04 £38.50
% change year-on-year +53.87% -55.74% +28.33%

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 1,440 1,432 2,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.70% 11.71% 11.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 949 992 1,480
10th Percentile £203 £246 £208
25th Percentile £350 £374 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £621
90th Percentile £688 £738 £750
England median daily rate £456 £465 £475
% change year-on-year -1.94% -2.11% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 22 68
10th Percentile £20.67 £21.38 £15.19
25th Percentile £22.53 £23.76 £18.13
Median hourly rate £26.08 £24.58 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.08% +11.73% -53.68%
75th Percentile £58.63 £29.94 £27.59
90th Percentile £72.88 £49.73 £60.43
England median hourly rate £34.68 £19.27 £22.50
% change year-on-year +79.94% -14.36% -47.06%

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 June 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 June 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 -30 20 £575 +4.55% 10
West London -16 8 £500 +25.00% 2
South London -6 5 £165 -63.33% 1
North London +1 1 £225 -59.09% 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 28 (14.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (6.95%) SharePoint
3 8 (4.28%) nginx
3 8 (4.28%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.60%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.07%) IIS
6 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 107 (57.22%) Azure
2 51 (27.27%) Entra ID
3 41 (21.93%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (16.58%) AWS
5 21 (11.23%) IaaS
6 13 (6.95%) PaaS
7 9 (4.81%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (3.74%) GCP
8 7 (3.74%) GitHub
9 6 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.21%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.67%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (2.67%) Azure Stack
11 4 (2.14%) Azure AKS
11 4 (2.14%) SaaS
12 3 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.60%) MinIO
12 3 (1.60%) OneDrive
12 3 (1.60%) OpenShift
12 3 (1.60%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 72 (38.50%) DNS
2 58 (31.02%) DHCP
3 40 (21.39%) Firewall
4 25 (13.37%) VPN
5 20 (10.70%) WAN
6 15 (8.02%) Kerberos
7 13 (6.95%) LAN
8 11 (5.88%) TCP/IP
9 10 (5.35%) SMTP
10 7 (3.74%) SD-WAN
11 6 (3.21%) MPLS
11 6 (3.21%) VoIP
12 4 (2.14%) HTTP
13 3 (1.60%) Internet
13 3 (1.60%) Network Security
13 3 (1.60%) VSAN
14 2 (1.07%) BGP
14 2 (1.07%) Unified Communications
14 2 (1.07%) VLAN
14 2 (1.07%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (22.46%) SQL Server
2 14 (7.49%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (4.81%) Oracle Database
4 6 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.14%) Big Data
5 4 (2.14%) GIS
6 3 (1.60%) Power BI
7 2 (1.07%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.07%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.53%) MySQL
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (4.28%) Visual Studio
2 5 (2.67%) JIRA
3 3 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.07%) AdminStudio
4 2 (1.07%) InstallShield
4 2 (1.07%) MSI
5 1 (0.53%) Git
General
1 44 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 36 (19.25%) Finance
3 17 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 16 (8.56%) Banking
5 12 (6.42%) Legal
6 9 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.21%) Local Government
9 5 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.14%) Law
11 2 (1.07%) Front Office
11 2 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.07%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.53%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.53%) International Banking
12 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.53%) Japanese Language
12 1 (0.53%) Mandarin Language
12 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (25.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (8.56%) Developer
3 15 (8.02%) C# Developer
4 14 (7.49%) Senior
4 14 (7.49%) Support Engineer
5 10 (5.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 9 (4.81%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (4.81%) Lead
7 8 (4.28%) Architect
7 8 (4.28%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (4.28%) Infrastructure Support
7 8 (4.28%) IT Support
8 7 (3.74%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 7 (3.74%) Integration Engineer
8 7 (3.74%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 7 (3.74%) NetApp Engineer
8 7 (3.74%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (3.74%) Server Engineer
8 7 (3.74%) Storage Engineer
9 6 (3.21%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.63%) .NET
1 18 (9.63%) LDAP
2 16 (8.56%) .NET Framework
3 15 (8.02%) OAuth
4 14 (7.49%) SAML
5 4 (2.14%) ADO
5 4 (2.14%) Azure Blueprints
5 4 (2.14%) EJB
5 4 (2.14%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.60%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.60%) Java EE
6 3 (1.60%) JSON
6 3 (1.60%) Middleware
6 3 (1.60%) OpenLayers
6 3 (1.60%) Spring
7 2 (1.07%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.07%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.07%) Blazor
7 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.53%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.70%) PKI
2 14 (7.49%) Clustering
2 14 (7.49%) Replication
3 10 (5.35%) Data Centre
4 9 (4.81%) Cloud Native
5 8 (4.28%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (3.21%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.21%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.67%) CMDB
7 5 (2.67%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.67%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.67%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.14%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.60%) Educational Technology
10 2 (1.07%) BYOD
10 2 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.07%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 187 (100.00%) Windows
2 54 (28.88%) Linux
3 23 (12.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (10.16%) Windows Server 2019
5 16 (8.56%) Windows 10
6 14 (7.49%) Windows Server 2016
7 9 (4.81%) Windows Server 2012
8 8 (4.28%) Solaris
8 8 (4.28%) Windows Server 2003
8 8 (4.28%) Windows Server 2008
9 7 (3.74%) Ubuntu
10 4 (2.14%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (2.14%) VMS
11 3 (1.60%) Android
12 2 (1.07%) Apple iOS
12 2 (1.07%) Mac OS
12 2 (1.07%) Unix
13 1 (0.53%) AIX
13 1 (0.53%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (29.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 47 (25.13%) Disaster Recovery
3 28 (14.97%) High Availability
4 23 (12.30%) Identity Access Management
4 23 (12.30%) Migration
4 23 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (11.76%) Change Management
5 22 (11.76%) DevOps
5 22 (11.76%) ITIL
6 21 (11.23%) RBAC
7 20 (10.70%) Task Automation
8 19 (10.16%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (9.63%) CI/CD
9 18 (9.63%) Stakeholder Management
10 17 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (8.56%) Incident Management
12 15 (8.02%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (7.49%) Business Intelligence
13 14 (7.49%) Data Analysis
13 14 (7.49%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 75 (40.11%) PowerShell
2 32 (17.11%) SQL
3 21 (11.23%) PL/SQL
4 19 (10.16%) C#
5 14 (7.49%) T-SQL
6 12 (6.42%) Python
7 7 (3.74%) Bash
8 6 (3.21%) Bicep
8 6 (3.21%) Java
9 5 (2.67%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.60%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.53%) Ladder Logic
11 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.53%) VB
Qualifications
1 58 (31.02%) Security Cleared
2 36 (19.25%) SC Cleared
3 27 (14.44%) Degree
4 18 (9.63%) DV Cleared
5 12 (6.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (3.21%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (3.21%) CISSP
7 5 (2.67%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.14%) CCNA
8 4 (2.14%) CCNP
8 4 (2.14%) CISM
8 4 (2.14%) MCITP
8 4 (2.14%) MCTS
9 3 (1.60%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.07%) ISSAP
10 2 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.07%) MCSE
11 1 (0.53%) CISA
11 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.53%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.16%) QA
2 18 (9.63%) GDPR
3 15 (8.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 12 (6.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (4.28%) NIST
6 5 (2.67%) SLA
7 4 (2.14%) SOC 2
8 2 (1.07%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (1.07%) HIPAA
8 2 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (1.07%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.53%) Basel III
9 1 (0.53%) GAAP
9 1 (0.53%) IFRS
9 1 (0.53%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.53%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.53%) NCSC
System Software
1 115 (61.50%) Active Directory
2 48 (25.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (11.76%) Hyper-V
4 21 (11.23%) Docker
5 17 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (6.42%) Microsoft App-V
7 10 (5.35%) BitLocker
8 9 (4.81%) vSphere
9 6 (3.21%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (2.67%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (2.67%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (2.14%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (1.60%) Firmware
12 3 (1.60%) Terminal Services
12 3 (1.60%) VMware Workstation
13 2 (1.07%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.53%) KVM
14 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.53%) NFS
14 1 (0.53%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 29 (15.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (11.23%) Ansible
3 19 (10.16%) Kubernetes
4 18 (9.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 16 (8.56%) Terraform
6 15 (8.02%) SCCM
6 15 (8.02%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (5.35%) vCenter Server
7 10 (5.35%) vMotion
8 9 (4.81%) Puppet
9 4 (2.14%) FortiGate
9 4 (2.14%) Grafana
9 4 (2.14%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (2.14%) Prometheus
9 4 (2.14%) SCOM
10 3 (1.60%) Nagios
11 2 (1.07%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (1.07%) QRadar
11 2 (1.07%) Thomson Reuters DACS
12 1 (0.53%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 102 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 59 (31.55%) VMware
3 31 (16.58%) Citrix
4 29 (15.51%) Oracle
5 19 (10.16%) Okta
6 17 (9.09%) Cisco
7 14 (7.49%) Red Hat
7 14 (7.49%) ServiceNow
8 12 (6.42%) Qualys
9 10 (5.35%) Dell
10 9 (4.81%) IBM
11 8 (4.28%) Google
11 8 (4.28%) NetApp
11 8 (4.28%) Splunk
12 7 (3.74%) Tenable
13 6 (3.21%) Rapid7
14 5 (2.67%) CrowdStrike
14 5 (2.67%) Meraki
15 4 (2.14%) Palo Alto
15 4 (2.14%) SolarWinds