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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 226 169 114
Rank change year-on-year -57 -55 +70
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 140 240 523
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.06% 1.49% 2.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.22% 11.67% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 166 402
10th Percentile £346 £239 £313
25th Percentile £425 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +14.58%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £650
90th Percentile £750 £631 £810
England median daily rate £520 £500 £488
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £57.25 £21.85
25th Percentile - £64.38 £22.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £77.50 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year -61.29% +201.44% +13.01%
75th Percentile - £89.38 £40.00
90th Percentile - £95.75 £65.80
England median hourly rate £22.03 £50.00 £48.40
% change year-on-year -55.95% +3.31% +97.55%

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 1,518 2,057 3,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.46% 12.79% 14.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 998 1,380 2,377
10th Percentile £225 £231 £210
25th Percentile £361 £359 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.25% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £663
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 32 57
10th Percentile £18.87 £20.05 £18.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £22.00 £22.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £26.63 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.54% -33.44% +67.29%
75th Percentile £25.25 £52.44 £60.00
90th Percentile £58.90 £64.19 £84.42
England median hourly rate £25.15 £57.25 £47.67
% change year-on-year -56.07% +20.11% +99.35%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 2025. 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 23 £500 -4.76% 11
West London 0 10 £500 +72.41% 6
South London -6 3 £450 +20.00% 3
East London +1 1 £200 -33.88% 2
North London -8 1 £550 +115.69% 2
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (9.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 13 (9.29%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.57%) IIS
3 4 (2.86%) SharePoint 2010
4 3 (2.14%) IBM Notes
4 3 (2.14%) SAS
5 2 (1.43%) Apache
5 2 (1.43%) Confluence
6 1 (0.71%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.71%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.71%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (2.86%) InfoPath
2 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.71%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 72 (51.43%) Azure
2 39 (27.86%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (27.14%) Entra ID
4 24 (17.14%) AWS
5 16 (11.43%) IaaS
6 10 (7.14%) Power Platform
7 8 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (5.71%) GitHub
7 8 (5.71%) Power Automate
8 7 (5.00%) GCP
8 7 (5.00%) PaaS
8 7 (5.00%) PowerApps
9 6 (4.29%) SaaS
10 5 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.86%) Serverless
11 4 (2.86%) ShareGate
11 4 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.14%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 35 (25.00%) Firewall
2 32 (22.86%) DNS
3 24 (17.14%) DHCP
4 20 (14.29%) VPN
5 9 (6.43%) TCP/IP
6 8 (5.71%) WAN
7 7 (5.00%) Network Security
8 6 (4.29%) SAN
9 5 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (2.86%) NAS
10 4 (2.86%) SD-WAN
10 4 (2.86%) VLAN
10 4 (2.86%) Wireless
11 3 (2.14%) Internet
11 3 (2.14%) LAN
11 3 (2.14%) SMTP
11 3 (2.14%) SSH
12 2 (1.43%) Intrusion Detection
12 2 (1.43%) MPLS
12 2 (1.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.86%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (3.57%) Power BI
3 4 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (2.86%) Hadoop
4 3 (2.14%) Big Data
4 3 (2.14%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.14%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.43%) Apache Hive
5 2 (1.43%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.43%) Impala
5 2 (1.43%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.86%) Bitbucket
2 4 (2.86%) Git
2 4 (2.86%) GitLab
2 4 (2.86%) SonarQube
3 3 (2.14%) JIRA
4 2 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.43%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.43%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 29 (20.71%) Finance
2 21 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 14 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 12 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.57%) Banking
5 6 (4.29%) Local Government
6 5 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.57%) Front Office
7 4 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.14%) Japanese Language
8 3 (2.14%) Legal
9 2 (1.43%) International Banking
9 2 (1.43%) Law
9 2 (1.43%) Retail
9 2 (1.43%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.71%) Back Office
10 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.71%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 40 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (13.57%) Architect
3 17 (12.14%) Senior
4 9 (6.43%) Support Engineer
5 8 (5.71%) Security Architect
6 7 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (4.29%) Analyst
7 6 (4.29%) IT Engineer
7 6 (4.29%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (4.29%) Security Engineer
7 6 (4.29%) Support Analyst
7 6 (4.29%) Windows Engineer
7 6 (4.29%) Wintel Engineer
8 5 (3.57%) Developer
8 5 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (3.57%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 5 (3.57%) Project Manager
8 5 (3.57%) Senior Architect
8 5 (3.57%) Technical Architect
8 5 (3.57%) Trade Floor Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.00%) .NET
2 4 (2.86%) ASP.NET
2 4 (2.86%) CSS
2 4 (2.86%) HTML
2 4 (2.86%) YAML
3 3 (2.14%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (1.43%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.43%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (1.43%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (1.43%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (1.43%) jQuery
4 2 (1.43%) Middleware
4 2 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.43%) React
4 2 (1.43%) REST
4 2 (1.43%) SPFx
5 1 (0.71%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.71%) Kafka
5 1 (0.71%) SAML
5 1 (0.71%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.71%) PKI
2 11 (7.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (6.43%) Data Centre
4 7 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (4.29%) Cloud Native
5 6 (4.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (3.57%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (3.57%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.86%) Equities
8 3 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.14%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.14%) Low-Code
8 3 (2.14%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.43%) iPad
9 2 (1.43%) Market Risk
9 2 (1.43%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.43%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.43%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 138 (98.57%) Windows
2 39 (27.86%) Linux
3 9 (6.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (6.43%) Windows 10
4 8 (5.71%) Ubuntu
5 7 (5.00%) CentOS
6 6 (4.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (4.29%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (3.57%) Unix
8 3 (2.14%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (1.43%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.43%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.71%) Android
10 1 (0.71%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 28 (20.00%) ITIL
3 25 (17.86%) DevOps
3 25 (17.86%) Migration
4 22 (15.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (13.57%) Agile
6 16 (11.43%) Disaster Recovery
6 16 (11.43%) Vulnerability Management
7 15 (10.71%) CI/CD
8 14 (10.00%) High Availability
8 14 (10.00%) Security Architecture
9 11 (7.86%) Business Continuity
9 11 (7.86%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (7.86%) Data Loss Prevention
9 11 (7.86%) Identity Access Management
9 11 (7.86%) SIEM
9 11 (7.86%) Vulnerability Remediation
10 10 (7.14%) Cloud Security
10 10 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 22 (15.71%) Python
3 15 (10.71%) SQL
4 10 (7.14%) C#
5 9 (6.43%) JavaScript
6 8 (5.71%) Bash
7 5 (3.57%) Bicep
8 3 (2.14%) Java
9 2 (1.43%) Formula Language
9 2 (1.43%) LotusScript
9 2 (1.43%) VB
10 1 (0.71%) C
Qualifications
1 22 (15.71%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.71%) Degree
2 15 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.29%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 5 (3.57%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.86%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.86%) CISSP
7 3 (2.14%) CCNA
7 3 (2.14%) CISA
7 3 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.14%) CISM
7 3 (2.14%) CRISC
7 3 (2.14%) DBS Check
7 3 (2.14%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (2.14%) PMI Certification
7 3 (2.14%) PMP
8 2 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.00%) SLA
2 6 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.29%) NIST
3 4 (2.86%) NCSC
4 2 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.43%) GDPR
4 2 (1.43%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (1.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.71%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.71%) QA
System Software
1 83 (59.29%) Active Directory
2 32 (22.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (12.86%) Hyper-V
4 12 (8.57%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (5.00%) Docker
6 7 (5.00%) vSphere
7 3 (2.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (2.14%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (1.43%) BitLocker
8 2 (1.43%) HDFS
8 2 (1.43%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (1.43%) Terminal Services
8 2 (1.43%) vCloud
8 2 (1.43%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.71%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.71%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (18.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (17.86%) Terraform
3 15 (10.71%) SCCM
4 9 (6.43%) Ansible
5 8 (5.71%) Kubernetes
6 6 (4.29%) vCenter Server
7 5 (3.57%) Kibana
7 5 (3.57%) SCOM
7 5 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.86%) Packer
8 4 (2.86%) Puppet
9 3 (2.14%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.43%) CASB
10 2 (1.43%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (1.43%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (1.43%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.43%) SCOrch
10 2 (1.43%) vMotion
11 1 (0.71%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 78 (55.71%) Microsoft
2 41 (29.29%) VMware
3 16 (11.43%) Cisco
4 12 (8.57%) Citrix
5 8 (5.71%) Dell
6 7 (5.00%) Oracle
7 6 (4.29%) HP
7 6 (4.29%) Red Hat
7 6 (4.29%) Reuters
7 6 (4.29%) ServiceNow
8 5 (3.57%) Tenable
9 4 (2.86%) Bloomberg
9 4 (2.86%) Google
9 4 (2.86%) Palo Alto
10 3 (2.14%) Commvault
10 3 (2.14%) Lotus
10 3 (2.14%) Qualys
10 3 (2.14%) Remedy
10 3 (2.14%) SnapLogic
10 3 (2.14%) Zscaler