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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 218 179 107
Rank change year-on-year -39 -72 +82
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 164 229 471
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.15% 1.44% 2.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.30% 11.90% 16.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 158 326
10th Percentile £314 £250 £235
25th Percentile £411 £370 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £512
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.18% +3.91%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £642
90th Percentile £771 £625 £745
England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile - £102.40 £24.25
25th Percentile £21.46 £106.00 £28.75
Median hourly rate £22.23 £112.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -80.15% +244.62% +30.00%
75th Percentile £24.75 - £33.75
90th Percentile £27.90 - -
England median hourly rate £19.25 £61.19 £49.73
% change year-on-year -68.54% +23.04% +98.92%

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 1,592 1,925 2,926
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.21% 12.10% 14.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,022 1,254 2,109
10th Percentile £204 £230 £204
25th Percentile £358 £360 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £607 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
England median daily rate £450 £475 £480
% change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 17 49
10th Percentile £19.03 £18.70 £18.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £27.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £60.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.08% +84.62% +30.00%
75th Percentile - £71.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £54.13 £104.80 £68.10
England median hourly rate £23.25 £60.25 £34.50
% change year-on-year -61.41% +74.64% +38.00%

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 28 November 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 28 November 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 -8 30 £525 +5.00% 17
West London -7 8 £375 -6.25% 8
South London -11 2 - - 2
East London +4 1 £200 -28.57% 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 26 (15.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (7.32%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.66%) SAS
4 3 (1.83%) HCL Notes
4 3 (1.83%) IIS
5 1 (0.61%) Confluence
5 1 (0.61%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.61%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.61%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.61%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.61%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 2 (1.22%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 85 (51.83%) Azure
2 48 (29.27%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (18.90%) Entra ID
4 17 (10.37%) AWS
5 15 (9.15%) IaaS
6 11 (6.71%) SaaS
7 9 (5.49%) GitHub
8 7 (4.27%) Power Platform
9 5 (3.05%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.05%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (3.05%) PaaS
9 5 (3.05%) Power Automate
9 5 (3.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.44%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.83%) GCP
11 3 (1.83%) Serverless
12 2 (1.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 38 (23.17%) Firewall
2 36 (21.95%) DNS
3 26 (15.85%) DHCP
4 15 (9.15%) VPN
5 9 (5.49%) WAN
5 9 (5.49%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (4.27%) Network Security
7 6 (3.66%) Wireless
8 5 (3.05%) LAN
8 5 (3.05%) TCP/IP
9 4 (2.44%) IPv4
9 4 (2.44%) VLAN
10 3 (1.83%) Internet
10 3 (1.83%) MPLS
10 3 (1.83%) NetScaler
10 3 (1.83%) SAN
10 3 (1.83%) SSH
11 2 (1.22%) HTTP
11 2 (1.22%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (1.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.80%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.66%) Oracle Database
3 5 (3.05%) Power BI
4 2 (1.22%) Apache Hive
4 2 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.22%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.22%) Impala
5 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.61%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.61%) Redis
5 1 (0.61%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (4.27%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.66%) GitLab
2 6 (3.66%) Visual Studio
3 4 (2.44%) Git
4 2 (1.22%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.22%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.22%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.61%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.61%) JIRA
General
1 36 (21.95%) Finance
2 31 (18.90%) Social Skills
3 16 (9.76%) Banking
4 11 (6.71%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.10%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (6.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.66%) Spanish Language
8 5 (3.05%) Local Government
9 4 (2.44%) Front Office
9 4 (2.44%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.83%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.83%) Japanese Language
11 2 (1.22%) Marketing
11 2 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.22%) Retail
12 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.61%) Italian Language
12 1 (0.61%) Law
12 1 (0.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 32 (19.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (8.54%) Developer
2 14 (8.54%) Senior
3 13 (7.93%) Architect
3 13 (7.93%) Platform Engineer
4 11 (6.71%) Security Engineer
4 11 (6.71%) Windows Engineer
5 10 (6.10%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 10 (6.10%) Support Engineer
5 10 (6.10%) Wintel Engineer
6 8 (4.88%) Analyst
6 8 (4.88%) Support Analyst
7 7 (4.27%) Lead
7 7 (4.27%) Server Engineer
8 6 (3.66%) C# Developer
8 6 (3.66%) Desktop Support
8 6 (3.66%) Infrastructure Manager
8 6 (3.66%) Infrastructure Project Manager
8 6 (3.66%) Project Manager
8 6 (3.66%) Senior Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.71%) .NET
2 6 (3.66%) .NET Framework
2 6 (3.66%) REST
3 5 (3.05%) Middleware
4 4 (2.44%) YAML
5 3 (1.83%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (1.83%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (1.22%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (1.22%) Bootstrap
6 2 (1.22%) CSS
6 2 (1.22%) ISPF
6 2 (1.22%) jQuery
6 2 (1.22%) React
6 2 (1.22%) SOAP
6 2 (1.22%) SPFx
6 2 (1.22%) Swing
6 2 (1.22%) WCF
6 2 (1.22%) Web Services
6 2 (1.22%) WinForms
6 2 (1.22%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 27 (16.46%) Data Centre
2 16 (9.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (6.71%) PKI
4 8 (4.88%) Replication
5 6 (3.66%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.66%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (2.44%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.83%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.83%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.83%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.83%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.22%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.22%) Clustering
8 2 (1.22%) EPoS
8 2 (1.22%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.22%) NHS
8 2 (1.22%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 160 (97.56%) Windows
2 45 (27.44%) Linux
3 13 (7.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (4.88%) Ubuntu
5 7 (4.27%) Windows 10
6 6 (3.66%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (3.66%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (3.05%) CentOS
8 4 (2.44%) Unix
9 3 (1.83%) Android
9 3 (1.83%) Mac OS
9 3 (1.83%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (1.22%) AIX
10 2 (1.22%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (1.22%) zOS
11 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.61%) Solaris
11 1 (0.61%) VMS
11 1 (0.61%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (23.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (19.51%) ITIL
3 29 (17.68%) Migration
4 23 (14.02%) DevOps
5 22 (13.41%) Agile
6 20 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (10.98%) CI/CD
8 17 (10.37%) Disaster Recovery
9 15 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (7.93%) Project Delivery
10 13 (7.93%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (6.71%) Architectural Design
11 11 (6.71%) Business Intelligence
11 11 (6.71%) Customer Service
11 11 (6.71%) Cybersecurity
12 10 (6.10%) Change Control
12 10 (6.10%) Cloud Security
12 10 (6.10%) Information Security
12 10 (6.10%) Platform Engineering
12 10 (6.10%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (37.20%) PowerShell
2 23 (14.02%) SQL
3 19 (11.59%) Python
4 13 (7.93%) C#
5 10 (6.10%) Bash
6 8 (4.88%) T-SQL
7 6 (3.66%) PL/SQL
8 5 (3.05%) Bicep
8 5 (3.05%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.83%) Java
10 2 (1.22%) Formula Language
10 2 (1.22%) JCL
10 2 (1.22%) LotusScript
10 2 (1.22%) REXX
11 1 (0.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (12.80%) Degree
1 21 (12.80%) Security Cleared
2 13 (7.93%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.10%) DV Cleared
3 10 (6.10%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (3.66%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.44%) CCNA
6 4 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.83%) CCNP
7 3 (1.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.22%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.22%) MCITP
8 2 (1.22%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.61%) CESG Certified Professional
9 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.32%) QA
2 7 (4.27%) NIST
3 6 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.05%) SLA
5 3 (1.83%) GDPR
6 2 (1.22%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.61%) NCSC
7 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 93 (56.71%) Active Directory
2 30 (18.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (7.32%) Hyper-V
3 12 (7.32%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (4.88%) Docker
4 8 (4.88%) vSphere
5 7 (4.27%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (3.66%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (3.05%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (1.22%) HDFS
8 2 (1.22%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 2 (1.22%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.61%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.61%) Firmware
9 1 (0.61%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 31 (18.90%) SCCM
2 29 (17.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 23 (14.02%) Terraform
4 15 (9.15%) SCOM
5 14 (8.54%) Ansible
6 7 (4.27%) CASB
6 7 (4.27%) SCOrch
7 5 (3.05%) Kubernetes
7 5 (3.05%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.44%) NetBackup
8 4 (2.44%) Packer
8 4 (2.44%) Puppet
9 3 (1.83%) Kibana
10 2 (1.22%) Control-M
10 2 (1.22%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.22%) Grafana
10 2 (1.22%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (1.22%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.22%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.61%) QRadar
Vendors
1 82 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 43 (26.22%) VMware
3 14 (8.54%) Cisco
3 14 (8.54%) Citrix
3 14 (8.54%) Oracle
4 13 (7.93%) Dell
5 10 (6.10%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.66%) HP
7 5 (3.05%) Reuters
7 5 (3.05%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.05%) Veeam
8 4 (2.44%) Commvault
8 4 (2.44%) Qualys
8 4 (2.44%) SnapLogic
8 4 (2.44%) Splunk
8 4 (2.44%) Tenable
9 3 (1.83%) CyberArk
9 3 (1.83%) Lotus
9 3 (1.83%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.22%) Nintex