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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 157 108
Rank change year-on-year -75 -49 +56
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 174 217 381
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.07% 1.64% 2.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.56% 13.76% 16.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 150 242
10th Percentile £295 £309 £213
25th Percentile £415 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £469
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £598
90th Percentile £659 £727 £700
England median daily rate £500 £511 £440
% change year-on-year -2.15% +16.14% -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 £53.00 £56.28
% change year-on-year -57.55% -5.83% +69.26%

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 1,505 1,577 2,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.26% 11.88% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 991 1,058 1,638
10th Percentile £204 £230 £195
25th Percentile £356 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £638
90th Percentile £713 £750 £750
England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -12.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 22 64
10th Percentile £20.69 £18.32 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.89 £18.64
Median hourly rate £23.50 £26.54 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -11.44% +18.46% -12.87%
75th Percentile £25.15 £56.50 £46.86
90th Percentile £41.85 £107.90 £64.25
England median hourly rate £22.81 £41.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -44.37% +82.22% -18.18%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 -51 21 £545 +3.81% 19
West London -22 4 £500 +25.00% 1
South London -16 3 £165 -49.23% 5
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 32 (18.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.17%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.87%) IIS
4 4 (2.30%) nginx
4 4 (2.30%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.72%) SAS
6 2 (1.15%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.57%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.57%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (4.60%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.57%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (1.72%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 92 (52.87%) Azure
2 47 (27.01%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (22.99%) Entra ID
4 14 (8.05%) IaaS
5 12 (6.90%) AWS
6 10 (5.75%) SaaS
7 8 (4.60%) PaaS
8 3 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.72%) OCI
8 3 (1.72%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.15%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.15%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.15%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.15%) GitHub
9 2 (1.15%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.15%) MinIO
10 1 (0.57%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.57%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 55 (31.61%) DNS
2 41 (23.56%) DHCP
3 40 (22.99%) Firewall
4 21 (12.07%) WAN
5 16 (9.20%) VPN
6 15 (8.62%) Kerberos
6 15 (8.62%) LAN
7 8 (4.60%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (4.02%) MPLS
9 6 (3.45%) SD-WAN
9 6 (3.45%) TCP/IP
10 5 (2.87%) SMTP
11 4 (2.30%) IPv4
11 4 (2.30%) Wireless
12 3 (1.72%) BGP
12 3 (1.72%) HTTP
12 3 (1.72%) NetScaler
12 3 (1.72%) Network Security
12 3 (1.72%) VoIP
13 2 (1.15%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (18.39%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.75%) Oracle Database
3 7 (4.02%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.15%) Big Data
4 2 (1.15%) GIS
4 2 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.15%) Power BI
5 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.57%) Redis
5 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.57%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 11 (6.32%) Visual Studio
2 4 (2.30%) JIRA
3 3 (1.72%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.15%) GitLab
5 1 (0.57%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.57%) TeamCity
General
1 43 (24.71%) Finance
2 40 (22.99%) Social Skills
3 15 (8.62%) Banking
4 13 (7.47%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.32%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (6.32%) Legal
6 6 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.45%) Spanish Language
7 3 (1.72%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.72%) Front Office
7 3 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.15%) Local Government
8 2 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.15%) Retail
8 2 (1.15%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.57%) International Banking
9 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.57%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.57%) Japanese Language
9 1 (0.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 26 (14.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 22 (12.64%) Developer
3 18 (10.34%) C# Developer
4 12 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (6.32%) Senior
6 10 (5.75%) Analyst
6 10 (5.75%) Windows Engineer
7 9 (5.17%) Lead
7 9 (5.17%) Security Engineer
8 8 (4.60%) Server Engineer
8 8 (4.60%) Support Engineer
9 7 (4.02%) Integration Engineer
9 7 (4.02%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 7 (4.02%) Wintel Engineer
10 6 (3.45%) .NET Developer
10 6 (3.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 6 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (3.45%) Desktop Engineer
10 6 (3.45%) Infrastructure Manager
10 6 (3.45%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (12.07%) .NET
2 18 (10.34%) .NET Framework
3 16 (9.20%) LDAP
3 16 (9.20%) OAuth
4 14 (8.05%) SAML
5 6 (3.45%) Middleware
6 5 (2.87%) REST
7 3 (1.72%) React
7 3 (1.72%) WinForms
8 2 (1.15%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.15%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (1.15%) Bootstrap
8 2 (1.15%) EJB
8 2 (1.15%) Express.js
8 2 (1.15%) ISPF
8 2 (1.15%) Java EE
8 2 (1.15%) OpenLayers
8 2 (1.15%) Spring
8 2 (1.15%) WCF
8 2 (1.15%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.52%) Data Centre
2 22 (12.64%) Replication
3 14 (8.05%) PKI
4 10 (5.75%) Clustering
5 9 (5.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.45%) Enterprise Storage
7 5 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.30%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.72%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.72%) Educational Technology
9 3 (1.72%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.15%) EPoS
10 2 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.15%) Mainframe
10 2 (1.15%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.15%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 172 (98.85%) Windows
2 39 (22.41%) Linux
3 13 (7.47%) Windows Server 2019
4 12 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (6.32%) Windows 10
5 11 (6.32%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (2.87%) Android
6 5 (2.87%) Solaris
6 5 (2.87%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (2.87%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (2.87%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (2.30%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.15%) AIX
8 2 (1.15%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.15%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.15%) Unix
8 2 (1.15%) VMS
8 2 (1.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (25.86%) Disaster Recovery
2 35 (20.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 32 (18.39%) Migration
4 26 (14.94%) ITIL
5 22 (12.64%) Task Automation
6 21 (12.07%) High Availability
7 19 (10.92%) Project Delivery
8 18 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
9 17 (9.77%) Change Management
9 17 (9.77%) Identity Access Management
10 16 (9.20%) Agile
10 16 (9.20%) RBAC
11 15 (8.62%) Incident Management
11 15 (8.62%) Unit Testing
12 14 (8.05%) Cybersecurity
12 14 (8.05%) Data Analysis
12 14 (8.05%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (7.47%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (6.90%) Performance Tuning
15 11 (6.32%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 65 (37.36%) PowerShell
2 37 (21.26%) SQL
3 22 (12.64%) PL/SQL
4 21 (12.07%) C#
5 20 (11.49%) T-SQL
6 6 (3.45%) Python
7 4 (2.30%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.72%) Bash
8 3 (1.72%) Java
9 2 (1.15%) JCL
9 2 (1.15%) REXX
10 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.57%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (22.41%) Security Cleared
2 32 (18.39%) Degree
3 30 (17.24%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.75%) DV Cleared
4 10 (5.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (4.02%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.30%) CCNP
6 4 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.72%) MCITP
7 3 (1.72%) MCTS
8 2 (1.15%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.15%) CCNA
8 2 (1.15%) CESG Certified Professional
8 2 (1.15%) CISSP
8 2 (1.15%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.57%) CCDP
9 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.57%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (13.22%) QA
2 19 (10.92%) GDPR
3 15 (8.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 7 (4.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (3.45%) NIST
6 4 (2.30%) NIST 800
7 2 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (1.15%) NCSC
7 2 (1.15%) SLA
8 1 (0.57%) Basel III
8 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.57%) DICOM
8 1 (0.57%) GAAP
8 1 (0.57%) HL7
8 1 (0.57%) IFRS
8 1 (0.57%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.57%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 103 (59.20%) Active Directory
2 34 (19.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (8.05%) Docker
4 11 (6.32%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (5.75%) vSphere
6 7 (4.02%) Hyper-V
6 7 (4.02%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (2.87%) BitLocker
7 5 (2.87%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (2.87%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (1.72%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (1.72%) VMware NSX
9 2 (1.15%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 2 (1.15%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (1.15%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.57%) Firmware
10 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.57%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 34 (19.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (14.94%) SCCM
3 19 (10.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 14 (8.05%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (7.47%) Ansible
6 11 (6.32%) Kubernetes
6 11 (6.32%) SCOM
7 10 (5.75%) Terraform
8 6 (3.45%) CASB
8 6 (3.45%) Puppet
8 6 (3.45%) SCOrch
8 6 (3.45%) vCenter Server
9 5 (2.87%) FortiGate
9 5 (2.87%) vMotion
10 3 (1.72%) Control-M
11 2 (1.15%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (1.15%) QRadar
11 2 (1.15%) VxRail
12 1 (0.57%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.57%) vRealize
Vendors
1 88 (50.57%) Microsoft
2 44 (25.29%) VMware
3 29 (16.67%) Citrix
4 26 (14.94%) Oracle
5 14 (8.05%) Dell
5 14 (8.05%) Okta
6 9 (5.17%) Cisco
6 9 (5.17%) Red Hat
6 9 (5.17%) ServiceNow
7 6 (3.45%) NetApp
7 6 (3.45%) Qualys
7 6 (3.45%) Veeam
8 5 (2.87%) IBM
9 4 (2.30%) Splunk
10 3 (1.72%) CyberArk
10 3 (1.72%) HP
10 3 (1.72%) Meraki
10 3 (1.72%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.72%) Reuters
11 2 (1.15%) SAP