Windows Server Contracts in London

Microsoft Windows Server
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Windows Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 114 183
Rank change year-on-year -40 +69 +5
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 275 560 651
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.67% 2.29% 1.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.61% 15.24% 11.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 432 510
10th Percentile £260 £265 £250
25th Percentile £356 £408 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £535 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.89% +7.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £550 £646 £600
90th Percentile £644 £774 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 8
10th Percentile £23.30 £22.08 £17.90
25th Percentile £34.25 £22.69 £18.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £25.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +120.00% -23.08% -25.29%
75th Percentile £78.75 £32.86 £53.31
90th Percentile £91.50 £57.20 £90.00
England median hourly rate £59.80 £29.30 £23.75
% change year-on-year +104.10% +23.37% +21.27%

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 2,021 3,674 5,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.24% 14.99% 13.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,414 2,675 4,024
10th Percentile £213 £210 £231
25th Percentile £350 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 58 86
10th Percentile £16.24 £18.93 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.75 £20.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £48.75 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -54.87% +103.89% -1.81%
75th Percentile £29.38 £63.38 £41.13
90th Percentile £61.14 £83.23 £62.75
England median hourly rate £27.00 £42.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -36.47% +88.89% +32.35%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in London.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in London

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in London

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in London

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Server in London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows Server in London

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 26 July 2024. 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 -5 40 £510 -3.32% 20
East London +10 15 £380 +43.40% 3
West London +31 6 £290 -47.27% 5
South London +8 3 £375 -35.62% 4
North London +5 2 £250 +5.26%
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 51 (18.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (8.00%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.64%) IIS
4 8 (2.91%) Exchange Server 2010
4 8 (2.91%) Exchange Server 2013
5 7 (2.55%) Apache
5 7 (2.55%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.82%) JBoss
6 5 (1.82%) nginx
7 3 (1.09%) Exchange Server 2007
8 2 (0.73%) Confluence
8 2 (0.73%) Exchange Server 2003
8 2 (0.73%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.36%) IBM Domino
9 1 (0.36%) IBM Notes
9 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (7.64%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (1.45%) Trello
3 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.73%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.82%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.36%) Eikon
2 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.36%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 106 (38.55%) Azure
2 97 (35.27%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (16.73%) AWS
4 44 (16.00%) Entra ID
5 22 (8.00%) IaaS
6 13 (4.73%) GCP
7 11 (4.00%) OneDrive
8 10 (3.64%) PaaS
8 10 (3.64%) WhatsApp
9 9 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.91%) Azure Storage
10 8 (2.91%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (2.91%) GitHub
11 7 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (2.55%) Nutanix
12 6 (2.18%) Mimecast
12 6 (2.18%) SaaS
13 5 (1.82%) Slack
14 4 (1.45%) Azure Key Vault
14 4 (1.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 70 (25.45%) DNS
2 50 (18.18%) Firewall
3 33 (12.00%) DHCP
4 19 (6.91%) VPN
5 16 (5.82%) LAN
6 15 (5.45%) WAN
7 11 (4.00%) MPLS
7 11 (4.00%) SAN
8 10 (3.64%) TCP/IP
9 9 (3.27%) NetScaler
9 9 (3.27%) Wireless
10 8 (2.91%) NAS
11 7 (2.55%) Ethernet VPN
11 7 (2.55%) Network Security
11 7 (2.55%) VoIP
12 6 (2.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 6 (2.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 6 (2.18%) Remote Desktop
12 6 (2.18%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (1.82%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (20.73%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.36%) MySQL
3 10 (3.64%) Relational Database
4 7 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (2.55%) RDBMS
5 6 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.82%) Tableau
7 4 (1.45%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.09%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.09%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.09%) Metadata
8 3 (1.09%) Power BI
9 2 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.73%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.73%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.73%) Looker
9 2 (0.73%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 13 (4.73%) JIRA
2 9 (3.27%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.91%) Git
4 6 (2.18%) Subversion
5 5 (1.82%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.45%) GitLab
7 3 (1.09%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.36%) AppScan
9 1 (0.36%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.36%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.36%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 75 (27.27%) Finance
2 58 (21.09%) Social Skills
3 27 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.64%) Banking
4 21 (7.64%) Public Sector
5 10 (3.64%) Telecoms
6 7 (2.55%) Legal
7 5 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.45%) Advertising
8 4 (1.45%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.45%) Local Government
8 4 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.09%) Law
9 3 (1.09%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.73%) Automotive
10 2 (0.73%) Front Office
10 2 (0.73%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.73%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (21.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 32 (11.64%) Support Engineer
3 23 (8.36%) Windows Engineer
4 19 (6.91%) Azure Engineer
4 19 (6.91%) IT Engineer
5 17 (6.18%) Administrator
5 17 (6.18%) Analyst
5 17 (6.18%) IT Support
5 17 (6.18%) Senior
6 13 (4.73%) Server Engineer
6 13 (4.73%) Support Specialist
7 12 (4.36%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (4.00%) Desktop Support
9 10 (3.64%) Infrastructure Support
9 10 (3.64%) Network Engineer
10 9 (3.27%) Applications Engineer
10 9 (3.27%) Applications Support
10 9 (3.27%) Lead
10 9 (3.27%) Server Administrator
10 9 (3.27%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.09%) .NET
2 8 (2.91%) CSS
2 8 (2.91%) HTML
2 8 (2.91%) LDAP
3 7 (2.55%) ASP.NET
3 7 (2.55%) REST
4 6 (2.18%) Middleware
5 5 (1.82%) FIX Protocol
5 5 (1.82%) HTML5
5 5 (1.82%) IBM Integration Bus
6 3 (1.09%) JSP
6 3 (1.09%) SOAP
6 3 (1.09%) XML
7 2 (0.73%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.73%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.73%) React
8 1 (0.36%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.36%) ISPF
8 1 (0.36%) Playwright
8 1 (0.36%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.55%) Data Centre
2 15 (5.45%) PKI
3 13 (4.73%) Management Information System
3 13 (4.73%) Replication
4 8 (2.91%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.55%) Clustering
5 7 (2.55%) NHS
5 7 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.82%) Client/Server
6 5 (1.82%) Hedge funds
6 5 (1.82%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (1.82%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.45%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.09%) iPad
8 3 (1.09%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.73%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.73%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 275 (100.00%) Windows
2 49 (17.82%) Linux
3 46 (16.73%) Windows 10
4 40 (14.55%) Windows Server 2012
5 35 (12.73%) Windows Server 2016
6 27 (9.82%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (5.09%) Windows Server 2008
8 12 (4.36%) Unix
9 11 (4.00%) Windows 7
10 10 (3.64%) VMS
11 8 (2.91%) Android
11 8 (2.91%) Mac OS
12 7 (2.55%) CentOS
12 7 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 6 (2.18%) Apple iOS
14 5 (1.82%) Ubuntu
15 2 (0.73%) Oracle Linux
15 2 (0.73%) Solaris
15 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2003
16 1 (0.36%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (25.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 48 (17.45%) Migration
3 35 (12.73%) ITIL
4 30 (10.91%) DevOps
5 24 (8.73%) Disaster Recovery
5 24 (8.73%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (7.64%) Customer Service
7 20 (7.27%) Agile
8 19 (6.91%) Time Management
9 18 (6.55%) Vulnerability Management
10 17 (6.18%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (6.18%) Server Management
11 16 (5.82%) CI/CD
12 14 (5.09%) Information Security
13 13 (4.73%) Cybersecurity
14 12 (4.36%) High Availability
14 12 (4.36%) Stakeholder Management
15 11 (4.00%) Change Management
15 11 (4.00%) ITSM
16 10 (3.64%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 91 (33.09%) PowerShell
2 48 (17.45%) SQL
3 29 (10.55%) Python
4 14 (5.09%) Bash
4 14 (5.09%) T-SQL
5 11 (4.00%) C#
6 10 (3.64%) Java
6 10 (3.64%) Shell Script
7 7 (2.55%) VB
8 6 (2.18%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.82%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.82%) PHP
9 5 (1.82%) VBA
10 4 (1.45%) Perl
11 3 (1.09%) C++
11 3 (1.09%) F#
12 2 (0.73%) Bicep
12 2 (0.73%) Ruby
12 2 (0.73%) VBScript
13 1 (0.36%) C
Qualifications
1 39 (14.18%) Security Cleared
2 26 (9.45%) Degree
2 26 (9.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 20 (7.27%) DV Cleared
4 19 (6.91%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.27%) MCSA
6 7 (2.55%) MCSE
7 6 (2.18%) CCNA
7 6 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.82%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.82%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.45%) CCNP
9 4 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.09%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.09%) CESG Certified Professional
10 3 (1.09%) CISSP
10 3 (1.09%) Citrix Certification
10 3 (1.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.73%) CHECK Team Member
11 2 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.36%) SLA
2 8 (2.91%) GDPR
2 8 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (2.91%) QA
3 3 (1.09%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.09%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.73%) COBIT
4 2 (0.73%) NCSC
4 2 (0.73%) NIST
5 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 159 (57.82%) Active Directory
2 66 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (9.09%) Hyper-V
4 22 (8.00%) vSphere
5 14 (5.09%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (3.27%) Docker
6 9 (3.27%) VMware NSX
6 9 (3.27%) XenApp
6 9 (3.27%) XenDesktop
7 8 (2.91%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (2.55%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (2.18%) Firmware
10 4 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.73%) KVM
12 1 (0.36%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 1 (0.36%) vCloud
12 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 52 (18.91%) SCCM
2 28 (10.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (7.27%) Ansible
4 19 (6.91%) Terraform
5 10 (3.64%) SCOM
6 9 (3.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 9 (3.27%) Kubernetes
6 9 (3.27%) WSUS
7 6 (2.18%) Grafana
7 6 (2.18%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.82%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.82%) Puppet
9 3 (1.09%) AirWatch
9 3 (1.09%) Control-M
9 3 (1.09%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (1.09%) Nessus
10 2 (0.73%) FlexNet
10 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (0.73%) QRadar
10 2 (0.73%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 146 (53.09%) Microsoft
2 104 (37.82%) VMware
3 38 (13.82%) Citrix
4 24 (8.73%) Veeam
5 17 (6.18%) Cisco
6 16 (5.82%) Oracle
7 14 (5.09%) Dell
8 13 (4.73%) ServiceNow
9 12 (4.36%) Juniper
9 12 (4.36%) Red Hat
10 10 (3.64%) CA
10 10 (3.64%) Palo Alto
11 9 (3.27%) HP
11 9 (3.27%) Qualys
12 8 (2.91%) Commvault
12 8 (2.91%) IBM
13 7 (2.55%) Apple
14 6 (2.18%) F5
14 6 (2.18%) Fortinet
14 6 (2.18%) Splunk