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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 159 99
Rank change year-on-year -71 -60 +67
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 167 219 400
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.07% 1.63% 2.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.36% 13.54% 16.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 149 256
10th Percentile £316 £260 £219
25th Percentile £415 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -3.06%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £613
90th Percentile £694 £721 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -6.25%
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 £54.56
% change year-on-year -57.55% -2.86% +60.47%

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 1,470 1,617 2,397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.46% 12.06% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 971 1,073 1,708
10th Percentile £204 £225 £200
25th Percentile £350 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £738 £750
England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -12.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 23 63
10th Percentile £20.69 £17.03 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.13 £18.47
Median hourly rate £23.50 £24.66 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.70% +7.22% -8.91%
75th Percentile £25.15 £54.25 £46.86
90th Percentile £41.85 £103.80 £64.50
England median hourly rate £22.50 £41.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -45.12% +64.00% -9.09%

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 23 February 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 23 February 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 -39 21 £545 +3.76% 18
West London -21 4 £500 +25.00% 1
South London -14 3 £165 -49.23% 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 28 (16.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.39%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.99%) IIS
4 4 (2.40%) nginx
4 4 (2.40%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.80%) SAS
6 2 (1.20%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.60%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (4.19%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.60%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (1.80%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 92 (55.09%) Azure
2 43 (25.75%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (24.55%) Entra ID
4 13 (7.78%) IaaS
5 12 (7.19%) AWS
6 10 (5.99%) SaaS
7 7 (4.19%) PaaS
8 3 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.80%) GitHub
8 3 (1.80%) OCI
8 3 (1.80%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.20%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.20%) MinIO
10 1 (0.60%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.60%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (0.60%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.60%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.60%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 53 (31.74%) DNS
2 40 (23.95%) DHCP
3 37 (22.16%) Firewall
4 20 (11.98%) WAN
5 16 (9.58%) VPN
6 15 (8.98%) Kerberos
7 14 (8.38%) LAN
8 8 (4.79%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (3.59%) SD-WAN
9 6 (3.59%) TCP/IP
10 5 (2.99%) MPLS
10 5 (2.99%) Network Security
11 4 (2.40%) IPv4
11 4 (2.40%) SMTP
12 3 (1.80%) HTTP
12 3 (1.80%) NetScaler
12 3 (1.80%) Wireless
13 2 (1.20%) BGP
13 2 (1.20%) Internet
13 2 (1.20%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.97%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.19%) Oracle Database
3 6 (3.59%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.20%) GIS
4 2 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.20%) Power BI
5 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.60%) Redis
5 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.60%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 11 (6.59%) Visual Studio
2 4 (2.40%) JIRA
3 3 (1.80%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.20%) GitLab
5 1 (0.60%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.60%) TeamCity
General
1 37 (22.16%) Finance
2 33 (19.76%) Social Skills
3 17 (10.18%) Banking
4 12 (7.19%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.99%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (5.99%) Legal
6 6 (3.59%) Spanish Language
7 5 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.80%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.80%) Front Office
9 2 (1.20%) Local Government
9 2 (1.20%) Marketing
9 2 (1.20%) Retail
9 2 (1.20%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.60%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.60%) International Banking
10 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.60%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.60%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 28 (16.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (11.38%) Developer
3 15 (8.98%) C# Developer
4 12 (7.19%) Platform Engineer
4 12 (7.19%) Security Engineer
4 12 (7.19%) Senior
5 10 (5.99%) Windows Engineer
6 9 (5.39%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 9 (5.39%) Lead
7 8 (4.79%) Analyst
7 8 (4.79%) Architect
7 8 (4.79%) Server Engineer
7 8 (4.79%) Support Engineer
8 7 (4.19%) Infrastructure Manager
8 7 (4.19%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 7 (4.19%) Wintel Engineer
9 6 (3.59%) Desktop Engineer
9 6 (3.59%) Desktop Support
9 6 (3.59%) Support Analyst
10 5 (2.99%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.78%) .NET
2 16 (9.58%) LDAP
2 16 (9.58%) OAuth
3 15 (8.98%) .NET Framework
3 15 (8.98%) SAML
4 6 (3.59%) Middleware
5 5 (2.99%) REST
6 3 (1.80%) React
6 3 (1.80%) WinForms
7 2 (1.20%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.20%) Bootstrap
7 2 (1.20%) EJB
7 2 (1.20%) Express.js
7 2 (1.20%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (1.20%) ISPF
7 2 (1.20%) Java EE
7 2 (1.20%) SOAP
7 2 (1.20%) Spring
7 2 (1.20%) Swing
7 2 (1.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.37%) Data Centre
2 22 (13.17%) Replication
3 12 (7.19%) PKI
4 10 (5.99%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.59%) Clustering
5 6 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.99%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.40%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.80%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.80%) Educational Technology
8 3 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.80%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.80%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.20%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.20%) EPoS
9 2 (1.20%) iPhone
9 2 (1.20%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.20%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 165 (98.80%) Windows
2 38 (22.75%) Linux
3 15 (8.98%) Windows Server 2019
4 12 (7.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (5.99%) Windows 10
5 10 (5.99%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (2.99%) Solaris
6 5 (2.99%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (2.99%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (2.40%) Android
7 4 (2.40%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.40%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (1.80%) Unix
9 2 (1.20%) AIX
9 2 (1.20%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.20%) VMS
9 2 (1.20%) zOS
10 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (23.35%) Disaster Recovery
2 37 (22.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 30 (17.96%) Migration
4 26 (15.57%) ITIL
5 20 (11.98%) Task Automation
6 19 (11.38%) High Availability
7 18 (10.78%) Agile
7 18 (10.78%) Identity Access Management
8 16 (9.58%) Business Intelligence
8 16 (9.58%) Project Delivery
8 16 (9.58%) RBAC
9 15 (8.98%) Change Management
9 15 (8.98%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (8.38%) DevOps
10 14 (8.38%) Unit Testing
11 12 (7.19%) Cybersecurity
11 12 (7.19%) Incident Management
12 11 (6.59%) Data Analysis
12 11 (6.59%) Information Security
13 10 (5.99%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (39.52%) PowerShell
2 29 (17.37%) SQL
3 19 (11.38%) PL/SQL
4 17 (10.18%) C#
4 17 (10.18%) T-SQL
5 6 (3.59%) Python
6 4 (2.40%) Java
6 4 (2.40%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.80%) Bash
8 2 (1.20%) JCL
8 2 (1.20%) REXX
9 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.60%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (20.36%) Degree
2 33 (19.76%) Security Cleared
3 26 (15.57%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.39%) DV Cleared
5 8 (4.79%) Azure Certification
6 7 (4.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.40%) CCNP
7 4 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.20%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.20%) CCNA
8 2 (1.20%) CESG Certified Professional
8 2 (1.20%) CISSP
8 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.20%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.20%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.60%) CCDP
9 1 (0.60%) MCSA
9 1 (0.60%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.98%) QA
2 19 (11.38%) GDPR
3 15 (8.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 8 (4.79%) NIST
5 7 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.80%) NIST 800
6 3 (1.80%) SLA
7 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.60%) Basel III
8 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.60%) DICOM
8 1 (0.60%) GAAP
8 1 (0.60%) HL7
8 1 (0.60%) IFRS
8 1 (0.60%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.60%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.60%) NCSC
System Software
1 96 (57.49%) Active Directory
2 33 (19.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (7.19%) Docker
4 10 (5.99%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (5.99%) vSphere
5 9 (5.39%) Hyper-V
6 7 (4.19%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (2.99%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (2.40%) BitLocker
8 4 (2.40%) Microsoft App-V
8 4 (2.40%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (1.20%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 2 (1.20%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (1.20%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.60%) Firmware
10 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.60%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 32 (19.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (16.77%) SCCM
3 19 (11.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 15 (8.98%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (8.38%) Terraform
6 11 (6.59%) Ansible
6 11 (6.59%) SCOM
7 8 (4.79%) Kubernetes
8 6 (3.59%) CASB
8 6 (3.59%) SCOrch
9 5 (2.99%) FortiGate
9 5 (2.99%) Puppet
9 5 (2.99%) vCenter Server
10 4 (2.40%) vMotion
11 3 (1.80%) Control-M
12 2 (1.20%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (1.20%) QRadar
13 1 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
13 1 (0.60%) vRealize
Vendors
1 84 (50.30%) Microsoft
2 41 (24.55%) VMware
3 23 (13.77%) Oracle
4 22 (13.17%) Citrix
5 16 (9.58%) Dell
6 14 (8.38%) Okta
7 9 (5.39%) Cisco
7 9 (5.39%) Red Hat
8 7 (4.19%) Qualys
8 7 (4.19%) ServiceNow
9 6 (3.59%) Veeam
10 5 (2.99%) IBM
10 5 (2.99%) NetApp
11 3 (1.80%) CyberArk
11 3 (1.80%) HP
11 3 (1.80%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.80%) Reuters
11 3 (1.80%) Splunk
11 3 (1.80%) Tenable
12 2 (1.20%) Broadcom