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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 232 168
Rank change year-on-year 0 -64 -60
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 228 142 249
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.14% 1.07% 1.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.68% 9.29% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 97 177
10th Percentile £263 £350 £248
25th Percentile £376 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £550
90th Percentile £668 £750 £630
England median daily rate £483 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £26.08 - £57.25
25th Percentile £36.31 - £64.38
Median hourly rate £54.75 £30.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +82.50% -61.29% +201.44%
75th Percentile £74.31 - £89.38
90th Percentile £85.23 - £95.75
England median hourly rate £63.14 £22.03 £55.00
% change year-on-year +186.65% -59.95% +29.41%

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 1,667 1,529 2,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.32% 11.52% 12.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,107 1,017 1,399
10th Percentile £206 £225 £225
25th Percentile £350 £363 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £713 £738 £725
England median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 44 40
10th Percentile £17.93 £18.87 £19.81
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.94
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.15 £23.98
Median % change year-on-year -16.50% +4.90% -35.79%
75th Percentile £26.50 £25.18 £42.75
90th Percentile £58.95 £58.93 £61.74
England median hourly rate £33.32 £24.25 £39.00
% change year-on-year +37.38% -37.82% -8.24%

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 2 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Server in London over the 6 months to 2 September 2026.

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 2 September 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 +3 42 £550 +10.00% 13
West London -17 8 £500 - 4
South London -14 3 £425 -5.56% 3
East London +3 1 £150 -25.00% 3
North London +1 1 £225 -59.09%
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 (12.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (7.02%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.63%) IIS
3 6 (2.63%) nginx
4 5 (2.19%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.32%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.88%) Apache
6 2 (0.88%) Confluence
6 2 (0.88%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.44%) CloudStack
7 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) OpenText MBPM
1 2 (0.88%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 112 (49.12%) Azure
2 53 (23.25%) Entra ID
3 43 (18.86%) AWS
4 36 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (6.58%) GCP
7 12 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
7 12 (5.26%) GitHub
8 11 (4.82%) IaaS
9 8 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (3.51%) Azure Sentinel
9 8 (3.51%) OneDrive
10 6 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.63%) OpenShift
10 6 (2.63%) PaaS
11 5 (2.19%) Azure Stack
11 5 (2.19%) Datadog
11 5 (2.19%) Nutanix
12 4 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.75%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (33.33%) DNS
2 54 (23.68%) DHCP
3 44 (19.30%) Firewall
4 24 (10.53%) TCP/IP
4 24 (10.53%) VPN
5 17 (7.46%) WAN
6 13 (5.70%) LAN
7 12 (5.26%) Network Security
8 7 (3.07%) SAN
8 7 (3.07%) SMTP
8 7 (3.07%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (2.19%) VLAN
10 4 (1.75%) HTTP
10 4 (1.75%) NAS
10 4 (1.75%) SSH
10 4 (1.75%) VoIP
11 3 (1.32%) DMZ
11 3 (1.32%) VSAN
11 3 (1.32%) Wireless
12 2 (0.88%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (26.75%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.39%) Oracle Database
3 9 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.32%) Big Data
5 3 (1.32%) GIS
5 3 (1.32%) Power BI
5 3 (1.32%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.88%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.88%) MySQL
6 2 (0.88%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.44%) Metadata
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (4.82%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.95%) Git
3 5 (2.19%) GitLab
3 5 (2.19%) JIRA
4 3 (1.32%) Artifactory
4 3 (1.32%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.88%) AdminStudio
5 2 (0.88%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.88%) InstallShield
5 2 (0.88%) MSI
6 1 (0.44%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.44%) Subversion
6 1 (0.44%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.44%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.44%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 75 (32.89%) Social Skills
2 52 (22.81%) Finance
3 32 (14.04%) Banking
4 23 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.82%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.63%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.19%) Local Government
9 4 (1.75%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.75%) Law
10 1 (0.44%) Front Office
10 1 (0.44%) Games
10 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.44%) Legal
10 1 (0.44%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.44%) Military
10 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (27.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 26 (11.40%) Senior
3 23 (10.09%) Support Engineer
4 12 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (4.82%) Applications Support
5 11 (4.82%) Architect
5 11 (4.82%) Infrastructure Support
6 10 (4.39%) Developer
6 10 (4.39%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 10 (4.39%) Server Engineer
7 9 (3.95%) C# Developer
7 9 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (3.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (3.95%) VMware Engineer
8 8 (3.51%) Windows Engineer
9 7 (3.07%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 7 (3.07%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (3.07%) Lead
10 6 (2.63%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (2.63%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (13.16%) Terraform
2 20 (8.77%) .NET
3 11 (4.82%) .NET Framework
4 7 (3.07%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (1.75%) ADO
5 4 (1.75%) ARM Templates
5 4 (1.75%) ASP.NET
5 4 (1.75%) Azure Blueprints
5 4 (1.75%) JSON
5 4 (1.75%) LDAP
6 3 (1.32%) EJB
6 3 (1.32%) REST
7 2 (0.88%) 802.1X
7 2 (0.88%) Blazor
7 2 (0.88%) Jakarta EE
7 2 (0.88%) Java SE
7 2 (0.88%) JSP
7 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.88%) Middleware
7 2 (0.88%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.77%) Onboarding
2 19 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 16 (7.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (7.02%) PKI
4 13 (5.70%) Clustering
5 9 (3.95%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.51%) Cloud Native
7 7 (3.07%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (2.63%) CMDB
8 6 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.63%) Replication
8 6 (2.63%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.63%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.75%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 228 (100.00%) Windows
2 79 (34.65%) Linux
3 24 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (9.21%) Windows Server 2019
5 18 (7.89%) Windows 10
6 16 (7.02%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (6.58%) Ubuntu
8 12 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
9 9 (3.95%) Windows Server 2008
10 8 (3.51%) Unix
10 8 (3.51%) VMS
11 6 (2.63%) Windows 7
12 5 (2.19%) Solaris
13 4 (1.75%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (1.75%) Mac OS
14 3 (1.32%) OpenVMS
14 3 (1.32%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (0.88%) CentOS
16 1 (0.44%) Android
16 1 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (36.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 47 (20.61%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (18.86%) Disaster Recovery
4 38 (16.67%) DevOps
4 38 (16.67%) ITIL
5 35 (15.35%) Migration
6 33 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
7 32 (14.04%) Infrastructure as Code
7 32 (14.04%) Root Cause Analysis
8 31 (13.60%) CI/CD
8 31 (13.60%) Stakeholder Management
9 30 (13.16%) Change Management
10 27 (11.84%) Incident Management
10 27 (11.84%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 23 (10.09%) Identity Access Management
12 22 (9.65%) Runbook
13 19 (8.33%) High Availability
13 19 (8.33%) Project Delivery
13 19 (8.33%) Service Management
14 18 (7.89%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 96 (42.11%) PowerShell
2 32 (14.04%) SQL
3 30 (13.16%) Python
4 29 (12.72%) Bash
5 18 (7.89%) C#
6 17 (7.46%) PL/SQL
7 16 (7.02%) T-SQL
8 9 (3.95%) Bicep
9 8 (3.51%) Java
10 3 (1.32%) Go
10 3 (1.32%) Korn
11 2 (0.88%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.44%) CodeQL
12 1 (0.44%) Groovy
12 1 (0.44%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.44%) Ladder Logic
12 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 66 (28.95%) Security Cleared
2 42 (18.42%) SC Cleared
3 25 (10.96%) DV Cleared
4 24 (10.53%) Degree
5 12 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (4.39%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.95%) AWS Certification
8 7 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (3.07%) CISSP
9 5 (2.19%) CCNA
9 5 (2.19%) CCNP
9 5 (2.19%) CISM
9 5 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.32%) A+ Certification
11 3 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.88%) ISSAP
12 2 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.44%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.46%) SLA
2 14 (6.14%) QA
3 10 (4.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (3.51%) NIST
5 6 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (2.19%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.32%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.88%) GDPR
8 2 (0.88%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.88%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 122 (53.51%) Active Directory
2 63 (27.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (14.04%) VMware ESXi
4 30 (13.16%) Hyper-V
5 25 (10.96%) vSphere
6 23 (10.09%) Docker
7 13 (5.70%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (5.70%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (4.39%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (3.51%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (2.63%) BitLocker
10 6 (2.63%) Firmware
11 4 (1.75%) Terminal Services
11 4 (1.75%) VMware NSX
12 3 (1.32%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (1.32%) UAG
13 1 (0.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.44%) Postfix
13 1 (0.44%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 26 (11.40%) Ansible
1 26 (11.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (10.09%) Kubernetes
3 21 (9.21%) vCenter Server
4 20 (8.77%) SCCM
5 11 (4.82%) Grafana
6 10 (4.39%) Prometheus
7 7 (3.07%) SCOM
8 6 (2.63%) Nagios
8 6 (2.63%) Puppet
8 6 (2.63%) vMotion
9 4 (1.75%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (1.75%) NetBackup
9 4 (1.75%) WSUS
10 3 (1.32%) FortiGate
10 3 (1.32%) Kibana
10 3 (1.32%) Nessus
10 3 (1.32%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.88%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 127 (55.70%) Microsoft
2 98 (42.98%) VMware
3 37 (16.23%) Oracle
4 27 (11.84%) Cisco
5 24 (10.53%) Citrix
6 19 (8.33%) Splunk
7 18 (7.89%) ServiceNow
8 15 (6.58%) Google
9 14 (6.14%) Red Hat
10 13 (5.70%) CyberArk
10 13 (5.70%) Qualys
11 11 (4.82%) Tenable
11 11 (4.82%) Zscaler
12 9 (3.95%) BeyondTrust
12 9 (3.95%) WALLIX
13 8 (3.51%) Fortinet
13 8 (3.51%) HP
13 8 (3.51%) NetApp
14 7 (3.07%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (3.07%) Rapid7