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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 233 177
Rank change year-on-year +12 -56 -61
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 252 139 236
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.24% 1.03% 1.46%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.60% 8.94% 11.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 96 161
10th Percentile £261 £319 £248
25th Percentile £375 £405 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -16.28%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £744 £638
England median daily rate £483 £508 £475
% change year-on-year -4.83% +6.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £26.08 £23.70 £66.75
25th Percentile £36.31 £24.75 £88.13
Median hourly rate £54.75 £26.50 £106.00
Median % change year-on-year +106.60% -75.00% +351.06%
75th Percentile £74.31 £28.25 £112.00
90th Percentile £85.23 £29.30 -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £16.00 £62.19
% change year-on-year +294.59% -74.27% +28.49%

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 1,726 1,554 2,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.48% 11.52% 12.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,165 1,000 1,337
10th Percentile £208 £225 £225
25th Percentile £350 £358 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £496 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% -0.90% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £618 £600
90th Percentile £716 £738 £725
England median daily rate £470 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.42% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 51 30
10th Percentile £18.26 £18.87 £20.79
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £22.00 £25.15 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.52% -22.02% -26.43%
75th Percentile £26.00 £26.25 £61.07
90th Percentile £49.60 £59.00 £83.06
England median hourly rate £35.22 £25.15 £59.25
% change year-on-year +40.04% -57.55% +24.73%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -2 45 £525 +5.00% 32
West London -28 7 £500 - 8
East London +4 1 £150 -25.00% 5
South London -9 1 - - 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 29 (11.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.17%) IIS
4 5 (1.98%) nginx
5 4 (1.59%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.19%) Confluence
6 3 (1.19%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.79%) Apache
8 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.40%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.40%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) OpenText MBPM
1 2 (0.79%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 125 (49.60%) Azure
2 64 (25.40%) Entra ID
3 48 (19.05%) AWS
4 45 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (6.75%) GCP
6 13 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (5.16%) GitHub
7 10 (3.97%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (3.97%) IaaS
8 8 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (3.17%) Azure Sentinel
9 7 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (2.78%) OneDrive
9 7 (2.78%) SaaS
10 6 (2.38%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.98%) Azure Stack
11 5 (1.98%) Datadog
11 5 (1.98%) Nutanix
11 5 (1.98%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 79 (31.35%) DNS
2 56 (22.22%) DHCP
3 41 (16.27%) Firewall
4 26 (10.32%) TCP/IP
5 20 (7.94%) VPN
6 19 (7.54%) WAN
7 14 (5.56%) LAN
7 14 (5.56%) Network Security
8 8 (3.17%) SAN
8 8 (3.17%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (2.38%) SSH
10 5 (1.98%) SMTP
10 5 (1.98%) VLAN
11 4 (1.59%) Kerberos
11 4 (1.59%) NAS
11 4 (1.59%) VoIP
12 3 (1.19%) DMZ
12 3 (1.19%) HTTP
13 2 (0.79%) HTTPS
13 2 (0.79%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (28.97%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.97%) Oracle Database
3 6 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.59%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.19%) Big Data
6 3 (1.19%) GIS
6 3 (1.19%) Metadata
6 3 (1.19%) Power BI
6 3 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.79%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.40%) MySQL
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.40%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.40%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (4.37%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.57%) Git
3 7 (2.78%) JIRA
4 6 (2.38%) GitLab
5 3 (1.19%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.19%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.79%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.79%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.79%) InstallShield
6 2 (0.79%) MSI
6 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.40%) JMeter
7 1 (0.40%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.40%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.40%) Subversion
7 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.40%) TestCafe
7 1 (0.40%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.40%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 82 (32.54%) Social Skills
2 64 (25.40%) Finance
3 36 (14.29%) Banking
4 24 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (3.57%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.78%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.98%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.59%) Law
9 4 (1.59%) Legal
10 3 (1.19%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.19%) Local Government
11 1 (0.40%) Front Office
11 1 (0.40%) Games
11 1 (0.40%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.40%) Military
11 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (24.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 28 (11.11%) Senior
3 23 (9.13%) Support Engineer
4 18 (7.14%) Applications Support
5 15 (5.95%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (5.16%) Architect
7 12 (4.76%) VMware Engineer
8 11 (4.37%) Infrastructure Support
9 10 (3.97%) Developer
9 10 (3.97%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 10 (3.97%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (3.97%) Server Engineer
10 9 (3.57%) C# Developer
10 9 (3.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (3.57%) Consultant
10 9 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (3.57%) Wintel Engineer
11 7 (2.78%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (2.78%) Lead
11 7 (2.78%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (12.70%) Terraform
2 27 (10.71%) .NET
3 11 (4.37%) .NET Framework
4 7 (2.78%) LDAP
5 6 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (2.38%) REST
6 4 (1.59%) ASP.NET
6 4 (1.59%) Azure Blueprints
6 4 (1.59%) JSON
7 3 (1.19%) 802.1X
7 3 (1.19%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.19%) EJB
7 3 (1.19%) Middleware
8 2 (0.79%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.79%) Blazor
8 2 (0.79%) JSP
8 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.79%) OpenLayers
8 2 (0.79%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (0.79%) React
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.90%) Data Centre
2 22 (8.73%) Onboarding
3 18 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (5.95%) PKI
5 11 (4.37%) Clustering
6 10 (3.97%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.57%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.78%) CMDB
8 7 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.78%) Replication
9 6 (2.38%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.38%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.98%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (1.59%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.19%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.79%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 252 (100.00%) Windows
2 86 (34.13%) Linux
3 27 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (7.94%) Windows Server 2019
5 16 (6.35%) Windows Server 2016
6 15 (5.95%) Windows 10
7 13 (5.16%) Ubuntu
8 12 (4.76%) Unix
8 12 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
9 9 (3.57%) Windows Server 2008
10 6 (2.38%) VMS
10 6 (2.38%) Windows 7
11 5 (1.98%) Mac OS
12 4 (1.59%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (1.59%) CentOS
12 4 (1.59%) Solaris
13 3 (1.19%) OpenVMS
14 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2003
15 1 (0.40%) AIX
15 1 (0.40%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (32.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 62 (24.60%) Disaster Recovery
3 50 (19.84%) ITIL
4 47 (18.65%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (16.67%) Migration
6 38 (15.08%) Change Management
6 38 (15.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 37 (14.68%) Root Cause Analysis
8 36 (14.29%) DevOps
9 35 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
9 35 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
10 32 (12.70%) CI/CD
11 31 (12.30%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 26 (10.32%) Identity Access Management
13 25 (9.92%) Incident Management
14 24 (9.52%) Problem Management
14 24 (9.52%) Validation
15 23 (9.13%) Runbook
15 23 (9.13%) Service Management
16 21 (8.33%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 103 (40.87%) PowerShell
2 40 (15.87%) SQL
3 34 (13.49%) Python
4 32 (12.70%) Bash
5 26 (10.32%) C#
6 23 (9.13%) T-SQL
7 16 (6.35%) PL/SQL
8 10 (3.97%) Bicep
9 8 (3.17%) Java
10 5 (1.98%) Go
11 3 (1.19%) Korn
12 2 (0.79%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.40%) CodeQL
13 1 (0.40%) F#
13 1 (0.40%) Groovy
13 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.40%) VB
13 1 (0.40%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 61 (24.21%) Security Cleared
2 42 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.52%) Degree
4 21 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.37%) Azure Certification
6 10 (3.97%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.57%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.78%) CISSP
9 6 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.38%) CISM
9 6 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.59%) CCNP
10 4 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.19%) A+ Certification
11 3 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.79%) CCNA
12 2 (0.79%) CISA
12 2 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.79%) ISSAP
12 2 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.14%) SLA
2 16 (6.35%) QA
3 10 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (3.97%) NIST
4 6 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.98%) SOC 2
6 4 (1.59%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.79%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.79%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.40%) GDPR
9 1 (0.40%) GRC
9 1 (0.40%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.40%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 135 (53.57%) Active Directory
2 71 (28.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (12.30%) Hyper-V
3 31 (12.30%) VMware ESXi
4 28 (11.11%) vSphere
5 21 (8.33%) Docker
6 15 (5.95%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (5.95%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (4.37%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (1.98%) Firmware
8 5 (1.98%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (1.59%) VMware NSX
10 3 (1.19%) BitLocker
10 3 (1.19%) Terminal Services
10 3 (1.19%) UAG
11 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.79%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.40%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.40%) Squid
12 1 (0.40%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 33 (13.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (9.92%) Ansible
2 25 (9.92%) SCCM
3 22 (8.73%) Kubernetes
4 18 (7.14%) vCenter Server
5 10 (3.97%) Grafana
6 9 (3.57%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.17%) SCOM
8 6 (2.38%) Nagios
9 5 (1.98%) Puppet
9 5 (1.98%) WSUS
10 4 (1.59%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (1.59%) NetBackup
11 3 (1.19%) Kibana
11 3 (1.19%) Nessus
11 3 (1.19%) vMotion
12 2 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.79%) Dell DRAC
12 2 (0.79%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 139 (55.16%) Microsoft
2 106 (42.06%) VMware
3 43 (17.06%) Oracle
4 24 (9.52%) Cisco
5 23 (9.13%) Citrix
6 22 (8.73%) Splunk
7 19 (7.54%) ServiceNow
8 17 (6.75%) CyberArk
9 16 (6.35%) Google
10 14 (5.56%) Qualys
10 14 (5.56%) Zscaler
11 13 (5.16%) Red Hat
12 12 (4.76%) Tenable
13 11 (4.37%) BeyondTrust
14 9 (3.57%) WALLIX
15 8 (3.17%) CrowdStrike
15 8 (3.17%) Rapid7
16 7 (2.78%) HP
16 7 (2.78%) Meraki
17 6 (2.38%) Fortinet