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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 172 104
Rank change year-on-year -53 -68 +83
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 150 230 479
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.07% 1.48% 2.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.49% 11.99% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 158 345
10th Percentile £313 £248 £239
25th Percentile £406 £350 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -12.20% +4.06%
75th Percentile £591 £562 £650
90th Percentile £764 £625 £745
England median daily rate £506 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +6.58% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £21.77 £102.40 £24.25
25th Percentile £22.23 £106.00 £28.75
Median hourly rate £23.00 £112.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -79.46% +244.62% +36.47%
75th Percentile £26.50 - £33.75
90th Percentile £28.60 - -
England median hourly rate £16.00 £61.19 £49.73
% change year-on-year -73.85% +23.04% +98.92%

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 1,580 1,918 2,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.31% 12.37% 14.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,016 1,250 2,133
10th Percentile £204 £225 £205
25th Percentile £356 £350 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £618 £650
90th Percentile £738 £716 £750
England median daily rate £450 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 19 54
10th Percentile £18.96 £21.07 £18.28
25th Percentile £22.38 £23.46 £22.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £34.67
Median % change year-on-year -56.26% +65.85% +38.68%
75th Percentile £25.75 £69.88 £60.00
90th Percentile £55.98 £102.40 £73.38
England median hourly rate £23.00 £57.50 £39.08
% change year-on-year -60.00% +47.14% +56.31%

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 12 November 2025.

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 12 November 2025. 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 26 £513 +7.89% 64
West London -9 8 £400 +10.34% 11
South London -6 2 - - 4
East London 0 1 £200 -20.79% 4
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 23 (15.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (7.33%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.00%) HCL Notes
3 3 (2.00%) SAS
4 2 (1.33%) Confluence
5 1 (0.67%) IIS
5 1 (0.67%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.67%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.67%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.67%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.67%) InfoPath
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.67%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 2 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 79 (52.67%) Azure
2 43 (28.67%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 16 (10.67%) AWS
5 14 (9.33%) IaaS
6 10 (6.67%) SaaS
7 8 (5.33%) GitHub
7 8 (5.33%) Power Platform
8 5 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (3.33%) PaaS
8 5 (3.33%) Power Automate
9 4 (2.67%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.67%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (2.67%) PowerApps
9 4 (2.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.00%) GCP
10 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 35 (23.33%) Firewall
2 30 (20.00%) DNS
3 23 (15.33%) DHCP
4 15 (10.00%) VPN
5 10 (6.67%) WAN
5 10 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (5.33%) Network Security
7 5 (3.33%) LAN
7 5 (3.33%) TCP/IP
8 4 (2.67%) VLAN
8 4 (2.67%) Wireless
9 3 (2.00%) Internet
9 3 (2.00%) SAN
9 3 (2.00%) SSH
10 2 (1.33%) HTTP
10 2 (1.33%) IPv4
10 2 (1.33%) MPLS
10 2 (1.33%) NAS
10 2 (1.33%) Softphone
10 2 (1.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.33%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.00%) Power BI
3 4 (2.67%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.33%) Apache Hive
4 2 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.33%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.33%) Impala
5 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.67%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.67%) Redis
5 1 (0.67%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (4.00%) GitLab
2 5 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.67%) Git
4 3 (2.00%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.33%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.33%) JIRA
5 2 (1.33%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.33%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.67%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 32 (21.33%) Finance
2 25 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 14 (9.33%) Banking
4 11 (7.33%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (6.00%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.33%) Local Government
6 5 (3.33%) Spanish Language
7 4 (2.67%) Front Office
8 3 (2.00%) Japanese Language
8 3 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.33%) Retail
9 2 (1.33%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.67%) Back Office
10 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.67%) International Banking
10 1 (0.67%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.67%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 34 (22.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (10.67%) Architect
3 15 (10.00%) Senior
4 10 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (6.67%) Security Engineer
4 10 (6.67%) Support Engineer
4 10 (6.67%) Windows Engineer
5 9 (6.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 9 (6.00%) Wintel Engineer
6 8 (5.33%) Developer
7 7 (4.67%) Infrastructure Manager
7 7 (4.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 7 (4.67%) Lead
7 7 (4.67%) Project Manager
8 6 (4.00%) Applications Engineer
8 6 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (4.00%) IT Engineer
8 6 (4.00%) Security Architect
8 6 (4.00%) Server Engineer
9 5 (3.33%) Senior Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.33%) .NET
2 4 (2.67%) Middleware
2 4 (2.67%) REST
2 4 (2.67%) YAML
3 3 (2.00%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (2.00%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (1.33%) CSS
4 2 (1.33%) HTML
4 2 (1.33%) jQuery
4 2 (1.33%) SPFx
4 2 (1.33%) Swing
5 1 (0.67%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.67%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.67%) Bootstrap
5 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.67%) SAML
5 1 (0.67%) SOAP
5 1 (0.67%) WCF
5 1 (0.67%) Web Services
5 1 (0.67%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.00%) Data Centre
2 13 (8.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (6.67%) PKI
4 5 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.33%) Enterprise Storage
4 5 (3.33%) Replication
5 4 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.67%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.00%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.00%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.33%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.33%) EPoS
7 2 (1.33%) iPad
7 2 (1.33%) Thin Client
7 2 (1.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 146 (97.33%) Windows
2 44 (29.33%) Linux
3 12 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (6.00%) Windows 10
5 8 (5.33%) Ubuntu
6 6 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (3.33%) CentOS
7 5 (3.33%) Unix
8 3 (2.00%) Mac OS
8 3 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.33%) AIX
9 2 (1.33%) Android
9 2 (1.33%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.33%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.67%) Solaris
10 1 (0.67%) VMS
10 1 (0.67%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (19.33%) ITIL
3 23 (15.33%) DevOps
3 23 (15.33%) Migration
4 19 (12.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (11.33%) Agile
7 16 (10.67%) CI/CD
7 16 (10.67%) Disaster Recovery
8 12 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (7.33%) Architectural Design
9 11 (7.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (7.33%) Vulnerability Management
10 10 (6.67%) Information Security
10 10 (6.67%) Service Delivery
11 9 (6.00%) Business Continuity
11 9 (6.00%) High Availability
11 9 (6.00%) Incident Management
11 9 (6.00%) Service Management
11 9 (6.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 57 (38.00%) PowerShell
2 19 (12.67%) Python
3 18 (12.00%) SQL
4 11 (7.33%) Bash
5 8 (5.33%) C#
6 5 (3.33%) Bicep
6 5 (3.33%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.67%) Java
8 2 (1.33%) Formula Language
8 2 (1.33%) LotusScript
8 2 (1.33%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.67%) C
9 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (11.33%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.00%) Degree
3 11 (7.33%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (4.67%) DV Cleared
6 6 (4.00%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (3.33%) CCNA
7 5 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (2.67%) CCNP
9 3 (2.00%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.33%) MCITP
10 2 (1.33%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.67%) CCDP
11 1 (0.67%) CISSP
11 1 (0.67%) MCSA
11 1 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.33%) NIST
2 7 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (4.00%) SLA
4 4 (2.67%) GDPR
4 4 (2.67%) QA
5 2 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.33%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.67%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.67%) NCSC
6 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 87 (58.00%) Active Directory
2 30 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (8.67%) Hyper-V
4 12 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (5.33%) vSphere
6 7 (4.67%) Docker
7 6 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (2.67%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (2.00%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (1.33%) HDFS
10 2 (1.33%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (18.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (16.00%) SCCM
3 22 (14.67%) Terraform
4 14 (9.33%) Ansible
5 13 (8.67%) SCOM
6 6 (4.00%) CASB
6 6 (4.00%) SCOrch
7 5 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.67%) Kubernetes
8 4 (2.67%) Packer
9 3 (2.00%) FortiGate
9 3 (2.00%) Kibana
9 3 (2.00%) NetBackup
9 3 (2.00%) Puppet
9 3 (2.00%) vCenter Server
10 2 (1.33%) Grafana
10 2 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (1.33%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (1.33%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.67%) QRadar
Vendors
1 81 (54.00%) Microsoft
2 42 (28.00%) VMware
3 13 (8.67%) Cisco
4 12 (8.00%) Dell
5 9 (6.00%) Citrix
5 9 (6.00%) Oracle
5 9 (6.00%) Red Hat
6 5 (3.33%) Qualys
6 5 (3.33%) Tenable
6 5 (3.33%) Veeam
7 4 (2.67%) HP
7 4 (2.67%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.00%) Commvault
8 3 (2.00%) Lotus
8 3 (2.00%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.00%) Reuters
8 3 (2.00%) SnapLogic
9 2 (1.33%) Canon
9 2 (1.33%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.33%) Nintex