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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 203 153
Rank change year-on-year -41 -50 -41
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 192 167 287
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.97% 1.23% 1.70%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.57% 10.54% 14.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 120 198
10th Percentile £263 £363 £261
25th Percentile £361 £406 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £521 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.87% +15.83% -15.09%
75th Percentile £588 £678 £550
90th Percentile £668 £750 £650
England median daily rate £478 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -9.91% +6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £19.65
25th Percentile £19.25 - £25.13
Median hourly rate £19.50 £30.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% -16.67% +44.00%
75th Percentile £19.75 - £47.63
90th Percentile - - £53.55
England median hourly rate £26.22 £30.00 £46.75
% change year-on-year -12.60% -35.83% +59.56%

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 1,528 1,585 2,046
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.72% 11.69% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,010 1,077 1,428
10th Percentile £200 £248 £213
25th Percentile £350 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -8.68%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £600
90th Percentile £676 £738 £738
England median daily rate £463 £463 £475
% change year-on-year - -2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 40 58
10th Percentile £18.43 £18.87 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.38 £20.13
Median hourly rate £21.00 £24.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -56.18%
75th Percentile £26.25 £25.15 £28.78
90th Percentile £57.00 £50.68 £60.43
England median hourly rate £32.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +41.30% -8.00% -41.18%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -22 31 £563 +2.27% 12
West London -13 8 £500 - 4
South London -11 5 £165 -63.33% 4
East London +1 1 £150 -25.00% 3
North London -1 1 £225 -59.09% 1
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 21 (10.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (7.81%) SharePoint
3 8 (4.17%) nginx
3 8 (4.17%) Tomcat
4 4 (2.08%) IIS
5 3 (1.56%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.52%) Apache
6 1 (0.52%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) OpenText MBPM
1 1 (0.52%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 99 (51.56%) Azure
2 46 (23.96%) Entra ID
3 36 (18.75%) AWS
4 32 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (8.33%) IaaS
6 12 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (5.21%) GCP
7 10 (5.21%) PaaS
8 8 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (4.17%) GitHub
9 7 (3.65%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.60%) Azure AKS
11 5 (2.60%) Azure Stack
11 5 (2.60%) Datadog
11 5 (2.60%) OneDrive
12 4 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (2.08%) OpenShift
13 3 (1.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (33.85%) DNS
2 49 (25.52%) DHCP
3 41 (21.35%) Firewall
4 24 (12.50%) VPN
5 19 (9.90%) TCP/IP
6 16 (8.33%) WAN
7 15 (7.81%) LAN
8 8 (4.17%) SMTP
9 5 (2.60%) VoIP
9 5 (2.60%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (2.08%) DMZ
10 4 (2.08%) HTTP
10 4 (2.08%) Network Security
11 3 (1.56%) Internet
11 3 (1.56%) MPLS
11 3 (1.56%) SAN
11 3 (1.56%) VLAN
11 3 (1.56%) VSAN
11 3 (1.56%) Wireless
12 2 (1.04%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (27.60%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (6.25%) Oracle Database
3 6 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.60%) Big Data
5 4 (2.08%) GIS
6 3 (1.56%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.04%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.04%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.04%) Power BI
7 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.52%) MySQL
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (2.60%) Git
1 5 (2.60%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.08%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.04%) AdminStudio
3 2 (1.04%) InstallShield
3 2 (1.04%) JIRA
3 2 (1.04%) MSI
4 1 (0.52%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.52%) GitLab
General
1 58 (30.21%) Social Skills
2 40 (20.83%) Finance
3 24 (12.50%) Banking
4 18 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (8.85%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.73%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.60%) Legal
8 5 (2.60%) Local Government
9 4 (2.08%) Law
9 4 (2.08%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.56%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.04%) Front Office
11 2 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.52%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 53 (27.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (8.33%) Senior
2 16 (8.33%) Support Engineer
3 14 (7.29%) C# Developer
3 14 (7.29%) Developer
4 12 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (4.69%) Infrastructure Support
5 9 (4.69%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (4.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 8 (4.17%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (4.17%) Architect
6 8 (4.17%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 8 (4.17%) IT Support
6 8 (4.17%) Server Engineer
7 7 (3.65%) Analyst
7 7 (3.65%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (3.65%) Lead
8 6 (3.13%) Applications Support
8 6 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (2.60%) Active Directory Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.90%) .NET
2 15 (7.81%) .NET Framework
3 7 (3.65%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (2.08%) ADO
4 4 (2.08%) ARM Templates
4 4 (2.08%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (2.08%) EJB
4 4 (2.08%) JSON
4 4 (2.08%) LDAP
5 3 (1.56%) ASP.NET
5 3 (1.56%) Jakarta EE
5 3 (1.56%) Middleware
5 3 (1.56%) OAuth
5 3 (1.56%) OpenLayers
5 3 (1.56%) Spring
6 2 (1.04%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.04%) 802.1X
6 2 (1.04%) Blazor
6 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.04%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.38%) PKI
2 17 (8.85%) Data Centre
3 12 (6.25%) Clustering
4 11 (5.73%) Onboarding
5 9 (4.69%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (4.17%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.13%) CMDB
7 6 (3.13%) Security Posture
7 6 (3.13%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.60%) Enterprise Storage
8 5 (2.60%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.56%) Educational Technology
11 2 (1.04%) AI Agents
11 2 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 192 (100.00%) Windows
2 63 (32.81%) Linux
3 24 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (9.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 15 (7.81%) Windows 10
6 14 (7.29%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (6.77%) Ubuntu
8 8 (4.17%) Solaris
8 8 (4.17%) Windows Server 2008
9 7 (3.65%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (2.60%) Unix
10 5 (2.60%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (2.08%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (2.08%) VMS
12 3 (1.56%) Mac OS
13 2 (1.04%) Android
14 1 (0.52%) AIX
14 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.52%) CentOS
14 1 (0.52%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (34.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 37 (19.27%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (17.71%) Disaster Recovery
4 29 (15.10%) DevOps
5 27 (14.06%) Migration
6 26 (13.54%) Change Management
6 26 (13.54%) CI/CD
7 25 (13.02%) ITIL
8 23 (11.98%) Infrastructure as Code
9 22 (11.46%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (10.42%) Runbook
11 19 (9.90%) Incident Management
11 19 (9.90%) Stakeholder Management
12 18 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
12 18 (9.38%) Vulnerability Remediation
13 17 (8.85%) High Availability
14 16 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
15 15 (7.81%) Identity Access Management
16 14 (7.29%) AI
16 14 (7.29%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 69 (35.94%) PowerShell
2 34 (17.71%) SQL
3 21 (10.94%) PL/SQL
4 19 (9.90%) C#
5 17 (8.85%) Bash
5 17 (8.85%) Python
6 15 (7.81%) T-SQL
7 8 (4.17%) Bicep
8 7 (3.65%) Java
9 3 (1.56%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.56%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.04%) Korn
11 1 (0.52%) Ladder Logic
11 1 (0.52%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 53 (27.60%) Security Cleared
2 31 (16.15%) SC Cleared
3 25 (13.02%) Degree
4 18 (9.38%) DV Cleared
5 13 (6.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (3.65%) Azure Certification
6 7 (3.65%) CISSP
7 6 (3.13%) AWS Certification
7 6 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.60%) CISM
9 4 (2.08%) CCNA
9 4 (2.08%) CCNP
9 4 (2.08%) MCITP
9 4 (2.08%) MCTS
10 3 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.04%) ISSAP
11 2 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.52%) CISA
12 1 (0.52%) HND
12 1 (0.52%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.85%) QA
2 10 (5.21%) SLA
3 9 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (4.17%) NIST
5 5 (2.60%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.56%) GDPR
7 2 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.04%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (1.04%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.04%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.52%) NCSC
8 1 (0.52%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 106 (55.21%) Active Directory
2 52 (27.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (13.02%) VMware ESXi
4 22 (11.46%) Docker
5 20 (10.42%) Hyper-V
6 15 (7.81%) vSphere
7 10 (5.21%) Microsoft App-V
8 9 (4.69%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (4.69%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (4.17%) BitLocker
10 5 (2.60%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (2.08%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (2.08%) Terminal Services
11 4 (2.08%) VMware NSX
12 3 (1.56%) Firmware
12 3 (1.56%) UAG
12 3 (1.56%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.52%) KVM
13 1 (0.52%) NFS
13 1 (0.52%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 28 (14.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (11.46%) Ansible
2 22 (11.46%) Kubernetes
3 21 (10.94%) Terraform
4 18 (9.38%) SCCM
4 18 (9.38%) vCenter Server
5 8 (4.17%) Grafana
5 8 (4.17%) vMotion
6 7 (3.65%) Puppet
7 6 (3.13%) Prometheus
8 4 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (2.08%) FortiGate
8 4 (2.08%) Nagios
8 4 (2.08%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (2.08%) SCOM
9 3 (1.56%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (1.04%) Nessus
10 2 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.04%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 1 (0.52%) QRadar
Vendors
1 99 (51.56%) Microsoft
2 74 (38.54%) VMware
3 32 (16.67%) Oracle
4 30 (15.63%) Citrix
5 22 (11.46%) Cisco
6 17 (8.85%) Red Hat
7 14 (7.29%) ServiceNow
8 13 (6.77%) Splunk
9 11 (5.73%) Google
10 10 (5.21%) Qualys
11 9 (4.69%) Tenable
12 8 (4.17%) IBM
12 8 (4.17%) NetApp
12 8 (4.17%) Zscaler
13 7 (3.65%) CrowdStrike
13 7 (3.65%) CyberArk
13 7 (3.65%) Dell
13 7 (3.65%) Okta
14 6 (3.13%) Meraki
14 6 (3.13%) Rapid7