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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 237 176
Rank change year-on-year 0 -61 -66
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 232 140 245
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.14% 1.04% 1.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.74% 8.97% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 96 173
10th Percentile £261 £359 £248
25th Percentile £375 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £550
90th Percentile £671 £763 £635
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 £50.00
% change year-on-year +186.65% -55.95% +3.92%

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 1,688 1,560 2,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.31% 11.55% 12.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,115 1,030 1,397
10th Percentile £206 £225 £228
25th Percentile £350 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% -0.45% -7.41%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £713 £738 £725
England median daily rate £468 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 44 35
10th Percentile £18.10 £18.87 £18.88
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £21.50 £25.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.51% +0.60% -35.35%
75th Percentile £32.13 £25.18 £46.75
90th Percentile £58.30 £58.93 £63.27
England median hourly rate £34.68 £25.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +38.70% -52.38% +14.43%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 44 £550 +10.50% 13
West London -19 8 £500 - 4
South London -10 3 £425 -5.56% 2
East London +2 1 £150 -25.00% 5
North London -2 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 (12.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (6.90%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.02%) IIS
4 6 (2.59%) nginx
5 5 (2.16%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.29%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.86%) Apache
7 2 (0.86%) Confluence
7 2 (0.86%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.43%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.86%) OpenText MBPM
1 2 (0.86%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 114 (49.14%) Azure
2 53 (22.84%) Entra ID
3 43 (18.53%) AWS
4 38 (16.38%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (6.03%) GCP
6 12 (5.17%) GitHub
6 12 (5.17%) IaaS
7 11 (4.74%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
8 8 (3.45%) OneDrive
9 7 (3.02%) PaaS
10 6 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.59%) OpenShift
11 5 (2.16%) Azure Stack
11 5 (2.16%) Datadog
11 5 (2.16%) Nutanix
11 5 (2.16%) SaaS
12 4 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 78 (33.62%) DNS
2 56 (24.14%) DHCP
3 44 (18.97%) Firewall
4 24 (10.34%) TCP/IP
4 24 (10.34%) VPN
5 18 (7.76%) WAN
6 13 (5.60%) LAN
7 11 (4.74%) Network Security
8 8 (3.45%) SMTP
9 7 (3.02%) SAN
9 7 (3.02%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (2.59%) VLAN
11 5 (2.16%) VoIP
12 4 (1.72%) HTTP
12 4 (1.72%) NAS
12 4 (1.72%) SSH
13 3 (1.29%) DMZ
13 3 (1.29%) VSAN
13 3 (1.29%) Wireless
14 2 (0.86%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (27.59%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.31%) Oracle Database
3 9 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.72%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.29%) Big Data
6 3 (1.29%) GIS
6 3 (1.29%) Power BI
6 3 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.86%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.86%) MySQL
7 2 (0.86%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.43%) Metadata
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (4.74%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.88%) Git
3 7 (3.02%) JIRA
4 6 (2.59%) GitLab
5 3 (1.29%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.29%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.86%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.86%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.86%) InstallShield
6 2 (0.86%) MSI
6 2 (0.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.43%) JMeter
7 1 (0.43%) Locust
7 1 (0.43%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.43%) Newman
7 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.43%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.43%) TestCafe
7 1 (0.43%) Vagrant
General
1 75 (32.33%) Social Skills
2 54 (23.28%) Finance
3 31 (13.36%) Banking
4 23 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.17%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (5.17%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.02%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.16%) Local Government
8 4 (1.72%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.72%) Law
9 3 (1.29%) Legal
10 1 (0.43%) Front Office
10 1 (0.43%) Games
10 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.43%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.43%) Military
10 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (26.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 27 (11.64%) Senior
3 24 (10.34%) Support Engineer
4 14 (6.03%) Cloud Engineer
5 12 (5.17%) Applications Support
6 11 (4.74%) Architect
6 11 (4.74%) Infrastructure Support
7 10 (4.31%) Developer
7 10 (4.31%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 10 (4.31%) Server Engineer
7 10 (4.31%) VMware Engineer
8 9 (3.88%) C# Developer
8 9 (3.88%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (3.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (3.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 8 (3.45%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (3.45%) Windows Engineer
10 7 (3.02%) Lead
10 7 (3.02%) Wintel Engineer
11 6 (2.59%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (12.93%) Terraform
2 21 (9.05%) .NET
3 11 (4.74%) .NET Framework
4 6 (2.59%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (2.16%) LDAP
6 4 (1.72%) ARM Templates
6 4 (1.72%) ASP.NET
6 4 (1.72%) Azure Blueprints
6 4 (1.72%) JSON
7 3 (1.29%) ADO
7 3 (1.29%) EJB
7 3 (1.29%) REST
8 2 (0.86%) 802.1X
8 2 (0.86%) Jakarta EE
8 2 (0.86%) Java SE
8 2 (0.86%) JSP
8 2 (0.86%) Middleware
8 2 (0.86%) Node.js
8 2 (0.86%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (0.86%) React
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.05%) Data Centre
2 19 (8.19%) Onboarding
3 17 (7.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (6.90%) PKI
5 13 (5.60%) Clustering
6 9 (3.88%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.45%) Cloud Native
8 7 (3.02%) Enterprise Storage
9 6 (2.59%) CMDB
9 6 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.59%) Replication
9 6 (2.59%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.59%) Virtual Team
10 5 (2.16%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.72%) AI Agents
12 3 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
13 2 (0.86%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 232 (100.00%) Windows
2 83 (35.78%) Linux
3 25 (10.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (9.05%) Windows Server 2019
5 18 (7.76%) Windows 10
6 16 (6.90%) Windows Server 2016
7 14 (6.03%) Ubuntu
8 13 (5.60%) Windows Server 2012
9 9 (3.88%) Unix
9 9 (3.88%) Windows Server 2008
10 7 (3.02%) VMS
11 6 (2.59%) Windows 7
12 5 (2.16%) Solaris
13 4 (1.72%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (1.72%) Mac OS
13 4 (1.72%) Windows Server 2003
14 3 (1.29%) CentOS
14 3 (1.29%) OpenVMS
15 1 (0.43%) Android
15 1 (0.43%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (35.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 48 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (19.40%) Disaster Recovery
4 41 (17.67%) ITIL
5 37 (15.95%) DevOps
6 35 (15.09%) Migration
7 33 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 33 (14.22%) Root Cause Analysis
8 32 (13.79%) CI/CD
8 32 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
9 29 (12.50%) Change Management
10 28 (12.07%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 27 (11.64%) Incident Management
12 22 (9.48%) Identity Access Management
12 22 (9.48%) Runbook
13 19 (8.19%) Project Delivery
13 19 (8.19%) Service Management
14 18 (7.76%) High Availability
14 18 (7.76%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 96 (41.38%) PowerShell
2 35 (15.09%) SQL
3 32 (13.79%) Python
4 29 (12.50%) Bash
5 20 (8.62%) C#
6 17 (7.33%) PL/SQL
6 17 (7.33%) T-SQL
7 9 (3.88%) Bicep
7 9 (3.88%) Java
8 4 (1.72%) Go
9 3 (1.29%) Korn
10 2 (0.86%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.86%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.43%) CodeQL
11 1 (0.43%) F#
11 1 (0.43%) Groovy
11 1 (0.43%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.43%) Ladder Logic
11 1 (0.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 68 (29.31%) Security Cleared
2 44 (18.97%) SC Cleared
3 26 (11.21%) DV Cleared
4 24 (10.34%) Degree
5 10 (4.31%) Azure Certification
5 10 (4.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (3.88%) AWS Certification
7 7 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.59%) CISSP
9 5 (2.16%) CCNP
9 5 (2.16%) CISM
9 5 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.72%) CCNA
10 4 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.29%) A+ Certification
11 3 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.86%) ISSAP
12 2 (0.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.76%) SLA
2 16 (6.90%) QA
3 10 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (3.45%) NIST
5 6 (2.59%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (2.16%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.29%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.86%) GDPR
8 2 (0.86%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.86%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
System Software
1 124 (53.45%) Active Directory
2 65 (28.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (14.22%) VMware ESXi
4 30 (12.93%) Hyper-V
5 26 (11.21%) vSphere
6 24 (10.34%) Docker
7 13 (5.60%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (5.60%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (4.31%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (3.45%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (2.59%) BitLocker
10 6 (2.59%) Firmware
11 4 (1.72%) Terminal Services
11 4 (1.72%) VMware NSX
12 3 (1.29%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (1.29%) UAG
13 1 (0.43%) Dovecot
13 1 (0.43%) KVM
13 1 (0.43%) QEMU
13 1 (0.43%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 27 (11.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (11.21%) Ansible
3 23 (9.91%) Kubernetes
4 22 (9.48%) SCCM
5 21 (9.05%) vCenter Server
6 10 (4.31%) Grafana
7 9 (3.88%) Prometheus
8 7 (3.02%) SCOM
9 6 (2.59%) Nagios
9 6 (2.59%) Puppet
9 6 (2.59%) vMotion
10 4 (1.72%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (1.72%) NetBackup
10 4 (1.72%) WSUS
11 3 (1.29%) FortiGate
11 3 (1.29%) Kibana
11 3 (1.29%) Nessus
11 3 (1.29%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.86%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 129 (55.60%) Microsoft
2 100 (43.10%) VMware
3 38 (16.38%) Oracle
4 26 (11.21%) Cisco
5 24 (10.34%) Citrix
6 19 (8.19%) Splunk
7 18 (7.76%) ServiceNow
8 15 (6.47%) Google
8 15 (6.47%) Red Hat
9 13 (5.60%) CyberArk
9 13 (5.60%) Qualys
10 12 (5.17%) Zscaler
11 11 (4.74%) Tenable
12 9 (3.88%) BeyondTrust
12 9 (3.88%) WALLIX
13 8 (3.45%) Fortinet
13 8 (3.45%) HP
13 8 (3.45%) NetApp
14 7 (3.02%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (3.02%) Rapid7