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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 225 159
Rank change year-on-year -16 -66 -44
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 212 152 266
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.06% 1.12% 1.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.65% 9.71% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 108 187
10th Percentile £263 £363 £250
25th Percentile £359 £406 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -15.89%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £550
90th Percentile £664 £750 £647
England median daily rate £483 £532 £500
% change year-on-year -9.17% +6.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £23.30
25th Percentile £19.25 - £34.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £30.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% -45.45% +120.00%
75th Percentile £19.75 - £78.75
90th Percentile - - £91.50
England median hourly rate £34.10 £30.00 £59.80
% change year-on-year +13.67% -49.83% +49.50%

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 1,553 1,566 1,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.74% 11.51% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,026 1,072 1,393
10th Percentile £206 £246 £213
25th Percentile £350 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -8.26%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £738 £725
England median daily rate £469 £460 £475
% change year-on-year +1.96% -3.16% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 43 50
10th Percentile £17.60 £18.87 £16.21
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.13
Median hourly rate £21.00 £24.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +11.36% -53.68%
75th Percentile £25.34 £27.00 £28.78
90th Percentile £54.40 £61.60 £60.14
England median hourly rate £32.50 £23.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +41.30% -16.36% -35.29%

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 31 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 31 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 -8 37 £563 +4.65% 13
West London -16 8 £500 - 3
South London -15 3 £425 -5.56% 5
East London +2 1 £150 -25.00% 2
North London -2 1 £225 -59.09% 3
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 (13.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (7.55%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.77%) nginx
3 8 (3.77%) Tomcat
4 5 (2.36%) IIS
5 3 (1.42%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.94%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.47%) Apache
7 1 (0.47%) CloudStack
7 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (4.72%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.94%) OpenText MBPM
1 2 (0.94%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 106 (50.00%) Azure
2 48 (22.64%) Entra ID
3 37 (17.45%) AWS
4 36 (16.98%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (7.55%) IaaS
6 14 (6.60%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (5.66%) Azure Monitor
7 12 (5.66%) GCP
7 12 (5.66%) GitHub
8 10 (4.72%) PaaS
9 7 (3.30%) Azure Sentinel
9 7 (3.30%) OneDrive
10 6 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.83%) OpenShift
11 5 (2.36%) Azure AKS
11 5 (2.36%) Azure Stack
11 5 (2.36%) Datadog
12 4 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (1.42%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 75 (35.38%) DNS
2 54 (25.47%) DHCP
3 47 (22.17%) Firewall
4 25 (11.79%) VPN
5 22 (10.38%) TCP/IP
6 18 (8.49%) WAN
7 17 (8.02%) LAN
8 8 (3.77%) SMTP
9 7 (3.30%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (2.83%) Network Security
11 5 (2.36%) VoIP
12 4 (1.89%) DMZ
12 4 (1.89%) HTTP
12 4 (1.89%) SAN
13 3 (1.42%) Internet
13 3 (1.42%) MPLS
13 3 (1.42%) VLAN
13 3 (1.42%) VSAN
13 3 (1.42%) Wireless
14 2 (0.94%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (26.89%) SQL Server
2 13 (6.13%) Oracle Database
3 12 (5.66%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.36%) Big Data
6 4 (1.89%) GIS
7 2 (0.94%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.94%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.94%) Power BI
7 2 (0.94%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.47%) MySQL
8 1 (0.47%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (3.30%) Git
1 7 (3.30%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.42%) GitLab
2 3 (1.42%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.94%) AdminStudio
3 2 (0.94%) Artifactory
3 2 (0.94%) InstallShield
3 2 (0.94%) JIRA
3 2 (0.94%) MSI
4 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.47%) MSBuild
4 1 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.47%) Subversion
4 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.47%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 67 (31.60%) Social Skills
2 44 (20.75%) Finance
3 25 (11.79%) Banking
4 23 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (8.02%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.25%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.83%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.36%) Legal
8 5 (2.36%) Local Government
9 4 (1.89%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.89%) Law
10 2 (0.94%) Front Office
10 2 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Games
11 1 (0.47%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 60 (28.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (8.96%) Senior
3 18 (8.49%) Support Engineer
4 13 (6.13%) Developer
5 12 (5.66%) C# Developer
5 12 (5.66%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (4.72%) Infrastructure Support
7 9 (4.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 9 (4.25%) Architect
7 9 (4.25%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 9 (4.25%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (4.25%) Server Engineer
8 8 (3.77%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (3.77%) Lead
8 8 (3.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (3.30%) Analyst
9 7 (3.30%) Applications Support
9 7 (3.30%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (3.30%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (3.30%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.96%) .NET
2 14 (6.60%) .NET Framework
3 7 (3.30%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (1.89%) ADO
4 4 (1.89%) ARM Templates
4 4 (1.89%) ASP.NET
4 4 (1.89%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (1.89%) EJB
4 4 (1.89%) JSON
5 3 (1.42%) Jakarta EE
5 3 (1.42%) LDAP
5 3 (1.42%) Middleware
5 3 (1.42%) OpenLayers
5 3 (1.42%) Spring
6 2 (0.94%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.94%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.94%) Blazor
6 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.94%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (0.94%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.49%) Data Centre
1 18 (8.49%) PKI
2 16 (7.55%) Onboarding
3 13 (6.13%) Clustering
4 11 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (4.25%) Cloud Native
6 8 (3.77%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.83%) CMDB
7 6 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.83%) Enterprise Storage
7 6 (2.83%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.83%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.36%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.89%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.94%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 212 (100.00%) Windows
2 72 (33.96%) Linux
3 24 (11.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (10.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 20 (9.43%) Windows 10
6 16 (7.55%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (6.13%) Ubuntu
8 10 (4.72%) Windows Server 2008
8 10 (4.72%) Windows Server 2012
9 8 (3.77%) Solaris
10 6 (2.83%) Unix
10 6 (2.83%) VMS
11 5 (2.36%) Windows Server 2003
12 4 (1.89%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (1.89%) Mac OS
12 4 (1.89%) Windows 7
13 3 (1.42%) Android
14 2 (0.94%) Apple iOS
14 2 (0.94%) OpenVMS
15 1 (0.47%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (35.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 46 (21.70%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (16.51%) Disaster Recovery
4 34 (16.04%) ITIL
5 33 (15.57%) DevOps
5 33 (15.57%) Migration
6 29 (13.68%) Change Management
7 28 (13.21%) CI/CD
8 26 (12.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (11.79%) Infrastructure as Code
10 24 (11.32%) Incident Management
11 22 (10.38%) Root Cause Analysis
11 22 (10.38%) Stakeholder Management
11 22 (10.38%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 19 (8.96%) Runbook
13 18 (8.49%) High Availability
13 18 (8.49%) Identity Access Management
14 17 (8.02%) AI
14 17 (8.02%) Project Delivery
15 16 (7.55%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 77 (36.32%) PowerShell
2 37 (17.45%) SQL
3 22 (10.38%) PL/SQL
4 21 (9.91%) Bash
5 19 (8.96%) C#
6 18 (8.49%) Python
7 15 (7.08%) T-SQL
8 8 (3.77%) Bicep
8 8 (3.77%) Java
9 3 (1.42%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.42%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.94%) Korn
11 1 (0.47%) CodeQL
11 1 (0.47%) Ladder Logic
11 1 (0.47%) VB
Qualifications
1 63 (29.72%) Security Cleared
2 38 (17.92%) SC Cleared
3 23 (10.85%) Degree
4 21 (9.91%) DV Cleared
5 16 (7.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.77%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.83%) CISSP
8 5 (2.36%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.36%) CISM
9 4 (1.89%) CCNA
9 4 (1.89%) CCNP
9 4 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.89%) MCITP
9 4 (1.89%) MCTS
10 2 (0.94%) A+ Certification
10 2 (0.94%) ISSAP
10 2 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.47%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.55%) QA
1 16 (7.55%) SLA
2 9 (4.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.77%) NIST
4 5 (2.36%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.94%) GDPR
5 2 (0.94%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.94%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.94%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.47%) NCSC
6 1 (0.47%) NIST 800
System Software
1 119 (56.13%) Active Directory
2 57 (26.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (13.68%) VMware ESXi
4 24 (11.32%) Docker
4 24 (11.32%) Hyper-V
5 18 (8.49%) vSphere
6 11 (5.19%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (4.72%) Microsoft App-V
8 9 (4.25%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (3.77%) BitLocker
10 7 (3.30%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (2.36%) VMware NSX
12 4 (1.89%) Firmware
12 4 (1.89%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (1.89%) Terminal Services
13 3 (1.42%) UAG
13 3 (1.42%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.47%) KVM
14 1 (0.47%) QEMU
14 1 (0.47%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 32 (15.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (12.74%) Ansible
2 27 (12.74%) Terraform
3 24 (11.32%) Kubernetes
4 20 (9.43%) vCenter Server
5 19 (8.96%) SCCM
6 8 (3.77%) Grafana
6 8 (3.77%) vMotion
7 7 (3.30%) Puppet
8 6 (2.83%) Prometheus
9 5 (2.36%) SCOM
10 4 (1.89%) FortiGate
10 4 (1.89%) Nagios
10 4 (1.89%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (1.42%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.94%) Dell DRAC
12 2 (0.94%) Nessus
12 2 (0.94%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.94%) Thomson Reuters DACS
13 1 (0.47%) WSUS
Vendors
1 116 (54.72%) Microsoft
2 86 (40.57%) VMware
3 34 (16.04%) Oracle
4 30 (14.15%) Citrix
5 25 (11.79%) Cisco
6 17 (8.02%) Red Hat
6 17 (8.02%) ServiceNow
7 14 (6.60%) Splunk
8 13 (6.13%) Google
9 11 (5.19%) Zscaler
10 10 (4.72%) CyberArk
10 10 (4.72%) Qualys
11 9 (4.25%) NetApp
11 9 (4.25%) Tenable
12 8 (3.77%) HP
12 8 (3.77%) IBM
13 7 (3.30%) CrowdStrike
13 7 (3.30%) Dell
13 7 (3.30%) Meraki
13 7 (3.30%) WALLIX