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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 224 174 105
Rank change year-on-year -50 -69 +82
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 165 235 451
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.15% 1.49% 2.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.42% 12.17% 15.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 162 308
10th Percentile £327 £253 £210
25th Percentile £413 £386 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +1.52%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £628
90th Percentile £764 £625 £745
England median daily rate £500 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +5.26% +2.70% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile - £102.40 £24.25
25th Percentile £21.46 £106.00 £28.75
Median hourly rate £22.23 £112.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -80.15% +244.62% +30.00%
75th Percentile £24.75 - £33.75
90th Percentile £27.90 - -
England median hourly rate £21.00 £61.19 £49.73
% change year-on-year -65.68% +23.04% +95.98%

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 1,584 1,931 2,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.03% 12.23% 14.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,017 1,268 2,057
10th Percentile £204 £227 £204
25th Percentile £358 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
England median daily rate £450 £475 £480
% change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% -6.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 15 46
10th Percentile £18.93 £15.86 £18.47
25th Percentile £21.23 £24.00 £21.44
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.26% +76.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile - £69.88 £60.00
90th Percentile £55.55 £107.20 £73.13
England median hourly rate £25.00 £60.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -58.33% +84.62% +30.00%

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 5 December 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 5 December 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 -11 31 £513 +2.50% 16
West London -13 7 £500 +25.00% 3
South London -9 2 - - 2
East London +2 1 £200 -28.57% 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 26 (15.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (6.06%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.64%) SAS
4 4 (2.42%) IIS
5 3 (1.82%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.61%) Confluence
6 1 (0.61%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.61%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.61%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.61%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.61%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 86 (52.12%) Azure
2 48 (29.09%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (18.79%) Entra ID
4 18 (10.91%) AWS
5 15 (9.09%) IaaS
6 11 (6.67%) SaaS
7 7 (4.24%) GitHub
8 6 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.03%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (3.03%) PaaS
9 5 (3.03%) Power Platform
9 5 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (2.42%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.42%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.82%) GCP
11 3 (1.82%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.82%) Serverless
12 2 (1.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 38 (23.03%) Firewall
2 36 (21.82%) DNS
3 26 (15.76%) DHCP
4 14 (8.48%) VPN
5 9 (5.45%) WAN
5 9 (5.45%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (4.24%) Network Security
7 6 (3.64%) LAN
7 6 (3.64%) Wireless
8 5 (3.03%) TCP/IP
9 4 (2.42%) IPv4
9 4 (2.42%) VLAN
10 3 (1.82%) Internet
10 3 (1.82%) MPLS
10 3 (1.82%) NetScaler
10 3 (1.82%) SAN
10 3 (1.82%) SSH
11 2 (1.21%) HTTP
11 2 (1.21%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (1.21%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.73%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.24%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.82%) Power BI
4 2 (1.21%) Apache Hive
4 2 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.21%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.21%) Impala
5 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.61%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.61%) Redis
5 1 (0.61%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (4.85%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.03%) Visual Studio
3 4 (2.42%) GitLab
4 2 (1.21%) Git
4 2 (1.21%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.21%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.61%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.61%) JIRA
General
1 39 (23.64%) Finance
2 31 (18.79%) Social Skills
3 18 (10.91%) Banking
4 10 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (6.06%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.64%) Spanish Language
7 4 (2.42%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.42%) Front Office
7 4 (2.42%) Local Government
7 4 (2.42%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.82%) Japanese Language
9 2 (1.21%) Marketing
9 2 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.21%) Retail
10 1 (0.61%) International Banking
10 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.61%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.61%) Law
Job Titles
1 33 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (8.48%) Developer
2 14 (8.48%) Senior
3 13 (7.88%) Architect
3 13 (7.88%) Platform Engineer
4 12 (7.27%) Windows Engineer
5 11 (6.67%) Security Engineer
6 10 (6.06%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 10 (6.06%) Wintel Engineer
7 9 (5.45%) Support Engineer
8 8 (4.85%) Analyst
8 8 (4.85%) C# Developer
8 8 (4.85%) Support Analyst
9 7 (4.24%) Lead
9 7 (4.24%) Server Engineer
10 6 (3.64%) Desktop Support
10 6 (3.64%) Infrastructure Manager
10 6 (3.64%) Infrastructure Project Manager
10 6 (3.64%) Project Manager
10 6 (3.64%) Senior Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.67%) .NET
2 8 (4.85%) .NET Framework
3 5 (3.03%) Middleware
4 4 (2.42%) REST
4 4 (2.42%) YAML
5 3 (1.82%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (1.82%) HTML5 Canvas
5 3 (1.82%) WinForms
6 2 (1.21%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.21%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (1.21%) Bootstrap
6 2 (1.21%) Express.js
6 2 (1.21%) ISPF
6 2 (1.21%) React
6 2 (1.21%) SOAP
6 2 (1.21%) Swing
6 2 (1.21%) WCF
6 2 (1.21%) Web Services
6 2 (1.21%) WPF
7 1 (0.61%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (16.36%) Data Centre
2 16 (9.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (6.67%) PKI
4 9 (5.45%) Replication
5 7 (4.24%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.64%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.64%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (2.42%) Hedge funds
7 4 (2.42%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.82%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.82%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.82%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.82%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (1.21%) EPoS
9 2 (1.21%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.21%) Market Risk
9 2 (1.21%) NHS
9 2 (1.21%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 163 (98.79%) Windows
2 46 (27.88%) Linux
3 13 (7.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (5.45%) Ubuntu
5 7 (4.24%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (3.64%) Windows 10
6 6 (3.64%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (3.03%) CentOS
8 4 (2.42%) Unix
9 3 (1.82%) Mac OS
9 3 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (1.21%) AIX
10 2 (1.21%) Android
10 2 (1.21%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (1.21%) zOS
11 1 (0.61%) Solaris
11 1 (0.61%) VMS
11 1 (0.61%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (24.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 31 (18.79%) ITIL
3 27 (16.36%) Migration
4 22 (13.33%) DevOps
5 21 (12.73%) Agile
6 20 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (11.52%) CI/CD
7 19 (11.52%) Disaster Recovery
8 15 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (7.88%) Project Delivery
9 13 (7.88%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (6.67%) Architectural Design
10 11 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (6.67%) Change Control
10 11 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (6.06%) Change Management
11 10 (6.06%) Cloud Security
11 10 (6.06%) Customer Service
11 10 (6.06%) Information Security
11 10 (6.06%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 60 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 26 (15.76%) SQL
3 19 (11.52%) Python
4 13 (7.88%) C#
5 10 (6.06%) Bash
5 10 (6.06%) T-SQL
6 8 (4.85%) PL/SQL
7 5 (3.03%) Bicep
8 3 (1.82%) Java
8 3 (1.82%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.21%) Formula Language
9 2 (1.21%) JCL
9 2 (1.21%) LotusScript
9 2 (1.21%) REXX
10 1 (0.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (14.55%) Degree
2 19 (11.52%) Security Cleared
3 13 (7.88%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (4.85%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.64%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.42%) CCNA
8 4 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.82%) CCNP
9 3 (1.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (1.21%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.21%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.21%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.21%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.21%) MCITP
10 2 (1.21%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.61%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.48%) QA
2 7 (4.24%) NIST
3 6 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.03%) SLA
5 3 (1.82%) GDPR
6 2 (1.21%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.61%) DICOM
7 1 (0.61%) HL7
7 1 (0.61%) NCSC
7 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 91 (55.15%) Active Directory
2 31 (18.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (7.27%) Hyper-V
3 12 (7.27%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (5.45%) Docker
5 7 (4.24%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (4.24%) vSphere
6 6 (3.64%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (3.03%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (1.21%) HDFS
8 2 (1.21%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 2 (1.21%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.61%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.61%) Firmware
9 1 (0.61%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 32 (19.39%) SCCM
2 29 (17.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 23 (13.94%) Terraform
4 15 (9.09%) SCOM
5 14 (8.48%) Ansible
6 7 (4.24%) CASB
6 7 (4.24%) SCOrch
7 5 (3.03%) Kubernetes
8 4 (2.42%) NetBackup
8 4 (2.42%) Packer
8 4 (2.42%) Puppet
9 3 (1.82%) Kibana
9 3 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.21%) Control-M
10 2 (1.21%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.21%) Grafana
10 2 (1.21%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (1.21%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.21%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.61%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 83 (50.30%) Microsoft
2 44 (26.67%) VMware
3 17 (10.30%) Oracle
4 16 (9.70%) Citrix
5 14 (8.48%) Cisco
6 13 (7.88%) Dell
7 10 (6.06%) Red Hat
8 6 (3.64%) HP
8 6 (3.64%) Veeam
9 5 (3.03%) Reuters
10 4 (2.42%) Commvault
10 4 (2.42%) Qualys
10 4 (2.42%) ServiceNow
10 4 (2.42%) SnapLogic
10 4 (2.42%) Splunk
10 4 (2.42%) Tenable
11 3 (1.82%) CyberArk
11 3 (1.82%) Lotus
11 3 (1.82%) Palo Alto
12 2 (1.21%) McAfee