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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 167 99
Rank change year-on-year -65 -68 +91
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 158 199 426
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.11% 1.44% 2.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.95% 11.97% 16.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 138 276
10th Percentile £330 £268 £200
25th Percentile £415 £396 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £586 £575 £600
90th Percentile £713 £625 £694
England median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile - £102.40 £20.58
25th Percentile - £106.00 £27.44
Median hourly rate £21.46 £112.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -80.84% +244.62% +30.00%
75th Percentile £22.23 - £33.75
90th Percentile £22.69 - -
England median hourly rate £21.00 £62.75 £56.03
% change year-on-year -66.53% +11.99% +101.00%

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 1,443 1,663 2,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.18% 12.00% 14.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 933 1,101 1,850
10th Percentile £204 £230 £202
25th Percentile £359 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £738 £750
England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 18 46
10th Percentile £20.82 £16.30 £18.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £21.89 £19.51
Median hourly rate £25.15 £28.71 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% -6.65% +23.00%
75th Percentile £28.75 £63.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £61.25 £103.60 £73.13
England median hourly rate £25.00 £52.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -52.38% +75.00% +20.00%

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 -11 28 £513 - 9
West London -19 4 £344 -14.06% 2
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 (18.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.80%) SAS
3 5 (3.16%) IIS
3 5 (3.16%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.63%) Confluence
4 1 (0.63%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.63%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.63%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (0.63%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.63%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (3.80%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.63%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.63%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 3 (1.90%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 81 (51.27%) Azure
2 44 (27.85%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (17.72%) Entra ID
4 19 (12.03%) IaaS
5 16 (10.13%) AWS
6 11 (6.96%) SaaS
7 7 (4.43%) GitHub
7 7 (4.43%) PaaS
8 5 (3.16%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.16%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (3.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.53%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.90%) OCI
10 3 (1.90%) Serverless
11 2 (1.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.27%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 39 (24.68%) DNS
1 39 (24.68%) Firewall
2 26 (16.46%) DHCP
3 18 (11.39%) VPN
4 14 (8.86%) WAN
5 9 (5.70%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (5.06%) LAN
7 7 (4.43%) Network Security
8 6 (3.80%) TCP/IP
8 6 (3.80%) Wireless
9 5 (3.16%) MPLS
9 5 (3.16%) SD-WAN
10 4 (2.53%) IPv4
10 4 (2.53%) SMTP
11 3 (1.90%) Kerberos
11 3 (1.90%) NetScaler
11 3 (1.90%) SSH
12 2 (1.27%) iSCSI
12 2 (1.27%) VLAN
12 2 (1.27%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (16.46%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.80%) Oracle Database
3 5 (3.16%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.27%) Apache Hive
4 2 (1.27%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.27%) Impala
4 2 (1.27%) Power BI
5 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.63%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.63%) Redis
5 1 (0.63%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (5.06%) Visual Studio
2 7 (4.43%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.53%) JIRA
4 3 (1.90%) GitLab
4 3 (1.90%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.27%) Git
5 2 (1.27%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.63%) Fiddler
General
1 43 (27.22%) Finance
2 31 (19.62%) Social Skills
3 19 (12.03%) Banking
4 8 (5.06%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (4.43%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.80%) Spanish Language
7 5 (3.16%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.53%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.53%) Front Office
8 4 (2.53%) Legal
8 4 (2.53%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.27%) International Banking
9 2 (1.27%) Marketing
9 2 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.27%) Retail
10 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.63%) Local Government
10 1 (0.63%) Police
10 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (17.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (9.49%) Developer
2 15 (9.49%) Platform Engineer
3 12 (7.59%) Senior
4 11 (6.96%) C# Developer
4 11 (6.96%) Security Engineer
5 10 (6.33%) Architect
5 10 (6.33%) Windows Engineer
6 9 (5.70%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 9 (5.70%) Lead
7 8 (5.06%) Support Engineer
7 8 (5.06%) Wintel Engineer
8 7 (4.43%) Infrastructure Manager
9 6 (3.80%) Analyst
9 6 (3.80%) Desktop Support
9 6 (3.80%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 6 (3.80%) Senior Wintel Engineer
9 6 (3.80%) Server Engineer
9 6 (3.80%) Support Analyst
10 5 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.49%) .NET
2 11 (6.96%) .NET Framework
3 5 (3.16%) Middleware
3 5 (3.16%) REST
4 4 (2.53%) LDAP
4 4 (2.53%) YAML
5 3 (1.90%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (1.90%) OAuth
5 3 (1.90%) SAML
5 3 (1.90%) WinForms
6 2 (1.27%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.27%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (1.27%) Bootstrap
6 2 (1.27%) Express.js
6 2 (1.27%) ISPF
6 2 (1.27%) React
6 2 (1.27%) SOAP
6 2 (1.27%) WCF
6 2 (1.27%) Web Services
6 2 (1.27%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.82%) Data Centre
2 14 (8.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (8.23%) PKI
4 10 (6.33%) Replication
5 8 (5.06%) Enterprise Storage
6 7 (4.43%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (3.80%) Cloud Native
8 5 (3.16%) Clustering
9 4 (2.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (2.53%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.90%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.90%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.90%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (1.27%) Derivative
11 2 (1.27%) EPoS
11 2 (1.27%) Mainframe
11 2 (1.27%) NHS
11 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.27%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 156 (98.73%) Windows
2 43 (27.22%) Linux
3 9 (5.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (5.06%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (4.43%) Windows 10
6 6 (3.80%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (2.53%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.53%) Unix
7 4 (2.53%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.90%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (1.27%) AIX
9 2 (1.27%) Android
9 2 (1.27%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.27%) zOS
10 1 (0.63%) CentOS
10 1 (0.63%) Solaris
10 1 (0.63%) VMS
10 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (22.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (18.35%) ITIL
3 28 (17.72%) Migration
4 25 (15.82%) Disaster Recovery
5 23 (14.56%) Agile
6 21 (13.29%) DevOps
7 19 (12.03%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (10.76%) CI/CD
9 16 (10.13%) Project Delivery
10 15 (9.49%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (8.86%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (8.23%) Business Intelligence
13 12 (7.59%) Information Security
13 12 (7.59%) Platform Engineering
14 11 (6.96%) Change Control
14 11 (6.96%) Change Management
14 11 (6.96%) Computer Science
14 11 (6.96%) Cybersecurity
14 11 (6.96%) Incident Management
14 11 (6.96%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (37.34%) PowerShell
2 28 (17.72%) SQL
3 18 (11.39%) Python
4 14 (8.86%) C#
4 14 (8.86%) T-SQL
5 12 (7.59%) PL/SQL
6 6 (3.80%) Bash
7 5 (3.16%) Bicep
8 3 (1.90%) Java
9 2 (1.27%) JCL
9 2 (1.27%) REXX
10 1 (0.63%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 31 (19.62%) Degree
2 19 (12.03%) Security Cleared
3 13 (8.23%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (5.06%) DV Cleared
6 7 (4.43%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.90%) CCNP
8 3 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.90%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.27%) CCNA
9 2 (1.27%) CESG Certified Professional
9 2 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.27%) MCITP
9 2 (1.27%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.63%) PMP
10 1 (0.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.76%) QA
2 9 (5.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (4.43%) GDPR
3 7 (4.43%) NIST
4 6 (3.80%) SLA
5 3 (1.90%) NIST 800
5 3 (1.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.63%) Basel III
7 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.63%) DICOM
7 1 (0.63%) GAAP
7 1 (0.63%) HL7
7 1 (0.63%) IFRS
7 1 (0.63%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.63%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.63%) NCSC
System Software
1 84 (53.16%) Active Directory
2 26 (16.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (6.96%) Docker
4 9 (5.70%) Hyper-V
5 8 (5.06%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (5.06%) vSphere
6 7 (4.43%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (3.16%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (3.16%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (1.90%) BitLocker
8 3 (1.90%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (1.90%) VMware NSX
9 2 (1.27%) HDFS
9 2 (1.27%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 1 (0.63%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.63%) Firmware
10 1 (0.63%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 27 (17.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (14.56%) SCCM
3 22 (13.92%) Terraform
4 15 (9.49%) Ansible
5 14 (8.86%) SCOM
6 7 (4.43%) Kubernetes
6 7 (4.43%) Puppet
7 6 (3.80%) CASB
7 6 (3.80%) SCOrch
8 4 (2.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (2.53%) FortiGate
8 4 (2.53%) NetBackup
8 4 (2.53%) Packer
8 4 (2.53%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.90%) Control-M
9 3 (1.90%) Kibana
9 3 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.90%) vMotion
10 2 (1.27%) Grafana
10 2 (1.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 77 (48.73%) Microsoft
2 37 (23.42%) VMware
3 19 (12.03%) Citrix
3 19 (12.03%) Oracle
4 14 (8.86%) Dell
5 12 (7.59%) Cisco
6 6 (3.80%) Qualys
6 6 (3.80%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.80%) Veeam
7 5 (3.16%) HP
7 5 (3.16%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.53%) Commvault
8 4 (2.53%) CyberArk
8 4 (2.53%) NetApp
8 4 (2.53%) Reuters
8 4 (2.53%) SnapLogic
8 4 (2.53%) Splunk
9 3 (1.90%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.90%) Tenable
10 2 (1.27%) Okta