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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 162 103
Rank change year-on-year -50 -59 +69
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 177 206 415
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.19% 1.50% 2.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.86% 12.38% 16.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 139 270
10th Percentile £313 £260 £205
25th Percentile £415 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £456
Median % change year-on-year - +9.59% -6.89%
75th Percentile £613 £578 £609
90th Percentile £700 £663 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile - - £16.00
25th Percentile - - £18.11
Median hourly rate £21.46 £112.00 £28.68
Median % change year-on-year -80.84% +290.55% +14.71%
75th Percentile £22.23 - £33.75
90th Percentile £22.69 - -
England median hourly rate £21.80 £53.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -58.87% +0.95% +68.00%

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 1,492 1,664 2,464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.00% 12.14% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 989 1,091 1,772
10th Percentile £204 £225 £200
25th Percentile £358 £363 £327
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
England median daily rate £449 £474 £463
% change year-on-year -5.25% +2.43% -10.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 22 61
10th Percentile £19.92 £16.89 £14.27
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.89 £18.93
Median hourly rate £24.58 £26.54 £24.86
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% +6.76% -1.56%
75th Percentile £25.15 £56.50 £46.86
90th Percentile £38.08 £70.35 £62.50
England median hourly rate £22.58 £47.00 £25.06
% change year-on-year -51.97% +87.57% -3.63%

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 February 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 5 February 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 26 £525 - 15
West London -23 4 £344 -14.06% 2
South London -11 3 £165 -49.23% 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 30 (16.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.08%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.82%) IIS
3 5 (2.82%) SAS
4 1 (0.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.56%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.56%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.56%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 98 (55.37%) Azure
2 48 (27.12%) Microsoft 365
3 43 (24.29%) Entra ID
4 17 (9.60%) IaaS
5 13 (7.34%) AWS
6 11 (6.21%) SaaS
7 6 (3.39%) PaaS
8 5 (2.82%) GitHub
9 4 (2.26%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (2.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (1.69%) OCI
10 3 (1.69%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.69%) Serverless
11 1 (0.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.56%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.56%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 55 (31.07%) DNS
2 41 (23.16%) DHCP
3 37 (20.90%) Firewall
4 20 (11.30%) WAN
5 17 (9.60%) VPN
6 15 (8.47%) Kerberos
7 13 (7.34%) LAN
8 8 (4.52%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (3.95%) Network Security
9 7 (3.95%) SD-WAN
10 6 (3.39%) TCP/IP
11 5 (2.82%) MPLS
11 5 (2.82%) Wireless
12 4 (2.26%) IPv4
12 4 (2.26%) SMTP
13 3 (1.69%) NetScaler
13 3 (1.69%) SSH
14 2 (1.13%) iSCSI
14 2 (1.13%) VoIP
14 2 (1.13%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (15.25%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (2.82%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.13%) Apache Hive
3 2 (1.13%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.13%) Impala
3 2 (1.13%) Power BI
4 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.56%) Redis
4 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.56%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 11 (6.21%) Visual Studio
2 5 (2.82%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.26%) JIRA
4 3 (1.69%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.13%) GitLab
5 2 (1.13%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.56%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.56%) Git
General
1 43 (24.29%) Finance
2 32 (18.08%) Social Skills
3 19 (10.73%) Banking
4 10 (5.65%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (4.52%) Legal
6 7 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.95%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.39%) Spanish Language
8 4 (2.26%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.69%) Front Office
9 3 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.13%) International Banking
10 2 (1.13%) Local Government
10 2 (1.13%) Marketing
10 2 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.13%) Retail
11 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Police
11 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (16.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (10.73%) Developer
3 15 (8.47%) C# Developer
4 14 (7.91%) Senior
5 13 (7.34%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (6.21%) Security Engineer
7 10 (5.65%) Architect
7 10 (5.65%) Windows Engineer
8 9 (5.08%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 9 (5.08%) Support Engineer
9 8 (4.52%) Infrastructure Manager
9 8 (4.52%) Lead
9 8 (4.52%) Wintel Engineer
10 7 (3.95%) Analyst
10 7 (3.95%) Server Engineer
11 6 (3.39%) Desktop Support
11 6 (3.39%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 6 (3.39%) Senior Wintel Engineer
11 6 (3.39%) Support Analyst
12 5 (2.82%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.17%) .NET
2 16 (9.04%) LDAP
2 16 (9.04%) OAuth
3 15 (8.47%) .NET Framework
3 15 (8.47%) SAML
4 5 (2.82%) REST
5 4 (2.26%) Middleware
6 3 (1.69%) React
6 3 (1.69%) WinForms
6 3 (1.69%) YAML
7 2 (1.13%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.13%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (1.13%) Bootstrap
7 2 (1.13%) Express.js
7 2 (1.13%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (1.13%) ISPF
7 2 (1.13%) SOAP
7 2 (1.13%) Swing
7 2 (1.13%) WCF
7 2 (1.13%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.56%) Data Centre
2 22 (12.43%) Replication
3 13 (7.34%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (7.34%) PKI
4 6 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.39%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (2.82%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.82%) Clustering
6 3 (1.69%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.69%) Educational Technology
6 3 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.69%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.13%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.13%) BYOD
7 2 (1.13%) EPoS
7 2 (1.13%) iPhone
7 2 (1.13%) NHS
7 2 (1.13%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.13%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 175 (98.87%) Windows
2 39 (22.03%) Linux
3 11 (6.21%) Windows Server 2019
4 10 (5.65%) Windows 10
5 9 (5.08%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (4.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (2.82%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (2.26%) Android
8 4 (2.26%) Ubuntu
8 4 (2.26%) Unix
9 3 (1.69%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (1.13%) AIX
10 2 (1.13%) Mac OS
10 2 (1.13%) VMS
10 2 (1.13%) zOS
11 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.56%) Solaris
11 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (22.03%) Disaster Recovery
1 39 (22.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 28 (15.82%) ITIL
2 28 (15.82%) Migration
3 21 (11.86%) Agile
4 20 (11.30%) High Availability
4 20 (11.30%) Task Automation
5 19 (10.73%) DevOps
5 19 (10.73%) Identity Access Management
6 16 (9.04%) Business Intelligence
6 16 (9.04%) RBAC
6 16 (9.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 15 (8.47%) Change Management
7 15 (8.47%) CI/CD
7 15 (8.47%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (8.47%) Project Delivery
8 14 (7.91%) Unit Testing
9 13 (7.34%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (7.34%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (6.21%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 71 (40.11%) PowerShell
2 27 (15.25%) SQL
3 17 (9.60%) C#
3 17 (9.60%) T-SQL
4 15 (8.47%) PL/SQL
5 13 (7.34%) Python
6 3 (1.69%) Bash
6 3 (1.69%) Bicep
6 3 (1.69%) Java
7 2 (1.13%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.13%) JCL
7 2 (1.13%) REXX
8 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (20.34%) Degree
2 30 (16.95%) Security Cleared
3 24 (13.56%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (4.52%) Azure Certification
5 8 (4.52%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.26%) CCNP
6 4 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.13%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.13%) CCNA
8 2 (1.13%) CESG Certified Professional
8 2 (1.13%) CISSP
8 2 (1.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.13%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.13%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.56%) MCSA
9 1 (0.56%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.30%) QA
2 19 (10.73%) GDPR
3 15 (8.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 8 (4.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (4.52%) NIST
5 5 (2.82%) SLA
6 3 (1.69%) NIST 800
7 2 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.56%) Basel III
8 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.56%) DICOM
8 1 (0.56%) GAAP
8 1 (0.56%) HL7
8 1 (0.56%) IFRS
8 1 (0.56%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.56%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 102 (57.63%) Active Directory
2 32 (18.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.78%) vSphere
4 11 (6.21%) Docker
5 8 (4.52%) Hyper-V
5 8 (4.52%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (3.95%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (3.39%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (2.82%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (1.69%) BitLocker
9 3 (1.69%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (1.69%) VMware NSX
10 2 (1.13%) HDFS
10 2 (1.13%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 1 (0.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.56%) Firmware
11 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.56%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 32 (18.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (16.38%) SCCM
3 19 (10.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 18 (10.17%) Terraform
5 15 (8.47%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (7.34%) Ansible
6 13 (7.34%) SCOM
7 7 (3.95%) Kubernetes
8 6 (3.39%) CASB
8 6 (3.39%) Puppet
8 6 (3.39%) SCOrch
9 5 (2.82%) FortiGate
10 4 (2.26%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.69%) Control-M
11 3 (1.69%) NetBackup
11 3 (1.69%) Packer
11 3 (1.69%) vMotion
12 2 (1.13%) Kibana
12 2 (1.13%) QRadar
12 2 (1.13%) vRealize
Vendors
1 93 (52.54%) Microsoft
2 43 (24.29%) VMware
3 21 (11.86%) Citrix
4 20 (11.30%) Oracle
5 18 (10.17%) Dell
6 14 (7.91%) Okta
7 11 (6.21%) Cisco
8 7 (3.95%) ServiceNow
9 6 (3.39%) Qualys
9 6 (3.39%) Veeam
10 5 (2.82%) Red Hat
11 4 (2.26%) CyberArk
11 4 (2.26%) HP
11 4 (2.26%) NetApp
12 3 (1.69%) Commvault
12 3 (1.69%) Palo Alto
12 3 (1.69%) Reuters
12 3 (1.69%) SnapLogic
12 3 (1.69%) Splunk
12 3 (1.69%) Tenable