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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 226 171
Rank change year-on-year -2 -55 -59
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 241 143 241
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.18% 1.07% 1.51%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.07% 9.30% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 100 166
10th Percentile £261 £331 £248
25th Percentile £375 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £550
90th Percentile £675 £750 £631
England median daily rate £483 £508 £475
% change year-on-year -4.83% +6.84% -1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £26.08 £23.70 £66.75
25th Percentile £36.31 £24.75 £88.13
Median hourly rate £54.75 £26.50 £106.00
Median % change year-on-year +106.60% -75.00% +233.86%
75th Percentile £74.31 £28.25 £112.00
90th Percentile £85.23 £29.30 -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £19.50 £62.19
% change year-on-year +223.77% -68.64% +27.02%

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 1,713 1,538 2,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.41% 11.50% 12.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,141 1,007 1,351
10th Percentile £208 £225 £231
25th Percentile £350 £361 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £713 £738 £725
England median daily rate £470 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 48 30
10th Percentile £18.26 £18.87 £19.81
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £23.29
Median hourly rate £22.00 £25.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.52% -6.85% -35.59%
75th Percentile £26.00 £26.13 £60.00
90th Percentile £55.75 £59.68 £83.06
England median hourly rate £38.50 £25.08 £60.00
% change year-on-year +53.54% -58.21% +25.36%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +2 45 £525 +5.00% 30
West London -24 8 £500 - 7
East London +3 1 £150 -25.00% 3
South London -8 1 - - 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 28 (11.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (6.64%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.90%) IIS
4 6 (2.49%) nginx
5 5 (2.07%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.24%) Confluence
6 3 (1.24%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.83%) Apache
7 2 (0.83%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.41%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (4.15%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) OpenText MBPM
1 2 (0.83%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 119 (49.38%) Azure
2 57 (23.65%) Entra ID
3 45 (18.67%) AWS
4 40 (16.60%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (6.22%) GCP
6 14 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (5.39%) GitHub
8 11 (4.56%) IaaS
9 10 (4.15%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (3.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (3.32%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (2.90%) OneDrive
12 6 (2.49%) OpenShift
12 6 (2.49%) PaaS
12 6 (2.49%) SaaS
13 5 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (2.07%) Azure Stack
13 5 (2.07%) Datadog
13 5 (2.07%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 78 (32.37%) DNS
2 55 (22.82%) DHCP
3 42 (17.43%) Firewall
4 25 (10.37%) TCP/IP
5 22 (9.13%) VPN
6 19 (7.88%) WAN
7 14 (5.81%) LAN
8 13 (5.39%) Network Security
9 8 (3.32%) SAN
9 8 (3.32%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (2.49%) SMTP
11 5 (2.07%) SSH
11 5 (2.07%) VLAN
12 4 (1.66%) HTTP
12 4 (1.66%) NAS
12 4 (1.66%) VoIP
13 3 (1.24%) DMZ
13 3 (1.24%) Kerberos
13 3 (1.24%) VSAN
14 2 (0.83%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (28.22%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.15%) Oracle Database
3 8 (3.32%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.66%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.24%) Big Data
7 3 (1.24%) GIS
7 3 (1.24%) Power BI
7 3 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.83%) Metadata
8 2 (0.83%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.83%) MySQL
8 2 (0.83%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle BI EE
9 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (4.56%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.73%) Git
3 7 (2.90%) JIRA
4 6 (2.49%) GitLab
5 3 (1.24%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.24%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.83%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.83%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.83%) InstallShield
6 2 (0.83%) MSI
6 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.41%) JMeter
7 1 (0.41%) Locust
7 1 (0.41%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.41%) Newman
7 1 (0.41%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.41%) Subversion
7 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.41%) TestCafe
7 1 (0.41%) Vagrant
General
1 81 (33.61%) Social Skills
2 60 (24.90%) Finance
3 36 (14.94%) Banking
4 24 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.98%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (4.15%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.90%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.07%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.07%) Law
9 4 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.66%) Legal
10 3 (1.24%) Local Government
11 2 (0.83%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.41%) Front Office
12 1 (0.41%) Games
12 1 (0.41%) Mandarin Language
12 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.41%) Military
12 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (25.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 26 (10.79%) Senior
3 22 (9.13%) Support Engineer
4 15 (6.22%) Applications Support
5 14 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (4.98%) Architect
6 12 (4.98%) VMware Engineer
7 11 (4.56%) Infrastructure Support
8 10 (4.15%) Developer
8 10 (4.15%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 10 (4.15%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (3.73%) C# Developer
9 9 (3.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (3.73%) Wintel Engineer
10 8 (3.32%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (3.32%) Server Engineer
11 7 (2.90%) Consultant
11 7 (2.90%) Lead
11 7 (2.90%) Windows Engineer
12 6 (2.49%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (12.45%) Terraform
2 24 (9.96%) .NET
3 11 (4.56%) .NET Framework
4 6 (2.49%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (2.49%) LDAP
5 5 (2.07%) REST
6 4 (1.66%) ASP.NET
6 4 (1.66%) Azure Blueprints
6 4 (1.66%) JSON
7 3 (1.24%) 802.1X
7 3 (1.24%) ADO
7 3 (1.24%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.24%) EJB
7 3 (1.24%) Middleware
8 2 (0.83%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.83%) Java SE
8 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.83%) Node.js
8 2 (0.83%) OpenLayers
8 2 (0.83%) React
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.79%) Data Centre
2 21 (8.71%) Onboarding
3 18 (7.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (6.64%) PKI
5 12 (4.98%) Clustering
6 9 (3.73%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.32%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.90%) CMDB
9 6 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.49%) Enterprise Storage
9 6 (2.49%) Replication
9 6 (2.49%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.49%) Virtual Team
10 5 (2.07%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.66%) AI Agents
12 3 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.83%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 241 (100.00%) Windows
2 86 (35.68%) Linux
3 27 (11.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (8.71%) Windows Server 2019
5 17 (7.05%) Windows Server 2016
6 16 (6.64%) Windows 10
7 14 (5.81%) Ubuntu
8 13 (5.39%) Windows Server 2012
9 11 (4.56%) Unix
10 10 (4.15%) Windows Server 2008
11 7 (2.90%) VMS
12 6 (2.49%) Windows 7
13 5 (2.07%) Solaris
14 4 (1.66%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (1.66%) CentOS
14 4 (1.66%) Mac OS
15 3 (1.24%) OpenVMS
15 3 (1.24%) Windows Server 2003
16 1 (0.41%) Debian
16 1 (0.41%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (34.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 55 (22.82%) Disaster Recovery
3 49 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
4 48 (19.92%) ITIL
5 38 (15.77%) Migration
6 37 (15.35%) DevOps
7 36 (14.94%) Change Management
7 36 (14.94%) Root Cause Analysis
8 35 (14.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (14.52%) Stakeholder Management
9 33 (13.69%) CI/CD
10 32 (13.28%) Infrastructure as Code
11 29 (12.03%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 26 (10.79%) Incident Management
13 24 (9.96%) Identity Access Management
14 23 (9.54%) Runbook
15 22 (9.13%) Service Management
16 21 (8.71%) Problem Management
17 20 (8.30%) Project Delivery
17 20 (8.30%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 96 (39.83%) PowerShell
2 37 (15.35%) SQL
3 33 (13.69%) Python
4 31 (12.86%) Bash
5 23 (9.54%) C#
6 20 (8.30%) T-SQL
7 17 (7.05%) PL/SQL
8 10 (4.15%) Bicep
9 9 (3.73%) Java
10 5 (2.07%) Go
11 3 (1.24%) Korn
12 2 (0.83%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.41%) CodeQL
13 1 (0.41%) F#
13 1 (0.41%) Groovy
13 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.41%) Ladder Logic
13 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 65 (26.97%) Security Cleared
2 44 (18.26%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.96%) DV Cleared
4 23 (9.54%) Degree
5 11 (4.56%) Azure Certification
6 10 (4.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.73%) AWS Certification
8 6 (2.49%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.49%) CISSP
9 5 (2.07%) CISM
9 5 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.66%) CCNP
10 4 (1.66%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.24%) A+ Certification
11 3 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.24%) CCNA
12 2 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.83%) ISSAP
12 2 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.47%) SLA
2 16 (6.64%) QA
3 9 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (3.32%) NIST
5 6 (2.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (2.07%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.24%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.83%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.83%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 127 (52.70%) Active Directory
2 70 (29.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (13.28%) VMware ESXi
4 29 (12.03%) Hyper-V
5 28 (11.62%) vSphere
6 23 (9.54%) Docker
7 15 (6.22%) Virtual Machines
8 14 (5.81%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (4.15%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (2.49%) Microsoft App-V
11 5 (2.07%) Firmware
12 4 (1.66%) BitLocker
12 4 (1.66%) VMware NSX
13 3 (1.24%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (1.24%) Terminal Services
13 3 (1.24%) UAG
14 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.41%) Squid
14 1 (0.41%) VMware Server
14 1 (0.41%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 28 (11.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (10.37%) Ansible
3 24 (9.96%) SCCM
4 23 (9.54%) Kubernetes
5 19 (7.88%) vCenter Server
6 10 (4.15%) Grafana
7 9 (3.73%) Prometheus
8 8 (3.32%) SCOM
9 6 (2.49%) Nagios
9 6 (2.49%) Puppet
10 5 (2.07%) WSUS
11 4 (1.66%) ITRS Geneos
11 4 (1.66%) NetBackup
11 4 (1.66%) vMotion
12 3 (1.24%) Kibana
12 3 (1.24%) Nessus
12 3 (1.24%) Oracle RMAN
13 2 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.83%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 130 (53.94%) Microsoft
2 105 (43.57%) VMware
3 41 (17.01%) Oracle
4 25 (10.37%) Cisco
5 23 (9.54%) Citrix
6 21 (8.71%) Splunk
7 17 (7.05%) ServiceNow
8 15 (6.22%) CyberArk
9 14 (5.81%) Red Hat
9 14 (5.81%) Zscaler
10 13 (5.39%) Google
11 12 (4.98%) Qualys
12 11 (4.56%) Tenable
13 10 (4.15%) BeyondTrust
14 9 (3.73%) WALLIX
15 7 (2.90%) CrowdStrike
15 7 (2.90%) Fortinet
15 7 (2.90%) HP
15 7 (2.90%) Meraki
15 7 (2.90%) Rapid7