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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 184 147
Rank change year-on-year -71 -37 -22
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 167 170 307
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.92% 1.40% 1.76%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.15% 11.95% 14.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 119 204
10th Percentile £263 £363 £250
25th Percentile £413 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £526 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% +16.78% -11.76%
75th Percentile £613 £669 £575
90th Percentile £638 £750 £675
England median daily rate £480 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -12.73% +15.79% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - £16.00
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £20.93
75th Percentile £19.75 - £33.34
90th Percentile - - £47.83
England median hourly rate £26.22 £17.04 £38.50
% change year-on-year +53.87% -55.74% +7.69%

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 1,375 1,423 2,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.55% 11.76% 12.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 910 981 1,493
10th Percentile £206 £250 £200
25th Percentile £350 £375 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £750 £750
England median daily rate £451 £467 £475
% change year-on-year -3.43% -1.79% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 19 66
10th Percentile £20.51 £19.63 £14.99
25th Percentile £22.21 £23.78 £18.13
Median hourly rate £27.00 £24.66 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.49% +12.09% -54.87%
75th Percentile £60.25 £29.63 £26.57
90th Percentile £75.75 £52.45 £60.00
England median hourly rate £41.71 £20.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +108.55% -11.11% -45.84%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -46 15 £538 -4.44% 16
West London -29 7 £500 +25.00% 3
South London -9 5 £165 -63.33%
North London -1 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 26 (15.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (7.19%) SharePoint
3 7 (4.19%) nginx
3 7 (4.19%) Tomcat
4 4 (2.40%) IIS
5 3 (1.80%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.20%) SAS
7 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (3.59%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.80%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 91 (54.49%) Azure
2 43 (25.75%) Entra ID
3 38 (22.75%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (10.78%) AWS
5 17 (10.18%) IaaS
6 10 (5.99%) PaaS
7 8 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (4.19%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (3.59%) GitHub
10 4 (2.40%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.40%) Azure Stack
10 4 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.40%) SaaS
11 3 (1.80%) MinIO
11 3 (1.80%) OneDrive
12 2 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (1.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (1.20%) GCP
12 2 (1.20%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 61 (36.53%) DNS
2 48 (28.74%) DHCP
3 36 (21.56%) Firewall
4 22 (13.17%) VPN
5 20 (11.98%) WAN
6 15 (8.98%) Kerberos
7 14 (8.38%) LAN
8 8 (4.79%) SMTP
9 7 (4.19%) SD-WAN
9 7 (4.19%) TCP/IP
10 6 (3.59%) MPLS
11 4 (2.40%) HTTP
11 4 (2.40%) VoIP
12 3 (1.80%) VSAN
13 2 (1.20%) BGP
13 2 (1.20%) Network Security
13 2 (1.20%) Unified Communications
13 2 (1.20%) VLAN
13 2 (1.20%) Wireless
14 1 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (22.75%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.59%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (5.99%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.80%) GIS
6 2 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.20%) Big Data
6 2 (1.20%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.20%) Power BI
6 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.60%) MySQL
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (5.99%) Visual Studio
2 5 (2.99%) JIRA
3 4 (2.40%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.20%) AdminStudio
4 2 (1.20%) InstallShield
4 2 (1.20%) MSI
5 1 (0.60%) Git
5 1 (0.60%) TeamCity
General
1 38 (22.75%) Finance
2 37 (22.16%) Social Skills
3 15 (8.98%) Banking
4 14 (8.38%) Public Sector
5 12 (7.19%) Legal
6 8 (4.79%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.99%) Local Government
8 3 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.80%) Law
9 2 (1.20%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.20%) Front Office
9 2 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.60%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.60%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.60%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (22.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (11.38%) Developer
3 18 (10.78%) C# Developer
4 11 (6.59%) Senior
5 8 (4.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 8 (4.79%) Lead
5 8 (4.79%) Support Engineer
6 7 (4.19%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (4.19%) Analyst
6 7 (4.19%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (4.19%) Integration Engineer
6 7 (4.19%) IT Support
6 7 (4.19%) NetApp Engineer
6 7 (4.19%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (4.19%) Server Engineer
6 7 (4.19%) Storage Engineer
7 6 (3.59%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 5 (2.99%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (2.99%) Infrastructure Manager
8 5 (2.99%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (11.98%) .NET
2 19 (11.38%) .NET Framework
3 17 (10.18%) LDAP
4 15 (8.98%) OAuth
5 14 (8.38%) SAML
6 4 (2.40%) ADO
6 4 (2.40%) EJB
6 4 (2.40%) JSON
7 3 (1.80%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.80%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.80%) Java EE
7 3 (1.80%) Middleware
7 3 (1.80%) OpenLayers
7 3 (1.80%) Spring
8 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (1.20%) REST
8 2 (1.20%) WinForms
9 1 (0.60%) ISPF
9 1 (0.60%) Software Packaging
9 1 (0.60%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.98%) Replication
2 13 (7.78%) PKI
3 12 (7.19%) Clustering
4 9 (5.39%) Enterprise Storage
5 8 (4.79%) Data Centre
6 7 (4.19%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.59%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.40%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.40%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.40%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.80%) Educational Technology
9 3 (1.80%) Hedge funds
10 2 (1.20%) BYOD
10 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.20%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 167 (100.00%) Windows
2 40 (23.95%) Linux
3 19 (11.38%) Windows Server 2019
4 15 (8.98%) Windows Server 2016
5 14 (8.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (7.78%) Windows 10
7 7 (4.19%) Solaris
7 7 (4.19%) Windows Server 2003
7 7 (4.19%) Windows Server 2008
8 6 (3.59%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (2.40%) Ubuntu
9 4 (2.40%) VMS
10 3 (1.80%) Android
11 2 (1.20%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.60%) AIX
12 1 (0.60%) Debian
12 1 (0.60%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.60%) Unix
12 1 (0.60%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (29.34%) Disaster Recovery
2 45 (26.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 25 (14.97%) High Availability
4 22 (13.17%) Change Management
4 22 (13.17%) Migration
5 20 (11.98%) ITIL
6 19 (11.38%) Identity Access Management
6 19 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (10.78%) Task Automation
8 17 (10.18%) Business Intelligence
8 17 (10.18%) CI/CD
8 17 (10.18%) RBAC
9 15 (8.98%) Data Analysis
9 15 (8.98%) DevOps
9 15 (8.98%) Incident Management
9 15 (8.98%) Unit Testing
10 14 (8.38%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (6.59%) Performance Tuning
12 11 (6.59%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (39.52%) PowerShell
2 36 (21.56%) SQL
3 24 (14.37%) PL/SQL
4 21 (12.57%) C#
5 18 (10.78%) T-SQL
6 6 (3.59%) Python
7 5 (2.99%) Java
7 5 (2.99%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.40%) Bash
9 3 (1.80%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.20%) Bicep
11 1 (0.60%) JCL
11 1 (0.60%) Ladder Logic
11 1 (0.60%) REXX
11 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.60%) VB
Qualifications
1 47 (28.14%) Security Cleared
2 34 (20.36%) SC Cleared
3 28 (16.77%) Degree
4 13 (7.78%) DV Cleared
5 9 (5.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (3.59%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.40%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.40%) CCNA
7 4 (2.40%) CCNP
7 4 (2.40%) MCITP
7 4 (2.40%) MCTS
8 2 (1.20%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.20%) CISSP
8 2 (1.20%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.20%) MCSE
9 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.60%) CESG Certified Professional
9 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.60%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.38%) QA
2 18 (10.78%) GDPR
3 15 (8.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 7 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.99%) SLA
6 4 (2.40%) NIST
7 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (1.20%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.60%) Basel III
8 1 (0.60%) DICOM
8 1 (0.60%) GAAP
8 1 (0.60%) HL7
8 1 (0.60%) IFRS
8 1 (0.60%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.60%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.60%) NCSC
8 1 (0.60%) SOC 2
System Software
1 99 (59.28%) Active Directory
2 42 (25.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (11.38%) Docker
3 19 (11.38%) Hyper-V
4 14 (8.38%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (5.99%) Microsoft App-V
6 9 (5.39%) vSphere
7 8 (4.79%) BitLocker
8 5 (2.99%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (2.40%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (1.80%) Firmware
10 3 (1.80%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (1.80%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (1.20%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.60%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 1 (0.60%) KVM
12 1 (0.60%) NFS
12 1 (0.60%) QEMU
12 1 (0.60%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 27 (16.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (10.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 16 (9.58%) Kubernetes
4 15 (8.98%) SCCM
4 15 (8.98%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (8.38%) Ansible
6 10 (5.99%) Terraform
7 8 (4.79%) Puppet
7 8 (4.79%) vCenter Server
7 8 (4.79%) vMotion
8 4 (2.40%) FortiGate
8 4 (2.40%) SCOM
9 3 (1.80%) Grafana
9 3 (1.80%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (1.80%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.20%) Control-M
10 2 (1.20%) QRadar
10 2 (1.20%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 1 (0.60%) Kibana
11 1 (0.60%) vRealize
Vendors
1 89 (53.29%) Microsoft
2 50 (29.94%) VMware
3 32 (19.16%) Citrix
4 30 (17.96%) Oracle
5 15 (8.98%) Cisco
5 15 (8.98%) Okta
6 12 (7.19%) Red Hat
7 10 (5.99%) Dell
7 10 (5.99%) ServiceNow
8 8 (4.79%) IBM
8 8 (4.79%) NetApp
9 5 (2.99%) Meraki
9 5 (2.99%) Qualys
10 4 (2.40%) Fortinet
10 4 (2.40%) Palo Alto
10 4 (2.40%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.80%) Bloomberg
11 3 (1.80%) CheckPoint
11 3 (1.80%) Juniper
11 3 (1.80%) Reuters