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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 236 170
Rank change year-on-year +1 -66 -56
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 237 141 249
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.17% 1.05% 1.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.88% 9.14% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 99 173
10th Percentile £260 £350 £248
25th Percentile £375 £416 £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 £625
England median daily rate £483 £508 £475
% change year-on-year -4.78% +6.84% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £26.08 £23.70 £57.25
25th Percentile £36.31 £24.75 £64.38
Median hourly rate £54.75 £26.50 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +106.60% -65.81% +144.09%
75th Percentile £74.31 £28.25 £89.38
90th Percentile £85.23 £29.30 £95.75
England median hourly rate £63.14 £19.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +223.77% -62.86% +8.47%

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 1,708 1,543 2,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.44% 11.47% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,136 1,012 1,384
10th Percentile £207 £225 £228
25th Percentile £350 £362 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -6.98%
75th Percentile £597 £625 £600
90th Percentile £713 £738 £725
England median daily rate £469 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.22% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 47 30
10th Percentile £18.10 £18.87 £19.81
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £22.28
Median hourly rate £21.50 £25.15 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -14.51% -5.54% -36.48%
75th Percentile £26.25 £27.00 £55.81
90th Percentile £56.88 £59.90 £64.93
England median hourly rate £38.61 £25.15 £57.50
% change year-on-year +53.52% -56.26% +20.14%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -4 43 £525 +5.00% 25
West London -25 8 £500 - 5
East London +2 1 £150 -25.00% 3
South London -10 1 - - 4
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 (10.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (6.33%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.95%) IIS
4 6 (2.53%) nginx
5 5 (2.11%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.27%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.84%) Apache
7 2 (0.84%) Confluence
7 2 (0.84%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.42%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (4.22%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.84%) OpenText MBPM
1 2 (0.84%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 116 (48.95%) Azure
2 54 (22.78%) Entra ID
3 44 (18.57%) AWS
4 38 (16.03%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (6.33%) GCP
6 14 (5.91%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (5.49%) GitHub
8 11 (4.64%) IaaS
9 10 (4.22%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (3.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (3.38%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (2.95%) OneDrive
12 6 (2.53%) OpenShift
12 6 (2.53%) PaaS
12 6 (2.53%) SaaS
13 5 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (2.11%) Azure Stack
13 5 (2.11%) Datadog
13 5 (2.11%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 75 (31.65%) DNS
2 52 (21.94%) DHCP
3 42 (17.72%) Firewall
4 25 (10.55%) TCP/IP
5 22 (9.28%) VPN
6 19 (8.02%) WAN
7 14 (5.91%) LAN
8 13 (5.49%) Network Security
9 8 (3.38%) SAN
9 8 (3.38%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (2.53%) SMTP
11 5 (2.11%) SSH
11 5 (2.11%) VLAN
12 4 (1.69%) HTTP
12 4 (1.69%) NAS
12 4 (1.69%) VoIP
13 3 (1.27%) DMZ
13 3 (1.27%) Kerberos
13 3 (1.27%) VSAN
14 2 (0.84%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (28.69%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.22%) Oracle Database
3 8 (3.38%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.69%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.27%) Big Data
7 3 (1.27%) GIS
7 3 (1.27%) Power BI
7 3 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.84%) Metadata
8 2 (0.84%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.84%) MySQL
8 2 (0.84%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.42%) Oracle BI EE
9 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (4.64%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.80%) Git
3 7 (2.95%) JIRA
4 6 (2.53%) GitLab
5 3 (1.27%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.27%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.84%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.84%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.84%) InstallShield
6 2 (0.84%) MSI
6 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.42%) JMeter
7 1 (0.42%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.42%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.42%) Subversion
7 1 (0.42%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.42%) TestCafe
7 1 (0.42%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.42%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 79 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 57 (24.05%) Finance
3 34 (14.35%) Banking
4 24 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.06%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (4.22%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.95%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.11%) Law
9 4 (1.69%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.27%) Legal
10 3 (1.27%) Local Government
11 2 (0.84%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.42%) Games
12 1 (0.42%) Mandarin Language
12 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.42%) Military
12 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (25.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 25 (10.55%) Senior
3 22 (9.28%) Support Engineer
4 15 (6.33%) Applications Support
5 14 (5.91%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (5.06%) Architect
6 12 (5.06%) VMware Engineer
7 11 (4.64%) Infrastructure Support
8 10 (4.22%) Developer
8 10 (4.22%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 10 (4.22%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (3.80%) C# Developer
9 9 (3.80%) Wintel Engineer
10 8 (3.38%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (3.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (3.38%) Server Engineer
10 8 (3.38%) Windows Engineer
11 7 (2.95%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (2.95%) Consultant
11 7 (2.95%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (12.24%) Terraform
2 24 (10.13%) .NET
3 11 (4.64%) .NET Framework
4 6 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (2.53%) LDAP
5 4 (1.69%) ASP.NET
5 4 (1.69%) Azure Blueprints
5 4 (1.69%) JSON
5 4 (1.69%) REST
6 3 (1.27%) 802.1X
6 3 (1.27%) ADO
6 3 (1.27%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.27%) EJB
7 2 (0.84%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.84%) Blazor
7 2 (0.84%) Jakarta EE
7 2 (0.84%) JSP
7 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.84%) OpenLayers
7 2 (0.84%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.55%) Data Centre
2 20 (8.44%) Onboarding
3 17 (7.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (6.75%) PKI
5 12 (5.06%) Clustering
6 9 (3.80%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.38%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.53%) CMDB
8 6 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.53%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (2.53%) Replication
8 6 (2.53%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.53%) Virtual Team
9 5 (2.11%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.69%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 237 (100.00%) Windows
2 83 (35.02%) Linux
3 26 (10.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (8.86%) Windows Server 2019
5 16 (6.75%) Windows 10
5 16 (6.75%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (5.91%) Ubuntu
7 12 (5.06%) Windows Server 2012
8 11 (4.64%) Unix
9 9 (3.80%) Windows Server 2008
10 7 (2.95%) VMS
11 6 (2.53%) Windows 7
12 5 (2.11%) Solaris
13 4 (1.69%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (1.69%) Mac OS
14 3 (1.27%) CentOS
14 3 (1.27%) OpenVMS
14 3 (1.27%) Windows Server 2003
15 1 (0.42%) AIX
15 1 (0.42%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (34.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 53 (22.36%) Disaster Recovery
3 49 (20.68%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (18.99%) ITIL
5 37 (15.61%) DevOps
6 36 (15.19%) Migration
6 36 (15.19%) Root Cause Analysis
7 35 (14.77%) Change Management
7 35 (14.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (14.35%) Stakeholder Management
9 33 (13.92%) CI/CD
10 31 (13.08%) Infrastructure as Code
11 28 (11.81%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 26 (10.97%) Incident Management
13 24 (10.13%) Identity Access Management
14 23 (9.70%) Runbook
15 22 (9.28%) Service Management
16 20 (8.44%) Problem Management
16 20 (8.44%) Project Delivery
16 20 (8.44%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 93 (39.24%) PowerShell
2 37 (15.61%) SQL
3 33 (13.92%) Python
4 31 (13.08%) Bash
5 23 (9.70%) C#
6 20 (8.44%) T-SQL
7 17 (7.17%) PL/SQL
8 9 (3.80%) Bicep
8 9 (3.80%) Java
9 5 (2.11%) Go
10 3 (1.27%) Korn
11 2 (0.84%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.42%) CodeQL
12 1 (0.42%) F#
12 1 (0.42%) Groovy
12 1 (0.42%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.42%) Ladder Logic
12 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.42%) VB
12 1 (0.42%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 65 (27.43%) Security Cleared
2 44 (18.57%) SC Cleared
3 24 (10.13%) DV Cleared
4 23 (9.70%) Degree
5 12 (5.06%) Azure Certification
6 10 (4.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.80%) AWS Certification
8 6 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.53%) CISSP
9 5 (2.11%) CISM
9 5 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.69%) CCNP
10 4 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.27%) A+ Certification
11 3 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.27%) CCNA
12 2 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.84%) ISSAP
12 2 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.42%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.59%) SLA
2 16 (6.75%) QA
3 8 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.38%) NIST
4 6 (2.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (2.11%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.27%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.84%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.84%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.42%) GDPR
System Software
1 123 (51.90%) Active Directory
2 68 (28.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (13.50%) VMware ESXi
4 28 (11.81%) vSphere
5 27 (11.39%) Hyper-V
6 23 (9.70%) Docker
7 15 (6.33%) Virtual Machines
8 13 (5.49%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (4.22%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (2.53%) Microsoft App-V
11 5 (2.11%) Firmware
12 4 (1.69%) BitLocker
12 4 (1.69%) VMware NSX
13 3 (1.27%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (1.27%) Terminal Services
13 3 (1.27%) UAG
14 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.42%) NFS
14 1 (0.42%) Squid
14 1 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 27 (11.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (10.13%) Ansible
3 23 (9.70%) Kubernetes
3 23 (9.70%) SCCM
4 19 (8.02%) vCenter Server
5 10 (4.22%) Grafana
6 9 (3.80%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.38%) SCOM
8 6 (2.53%) Nagios
8 6 (2.53%) Puppet
9 4 (1.69%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (1.69%) NetBackup
9 4 (1.69%) vMotion
9 4 (1.69%) WSUS
10 3 (1.27%) Kibana
10 3 (1.27%) Nessus
10 3 (1.27%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.84%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.84%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 127 (53.59%) Microsoft
2 103 (43.46%) VMware
3 41 (17.30%) Oracle
4 26 (10.97%) Cisco
5 22 (9.28%) Citrix
6 21 (8.86%) Splunk
7 18 (7.59%) ServiceNow
8 14 (5.91%) CyberArk
8 14 (5.91%) Red Hat
8 14 (5.91%) Zscaler
9 13 (5.49%) Google
9 13 (5.49%) Qualys
10 11 (4.64%) Tenable
11 9 (3.80%) BeyondTrust
11 9 (3.80%) WALLIX
12 7 (2.95%) CrowdStrike
12 7 (2.95%) Fortinet
12 7 (2.95%) HP
12 7 (2.95%) Meraki
12 7 (2.95%) Rapid7