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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 232 176
Rank change year-on-year -2 -56 -68
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 229 142 248
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.14% 1.07% 1.54%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.72% 9.30% 12.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 97 176
10th Percentile £263 £350 £248
25th Percentile £375 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £550
90th Percentile £668 £750 £631
England median daily rate £483 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £26.08 - £57.25
25th Percentile £36.31 - £64.38
Median hourly rate £54.75 £30.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +82.50% -61.29% +201.44%
75th Percentile £74.31 - £89.38
90th Percentile £85.23 - £95.75
England median hourly rate £63.14 £22.03 £52.50
% change year-on-year +186.65% -58.05% +23.53%

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 1,669 1,527 2,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.32% 11.52% 12.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,105 1,019 1,384
10th Percentile £206 £225 £228
25th Percentile £350 £363 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £496 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% -0.90% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £713 £738 £725
England median daily rate £466 £451 £475
% change year-on-year +3.39% -5.16% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 44 40
10th Percentile £17.93 £18.87 £19.81
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.94
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.15 £23.98
Median % change year-on-year -16.50% +4.90% -35.79%
75th Percentile £26.50 £25.18 £42.75
90th Percentile £58.95 £58.93 £61.74
England median hourly rate £32.50 £24.25 £39.50
% change year-on-year +34.02% -38.61% -7.06%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 43 £525 +5.00% 13
West London -19 8 £500 - 2
South London -12 3 £425 -5.56% 2
East London +2 1 £150 -25.00% 3
North London +1 1 £225 -59.09%
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 (12.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (6.99%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.06%) IIS
4 6 (2.62%) nginx
5 5 (2.18%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.31%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.87%) Apache
7 2 (0.87%) Confluence
7 2 (0.87%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.44%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) OpenText MBPM
1 2 (0.87%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 113 (49.34%) Azure
2 53 (23.14%) Entra ID
3 44 (19.21%) AWS
4 37 (16.16%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (6.55%) GCP
7 13 (5.68%) GitHub
8 12 (5.24%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (5.24%) IaaS
9 8 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (3.49%) Azure Sentinel
9 8 (3.49%) OneDrive
10 7 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (3.06%) PaaS
11 6 (2.62%) OpenShift
12 5 (2.18%) Azure Stack
12 5 (2.18%) Datadog
12 5 (2.18%) Nutanix
12 5 (2.18%) SaaS
13 4 (1.75%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 77 (33.62%) DNS
2 55 (24.02%) DHCP
3 44 (19.21%) Firewall
4 24 (10.48%) TCP/IP
4 24 (10.48%) VPN
5 17 (7.42%) WAN
6 13 (5.68%) LAN
7 12 (5.24%) Network Security
8 7 (3.06%) SAN
8 7 (3.06%) SMTP
8 7 (3.06%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (2.18%) VLAN
9 5 (2.18%) VoIP
10 4 (1.75%) HTTP
10 4 (1.75%) NAS
10 4 (1.75%) SSH
11 3 (1.31%) DMZ
11 3 (1.31%) VSAN
11 3 (1.31%) Wireless
12 2 (0.87%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (27.07%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.37%) Oracle Database
3 9 (3.93%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.31%) Big Data
5 3 (1.31%) GIS
5 3 (1.31%) Power BI
5 3 (1.31%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.87%) MySQL
6 2 (0.87%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.44%) Metadata
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 12 (5.24%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.93%) Git
3 7 (3.06%) JIRA
4 6 (2.62%) GitLab
5 3 (1.31%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.31%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.87%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.87%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.87%) InstallShield
6 2 (0.87%) MSI
6 2 (0.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.44%) JMeter
7 1 (0.44%) Locust
7 1 (0.44%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.44%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.44%) Subversion
7 1 (0.44%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.44%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.44%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 77 (33.62%) Social Skills
2 51 (22.27%) Finance
3 31 (13.54%) Banking
4 24 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.24%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (5.24%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.06%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.18%) Local Government
8 4 (1.75%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.75%) Law
9 2 (0.87%) Legal
10 1 (0.44%) Front Office
10 1 (0.44%) Games
10 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.44%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.44%) Military
10 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (27.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 26 (11.35%) Senior
3 23 (10.04%) Support Engineer
4 13 (5.68%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (4.80%) Applications Support
5 11 (4.80%) Architect
5 11 (4.80%) Infrastructure Support
6 10 (4.37%) Developer
6 10 (4.37%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 10 (4.37%) Server Engineer
7 9 (3.93%) C# Developer
7 9 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (3.93%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (3.93%) VMware Engineer
8 8 (3.49%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 8 (3.49%) Windows Engineer
9 7 (3.06%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (3.06%) Lead
10 6 (2.62%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (2.62%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (13.10%) Terraform
2 20 (8.73%) .NET
3 11 (4.80%) .NET Framework
4 7 (3.06%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (2.18%) LDAP
6 4 (1.75%) ADO
6 4 (1.75%) ARM Templates
6 4 (1.75%) ASP.NET
6 4 (1.75%) Azure Blueprints
6 4 (1.75%) JSON
7 3 (1.31%) EJB
7 3 (1.31%) REST
8 2 (0.87%) Blazor
8 2 (0.87%) Jakarta EE
8 2 (0.87%) Java SE
8 2 (0.87%) JSP
8 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.87%) Middleware
8 2 (0.87%) OpenLayers
8 2 (0.87%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.73%) Data Centre
1 20 (8.73%) Onboarding
2 16 (6.99%) Hybrid Cloud
2 16 (6.99%) PKI
3 13 (5.68%) Clustering
4 9 (3.93%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.49%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.06%) Enterprise Storage
7 6 (2.62%) CMDB
7 6 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.62%) Replication
7 6 (2.62%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.62%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.75%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.87%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 229 (100.00%) Windows
2 81 (35.37%) Linux
3 25 (10.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (9.17%) Windows Server 2019
5 18 (7.86%) Windows 10
6 16 (6.99%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (6.55%) Ubuntu
8 12 (5.24%) Windows Server 2012
9 9 (3.93%) Windows Server 2008
10 8 (3.49%) Unix
10 8 (3.49%) VMS
11 6 (2.62%) Windows 7
12 5 (2.18%) Solaris
13 4 (1.75%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (1.75%) Mac OS
14 3 (1.31%) CentOS
14 3 (1.31%) OpenVMS
14 3 (1.31%) Windows Server 2003
15 1 (0.44%) AIX
15 1 (0.44%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (36.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 49 (21.40%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (18.34%) Disaster Recovery
4 40 (17.47%) ITIL
5 39 (17.03%) DevOps
6 35 (15.28%) Migration
7 33 (14.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (13.97%) CI/CD
8 32 (13.97%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (13.97%) Root Cause Analysis
8 32 (13.97%) Stakeholder Management
9 30 (13.10%) Change Management
10 28 (12.23%) Incident Management
11 27 (11.79%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 23 (10.04%) Identity Access Management
13 22 (9.61%) Runbook
14 19 (8.30%) Project Delivery
14 19 (8.30%) Service Management
15 18 (7.86%) High Availability
15 18 (7.86%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 95 (41.48%) PowerShell
2 33 (14.41%) SQL
3 31 (13.54%) Python
4 29 (12.66%) Bash
5 19 (8.30%) C#
6 17 (7.42%) PL/SQL
7 16 (6.99%) T-SQL
8 9 (3.93%) Bicep
9 8 (3.49%) Java
10 3 (1.31%) Go
10 3 (1.31%) Korn
11 2 (0.87%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.44%) CodeQL
12 1 (0.44%) F#
12 1 (0.44%) Groovy
12 1 (0.44%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.44%) Ladder Logic
12 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 66 (28.82%) Security Cleared
2 42 (18.34%) SC Cleared
3 25 (10.92%) Degree
3 25 (10.92%) DV Cleared
4 11 (4.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (4.37%) Azure Certification
6 9 (3.93%) AWS Certification
7 7 (3.06%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (3.06%) CISSP
8 5 (2.18%) CCNA
8 5 (2.18%) CCNP
8 5 (2.18%) CISM
8 5 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.31%) A+ Certification
10 3 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.87%) ISSAP
11 2 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.44%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.86%) SLA
2 16 (6.99%) QA
3 11 (4.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (3.49%) NIST
5 6 (2.62%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (2.18%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.31%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.87%) GDPR
8 2 (0.87%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.87%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 122 (53.28%) Active Directory
2 63 (27.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (13.97%) VMware ESXi
4 30 (13.10%) Hyper-V
5 25 (10.92%) vSphere
6 23 (10.04%) Docker
7 13 (5.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (5.68%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (4.37%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (3.49%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (2.62%) BitLocker
10 6 (2.62%) Firmware
11 4 (1.75%) Terminal Services
11 4 (1.75%) VMware NSX
12 3 (1.31%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (1.31%) UAG
13 1 (0.44%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.44%) Postfix
13 1 (0.44%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 26 (11.35%) Ansible
1 26 (11.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (10.04%) Kubernetes
3 21 (9.17%) vCenter Server
4 20 (8.73%) SCCM
5 11 (4.80%) Grafana
6 10 (4.37%) Prometheus
7 7 (3.06%) SCOM
8 6 (2.62%) Nagios
8 6 (2.62%) Puppet
8 6 (2.62%) vMotion
9 4 (1.75%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (1.75%) NetBackup
9 4 (1.75%) WSUS
10 3 (1.31%) FortiGate
10 3 (1.31%) Kibana
10 3 (1.31%) Nessus
10 3 (1.31%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.87%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 129 (56.33%) Microsoft
2 98 (42.79%) VMware
3 37 (16.16%) Oracle
4 27 (11.79%) Cisco
5 24 (10.48%) Citrix
6 19 (8.30%) Splunk
7 18 (7.86%) ServiceNow
8 15 (6.55%) Google
9 14 (6.11%) Red Hat
10 13 (5.68%) CyberArk
10 13 (5.68%) Qualys
11 11 (4.80%) Tenable
11 11 (4.80%) Zscaler
12 9 (3.93%) BeyondTrust
12 9 (3.93%) WALLIX
13 8 (3.49%) Fortinet
13 8 (3.49%) HP
13 8 (3.49%) NetApp
14 7 (3.06%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (3.06%) Rapid7