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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 229 162
Rank change year-on-year -5 -67 -52
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 222 142 251
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.10% 1.05% 1.55%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.58% 9.26% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 97 178
10th Percentile £263 £350 £250
25th Percentile £369 £406 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £518 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% +15.00% -16.28%
75th Percentile £588 £660 £550
90th Percentile £668 £750 £638
England median daily rate £480 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -8.57% +5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £57.25
25th Percentile £19.25 - £64.38
Median hourly rate £19.50 £30.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% -61.29% +205.66%
75th Percentile £19.75 - £89.38
90th Percentile - - £95.75
England median hourly rate £52.50 £15.33 £58.30
% change year-on-year +242.47% -73.70% +98.98%

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 1,635 1,533 1,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.14% 11.39% 12.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,079 1,028 1,383
10th Percentile £206 £231 £220
25th Percentile £350 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -2.45% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
England median daily rate £472 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +4.94% -8.16% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 43 48
10th Percentile £17.60 £18.87 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.50% +14.32% -47.52%
75th Percentile £25.34 £25.20 £39.25
90th Percentile £54.40 £58.95 £60.43
England median hourly rate £34.68 £23.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +50.76% -29.23% -5.80%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 +9 41 £525 +5.00% 9
West London -22 7 £500 - 2
South London -10 2 £425 -5.56% 6
East London -1 1 £150 -25.00% 3
North London -2 1 £225 -59.09% 1
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 31 (13.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (6.31%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.15%) nginx
3 7 (3.15%) Tomcat
4 6 (2.70%) IIS
5 3 (1.35%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (1.35%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.45%) Apache
6 1 (0.45%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.45%) Confluence
6 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (4.95%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) OpenText MBPM
1 2 (0.90%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 110 (49.55%) Azure
2 50 (22.52%) Entra ID
3 39 (17.57%) AWS
4 36 (16.22%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (6.76%) IaaS
6 14 (6.31%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (6.31%) GCP
7 13 (5.86%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (5.41%) GitHub
9 9 (4.05%) PaaS
10 7 (3.15%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (3.15%) OneDrive
11 6 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (2.70%) OpenShift
12 5 (2.25%) Azure AKS
12 5 (2.25%) Azure Stack
12 5 (2.25%) Datadog
13 4 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.80%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 77 (34.68%) DNS
2 54 (24.32%) DHCP
3 45 (20.27%) Firewall
4 25 (11.26%) VPN
5 23 (10.36%) TCP/IP
6 15 (6.76%) WAN
7 14 (6.31%) LAN
8 7 (3.15%) SMTP
8 7 (3.15%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (2.70%) Network Security
10 5 (2.25%) SAN
10 5 (2.25%) VoIP
11 4 (1.80%) DMZ
11 4 (1.80%) HTTP
11 4 (1.80%) VLAN
12 3 (1.35%) Internet
12 3 (1.35%) MPLS
12 3 (1.35%) NAS
12 3 (1.35%) SSH
12 3 (1.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (28.83%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.41%) Oracle Database
3 11 (4.95%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.25%) Big Data
4 5 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.80%) GIS
6 3 (1.35%) Power BI
6 3 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.90%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.90%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.90%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.45%) Metadata
8 1 (0.45%) MySQL
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 8 (3.60%) Git
1 8 (3.60%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.80%) JIRA
3 3 (1.35%) Artifactory
3 3 (1.35%) GitLab
3 3 (1.35%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.90%) AdminStudio
4 2 (0.90%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.90%) InstallShield
4 2 (0.90%) MSI
5 1 (0.45%) MSBuild
5 1 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.45%) Subversion
5 1 (0.45%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.45%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 72 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 52 (23.42%) Finance
3 29 (13.06%) Banking
4 24 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.86%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.70%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.80%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.80%) Law
9 4 (1.80%) Local Government
10 2 (0.90%) Front Office
10 2 (0.90%) Legal
10 2 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Games
11 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (27.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 21 (9.46%) Senior
2 21 (9.46%) Support Engineer
3 13 (5.86%) Developer
4 12 (5.41%) C# Developer
4 12 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (4.95%) Infrastructure Support
5 11 (4.95%) Server Engineer
6 10 (4.50%) Architect
6 10 (4.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 8 (3.60%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 8 (3.60%) Applications Support
7 8 (3.60%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (3.60%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (3.60%) Windows Engineer
8 7 (3.15%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (3.15%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (3.15%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (3.15%) Lead
9 6 (2.70%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.01%) .NET
2 14 (6.31%) .NET Framework
3 7 (3.15%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (1.80%) ADO
4 4 (1.80%) ARM Templates
4 4 (1.80%) ASP.NET
4 4 (1.80%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (1.80%) EJB
4 4 (1.80%) JSON
5 3 (1.35%) Jakarta EE
5 3 (1.35%) LDAP
5 3 (1.35%) Middleware
5 3 (1.35%) OpenLayers
5 3 (1.35%) REST
6 2 (0.90%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.90%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.90%) Blazor
6 2 (0.90%) JSP
6 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.90%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.56%) Onboarding
2 18 (8.11%) Data Centre
2 18 (8.11%) PKI
3 15 (6.76%) Clustering
4 13 (5.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.60%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.60%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.15%) Enterprise Storage
7 6 (2.70%) CMDB
7 6 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.70%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.70%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.25%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.80%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.35%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.90%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 222 (100.00%) Windows
2 78 (35.14%) Linux
3 26 (11.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (9.91%) Windows Server 2019
5 20 (9.01%) Windows 10
6 17 (7.66%) Windows Server 2016
7 14 (6.31%) Ubuntu
8 12 (5.41%) Windows Server 2012
9 11 (4.95%) Windows Server 2008
10 8 (3.60%) VMS
11 7 (3.15%) Solaris
12 6 (2.70%) Unix
12 6 (2.70%) Windows 7
13 4 (1.80%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (1.80%) Mac OS
13 4 (1.80%) Windows Server 2003
14 3 (1.35%) OpenVMS
15 2 (0.90%) Android
15 2 (0.90%) Apple iOS
15 2 (0.90%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (35.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 50 (22.52%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (18.02%) Disaster Recovery
4 37 (16.67%) ITIL
5 34 (15.32%) DevOps
6 32 (14.41%) Migration
7 30 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
8 29 (13.06%) Change Management
9 28 (12.61%) CI/CD
10 27 (12.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (12.16%) Incident Management
10 27 (12.16%) Root Cause Analysis
11 24 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
11 24 (10.81%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 22 (9.91%) High Availability
12 22 (9.91%) Identity Access Management
13 21 (9.46%) Runbook
14 19 (8.56%) Project Delivery
15 18 (8.11%) Service Management
16 17 (7.66%) AI
Programming Languages
1 89 (40.09%) PowerShell
2 38 (17.12%) SQL
3 26 (11.71%) Bash
4 25 (11.26%) Python
5 21 (9.46%) PL/SQL
6 19 (8.56%) C#
7 15 (6.76%) T-SQL
8 9 (4.05%) Bicep
8 9 (4.05%) Java
9 3 (1.35%) Korn
9 3 (1.35%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.90%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.45%) CodeQL
11 1 (0.45%) Ladder Logic
11 1 (0.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 67 (30.18%) Security Cleared
2 41 (18.47%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.91%) Degree
3 22 (9.91%) DV Cleared
4 16 (7.21%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (4.05%) Azure Certification
6 7 (3.15%) CISSP
7 6 (2.70%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.25%) CISM
9 4 (1.80%) CCNA
9 4 (1.80%) CCNP
9 4 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.80%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.80%) MCITP
9 4 (1.80%) MCTS
10 3 (1.35%) A+ Certification
11 2 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.90%) ISSAP
11 2 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.66%) QA
1 17 (7.66%) SLA
2 9 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.60%) NIST
4 5 (2.25%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.35%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.90%) GDPR
6 2 (0.90%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.90%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.45%) NCSC
7 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
System Software
1 125 (56.31%) Active Directory
2 60 (27.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (13.96%) VMware ESXi
4 28 (12.61%) Hyper-V
5 23 (10.36%) Docker
6 22 (9.91%) vSphere
7 12 (5.41%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (4.95%) Virtual Machines
9 10 (4.50%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (4.05%) Microsoft App-V
11 7 (3.15%) BitLocker
12 5 (2.25%) Firmware
12 5 (2.25%) VMware NSX
13 4 (1.80%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (1.80%) Terminal Services
14 3 (1.35%) UAG
14 3 (1.35%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.45%) NFS
15 1 (0.45%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 29 (13.06%) Microsoft Intune
1 29 (13.06%) Terraform
2 28 (12.61%) Ansible
3 23 (10.36%) Kubernetes
4 20 (9.01%) vCenter Server
5 19 (8.56%) SCCM
6 10 (4.50%) Grafana
7 7 (3.15%) Prometheus
7 7 (3.15%) Puppet
7 7 (3.15%) SCOM
7 7 (3.15%) vMotion
8 4 (1.80%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (1.80%) Nagios
8 4 (1.80%) NetBackup
8 4 (1.80%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (1.35%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.35%) WSUS
10 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (0.90%) Nessus
10 2 (0.90%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 123 (55.41%) Microsoft
2 92 (41.44%) VMware
3 37 (16.67%) Oracle
4 30 (13.51%) Citrix
5 25 (11.26%) Cisco
6 18 (8.11%) ServiceNow
6 18 (8.11%) Splunk
7 15 (6.76%) Red Hat
8 14 (6.31%) Google
9 13 (5.86%) CyberArk
10 12 (5.41%) Qualys
11 11 (4.95%) Zscaler
12 10 (4.50%) Tenable
13 9 (4.05%) BeyondTrust
13 9 (4.05%) WALLIX
14 8 (3.60%) HP
14 8 (3.60%) NetApp
15 7 (3.15%) IBM
15 7 (3.15%) Meraki
15 7 (3.15%) Rapid7