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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 200 146
Rank change year-on-year -47 -54 -25
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 190 167 306
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.99% 1.31% 1.74%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.83% 10.97% 14.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 118 208
10th Percentile £261 £363 £252
25th Percentile £379 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +16.67% -13.88%
75th Percentile £613 £684 £550
90th Percentile £668 £750 £675
England median daily rate £480 £550 £480
% change year-on-year -12.73% +14.58% -4.00%
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 £26.00 £24.05 £38.50
% change year-on-year +8.11% -37.53% +31.40%

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 1,481 1,523 2,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.73% 11.96% 11.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 995 1,047 1,470
10th Percentile £206 £241 £210
25th Percentile £350 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £629 £613
90th Percentile £688 £738 £750
England median daily rate £459 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -0.76% -2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 34 69
10th Percentile £21.03 £18.87 £15.30
25th Percentile £22.86 £20.31 £18.13
Median hourly rate £27.00 £24.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +9.09% -56.00%
75th Percentile £57.00 £25.15 £27.00
90th Percentile £75.65 £44.85 £60.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £19.32 £24.34
% change year-on-year +68.26% -20.65% -44.37%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -37 26 £575 +4.55% 9
West London -21 8 £500 +25.00% 4
South London -4 5 £165 -63.33% 5
North London +1 1 £225 -59.09% 2
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 23 (12.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (6.84%) SharePoint
3 8 (4.21%) nginx
3 8 (4.21%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.58%) IIS
4 3 (1.58%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.53%) Apache
5 1 (0.53%) CloudStack
5 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 105 (55.26%) Azure
2 48 (25.26%) Entra ID
3 34 (17.89%) AWS
3 34 (17.89%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (8.95%) IaaS
5 11 (5.79%) PaaS
6 9 (4.74%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (4.74%) GCP
7 7 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.68%) GitHub
8 6 (3.16%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (2.63%) Azure Stack
10 4 (2.11%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.11%) OpenShift
10 4 (2.11%) SaaS
11 3 (1.58%) AWS Control Tower
11 3 (1.58%) MinIO
11 3 (1.58%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 70 (36.84%) DNS
2 59 (31.05%) DHCP
3 37 (19.47%) Firewall
4 23 (12.11%) VPN
5 21 (11.05%) WAN
6 16 (8.42%) LAN
7 14 (7.37%) Kerberos
8 12 (6.32%) TCP/IP
9 9 (4.74%) SMTP
10 6 (3.16%) SD-WAN
10 6 (3.16%) VoIP
11 4 (2.11%) DMZ
11 4 (2.11%) HTTP
12 3 (1.58%) Internet
12 3 (1.58%) MPLS
12 3 (1.58%) SAN
12 3 (1.58%) VSAN
12 3 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (1.58%) Wireless
13 2 (1.05%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (23.16%) SQL Server
2 13 (6.84%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (5.26%) Oracle Database
4 6 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.63%) Big Data
6 4 (2.11%) GIS
7 2 (1.05%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.05%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.05%) Power BI
7 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.53%) MySQL
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (3.68%) Visual Studio
2 4 (2.11%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.58%) Git
3 3 (1.58%) JIRA
4 2 (1.05%) AdminStudio
4 2 (1.05%) InstallShield
4 2 (1.05%) MSI
5 1 (0.53%) GitLab
General
1 46 (24.21%) Social Skills
2 36 (18.95%) Finance
3 18 (9.47%) Banking
4 17 (8.95%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.79%) Legal
6 8 (4.21%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.63%) Local Government
8 4 (2.11%) Law
9 2 (1.05%) Front Office
9 2 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.05%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.53%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 49 (25.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (8.95%) Developer
3 16 (8.42%) C# Developer
3 16 (8.42%) Support Engineer
4 13 (6.84%) Senior
5 9 (4.74%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 9 (4.74%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (4.74%) Architect
5 9 (4.74%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (4.74%) Infrastructure Support
5 9 (4.74%) Server Engineer
6 8 (4.21%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 8 (4.21%) IT Support
6 8 (4.21%) Lead
7 7 (3.68%) Analyst
8 6 (3.16%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (3.16%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (2.63%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (2.63%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 5 (2.63%) NetApp Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.00%) .NET
2 17 (8.95%) .NET Framework
2 17 (8.95%) LDAP
3 15 (7.89%) OAuth
4 14 (7.37%) SAML
5 6 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (2.11%) ADO
6 4 (2.11%) Azure Blueprints
6 4 (2.11%) EJB
6 4 (2.11%) JSON
7 3 (1.58%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.58%) Java EE
7 3 (1.58%) OpenLayers
7 3 (1.58%) Spring
8 2 (1.05%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.05%) 802.1X
8 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (1.05%) Middleware
8 2 (1.05%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.05%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.47%) PKI
2 15 (7.89%) Data Centre
3 13 (6.84%) Clustering
3 13 (6.84%) Replication
4 9 (4.74%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.74%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.16%) CMDB
5 6 (3.16%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (3.16%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.16%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.63%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.63%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.11%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.58%) Educational Technology
9 2 (1.05%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 190 (100.00%) Windows
2 54 (28.42%) Linux
3 23 (12.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 17 (8.95%) Windows 10
6 13 (6.84%) Windows Server 2016
7 9 (4.74%) Ubuntu
7 9 (4.74%) Windows Server 2012
8 8 (4.21%) Solaris
8 8 (4.21%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (3.16%) Windows Server 2003
10 5 (2.63%) Unix
11 4 (2.11%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (2.11%) VMS
12 3 (1.58%) Android
12 3 (1.58%) Mac OS
13 2 (1.05%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.53%) AIX
14 1 (0.53%) CentOS
14 1 (0.53%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (32.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 47 (24.74%) Disaster Recovery
3 29 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (14.21%) High Availability
5 25 (13.16%) DevOps
6 24 (12.63%) Change Management
6 24 (12.63%) Migration
7 23 (12.11%) Identity Access Management
8 21 (11.05%) CI/CD
8 21 (11.05%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (11.05%) ITIL
8 21 (11.05%) Task Automation
9 20 (10.53%) RBAC
10 18 (9.47%) Stakeholder Management
11 17 (8.95%) Cybersecurity
12 16 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (8.42%) Vulnerability Remediation
13 15 (7.89%) Data Analysis
13 15 (7.89%) Incident Management
13 15 (7.89%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 74 (38.95%) PowerShell
2 33 (17.37%) SQL
3 21 (11.05%) PL/SQL
4 20 (10.53%) C#
5 15 (7.89%) T-SQL
6 14 (7.37%) Python
7 8 (4.21%) Bash
8 6 (3.16%) Bicep
8 6 (3.16%) Java
9 5 (2.63%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.58%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.53%) Korn
11 1 (0.53%) Ladder Logic
11 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.53%) VB
Qualifications
1 58 (30.53%) Security Cleared
2 37 (19.47%) SC Cleared
3 25 (13.16%) Degree
4 17 (8.95%) DV Cleared
5 12 (6.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (3.68%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (3.68%) CISSP
7 6 (3.16%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.63%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.63%) CCNP
8 5 (2.63%) CISM
9 4 (2.11%) CCNA
9 4 (2.11%) MCITP
9 4 (2.11%) MCTS
10 2 (1.05%) ISSAP
10 2 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.53%) CISA
11 1 (0.53%) GCIH
11 1 (0.53%) GIAC
11 1 (0.53%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.53%) QA
2 15 (7.89%) GDPR
3 13 (6.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 10 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (4.21%) NIST
6 6 (3.16%) SLA
7 5 (2.63%) SOC 2
8 2 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.05%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (1.05%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.53%) NCSC
9 1 (0.53%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 114 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 52 (27.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (11.58%) Docker
4 21 (11.05%) Hyper-V
5 20 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (6.32%) vSphere
7 11 (5.79%) Microsoft App-V
8 9 (4.74%) BitLocker
9 8 (4.21%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
11 5 (2.63%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (2.11%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (2.11%) Terminal Services
13 3 (1.58%) Firmware
13 3 (1.58%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.53%) KVM
14 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.53%) NFS
14 1 (0.53%) QEMU
14 1 (0.53%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (13.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (11.05%) Ansible
2 21 (11.05%) Kubernetes
3 18 (9.47%) Terraform
4 17 (8.95%) SCCM
5 16 (8.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 14 (7.37%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (6.84%) vCenter Server
8 9 (4.74%) vMotion
9 8 (4.21%) Puppet
10 6 (3.16%) Grafana
10 6 (3.16%) Prometheus
11 5 (2.63%) FortiGate
12 4 (2.11%) Nagios
12 4 (2.11%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (2.11%) SCOM
13 2 (1.05%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (1.05%) Nessus
13 2 (1.05%) Thomson Reuters DACS
14 1 (0.53%) QRadar
Vendors
1 99 (52.11%) Microsoft
2 63 (33.16%) VMware
3 33 (17.37%) Citrix
4 28 (14.74%) Oracle
5 20 (10.53%) Cisco
6 19 (10.00%) Okta
7 15 (7.89%) ServiceNow
8 14 (7.37%) Red Hat
9 11 (5.79%) Splunk
10 10 (5.26%) Dell
10 10 (5.26%) Google
10 10 (5.26%) Qualys
11 9 (4.74%) Tenable
12 8 (4.21%) IBM
13 6 (3.16%) CrowdStrike
13 6 (3.16%) NetApp
13 6 (3.16%) Rapid7
13 6 (3.16%) Zscaler
14 5 (2.63%) Meraki
14 5 (2.63%) Palo Alto