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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 176 103
Rank change year-on-year -49 -73 +85
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 161 231 489
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.14% 1.48% 2.45%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.02% 12.08% 16.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 157 344
10th Percentile £313 £248 £238
25th Percentile £413 £344 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £512
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -12.07% +3.91%
75th Percentile £591 £563 £639
90th Percentile £771 £625 £745
England median daily rate £500 £470 £475
% change year-on-year +6.38% -1.05% +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile - £102.40 £24.25
25th Percentile £21.46 £106.00 £28.75
Median hourly rate £22.23 £112.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -80.15% +244.62% +30.00%
75th Percentile £24.75 - £33.75
90th Percentile £27.90 - -
England median hourly rate £16.75 £61.19 £49.07
% change year-on-year -72.63% +24.71% +96.26%

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 1,606 1,912 2,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.40% 12.26% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,039 1,248 2,127
10th Percentile £204 £225 £205
25th Percentile £359 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £713 £750
England median daily rate £450 £475 £480
% change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 19 52
10th Percentile £19.03 £21.07 £18.09
25th Percentile £21.46 £25.40 £21.81
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £34.67
Median % change year-on-year -56.26% +65.85% +38.68%
75th Percentile - £69.88 £60.00
90th Percentile £54.13 £102.40 £73.63
England median hourly rate £23.50 £58.49 £40.00
% change year-on-year -59.82% +46.23% +60.00%

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025. 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 -7 31 £533 +6.50% 70
West London -8 8 £375 +3.45% 8
South London -10 2 - - 3
East London +3 1 £200 -20.79% 6
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 25 (15.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (8.07%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.48%) SAS
4 3 (1.86%) HCL Notes
5 2 (1.24%) Confluence
6 1 (0.62%) IIS
6 1 (0.62%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.62%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.62%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.62%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.62%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.62%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.62%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 2 (1.24%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 82 (50.93%) Azure
2 48 (29.81%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (19.88%) Entra ID
4 16 (9.94%) AWS
5 14 (8.70%) IaaS
6 11 (6.83%) SaaS
7 8 (4.97%) GitHub
7 8 (4.97%) Power Platform
8 5 (3.11%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (3.11%) PaaS
8 5 (3.11%) Power Automate
9 4 (2.48%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.48%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (2.48%) PowerApps
9 4 (2.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.86%) GCP
10 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 38 (23.60%) Firewall
2 36 (22.36%) DNS
3 27 (16.77%) DHCP
4 16 (9.94%) VPN
5 10 (6.21%) WAN
5 10 (6.21%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (4.97%) Network Security
7 6 (3.73%) LAN
7 6 (3.73%) Wireless
8 5 (3.11%) TCP/IP
9 4 (2.48%) IPv4
9 4 (2.48%) VLAN
10 3 (1.86%) Internet
10 3 (1.86%) NetScaler
10 3 (1.86%) SAN
10 3 (1.86%) SSH
11 2 (1.24%) MPLS
11 2 (1.24%) NAS
11 2 (1.24%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (1.24%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.56%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.73%) Power BI
3 4 (2.48%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.24%) Apache Hive
4 2 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.24%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.24%) Impala
5 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.62%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.62%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.62%) Redis
5 1 (0.62%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (3.73%) GitLab
2 5 (3.11%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.48%) Git
3 4 (2.48%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.24%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.24%) JIRA
4 2 (1.24%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.24%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.62%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 33 (20.50%) Finance
2 29 (18.01%) Social Skills
3 14 (8.70%) Banking
4 11 (6.83%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (6.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (6.21%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.11%) Local Government
7 5 (3.11%) Spanish Language
8 4 (2.48%) Front Office
8 4 (2.48%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.86%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.24%) Marketing
10 2 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.24%) Retail
11 1 (0.62%) Back Office
11 1 (0.62%) International Banking
11 1 (0.62%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.62%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.62%) Police
Job Titles
1 33 (20.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (9.94%) Architect
2 16 (9.94%) Senior
3 12 (7.45%) Platform Engineer
4 11 (6.83%) Support Engineer
5 10 (6.21%) Security Engineer
5 10 (6.21%) Windows Engineer
5 10 (6.21%) Wintel Engineer
6 9 (5.59%) Developer
6 9 (5.59%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 7 (4.35%) Analyst
7 7 (4.35%) Lead
7 7 (4.35%) Server Engineer
7 7 (4.35%) Support Analyst
8 6 (3.73%) Applications Engineer
8 6 (3.73%) Desktop Support
8 6 (3.73%) Infrastructure Manager
8 6 (3.73%) Infrastructure Project Manager
8 6 (3.73%) Project Manager
8 6 (3.73%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.73%) .NET
2 5 (3.11%) REST
3 4 (2.48%) Middleware
3 4 (2.48%) YAML
4 3 (1.86%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (1.86%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (1.24%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.24%) CSS
5 2 (1.24%) HTML
5 2 (1.24%) jQuery
5 2 (1.24%) SPFx
5 2 (1.24%) Swing
6 1 (0.62%) ISPF
6 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.62%) OAuth
6 1 (0.62%) SAML
6 1 (0.62%) SOAP
6 1 (0.62%) WCF
6 1 (0.62%) Web Services
6 1 (0.62%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.15%) Data Centre
2 14 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (6.83%) PKI
4 7 (4.35%) Replication
5 5 (3.11%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.11%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.48%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.86%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.86%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.86%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.24%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.24%) Fat Client
8 2 (1.24%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.24%) iPad
8 2 (1.24%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 157 (97.52%) Windows
2 44 (27.33%) Linux
3 12 (7.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (4.97%) Ubuntu
4 8 (4.97%) Windows 10
5 6 (3.73%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (3.73%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.11%) CentOS
6 5 (3.11%) Unix
7 4 (2.48%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.86%) Android
8 3 (1.86%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.24%) AIX
9 2 (1.24%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.24%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.62%) Solaris
10 1 (0.62%) VMS
10 1 (0.62%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.62%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (24.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 33 (20.50%) ITIL
3 29 (18.01%) Migration
4 22 (13.66%) DevOps
5 19 (11.80%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (11.18%) Agile
7 16 (9.94%) CI/CD
7 16 (9.94%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (9.32%) Disaster Recovery
9 12 (7.45%) Cybersecurity
9 12 (7.45%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (6.83%) Architectural Design
10 11 (6.83%) Customer Service
10 11 (6.83%) Project Delivery
10 11 (6.83%) Service Management
11 10 (6.21%) Vulnerability Management
12 9 (5.59%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (5.59%) Identity Access Management
12 9 (5.59%) Service Delivery
12 9 (5.59%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 61 (37.89%) PowerShell
2 20 (12.42%) SQL
3 19 (11.80%) Python
4 11 (6.83%) Bash
5 9 (5.59%) C#
6 5 (3.11%) Bicep
6 5 (3.11%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.48%) Java
8 3 (1.86%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.24%) Formula Language
9 2 (1.24%) LotusScript
9 2 (1.24%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.62%) C
10 1 (0.62%) JCL
10 1 (0.62%) REXX
10 1 (0.62%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (12.42%) Security Cleared
2 18 (11.18%) Degree
3 12 (7.45%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.21%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (5.59%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.73%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.73%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (3.11%) CCNA
8 4 (2.48%) CCNP
8 4 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (1.86%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.24%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.24%) MCITP
10 2 (1.24%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.62%) CCDP
11 1 (0.62%) CISSP
11 1 (0.62%) MCSA
11 1 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.97%) NIST
2 7 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (4.35%) QA
3 5 (3.11%) SLA
4 4 (2.48%) GDPR
5 2 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.24%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.62%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.62%) NCSC
6 1 (0.62%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 95 (59.01%) Active Directory
2 32 (19.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (8.07%) Hyper-V
4 12 (7.45%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (4.97%) vSphere
6 7 (4.35%) Docker
6 7 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (3.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (3.11%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (1.24%) HDFS
8 2 (1.24%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.62%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.62%) Firmware
9 1 (0.62%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.62%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 29 (18.01%) SCCM
2 27 (16.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 22 (13.66%) Terraform
4 15 (9.32%) SCOM
5 14 (8.70%) Ansible
6 6 (3.73%) CASB
6 6 (3.73%) SCOrch
7 5 (3.11%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.48%) Kubernetes
8 4 (2.48%) Packer
9 3 (1.86%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.86%) Kibana
9 3 (1.86%) NetBackup
9 3 (1.86%) Puppet
9 3 (1.86%) vCenter Server
10 2 (1.24%) Grafana
10 2 (1.24%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (1.24%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.62%) QRadar
11 1 (0.62%) vRealize
Vendors
1 81 (50.31%) Microsoft
2 44 (27.33%) VMware
3 14 (8.70%) Cisco
4 13 (8.07%) Dell
5 11 (6.83%) Citrix
6 10 (6.21%) Oracle
7 9 (5.59%) Red Hat
8 6 (3.73%) HP
9 5 (3.11%) Qualys
9 5 (3.11%) ServiceNow
9 5 (3.11%) Veeam
10 4 (2.48%) Reuters
10 4 (2.48%) Tenable
11 3 (1.86%) Commvault
11 3 (1.86%) CyberArk
11 3 (1.86%) Lotus
11 3 (1.86%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.86%) SnapLogic
11 3 (1.86%) Splunk
12 2 (1.24%) Polycom