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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 181 142
Rank change year-on-year -58 -39 -9
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 170 175 310
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.95% 1.40% 1.77%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.34% 11.76% 14.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 123 205
10th Percentile £254 £363 £260
25th Percentile £415 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% +16.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £613 £655 £594
90th Percentile £640 £749 £683
England median daily rate £483 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -12.18% +15.79% -5.00%
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 £27.88 £18.75 £46.75
% change year-on-year +48.69% -59.89% +37.50%

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 1,378 1,488 2,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.68% 11.89% 11.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 916 1,030 1,480
10th Percentile £204 £250 £206
25th Percentile £350 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £688 £744 £750
England median daily rate £450 £468 £475
% change year-on-year -3.74% -1.58% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 18 64
10th Percentile £19.54 £17.72 £14.79
25th Percentile £21.14 £21.88 £18.04
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.58 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.32% +11.73% -43.11%
75th Percentile £57.00 £28.85 £25.71
90th Percentile £70.00 £53.80 £60.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £21.59 £22.00
% change year-on-year +120.01% -1.86% -41.33%

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 May 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 May 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 -43 17 £550 - 19
West London -25 8 £500 +25.00% 3
South London -6 5 £165 -57.42%
North London +1 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 28 (16.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (6.47%) SharePoint
3 7 (4.12%) nginx
3 7 (4.12%) Tomcat
4 5 (2.94%) IIS
5 3 (1.76%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.18%) SAS
7 1 (0.59%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.59%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.76%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 1 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 93 (54.71%) Azure
2 43 (25.29%) Entra ID
3 41 (24.12%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (10.00%) IaaS
5 15 (8.82%) AWS
6 10 (5.88%) PaaS
7 9 (5.29%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (4.12%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (2.94%) GitHub
10 4 (2.35%) Azure AKS
11 3 (1.76%) Azure Stack
11 3 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.76%) MinIO
11 3 (1.76%) SaaS
12 2 (1.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (1.18%) GCP
12 2 (1.18%) Mimecast
12 2 (1.18%) OCI
12 2 (1.18%) OneDrive
12 2 (1.18%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 62 (36.47%) DNS
2 47 (27.65%) DHCP
3 39 (22.94%) Firewall
4 23 (13.53%) VPN
5 21 (12.35%) WAN
6 16 (9.41%) LAN
7 15 (8.82%) Kerberos
8 8 (4.71%) SMTP
8 8 (4.71%) TCP/IP
9 7 (4.12%) MPLS
9 7 (4.12%) SD-WAN
10 4 (2.35%) HTTP
10 4 (2.35%) VoIP
11 3 (1.76%) VSAN
11 3 (1.76%) Wireless
12 2 (1.18%) BGP
12 2 (1.18%) Network Security
12 2 (1.18%) Unified Communications
12 2 (1.18%) VLAN
12 2 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (21.76%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.47%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (6.47%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.76%) GIS
5 2 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.18%) Big Data
5 2 (1.18%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.18%) Power BI
5 2 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.59%) MySQL
6 1 (0.59%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (5.88%) Visual Studio
2 5 (2.94%) JIRA
3 4 (2.35%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.18%) AdminStudio
4 2 (1.18%) InstallShield
4 2 (1.18%) MSI
5 1 (0.59%) Git
5 1 (0.59%) TeamCity
General
1 40 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 38 (22.35%) Finance
3 16 (9.41%) Banking
4 15 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 12 (7.06%) Legal
6 8 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.35%) Local Government
9 3 (1.76%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.76%) Front Office
9 3 (1.76%) Law
10 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.18%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.59%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.59%) International Banking
11 1 (0.59%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.59%) Marketing
11 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (21.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 21 (12.35%) Developer
3 19 (11.18%) C# Developer
4 10 (5.88%) Senior
5 8 (4.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 8 (4.71%) Analyst
5 8 (4.71%) Integration Engineer
5 8 (4.71%) IT Support
5 8 (4.71%) Lead
6 7 (4.12%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (4.12%) NetApp Engineer
6 7 (4.12%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (4.12%) Server Engineer
6 7 (4.12%) Storage Engineer
6 7 (4.12%) Support Engineer
7 5 (2.94%) .NET Developer
7 5 (2.94%) Desktop Engineer
7 5 (2.94%) Infrastructure Manager
7 5 (2.94%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 5 (2.94%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (12.94%) .NET
2 20 (11.76%) .NET Framework
3 17 (10.00%) LDAP
4 15 (8.82%) OAuth
5 14 (8.24%) SAML
6 4 (2.35%) ADO
6 4 (2.35%) EJB
6 4 (2.35%) JSON
6 4 (2.35%) Middleware
7 3 (1.76%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.76%) Java EE
7 3 (1.76%) OpenLayers
7 3 (1.76%) Spring
7 3 (1.76%) WinForms
8 2 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (1.18%) React
8 2 (1.18%) REST
9 1 (0.59%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.59%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.41%) Replication
2 13 (7.65%) PKI
3 12 (7.06%) Clustering
4 11 (6.47%) Data Centre
5 9 (5.29%) Enterprise Storage
5 9 (5.29%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (3.53%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.35%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.35%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.76%) Educational Technology
9 3 (1.76%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.76%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (1.76%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.18%) BYOD
10 2 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.18%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 170 (100.00%) Windows
2 42 (24.71%) Linux
3 19 (11.18%) Windows Server 2019
4 16 (9.41%) Windows Server 2016
5 14 (8.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (7.06%) Windows 10
7 7 (4.12%) Solaris
7 7 (4.12%) Windows Server 2003
7 7 (4.12%) Windows Server 2008
8 6 (3.53%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (2.94%) Ubuntu
10 4 (2.35%) VMS
11 3 (1.76%) Android
12 2 (1.18%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.59%) AIX
13 1 (0.59%) Debian
13 1 (0.59%) Unix
13 1 (0.59%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (28.24%) Disaster Recovery
2 43 (25.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 25 (14.71%) High Availability
4 24 (14.12%) Migration
5 21 (12.35%) Change Management
5 21 (12.35%) ITIL
6 19 (11.18%) Identity Access Management
7 18 (10.59%) Business Intelligence
7 18 (10.59%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (10.59%) Task Automation
8 17 (10.00%) RBAC
9 16 (9.41%) CI/CD
9 16 (9.41%) Incident Management
10 15 (8.82%) Data Analysis
10 15 (8.82%) DevOps
10 15 (8.82%) Unit Testing
11 14 (8.24%) Project Delivery
12 13 (7.65%) Agile
13 12 (7.06%) Infrastructure as Code
13 12 (7.06%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (38.24%) PowerShell
2 38 (22.35%) SQL
3 25 (14.71%) PL/SQL
4 23 (13.53%) C#
5 20 (11.76%) T-SQL
6 5 (2.94%) Java
6 5 (2.94%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.94%) Python
7 3 (1.76%) Bash
7 3 (1.76%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.18%) Bicep
9 1 (0.59%) JCL
9 1 (0.59%) Ladder Logic
9 1 (0.59%) REXX
9 1 (0.59%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.59%) VB
Qualifications
1 48 (28.24%) Security Cleared
2 34 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 29 (17.06%) Degree
4 15 (8.82%) DV Cleared
5 9 (5.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (3.53%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.35%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.35%) CCNA
7 4 (2.35%) CCNP
7 4 (2.35%) MCITP
7 4 (2.35%) MCTS
8 2 (1.18%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.18%) CISSP
8 2 (1.18%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.18%) MCSE
9 1 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.59%) CESG Certified Professional
9 1 (0.59%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.35%) QA
2 18 (10.59%) GDPR
3 15 (8.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 7 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.94%) SLA
6 4 (2.35%) NIST
7 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (1.18%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.59%) Basel III
8 1 (0.59%) DICOM
8 1 (0.59%) GAAP
8 1 (0.59%) HL7
8 1 (0.59%) IFRS
8 1 (0.59%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.59%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.59%) NCSC
8 1 (0.59%) SOC 2
System Software
1 100 (58.82%) Active Directory
2 43 (25.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (11.18%) Docker
3 19 (11.18%) Hyper-V
4 15 (8.82%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (5.88%) Microsoft App-V
6 9 (5.29%) vSphere
7 8 (4.71%) BitLocker
8 7 (4.12%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (2.94%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (1.76%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (1.76%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (1.18%) Firmware
11 2 (1.18%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.59%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.59%) NFS
12 1 (0.59%) QEMU
12 1 (0.59%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 29 (17.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (10.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 17 (10.00%) SCCM
4 15 (8.82%) Kubernetes
4 15 (8.82%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (8.24%) Ansible
6 9 (5.29%) Terraform
7 8 (4.71%) Puppet
7 8 (4.71%) vCenter Server
7 8 (4.71%) vMotion
8 4 (2.35%) FortiGate
8 4 (2.35%) SCOM
9 3 (1.76%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (1.18%) Control-M
10 2 (1.18%) Grafana
10 2 (1.18%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.18%) QRadar
10 2 (1.18%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 1 (0.59%) Kibana
11 1 (0.59%) logstash
Vendors
1 89 (52.35%) Microsoft
2 51 (30.00%) VMware
3 33 (19.41%) Citrix
4 31 (18.24%) Oracle
5 15 (8.82%) Cisco
5 15 (8.82%) Okta
6 12 (7.06%) Red Hat
7 10 (5.88%) Dell
8 9 (5.29%) ServiceNow
9 8 (4.71%) IBM
9 8 (4.71%) NetApp
10 5 (2.94%) Meraki
10 5 (2.94%) Qualys
11 4 (2.35%) Fortinet
11 4 (2.35%) Palo Alto
11 4 (2.35%) SolarWinds
12 3 (1.76%) Bloomberg
12 3 (1.76%) CheckPoint
12 3 (1.76%) Juniper
12 3 (1.76%) Reuters