Windows Server 2019 Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Windows Server 2019
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Windows Server 2019 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 136 112
Rank change year-on-year -51 -24 +18
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2019 3 3 19
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.064% 0.12% 0.72%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.71% 0.93% 4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 14
10th Percentile £326 - £167
25th Percentile £347 - £284
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £300 £350
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% -14.29% +1.82%
75th Percentile £422 - £553
90th Percentile £439 - £628
England median daily rate £538 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -2.27% -2.22% +7.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £45.22
Median hourly rate - - £48.56
75th Percentile - - £51.91
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £35.75 - £61.60
% change year-on-year - - +23.53%

All Operating Systems
Midlands

Windows Server 2019 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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 425 323 459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.13% 13.09% 17.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 234 289
10th Percentile £182 £150 £160
25th Percentile £281 £220 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £425 £440
Median % change year-on-year +7.24% -3.41% +17.33%
75th Percentile £525 £500 £550
90th Percentile £582 £575 £673
England median daily rate £469 £460 £488
% change year-on-year +1.96% -5.64% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 20 31
10th Percentile £13.38 £15.12 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.51 £16.28 £14.27
Median hourly rate £25.75 £24.83 £18.32
Median % change year-on-year +3.71% +35.53% -4.83%
75th Percentile £70.06 £25.15 £23.97
90th Percentile £74.00 - £25.30
England median hourly rate £32.50 £23.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year +41.30% -24.59% -26.59%

Windows Server 2019
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows Server 2019 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Windows Server 2019 job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Windows Server 2019
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Windows Server 2019.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Windows Server 2019

Windows Server 2019
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2019 in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2019 in the Midlands

Windows Server 2019
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Windows Server 2019.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Windows Server 2019

Windows Server 2019
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2019 within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 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
West Midlands -56 2 £450 +50.00% 4
East Midlands -8 1 £325 - 1
Windows Server 2019
England

Windows Server 2019
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (66.67%) IIS
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Server Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
1 2 (66.67%) PKI
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Application Virtualisation
1 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Identity Management
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Patch Management
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
1 2 (66.67%) Runbook
1 2 (66.67%) Server Hardening
1 2 (66.67%) User Experience
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Environments
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) XenApp
2 2 (66.67%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) SCCM
2 2 (66.67%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (66.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) NetApp