Windows Server 2019 Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Microsoft Windows Server 2019
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Windows Server 2019 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 206 152 175
Rank change year-on-year -54 +23 -6
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2019 5 10 11
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.11% 0.28% 0.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.69% 1.92% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 11
10th Percentile £213 £343 £263
25th Percentile £269 £350 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 £351 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.13% -12.38% -5.88%
75th Percentile £345 £388 £475
90th Percentile - £440 £563
England median daily rate £550 £445 £475
% change year-on-year +23.60% -6.32% -5.00%

All Operating Systems
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 725 521 669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.34% 14.50% 14.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 526 293 430
10th Percentile £150 £163 £171
25th Percentile £200 £243 £257
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £374 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.56% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £538
90th Percentile £612 £646 £600
England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 32 50
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £16.51
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.19 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.46 £21.30 £21.16
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +0.66% -5.98%
75th Percentile £56.42 £25.39 £45.19
90th Percentile £70.00 £55.73 £65.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £57.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year -56.07% +76.15% +30.00%

Windows Server 2019
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Windows Server 2019 job vacancy trend in the North of England

Windows Server 2019
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Windows Server 2019.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Windows Server 2019

Windows Server 2019
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2019 in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2019 in the North of England

Windows Server 2019
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Windows Server 2019.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Windows Server 2019

Windows Server 2019
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
North West -26 5 £315 -10.00% 3
Windows Server 2019
England

Windows Server 2019
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (20.00%) IIS
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (60.00%) Nutanix
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
1 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (60.00%) DHCP
3 2 (40.00%) Firewall
3 2 (40.00%) NetScaler
4 1 (20.00%) Internet
4 1 (20.00%) LAN
4 1 (20.00%) SSL
4 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Private Cloud
1 2 (40.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (60.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Operational Stability
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (60.00%) vSphere
3 2 (40.00%) Docker
3 2 (40.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (60.00%) SCCM
2 2 (40.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) F5
2 2 (40.00%) Veeam
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) QNAP
3 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds