Windows Server 2019 Contract Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Windows Server 2019
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Windows Server 2019 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 120 97
Rank change year-on-year -73 -23 +68
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2019 17 33 105
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.28% 1.09% 1.83%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.32% 5.96% 10.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 28 65
10th Percentile £519 £418 £438
25th Percentile £527 £525 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £605
Median % change year-on-year - -0.83% +24.10%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £608
90th Percentile £769 £661 -
England median daily rate £494 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -10.23% -4.35% +7.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.75 - £56.50
Median hourly rate £16.50 - £61.60
75th Percentile £17.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £35.75 - £59.80
% change year-on-year - - +125.83%

All Operating Systems
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 732 554 1,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.98% 18.37% 17.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 388 648
10th Percentile £204 £200 £205
25th Percentile £311 £324 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £588
90th Percentile £650 £660 £663
England median daily rate £456 £464 £475
% change year-on-year -1.62% -2.37% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 41 61
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.20 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.41 £16.95 £18.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £18.82 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.69% -62.36% -13.04%
75th Percentile £53.17 £28.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 £23.00
% change year-on-year +72.23% -17.96% -50.80%

Windows Server 2019
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Windows Server 2019 job vacancy trend in the South East

Windows Server 2019
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Windows Server 2019
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2019 in the South East over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2019 in the South East

Windows Server 2019
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Windows Server 2019
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 17 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
Hampshire -37 12 £568 -12.69% 3
Thames Valley -51 2 £600 +9.09% 3
East Sussex - 2 £788 - 1
Berkshire -28 1 - - 2
Buckinghamshire -41 1 £600 +41.18% 1
West Sussex - 1 £700 - 1
Windows Server 2019
England

Windows Server 2019
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (23.53%) SharePoint
2 2 (11.76%) Apache
2 2 (11.76%) IIS
2 2 (11.76%) nginx
2 2 (11.76%) Tomcat
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) Entra ID
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (17.65%) AWS
4 2 (11.76%) Cloudflare
5 1 (5.88%) IaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 11 (64.71%) DNS
2 5 (29.41%) DHCP
3 4 (23.53%) BIG-IP
4 3 (17.65%) VSAN
5 2 (11.76%) Firewall
6 1 (5.88%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) MySQL
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) MSI
1 1 (5.88%) Robot Framework
1 1 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Lead
2 3 (17.65%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Lead Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Server Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Team Leader
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) IT Technician
4 1 (5.88%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) IT Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) IT Support
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Network Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Service Desk Support
4 1 (5.88%) Service Desk Support Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Service Desk Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) LAMP
1 2 (11.76%) LEMP Stack
1 2 (11.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) PKI
2 1 (5.88%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Windows
2 15 (88.24%) Windows Server
3 7 (41.18%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (35.29%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (29.41%) Linux
5 5 (29.41%) Ubuntu
6 2 (11.76%) CentOS
6 2 (11.76%) Windows 10
7 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
7 1 (5.88%) Windows 7
7 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (17.65%) Agile
3 3 (17.65%) Antivirus Management
3 3 (17.65%) BCP
3 3 (17.65%) Business Continuity
3 3 (17.65%) Business Continuity Planning
3 3 (17.65%) Desktop Virtualisation
3 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (17.65%) High Availability
3 3 (17.65%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (17.65%) Load Balancing
3 3 (17.65%) Process Improvement
3 3 (17.65%) Risk Management
3 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
3 3 (17.65%) Server Virtualisation
3 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (17.65%) Strategic Roadmap
3 3 (17.65%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
2 3 (17.65%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) Bash
Qualifications
1 11 (64.71%) Security Cleared
2 6 (35.29%) DV Cleared
3 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.88%) Degree
5 1 (5.88%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) ISO 9001
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.88%) NCSC
1 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (82.35%) Active Directory
2 13 (76.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (41.18%) VMware NSX
4 4 (23.53%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (23.53%) vSphere
5 2 (11.76%) Dovecot
5 2 (11.76%) Hyper-V
5 2 (11.76%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Ansible
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (17.65%) SCCM
1 3 (17.65%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (17.65%) Terraform
1 3 (17.65%) WSUS
2 2 (11.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (11.76%) HAProxy
2 2 (11.76%) SCOM
2 2 (11.76%) vCenter Server
3 1 (5.88%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (5.88%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (5.88%) WMI
Vendors
1 14 (82.35%) VMware
2 8 (47.06%) Microsoft
3 5 (29.41%) F5
3 5 (29.41%) Juniper
4 3 (17.65%) NVIDIA
5 2 (11.76%) Cisco
5 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
6 1 (5.88%) Broadcom
6 1 (5.88%) Dell
6 1 (5.88%) McAfee
6 1 (5.88%) Remedy
6 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds