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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 114 148
Rank change year-on-year -10 +34 +68
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2019 37 70 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.06% 1.52% 1.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.13% 8.84% 5.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 53 16
10th Percentile £489 £360 £206
25th Percentile £600 £400 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £605 £387
Median % change year-on-year -0.41% +56.23% -25.35%
75th Percentile £650 £608 £489
90th Percentile - £674 £525
England median daily rate £550 £563 £475
% change year-on-year -2.22% +18.42% +4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £48.31
25th Percentile - - £48.40
Median hourly rate - - £53.00
75th Percentile - - £59.95
90th Percentile - - £78.00
England median hourly rate - - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - +150.00%

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 604 792 1,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.35% 17.25% 19.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 529 722
10th Percentile £188 £203 £173
25th Percentile £221 £330 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £420
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £559
90th Percentile £625 £638 £640
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 38 82
10th Percentile £14.20 £16.22 £17.33
25th Percentile £15.50 £26.25 £29.19
Median hourly rate £18.87 £57.00 £56.78
Median % change year-on-year -66.89% +0.38% +234.00%
75th Percentile £25.86 £70.00 £69.69
90th Percentile £66.03 £71.13 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £57.25 £46.69
% change year-on-year -56.07% +22.62% +95.27%

Windows Server 2019
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Windows Server 2019 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2019 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 September 2025.

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 September 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
Hampshire +5 28 £600 +23.08% 3
Berkshire -2 8 £553 -8.68% 4
Thames Valley -11 8 £553 -8.68% 6
West Sussex - 1 £625 -
Windows Server 2019
England

Windows Server 2019
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (10.81%) Apache
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.51%) Azure
2 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (2.70%) Azure Storage
2 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (2.70%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 17 (45.95%) Fibre Channel
1 17 (45.95%) iSCSI
2 5 (13.51%) DHCP
2 5 (13.51%) DNS
2 5 (13.51%) SAN
3 4 (10.81%) VSAN
4 2 (5.41%) Firewall
5 1 (2.70%) NAS
5 1 (2.70%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) MSI
1 4 (10.81%) Robot Framework
1 4 (10.81%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (10.81%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.70%) Back Office
3 1 (2.70%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 18 (48.65%) Architect
1 18 (48.65%) Infrastructure Architect
2 15 (40.54%) VMware Architect
3 7 (18.92%) Administrator
4 4 (10.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Backup Administrator
4 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Integration Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Storage Administrator
4 4 (10.81%) Storage and Backup Administrator
5 3 (8.11%) Server Administrator
6 2 (5.41%) Support Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Active Directory Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Active Directory Support
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Citrix Specialist
7 1 (2.70%) Cloud Specialist
7 1 (2.70%) IT Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) IT Support Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) ARM Templates
1 1 (2.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) PKI
2 4 (10.81%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (5.41%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (97.30%) Windows
2 32 (86.49%) Windows Server
3 15 (40.54%) Linux
4 11 (29.73%) Windows Server 2016
5 10 (27.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (18.92%) CentOS
7 4 (10.81%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (8.11%) Ubuntu
8 3 (8.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.03%) Edge Virtualization
1 10 (27.03%) Performance Analysis
2 9 (24.32%) Mentoring
3 7 (18.92%) Customer Requirements
3 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (18.92%) Prototyping
4 6 (16.22%) Agile
4 6 (16.22%) DevOps
4 6 (16.22%) ITIL
5 4 (10.81%) Batch Scripting
5 4 (10.81%) CI/CD
5 4 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (10.81%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (10.81%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (10.81%) Operational Stability
5 4 (10.81%) Test Automation
5 4 (10.81%) Web Development
5 4 (10.81%) Workflow
6 3 (8.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 20 (54.05%) SQL
2 9 (24.32%) PowerShell
3 4 (10.81%) PHP
3 4 (10.81%) Python
3 4 (10.81%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.70%) Bicep
4 1 (2.70%) C#
4 1 (2.70%) Java
4 1 (2.70%) VB
4 1 (2.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 27 (72.97%) Security Cleared
2 21 (56.76%) DV Cleared
3 17 (45.95%) MCSE
3 17 (45.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (29.73%) VCP5
4 11 (29.73%) VCP6
4 11 (29.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 6 (16.22%) SC Cleared
6 2 (5.41%) Degree
7 1 (2.70%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (2.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 20 (54.05%) NFS
1 20 (54.05%) VMware Infrastructure
1 20 (54.05%) vSphere
2 17 (45.95%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (18.92%) Active Directory
4 3 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (5.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (5.41%) VMware NSX
6 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
6 1 (2.70%) XenApp
6 1 (2.70%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (21.62%) Terraform
2 7 (18.92%) Ansible
3 4 (10.81%) NetBackup
3 4 (10.81%) WMI
3 4 (10.81%) WSUS
4 2 (5.41%) SCCM
4 2 (5.41%) VxRail
5 1 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.70%) SCOM
Vendors
1 25 (67.57%) VMware
2 23 (62.16%) Microsoft
3 20 (54.05%) NetApp
4 17 (45.95%) Splunk
4 17 (45.95%) Veeam
5 7 (18.92%) Red Hat
6 4 (10.81%) 3PAR
6 4 (10.81%) HP
6 4 (10.81%) Veritas
7 3 (8.11%) Nimble Storage
8 2 (5.41%) Citrix
9 1 (2.70%) Dell
9 1 (2.70%) EMC
9 1 (2.70%) Oracle