Windows Server 2019 Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Windows Server 2019
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Windows Server 2019 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server 2019 over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 102 166
Rank change year-on-year -17 +64 +43
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2019 44 107 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.34% 1.88% 0.83%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.51% 10.59% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 64 22
10th Percentile £408 £361 £358
25th Percentile £531 £525 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £605 £481
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +25.71% +1.32%
75th Percentile £650 £608 £588
90th Percentile £658 - £634
England median daily rate £550 £569 £525
% change year-on-year -3.30% +8.33% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 4
10th Percentile - - £26.68
25th Percentile - £56.50 £40.06
Median hourly rate - £61.60 £49.20
Median % change year-on-year - +25.20% -
75th Percentile - - £59.72
90th Percentile - - £72.71
England median hourly rate - £59.80 £26.48
% change year-on-year - +125.83% +32.40%

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 586 1,010 1,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.82% 17.78% 19.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 639 785
10th Percentile £198 £203 £194
25th Percentile £315 £331 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £600 £590 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £643
England median daily rate £464 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.37% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 66 69
10th Percentile £14.57 £15.94 £16.30
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.77 £21.25
Median hourly rate £18.82 £47.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.38% -13.64% +223.53%
75th Percentile £28.00 £69.92 £66.00
90th Percentile £58.21 £71.88 £74.00
England median hourly rate £20.00 £25.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -20.00% -41.18% +93.18%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2019 in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2019 in the South East

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 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2019 in the South East

Windows Server 2019
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2019 in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2019 in the South East

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 6 July 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 +23 26 £650 +26.83% 11
Thames Valley -22 18 £550 -9.09% 20
Berkshire -24 12 £578 -4.55% 11
Buckinghamshire - 6 £425 - 6
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 (9.09%) Apache
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.27%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.64%) Azure
2 2 (4.55%) Entra ID
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (2.27%) Azure Storage
3 1 (2.27%) GitHub
3 1 (2.27%) Mimecast
3 1 (2.27%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 13 (29.55%) DNS
1 13 (29.55%) Fibre Channel
1 13 (29.55%) iSCSI
2 9 (20.45%) DHCP
3 4 (9.09%) SAN
3 4 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 4 (9.09%) VSAN
4 2 (4.55%) Firewall
5 1 (2.27%) Modbus
5 1 (2.27%) NetScaler
5 1 (2.27%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (9.09%) MSI
1 4 (9.09%) Robot Framework
1 4 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (11.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (29.55%) Architect
1 13 (29.55%) Infrastructure Architect
2 12 (27.27%) VMware Architect
3 7 (15.91%) Administrator
4 4 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Backup Administrator
4 4 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 4 (9.09%) Integration Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Lead
4 4 (9.09%) Storage Administrator
4 4 (9.09%) Storage and Backup Administrator
5 3 (6.82%) Citrix Specialist
5 3 (6.82%) Server Administrator
6 2 (4.55%) Citrix Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Support Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Technical Specialist
7 1 (2.27%) IT Engineer
7 1 (2.27%) IT Support
7 1 (2.27%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Enterprise Storage
2 5 (11.36%) PKI
3 4 (9.09%) Data Centre
4 3 (6.82%) Clustering
5 1 (2.27%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.27%) SCADA
5 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 43 (97.73%) Windows
2 38 (86.36%) Windows Server
3 15 (34.09%) Linux
4 12 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (22.73%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (18.18%) Windows 10
7 6 (13.64%) CentOS
8 4 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (6.82%) Unix
10 2 (4.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (22.73%) Edge Virtualization
2 10 (22.73%) ITIL
2 10 (22.73%) Performance Analysis
3 9 (20.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (11.36%) Agile
5 5 (11.36%) DevOps
5 5 (11.36%) Mentoring
5 5 (11.36%) Prototyping
6 4 (9.09%) CI/CD
6 4 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (9.09%) DevSecOps
6 4 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (9.09%) High Availability
6 4 (9.09%) Server Management
6 4 (9.09%) Test Automation
6 4 (9.09%) Web Development
6 4 (9.09%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 16 (36.36%) SQL
2 14 (31.82%) PowerShell
3 4 (9.09%) PHP
3 4 (9.09%) Python
3 4 (9.09%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.27%) Bicep
4 1 (2.27%) C#
4 1 (2.27%) VB
4 1 (2.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 31 (70.45%) Security Cleared
2 17 (38.64%) DV Cleared
3 14 (31.82%) SC Cleared
4 13 (29.55%) MCSE
4 13 (29.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (25.00%) VCP5
5 11 (25.00%) VCP6
5 11 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (4.55%) Degree
7 1 (2.27%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (2.27%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (2.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.27%) IEC 61131
1 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 18 (40.91%) VMware Infrastructure
1 18 (40.91%) vSphere
2 16 (36.36%) NFS
3 13 (29.55%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (22.73%) Active Directory
5 5 (11.36%) Hyper-V
6 4 (9.09%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (2.27%) XenApp
8 1 (2.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (18.18%) NetBackup
1 8 (18.18%) Terraform
2 7 (15.91%) Ansible
2 7 (15.91%) WSUS
3 4 (9.09%) WMI
4 3 (6.82%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (6.82%) Norton AntiVirus
4 3 (6.82%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.27%) SCCM
5 1 (2.27%) SCOM
5 1 (2.27%) VxRail
Vendors
1 28 (63.64%) VMware
2 19 (43.18%) Microsoft
3 16 (36.36%) NetApp
4 13 (29.55%) Splunk
4 13 (29.55%) Veeam
5 10 (22.73%) Red Hat
6 8 (18.18%) 3PAR
6 8 (18.18%) HP
6 8 (18.18%) Veritas
7 5 (11.36%) Citrix
7 5 (11.36%) Dell
8 3 (6.82%) Juniper
8 3 (6.82%) NETGEAR
8 3 (6.82%) Nimble Storage
8 3 (6.82%) SolarWinds
8 3 (6.82%) Symantec
8 3 (6.82%) TP-LINK
9 1 (2.27%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (2.27%) Netskope
9 1 (2.27%) Rockwell