Windows Server 2012 Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Windows Server 2012
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Windows Server 2012 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server 2012 over the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 126 109
Rank change year-on-year +27 -17 +15
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2012 14 27 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.75% 0.87% 1.56%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.52% 4.58% 8.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 20 30
10th Percentile £506 £175 £159
25th Percentile £553 £436 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £488
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% +10.26% +14.71%
75th Percentile £611 £602 £527
90th Percentile £646 £651 £575
England median daily rate £500 £425 £435
% change year-on-year +17.65% -2.30% +2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.00
Median hourly rate - - £21.00
75th Percentile - - £23.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - +30.00%

All Operating Systems
South West

Windows Server 2012 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 310 589 624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.56% 18.88% 17.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 392 416
10th Percentile £200 £180 £184
25th Percentile £246 £422 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £538 £506
Median % change year-on-year -7.91% +6.17% +12.50%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £623
90th Percentile £673 £699 £711
England median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 87 71
10th Percentile £18.32 £14.00 £19.92
25th Percentile - £51.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +6.87% +26.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 - £75.50
90th Percentile - - £78.00
England median hourly rate £23.00 £25.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -8.00% -41.18% +93.18%

Windows Server 2012
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Windows Server 2012 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2012 in the South West

Windows Server 2012
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2012 in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2012 in the South West

Windows Server 2012
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2012 in the South West over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2012 in the South West

Windows Server 2012
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2012 in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2012 in the South West

Windows Server 2012
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2012 within the South West region over the 6 months to 18 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
Dorset +4 5 £525 +184.08%
Wiltshire +19 4 £575 +6.98% 1
Bristol +10 4 £588 -21.67% 1
Gloucestershire +26 1 - - 1
Windows Server 2012
England

Windows Server 2012
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 8 (57.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (21.43%) Confluence
3 2 (14.29%) Skype for Business
4 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
4 1 (7.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) Skype
2 4 (28.57%) DHCP
2 4 (28.57%) DNS
3 3 (21.43%) NetScaler
4 2 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Military
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Wintel Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
2 4 (28.57%) Senior Wintel Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Test Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Applications Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Citrix Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Design Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Desktop Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Server Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Test and Integration Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Wintel Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 10 (71.43%) PKI
2 1 (7.14%) CESG
2 1 (7.14%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (85.71%) Windows Server
3 8 (57.14%) Windows 10
4 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (7.14%) Solaris
5 1 (7.14%) VMS
5 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) Critical Thinking
3 4 (28.57%) ITIL
3 4 (28.57%) NsoIT
3 4 (28.57%) Scrum
3 4 (28.57%) Service Management
3 4 (28.57%) System Testing
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
4 3 (21.43%) Technical Debt
4 3 (21.43%) Test Scripting
5 2 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Regression Testing
6 1 (7.14%) Change Management
6 1 (7.14%) Incident Management
6 1 (7.14%) Project Management
6 1 (7.14%) Software Engineering
6 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (7.14%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) PowerShell
2 9 (64.29%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (78.57%) Security Cleared
2 9 (64.29%) SC Cleared
3 7 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (42.86%) MCSE
5 5 (35.71%) DV Cleared
6 4 (28.57%) Degree
7 2 (14.29%) MCSA
7 2 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) JSP 440
1 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 7 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (28.57%) Hyper-V
3 4 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (21.43%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (21.43%) XenDesktop
5 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) SCCM
2 4 (28.57%) WSUS
3 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 1 (7.14%) PowerCLI
4 1 (7.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 9 (64.29%) VMware
3 3 (21.43%) Citrix
3 3 (21.43%) Ivanti
4 1 (7.14%) Fujitsu
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle
4 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.14%) Veritas