Windows Server 2012 Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Windows Server 2012
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 113 124
Rank change year-on-year +3 +11 +33
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2012 5 21 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.30% 0.79% 0.87%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.95% 6.48% 5.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 20 16
10th Percentile - £548 £350
25th Percentile £393 £575 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £598 £487
Median % change year-on-year -33.89% +22.61% +85.64%
75th Percentile £398 £608 £681
90th Percentile - - £706
South East median daily rate £323 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -40.00% +7.50% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £81.37
South East median hourly rate - - £27.00
% change year-on-year - - +35.00%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 257 324 459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.55% 12.24% 15.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 207 322
10th Percentile £200 £205 £195
25th Percentile £315 £291 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £473
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -0.53%
75th Percentile £564 £604 £588
90th Percentile £700 £608 £675
South East median daily rate £490 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +3.16% +5.56% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 27 13
10th Percentile - £16.19 -
25th Percentile £14.20 £18.00 £18.08
Median hourly rate £15.12 £47.50 £23.30
Median % change year-on-year -68.17% +103.86% +37.06%
75th Percentile £18.87 £59.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £24.32 £61.60 £68.13
South East median hourly rate £18.87 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -60.27% -13.64% +223.53%

Windows Server 2012
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2012 in the Thames Valley

Windows Server 2012
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2012 in the Thames Valley

Windows Server 2012
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2012 in the Thames Valley

Windows Server 2012
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 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
Berkshire +11 4 £395 -34.71% 6
Buckinghamshire +5 1 - - 2
Windows Server 2012
South East

Windows Server 2012
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Administrator
1 4 (80.00%) Backup Administrator
1 4 (80.00%) Storage Administrator
1 4 (80.00%) Storage and Backup Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (20.00%) VMS
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
4 1 (20.00%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) RMADS
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) 3PAR
1 4 (80.00%) HP
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (80.00%) Veritas
2 3 (60.00%) NetApp
2 3 (60.00%) Nimble Storage
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) VMware