Windows Server 2019 Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Windows Server 2019
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Windows Server 2019 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server 2019 over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 132 151
Rank change year-on-year +64 +19 -26
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2019 73 20 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.71% 0.68% 0.49%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.48% 4.42% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 11 16
10th Percentile £400 £350 £428
25th Percentile - £360 £552
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £387 £585
Median % change year-on-year +48.58% -33.85% +193.23%
75th Percentile £608 £484 £663
90th Percentile - £519 £700
South East median daily rate £575 £488 £490
% change year-on-year +17.95% -0.41% +30.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile - £47.68 -
25th Percentile £56.50 £47.95 -
Median hourly rate £61.60 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.20% - -
75th Percentile - £66.94 -
90th Percentile - £75.60 -
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £49.20 -
% change year-on-year +25.20% - -

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

Windows Server 2019 is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 395 452 598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.68% 15.38% 17.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 326 436
10th Percentile £193 £230 £145
25th Percentile £213 £363 £191
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £575
90th Percentile £608 £675 £650
South East median daily rate £450 £478 £450
% change year-on-year -5.76% +6.11% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 16 22
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.08 £12.25
25th Percentile £19.13 £19.52 £12.63
Median hourly rate £38.75 £48.70 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.43% +143.50% -18.37%
75th Percentile £57.13 £62.97 £42.50
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.19 £67.38
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -9.52% +162.50% +14.29%

Windows Server 2019
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2019 in the Thames Valley

Windows Server 2019
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2019 in the Thames Valley

Windows Server 2019
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2019 in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2019 in the Thames Valley

Windows Server 2019
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2019 in the Thames Valley

Windows Server 2019
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 2019 within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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 +48 71 £590 +58.39% 9
Oxfordshire - 2 £525 - 1
Windows Server 2019
South East

Windows Server 2019
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:

Application Platforms
1 17 (23.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.74%) nginx
Business Applications
1 6 (8.22%) Teamcenter
2 2 (2.74%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 36 (49.32%) Azure
2 17 (23.29%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (20.55%) Azure Monitor
3 15 (20.55%) Azure Storage
3 15 (20.55%) Entra ID
4 13 (17.81%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 34 (46.58%) DHCP
1 34 (46.58%) DNS
2 30 (41.10%) Firewall
3 22 (30.14%) SAN
4 4 (5.48%) NAS
5 2 (2.74%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (2.74%) WAN
5 2 (2.74%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.22%) MySQL
1 6 (8.22%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.48%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (5.48%) PostgreSQL
General
1 52 (71.23%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.59%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (28.77%) Build Engineer
1 21 (28.77%) Windows Build Engineer
1 21 (28.77%) Windows Engineer
2 19 (26.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 15 (20.55%) Active Directory Support
4 14 (19.18%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (19.18%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (19.18%) Support Specialist
5 10 (13.70%) Administrator
5 10 (13.70%) Systems Administrator
6 9 (12.33%) Storage Engineer
7 8 (10.96%) Support Engineer
8 7 (9.59%) Senior
8 7 (9.59%) Senior Systems Administrator
9 4 (5.48%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Infrastructure Support
9 4 (5.48%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 3 (4.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 3 (4.11%) VMware Engineer
10 3 (4.11%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (20.55%) ARM Templates
2 6 (8.22%) Itk
3 2 (2.74%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 19 (26.03%) PKI
2 17 (23.29%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (17.81%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.48%) Fat Client
4 4 (5.48%) Thin Client
5 3 (4.11%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (2.74%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 73 (100.00%) Windows
2 67 (91.78%) Windows Server 2016
3 64 (87.67%) Windows Server
4 43 (58.90%) Windows Server 2012
5 38 (52.05%) Windows 10
6 37 (50.68%) Linux
7 21 (28.77%) Windows NT
8 13 (17.81%) Windows XP
9 6 (8.22%) Ubuntu
10 5 (6.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (5.48%) Windows 7
12 2 (2.74%) Android
12 2 (2.74%) Mac OS
12 2 (2.74%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (73.97%) ITIL
2 39 (53.42%) Release Management
3 36 (49.32%) Service Management
4 26 (35.62%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (28.77%) Customer Service
5 21 (28.77%) Deployment Automation
5 21 (28.77%) DevOps
5 21 (28.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 21 (28.77%) User Acceptance Testing
6 17 (23.29%) Disaster Recovery
7 15 (20.55%) Agile
7 15 (20.55%) Analytics
7 15 (20.55%) CI/CD
7 15 (20.55%) Identity Management
7 15 (20.55%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (20.55%) Log Analytics
7 15 (20.55%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 15 (20.55%) Privileged Identity Management
7 15 (20.55%) Project Management
7 15 (20.55%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 34 (46.58%) PowerShell
2 15 (20.55%) Bicep
2 15 (20.55%) C#
2 15 (20.55%) VB
2 15 (20.55%) VBScript
3 4 (5.48%) C
3 4 (5.48%) C++
4 3 (4.11%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.74%) SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (87.67%) Security Cleared
2 56 (76.71%) DV Cleared
3 34 (46.58%) SC Cleared
4 31 (42.47%) Degree
5 15 (20.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 13 (17.81%) CCNA
6 13 (17.81%) CCNP
6 13 (17.81%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (28.77%) QA
2 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 57 (78.08%) Active Directory
2 21 (28.77%) Firmware
3 17 (23.29%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (20.55%) Virtual Desktop
4 15 (20.55%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (20.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (17.81%) Hyper-V
6 4 (5.48%) XenApp
6 4 (5.48%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 55 (75.34%) SCCM
2 53 (72.60%) WSUS
3 31 (42.47%) SCOM
4 21 (28.77%) Sysprep
5 19 (26.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 17 (23.29%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (23.29%) vCenter Server
7 16 (21.92%) NetBackup
8 15 (20.55%) Kubernetes
9 13 (17.81%) EMC NetWorker
10 4 (5.48%) Ansible
10 4 (5.48%) Nessus
10 4 (5.48%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (5.48%) ZABBIX
11 2 (2.74%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 59 (80.82%) Microsoft
2 19 (26.03%) Veeam
2 19 (26.03%) VMware
3 18 (24.66%) HP
4 17 (23.29%) Oracle
5 16 (21.92%) 3PAR
6 15 (20.55%) Cisco
7 13 (17.81%) Dell
7 13 (17.81%) EMC
7 13 (17.81%) Extreme Networks
7 13 (17.81%) Juniper
7 13 (17.81%) Palo Alto
7 13 (17.81%) Symantec
8 9 (12.33%) Red Hat
9 5 (6.85%) Nimble Storage
10 4 (5.48%) Citrix
11 3 (4.11%) NetApp
11 3 (4.11%) Veritas
12 2 (2.74%) Aruba
12 2 (2.74%) Sage