Windows Server 2019 Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows Server 2019
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 242 228
Rank change year-on-year -30 -14 +94
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2019 67 158 238
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.76% 0.99%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.04% 4.81% 5.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 114 196
10th Percentile £300 £210 £218
25th Percentile £350 £359 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +4.55% +29.41%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £632
90th Percentile £652 - £700
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +17.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 7
10th Percentile - £50.86 £19.10
25th Percentile - £56.50 £23.24
Median hourly rate - £59.80 £26.48
Median % change year-on-year - +125.83% +32.40%
75th Percentile - £61.60 £50.45
90th Percentile - - £64.05
UK median hourly rate - £59.80 £26.48
% change year-on-year - +125.83% +32.40%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,206 3,284 4,628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.25% 15.82% 19.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,420 2,182 3,233
10th Percentile £178 £175 £163
25th Percentile £243 £258 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £468 £504
% change year-on-year +1.50% -7.14% +0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 321 337
10th Percentile £15.30 £12.25 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.27 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.69 £22.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -26.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £62.25 £60.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £72.25
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £22.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -43.59% +73.33%

Windows Server 2019
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Windows Server 2019 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2019 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2019
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2019 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2019 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2019
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2019 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2019 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2019
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2019 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2019 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2019
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
South East -33 22 £603 +4.78% 20
North of England +30 21 £350 -10.26% 13
North West +28 19 £350 +59.09% 8
South West +49 9 £575 +155.56% 12
Wales +7 7 £365 +65.91%
Scotland +13 5 £210 -56.92%
Midlands +3 3 £300 -14.29% 15
West Midlands +2 3 £300 -14.29% 6
East of England +24 2 £575 -11.54% 10
Yorkshire +1 2 £375 -33.29%
Windows Server 2019
UK

Windows Server 2019
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 16 (23.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (16.42%) SharePoint
3 6 (8.96%) IIS
3 6 (8.96%) Skype for Business
4 4 (5.97%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (2.99%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (1.49%) Apache
6 1 (1.49%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (1.49%) WinCC
Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 19 (28.36%) Azure
2 16 (23.88%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (14.93%) Entra ID
4 6 (8.96%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.49%) AWS
5 1 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.49%) Azure Stack
5 1 (1.49%) Azure Storage
5 1 (1.49%) Cohesity
5 1 (1.49%) GitHub
5 1 (1.49%) Mimecast
5 1 (1.49%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 27 (40.30%) DNS
2 16 (23.88%) DHCP
3 11 (16.42%) SAN
4 7 (10.45%) Firewall
5 6 (8.96%) Skype
5 6 (8.96%) VPN
6 5 (7.46%) LAN
7 4 (5.97%) Fibre Channel
7 4 (5.97%) iSCSI
7 4 (5.97%) Network Security
7 4 (5.97%) PSTN
7 4 (5.97%) SMTP
7 4 (5.97%) TCP/IP
8 3 (4.48%) VSAN
8 3 (4.48%) WLAN
9 2 (2.99%) SSL
9 2 (2.99%) WAN
10 1 (1.49%) Modbus
10 1 (1.49%) NetScaler
10 1 (1.49%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.96%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.49%) GIS
3 1 (1.49%) MSDE
3 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.99%) JIRA
General
1 10 (14.93%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.43%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.97%) Legal
4 2 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.99%) Publishing
4 2 (2.99%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.49%) Finance
5 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.49%) Military
Job Titles
1 23 (34.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (13.43%) Administrator
3 8 (11.94%) Architect
4 7 (10.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 7 (10.45%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (10.45%) VMWare Administrator
4 7 (10.45%) Wintel Administrator
5 4 (5.97%) Collaboration Engineer
5 4 (5.97%) Infrastructure Architect
5 4 (5.97%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 4 (5.97%) Lead
5 4 (5.97%) VMware Architect
6 3 (4.48%) Analyst
6 3 (4.48%) Citrix Specialist
6 3 (4.48%) Exchange Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Industrial Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) IT Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Technical Architect
7 2 (2.99%) Wintel Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.49%) .NET
1 1 (1.49%) ARM Templates
1 1 (1.49%) ASP.NET
1 1 (1.49%) LDAP
1 1 (1.49%) SOAP
1 1 (1.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.43%) Data Centre
2 6 (8.96%) PKI
3 4 (5.97%) Blackberry
3 4 (5.97%) Clustering
3 4 (5.97%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (5.97%) Handset
4 3 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.99%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.99%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.49%) CESG
6 1 (1.49%) CMDB
6 1 (1.49%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.49%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 63 (94.03%) Windows
2 58 (86.57%) Windows Server
3 37 (55.22%) Windows Server 2016
4 24 (35.82%) Windows Server 2012
5 20 (29.85%) Windows 10
6 17 (25.37%) Linux
7 6 (8.96%) Android
7 6 (8.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (5.97%) Unix
9 3 (4.48%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (2.99%) Apple iOS
10 2 (2.99%) Mac OS
11 1 (1.49%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (1.49%) CentOS
11 1 (1.49%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (1.49%) Rocky
11 1 (1.49%) Ubuntu
11 1 (1.49%) VMS
11 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (43.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 23 (34.33%) ITIL
3 13 (19.40%) High Availability
4 10 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (14.93%) Root Cause Analysis
5 9 (13.43%) Patch Management
6 8 (11.94%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (10.45%) Migration
8 6 (8.96%) Performance Monitoring
8 6 (8.96%) Server Building
9 5 (7.46%) Identity Access Management
9 5 (7.46%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 5 (7.46%) Problem Management
9 5 (7.46%) RBAC
9 5 (7.46%) Technical Leadership
10 4 (5.97%) Agile
10 4 (5.97%) Change Management
10 4 (5.97%) E-Discovery
10 4 (5.97%) Project Delivery
10 4 (5.97%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (23.88%) PowerShell
2 6 (8.96%) SQL
3 4 (5.97%) VBScript
4 3 (4.48%) VB
5 1 (1.49%) Bicep
5 1 (1.49%) C#
5 1 (1.49%) Java
5 1 (1.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (58.21%) Security Cleared
2 32 (47.76%) SC Cleared
3 16 (23.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (17.91%) MCSE
5 11 (16.42%) DV Cleared
6 8 (11.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 7 (10.45%) Degree
8 4 (5.97%) MCSA
8 4 (5.97%) VCP5
8 4 (5.97%) VCP6
9 3 (4.48%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (2.99%) MCP
11 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
11 1 (1.49%) Citrix Certification
11 1 (1.49%) HNC
11 1 (1.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (1.49%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.43%) SLA
2 3 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.48%) QA
3 2 (2.99%) NCSC
4 1 (1.49%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.49%) IEC 61131
4 1 (1.49%) JSP 440
System Software
1 41 (61.19%) Active Directory
2 26 (38.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (26.87%) Hyper-V
4 16 (23.88%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (14.93%) vSphere
6 9 (13.43%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (5.97%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 4 (5.97%) NFS
7 4 (5.97%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (2.99%) BitLocker
8 2 (2.99%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (1.49%) Terminal Services
9 1 (1.49%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (1.49%) VMware NSX
9 1 (1.49%) Xen
9 1 (1.49%) XenApp
9 1 (1.49%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 18 (26.87%) vCenter Server
2 14 (20.90%) WSUS
3 11 (16.42%) SCCM
4 4 (5.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Clustering
4 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (5.97%) NetApp OnCommand
4 4 (5.97%) NetBackup
4 4 (5.97%) vMotion
5 3 (4.48%) Ansible
5 3 (4.48%) Backup Exec
5 3 (4.48%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (4.48%) Norton AntiVirus
6 2 (2.99%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.99%) OPNET
6 2 (2.99%) SCOM
6 2 (2.99%) Terraform
7 1 (1.49%) Perfmon
7 1 (1.49%) PowerCLI
7 1 (1.49%) vRealize
Vendors
1 42 (62.69%) VMware
2 33 (49.25%) Microsoft
3 11 (16.42%) Citrix
4 8 (11.94%) Symantec
4 8 (11.94%) Veeam
5 7 (10.45%) HP
6 6 (8.96%) Dell
6 6 (8.96%) NetApp
6 6 (8.96%) Red Hat
6 6 (8.96%) Splunk
7 5 (7.46%) Cisco
8 4 (5.97%) 3PAR
8 4 (5.97%) Clearswift
8 4 (5.97%) Ribbon
8 4 (5.97%) Veritas
9 3 (4.48%) Juniper
9 3 (4.48%) NETGEAR
9 3 (4.48%) SolarWinds
9 3 (4.48%) TP-LINK
10 2 (2.99%) Commvault