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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 234 259
Rank change year-on-year -35 +25 +66
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2019 84 161 190
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.62% 0.75% 0.83%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.61% 4.75% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 109 143
10th Percentile £326 £210 £301
25th Percentile £503 £360 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +29.41%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £643
90th Percentile £650 - £700
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £530
% change year-on-year -4.35% +8.49% +17.78%
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 2,330 3,387 4,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.23% 15.86% 18.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,490 2,177 2,890
10th Percentile £181 £178 £170
25th Percentile £250 £290 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £455 £463
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% -1.62% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £625 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 362 313
10th Percentile £15.12 £12.43 £13.29
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £18.87 £27.50 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year -31.38% -30.56% +98.00%
75th Percentile £45.06 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £24.18 £46.00
% change year-on-year -9.02% -47.43% +104.44%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -20 37 £600 -0.83% 39
East of England +36 21 £550 -15.38% 11
North of England +20 16 £350 -5.41% 32
North West +13 15 £350 +59.09% 20
Scotland - 4 £210 - 4
South West +40 3 £525 -8.70% 22
Midlands -15 3 £300 -14.29% 31
West Midlands -7 2 £300 -14.29% 13
East Midlands +3 1 - - 18
Yorkshire -3 1 £400 -28.89% 6
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 13 (15.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (9.52%) SharePoint
3 5 (5.95%) Apache
4 4 (4.76%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (4.76%) IIS
4 4 (4.76%) Skype for Business
5 2 (2.38%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (1.19%) WinCC
Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (23.81%) Cohesity
2 16 (19.05%) Azure
3 13 (15.48%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 6 (7.14%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.19%) AWS
6 1 (1.19%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.19%) Azure Storage
6 1 (1.19%) GitHub
6 1 (1.19%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.19%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 40 (47.62%) DNS
2 28 (33.33%) SAN
3 11 (13.10%) DHCP
3 11 (13.10%) Fibre Channel
3 11 (13.10%) iSCSI
4 5 (5.95%) LAN
4 5 (5.95%) VSAN
5 4 (4.76%) Firewall
5 4 (4.76%) PSTN
5 4 (4.76%) Skype
5 4 (4.76%) SMTP
5 4 (4.76%) TCP/IP
6 3 (3.57%) Network Security
6 3 (3.57%) WLAN
7 2 (2.38%) WAN
8 1 (1.19%) Modbus
8 1 (1.19%) NetScaler
8 1 (1.19%) Profibus
8 1 (1.19%) SSL
8 1 (1.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (4.76%) MSI
1 4 (4.76%) Robot Framework
1 4 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 10 (11.90%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.76%) Legal
4 2 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.38%) Publishing
5 1 (1.19%) Finance
5 1 (1.19%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (15.48%) Architect
3 11 (13.10%) Infrastructure Architect
4 10 (11.90%) VMware Architect
5 9 (10.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 6 (7.14%) Administrator
7 5 (5.95%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Collaboration Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 4 (4.76%) Integration Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Lead
9 3 (3.57%) Citrix Specialist
9 3 (3.57%) Exchange Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) Industrial Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) VMWare Administrator
9 3 (3.57%) Wintel Administrator
10 2 (2.38%) IT Technician
10 2 (2.38%) Microsoft 365 Architect
10 2 (2.38%) Service Desk Technician
10 2 (2.38%) Wintel Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.19%) ARM Templates
1 1 (1.19%) LDAP
1 1 (1.19%) SOAP
1 1 (1.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.52%) Data Centre
1 8 (9.52%) PKI
2 4 (4.76%) Blackberry
2 4 (4.76%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (4.76%) Handset
3 3 (3.57%) Clustering
4 2 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.38%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.19%) CESG
5 1 (1.19%) CMDB
5 1 (1.19%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.19%) Replication
5 1 (1.19%) SCADA
5 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 78 (92.86%) Windows
2 76 (90.48%) Windows Server
3 45 (53.57%) Windows Server 2016
4 20 (23.81%) Linux
5 13 (15.48%) Windows 10
6 11 (13.10%) Windows Server 2012
7 9 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (7.14%) Android
8 6 (7.14%) CentOS
8 6 (7.14%) Unix
9 3 (3.57%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (2.38%) Apple iOS
10 2 (2.38%) Mac OS
10 2 (2.38%) Ubuntu
11 1 (1.19%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (1.19%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (1.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (29.76%) Deployment Automation
2 22 (26.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 21 (25.00%) SIEM
4 20 (23.81%) Build Automation
4 20 (23.81%) Operations Management
5 15 (17.86%) ITIL
6 10 (11.90%) High Availability
7 9 (10.71%) Edge Virtualization
7 9 (10.71%) Performance Analysis
8 8 (9.52%) Agile
8 8 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (5.95%) DevOps
10 5 (5.95%) Migration
10 5 (5.95%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 5 (5.95%) Problem Management
10 5 (5.95%) Prototyping
10 5 (5.95%) RBAC
10 5 (5.95%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 40 (47.62%) PowerShell
2 13 (15.48%) SQL
3 4 (4.76%) PHP
3 4 (4.76%) Python
3 4 (4.76%) VBScript
4 3 (3.57%) VB
5 1 (1.19%) Bicep
5 1 (1.19%) C#
5 1 (1.19%) Java
Qualifications
1 59 (70.24%) Security Cleared
2 38 (45.24%) DV Cleared
3 24 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 21 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (20.24%) MCSE
6 14 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 10 (11.90%) VCP5
7 10 (11.90%) VCP6
8 6 (7.14%) Degree
9 3 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (2.38%) MCP
10 2 (2.38%) MCSA
11 1 (1.19%) Citrix Certification
11 1 (1.19%) HNC
11 1 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.33%) SLA
2 3 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.57%) QA
3 2 (2.38%) NCSC
4 1 (1.19%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.19%) IEC 61131
4 1 (1.19%) JSP 440
System Software
1 51 (60.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 49 (58.33%) Active Directory
3 21 (25.00%) Virtual Servers
4 20 (23.81%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 20 (23.81%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (20.24%) vSphere
6 13 (15.48%) NFS
7 11 (13.10%) Hyper-V
8 9 (10.71%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (4.76%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 4 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (2.38%) BitLocker
10 2 (2.38%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (1.19%) Terminal Services
11 1 (1.19%) VMware NSX
11 1 (1.19%) XenApp
11 1 (1.19%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 33 (39.29%) WSUS
2 28 (33.33%) Ansible
3 26 (30.95%) SCCM
4 14 (16.67%) vCenter Server
5 8 (9.52%) Terraform
6 4 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (4.76%) NetBackup
6 4 (4.76%) WMI
7 3 (3.57%) Backup Exec
7 3 (3.57%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (3.57%) Norton AntiVirus
8 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (2.38%) NetApp OnCommand
8 2 (2.38%) vMotion
8 2 (2.38%) VxRail
9 1 (1.19%) Kubernetes
9 1 (1.19%) PowerCLI
9 1 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.19%) vRealize
Vendors
1 64 (76.19%) VMware
2 58 (69.05%) Microsoft
3 32 (38.10%) NetApp
3 32 (38.10%) Splunk
4 16 (19.05%) Veeam
5 10 (11.90%) Citrix
6 8 (9.52%) Symantec
7 7 (8.33%) Dell
7 7 (8.33%) Red Hat
8 4 (4.76%) 3PAR
8 4 (4.76%) Cisco
8 4 (4.76%) Clearswift
8 4 (4.76%) HP
8 4 (4.76%) Ribbon
8 4 (4.76%) Veritas
9 3 (3.57%) Juniper
9 3 (3.57%) NETGEAR
9 3 (3.57%) SolarWinds
9 3 (3.57%) TP-LINK
10 2 (2.38%) Commvault