Windows Server 2012 Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows Server 2012
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Windows Server 2012 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server 2012 over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 241 231 231
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 -6
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2012 157 234 321
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.77% 1.00% 1.06%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.85% 5.20% 5.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 159 238
10th Percentile £190 £162 £158
25th Percentile £280 £286 £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -5.88% +18.06%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £475
90th Percentile £608 £575 £538
UK median daily rate £405 £440 £425
% change year-on-year -7.95% +3.53% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 12
10th Percentile - £18.38 £16.63
25th Percentile - £20.75 -
Median hourly rate - £36.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +83.75% -9.09%
75th Percentile - £49.69 £28.41
90th Percentile - £65.69 £38.84
UK median hourly rate - £26.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year - +26.83% -41.01%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

Windows Server 2012 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,237 4,498 5,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.81% 19.22% 19.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,159 3,113 3,796
10th Percentile £175 £163 £150
25th Percentile £259 £250 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £672 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £468 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -7.43% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 336 459
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.78
25th Percentile £14.27 £17.42 £15.02
Median hourly rate £22.50 £29.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +46.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £62.25 £60.64 £49.21
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.49 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% +67.39% +29.50%

Windows Server 2012
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Windows Server 2012 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2012 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2012
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2012 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2012 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2012
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2012 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2012 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2012
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2012 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2012 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2012
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 2012 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
South East +63 85 £575 +19.79% 24
North of England +9 22 £328 -18.13% 20
South West -22 20 £503 +11.67% 16
Midlands +14 18 £225 -40.00% 9
North West +7 14 £290 -38.95% 8
West Midlands +14 13 £225 -40.00% 7
Scotland +13 8 £325 +18.18%
Yorkshire +11 8 £400 +14.12% 10
Wales +17 3 £365 -22.34% 1
East Midlands +10 3 £210 -44.00% 2
East of England -1 2 £388 +19.23% 10
Windows Server 2012
UK

Windows Server 2012
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 30 (19.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (10.83%) Confluence
3 11 (7.01%) SharePoint
4 9 (5.73%) IIS
5 3 (1.91%) nginx
6 2 (1.27%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.64%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.64%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.64%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (12.10%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.91%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.64%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 44 (28.03%) Microsoft 365
2 41 (26.11%) Azure
3 15 (9.55%) OCI
4 5 (3.18%) AWS
5 4 (2.55%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.27%) IaaS
6 2 (1.27%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.64%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.64%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.64%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.64%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.64%) Azure Stack
7 1 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.64%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.64%) GitHub
7 1 (0.64%) PaaS
7 1 (0.64%) Serverless
7 1 (0.64%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 67 (42.68%) DNS
2 54 (34.39%) DHCP
3 42 (26.75%) Firewall
4 25 (15.92%) SAN
5 14 (8.92%) WAN
6 11 (7.01%) LAN
6 11 (7.01%) VLAN
7 10 (6.37%) VPN
8 9 (5.73%) TCP/IP
9 7 (4.46%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (3.82%) VoIP
11 5 (3.18%) Skype
12 4 (2.55%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (2.55%) Ethernet
12 4 (2.55%) Wireless
13 3 (1.91%) Unified Communications
14 2 (1.27%) NAS
14 2 (1.27%) NetScaler
14 2 (1.27%) Remote Desktop
14 2 (1.27%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.01%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.91%) MySQL
3 1 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.64%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.64%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.64%) Redis
3 1 (0.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (14.01%) JIRA
2 1 (0.64%) Hudson
2 1 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 76 (48.41%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.92%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (10.19%) Military
4 7 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (3.82%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.91%) Finance
6 3 (1.91%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.91%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.64%) Back Office
8 1 (0.64%) Electronics
8 1 (0.64%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.64%) Law
8 1 (0.64%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 42 (26.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 26 (16.56%) Windows Engineer
3 25 (15.92%) Integration Engineer
4 22 (14.01%) Support Engineer
5 20 (12.74%) Build Engineer
5 20 (12.74%) Windows Build Engineer
6 16 (10.19%) Test and Integration Engineer
6 16 (10.19%) Test Engineer
7 12 (7.64%) 2nd Line Support
8 10 (6.37%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 10 (6.37%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 10 (6.37%) Storage Engineer
9 9 (5.73%) Architect
10 8 (5.10%) 1st/2nd Line Support
10 8 (5.10%) Server Engineer
11 7 (4.46%) 3rd Line Support
11 7 (4.46%) Infrastructure Technician
12 6 (3.82%) Analyst
12 6 (3.82%) Infrastructure Architect
12 6 (3.82%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.91%) EDI
2 2 (1.27%) ADSI
3 1 (0.64%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.01%) PKI
2 21 (13.38%) Data Centre
3 10 (6.37%) NHS
4 9 (5.73%) Clustering
5 7 (4.46%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.91%) CCTV
6 3 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.91%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (1.91%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.27%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.64%) CMDB
8 1 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.64%) Freedom of Information Act
8 1 (0.64%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.64%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.64%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.64%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.64%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.64%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 157 (100.00%) Windows
2 140 (89.17%) Windows Server
3 73 (46.50%) Windows 10
4 68 (43.31%) Windows Server 2016
5 65 (41.40%) Windows Server 2019
6 30 (19.11%) Linux
7 21 (13.38%) Windows Server 2008
8 20 (12.74%) Windows NT
9 14 (8.92%) Windows XP
10 10 (6.37%) Windows 7
11 9 (5.73%) Mac OS
12 8 (5.10%) CentOS
13 6 (3.82%) Debian
13 6 (3.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 4 (2.55%) Android
15 3 (1.91%) Ubuntu
16 2 (1.27%) VMS
16 2 (1.27%) Windows Server 2003
17 1 (0.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (34.39%) ITIL
2 50 (31.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 31 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (16.56%) Customer Service
5 24 (15.29%) Deployment Automation
5 24 (15.29%) Service Management
6 23 (14.65%) Release Management
7 21 (13.38%) Agile
7 21 (13.38%) Project Management
8 20 (12.74%) User Acceptance Testing
9 19 (12.10%) Critical Thinking
9 19 (12.10%) Disaster Recovery
10 18 (11.46%) Migration
11 17 (10.83%) Server Management
12 16 (10.19%) Proactive Monitoring
12 16 (10.19%) Regression Testing
12 16 (10.19%) Test Scripting
13 15 (9.55%) Performance Tuning
14 14 (8.92%) Break/Fix
14 14 (8.92%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 46 (29.30%) PowerShell
2 32 (20.38%) SQL
3 3 (1.91%) Shell Script
4 2 (1.27%) Python
5 1 (0.64%) Bicep
5 1 (0.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (45.86%) Security Cleared
2 40 (25.48%) DV Cleared
3 36 (22.93%) SC Cleared
4 33 (21.02%) Degree
5 29 (18.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 26 (16.56%) MCSE
7 22 (14.01%) MCSA
8 21 (13.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 18 (11.46%) CCNA
9 18 (11.46%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (9.55%) CCNP
11 6 (3.82%) RHCT
12 3 (1.91%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.74%) QA
2 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (0.64%) SLA
System Software
1 128 (81.53%) Active Directory
2 79 (50.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (22.29%) Hyper-V
4 24 (15.29%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (12.74%) Firmware
6 14 (8.92%) XenApp
7 6 (3.82%) KVM
8 5 (3.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (3.18%) vSphere
8 5 (3.18%) XenDesktop
9 3 (1.91%) BitLocker
9 3 (1.91%) VMware NSX
10 2 (1.27%) Terminal Services
10 2 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.64%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.64%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 59 (37.58%) SCCM
2 50 (31.85%) WSUS
3 20 (12.74%) Sysprep
4 19 (12.10%) vCenter Server
5 17 (10.83%) NetBackup
6 16 (10.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (10.19%) SCOM
7 14 (8.92%) EMC NetWorker
8 10 (6.37%) Autotask
9 6 (3.82%) Failover Clustering
9 6 (3.82%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (1.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Clustering
10 3 (1.91%) PaperCut
11 2 (1.27%) Nessus
11 2 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.27%) VxRail
12 1 (0.64%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.64%) vRealize
Vendors
1 110 (70.06%) Microsoft
2 96 (61.15%) VMware
3 28 (17.83%) Cisco
4 27 (17.20%) Veeam
5 21 (13.38%) HP
6 20 (12.74%) Citrix
7 18 (11.46%) EMC
8 17 (10.83%) 3PAR
9 16 (10.19%) Dell
9 16 (10.19%) Oracle
10 15 (9.55%) Palo Alto
11 14 (8.92%) Extreme Networks
11 14 (8.92%) Juniper
11 14 (8.92%) Red Hat
11 14 (8.92%) Symantec
12 9 (5.73%) Ivanti
13 7 (4.46%) Apple
14 6 (3.82%) Datto
14 6 (3.82%) Nimble Storage
15 5 (3.18%) NetApp