Windows Server 2012 Contracts

Microsoft Windows Server 2012
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 340 427
Rank change year-on-year -28 +87 -95
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2012 238 439 514
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.73% 0.58%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.12% 4.52% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 323 374
10th Percentile £200 £190 £160
25th Percentile £293 £328 £271
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £440 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +3.53% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £488
90th Percentile £608 £650 £585
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +25.00% -5.88% +17.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 15
10th Percentile - £18.63 £17.75
25th Percentile - £21.72 £20.00
Median hourly rate - £24.32 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% -26.32%
75th Percentile - £49.06 £28.41
90th Percentile - £59.41 £35.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £36.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +83.75% -20.79%

All Operating Systems
UK

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 with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,775 9,719 13,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.34% 16.25% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,885 6,848 9,128
10th Percentile £184 £189 £175
25th Percentile £300 £326 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% +1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £591 £638 £615
90th Percentile £700 £717 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +8.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 422 633
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.31 £17.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £38.75 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -43.23% +73.92% +23.78%
75th Percentile £59.88 £65.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £31.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year -32.80% +56.25% +17.65%

Windows Server 2012
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Windows Server 2012 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2012 in the UK

Windows Server 2012
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2012 in the UK

Windows Server 2012
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2012 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2012 in the UK

Windows Server 2012
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2012 in the UK

Windows Server 2012
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England +3 217 £400 -11.11% 75
UK excluding London 0 158 £500 +25.00% 62
South East +58 83 £575 +19.79% 21
London +18 70 £380 -16.46% 15
Work from Home +26 55 £350 -12.50% 22
North of England +7 22 £328 -20.61% 16
South West -20 20 £538 +19.44% 4
Midlands +11 18 £225 -40.00% 11
North West 0 14 £290 -38.95% 10
West Midlands +26 13 £225 -35.81% 9
Scotland +10 11 £325 +18.18% 2
Yorkshire +12 8 £400 +6.67% 6
Wales +16 3 £365 -22.34% 2
East Midlands +6 3 £210 -44.00% 2
East of England 0 2 £388 +3.33% 9

Windows Server 2012
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 79 (33.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (12.18%) Exchange Server 2010
3 27 (11.34%) Exchange Server 2013
4 17 (7.14%) Confluence
4 17 (7.14%) SharePoint
5 13 (5.46%) IIS
5 13 (5.46%) Skype for Business
6 12 (5.04%) Exchange Server 2007
7 11 (4.62%) Exchange Server 2003
8 3 (1.26%) nginx
9 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
Applications
1 24 (10.08%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.84%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.26%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.84%) Remedy AR System
2 2 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 78 (32.77%) Microsoft 365
2 64 (26.89%) Azure
3 14 (5.88%) Entra ID
3 14 (5.88%) OCI
4 9 (3.78%) AWS
5 7 (2.94%) IaaS
6 5 (2.10%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (1.68%) OneDrive
7 4 (1.68%) PaaS
8 3 (1.26%) Azure Storage
8 3 (1.26%) GitHub
8 3 (1.26%) SaaS
9 2 (0.84%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.84%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.84%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (0.84%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.84%) Route 53
9 2 (0.84%) Rubrik
9 2 (0.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.42%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 93 (39.08%) DNS
2 62 (26.05%) Firewall
3 59 (24.79%) DHCP
4 41 (17.23%) SAN
5 16 (6.72%) Skype
6 15 (6.30%) WAN
7 13 (5.46%) TCP/IP
7 13 (5.46%) VPN
8 12 (5.04%) LAN
8 12 (5.04%) VLAN
9 8 (3.36%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (2.94%) Wireless
11 6 (2.52%) VoIP
12 5 (2.10%) VSAN
13 4 (1.68%) Ethernet
13 4 (1.68%) NAS
13 4 (1.68%) Remote Desktop
13 4 (1.68%) Unified Communications
14 3 (1.26%) Cisco IOS
14 3 (1.26%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.24%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.26%) MySQL
3 2 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.84%) Power BI
4 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.42%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.42%) Redis
4 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (10.92%) JIRA
2 3 (1.26%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (0.84%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.42%) Hudson
4 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 94 (39.50%) Social Skills
2 36 (15.13%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (10.50%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.82%) Finance
5 15 (6.30%) Military
6 13 (5.46%) Banking
7 7 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.68%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.26%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.42%) Back Office
11 1 (0.42%) Electronics
11 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.42%) French Language
11 1 (0.42%) German Language
11 1 (0.42%) Law
11 1 (0.42%) Marketing
11 1 (0.42%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (19.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 36 (15.13%) Support Engineer
3 34 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
4 25 (10.50%) Integration Engineer
5 21 (8.82%) Build Engineer
5 21 (8.82%) Windows Build Engineer
6 16 (6.72%) Administrator
6 16 (6.72%) Systems Administrator
7 15 (6.30%) Test and Integration Engineer
7 15 (6.30%) Test Engineer
8 13 (5.46%) 2nd Line Support
8 13 (5.46%) Server Engineer
9 12 (5.04%) Analyst
10 10 (4.20%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 10 (4.20%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 9 (3.78%) 1st/2nd Line Support
11 9 (3.78%) Active Directory Engineer
11 9 (3.78%) IT Support
11 9 (3.78%) Storage Engineer
11 9 (3.78%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.26%) EDI
2 2 (0.84%) ADSI
2 2 (0.84%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.42%) .NET
3 1 (0.42%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.42%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.66%) PKI
2 22 (9.24%) Data Centre
3 15 (6.30%) Video Conferencing
4 14 (5.88%) Clustering
5 9 (3.78%) NHS
6 7 (2.94%) Driving Licence
7 6 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.68%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.68%) CMDB
9 3 (1.26%) CCTV
9 3 (1.26%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.26%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.84%) Fat Client
10 2 (0.84%) Thin Client
11 1 (0.42%) EPoS
11 1 (0.42%) Freedom of Information
11 1 (0.42%) Freedom of Information Act
11 1 (0.42%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 238 (100.00%) Windows
2 198 (83.19%) Windows Server
3 105 (44.12%) Windows Server 2016
4 82 (34.45%) Windows 10
5 81 (34.03%) Windows Server 2019
6 54 (22.69%) Windows Server 2008
7 34 (14.29%) Linux
8 28 (11.76%) Windows 7
9 21 (8.82%) Windows NT
10 16 (6.72%) Windows Server 2003
11 13 (5.46%) Windows XP
12 9 (3.78%) Mac OS
13 8 (3.36%) CentOS
14 6 (2.52%) Debian
14 6 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 5 (2.10%) Ubuntu
16 4 (1.68%) VMS
17 3 (1.26%) Android
18 2 (0.84%) OpenVMS
19 1 (0.42%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (24.79%) ITIL
2 58 (24.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 45 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (15.13%) Customer Service
5 34 (14.29%) Migration
6 32 (13.45%) Disaster Recovery
7 26 (10.92%) Release Management
7 26 (10.92%) Service Management
8 25 (10.50%) Agile
8 25 (10.50%) Deployment Automation
9 21 (8.82%) Project Management
9 21 (8.82%) User Acceptance Testing
10 18 (7.56%) Storage Management
11 17 (7.14%) Critical Thinking
11 17 (7.14%) Server Management
12 15 (6.30%) Proactive Monitoring
12 15 (6.30%) Regression Testing
12 15 (6.30%) Test Scripting
13 14 (5.88%) Converged Infrastructure
13 14 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 69 (28.99%) PowerShell
2 47 (19.75%) SQL
3 3 (1.26%) Python
3 3 (1.26%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.42%) Bicep
4 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 107 (44.96%) Security Cleared
2 52 (21.85%) DV Cleared
3 49 (20.59%) SC Cleared
4 39 (16.39%) Degree
5 27 (11.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (10.08%) MCSE
7 21 (8.82%) MCSA
8 20 (8.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 17 (7.14%) CCNA
9 17 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (5.88%) CCNP
11 6 (2.52%) RHCT
12 5 (2.10%) Azure Certification
13 3 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
14 1 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.82%) QA
2 4 (1.68%) SLA
3 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.84%) NIST
3 2 (0.84%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 199 (83.61%) Active Directory
2 101 (42.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (18.07%) Hyper-V
4 28 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (8.82%) Firmware
6 14 (5.88%) XenApp
7 11 (4.62%) vSphere
8 8 (3.36%) VMware NSX
9 7 (2.94%) XenDesktop
10 6 (2.52%) KVM
10 6 (2.52%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (2.10%) Virtual Machines
12 3 (1.26%) BitLocker
12 3 (1.26%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.84%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.42%) Terminal Server
14 1 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 86 (36.13%) SCCM
2 54 (22.69%) WSUS
3 23 (9.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (8.82%) Sysprep
5 20 (8.40%) vCenter Server
6 19 (7.98%) SCOM
7 17 (7.14%) NetBackup
8 13 (5.46%) EMC NetWorker
9 10 (4.20%) Autotask
10 9 (3.78%) Failover Clustering
11 8 (3.36%) Microsoft Clustering
12 7 (2.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (2.52%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (2.10%) Ansible
14 5 (2.10%) Terraform
15 3 (1.26%) FortiGate
15 3 (1.26%) PaperCut
15 3 (1.26%) Puppet
16 2 (0.84%) logstash
Vendors
1 131 (55.04%) Microsoft
2 123 (51.68%) VMware
3 44 (18.49%) Cisco
4 37 (15.55%) HP
5 35 (14.71%) Citrix
6 33 (13.87%) Veeam
7 31 (13.03%) EMC
8 18 (7.56%) Dell
9 17 (7.14%) Oracle
9 17 (7.14%) Palo Alto
10 16 (6.72%) 3PAR
11 15 (6.30%) Juniper
12 14 (5.88%) Avaya
12 14 (5.88%) Symantec
13 13 (5.46%) CheckPoint
13 13 (5.46%) Extreme Networks
13 13 (5.46%) Red Hat
14 7 (2.94%) Apple
14 7 (2.94%) Ivanti
15 6 (2.52%) NetApp