Windows Server 2012 Contracts

Microsoft Windows Server 2012
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Windows Server 2012 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server 2012 over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 450 369 334
Rank change year-on-year -81 -35 +95
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2012 69 240 439
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.55% 0.74%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.69% 4.13% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 188 323
10th Percentile £187 £200 £190
25th Percentile £350 £296 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £414 £440
Median % change year-on-year -3.32% -5.97% +3.53%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £550
90th Percentile £591 £608 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £488 £400
% change year-on-year -17.90% +21.88% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £18.63
25th Percentile - - £21.72
Median hourly rate - - £24.32
75th Percentile - - £49.06
90th Percentile - - £59.41
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £36.75
% change year-on-year - - +83.75%

All Operating Systems
UK

Windows Server 2012 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,075 5,812 9,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.94% 13.33% 16.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,687 3,913 6,831
10th Percentile £200 £183 £190
25th Percentile £319 £300 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -7.33% +1.00%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £638
90th Percentile £699 £700 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 397 416
10th Percentile £16.25 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
Median % change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £22.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year +4.55% -29.60% +56.25%

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 30 April 2025.

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 13 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 30 April 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
UK excluding London -42 58 £400 -17.90% 28
England -95 53 £475 +16.21% 32
South West +43 18 £575 +6.98% 5
Work from Home +13 18 £375 +7.14% 12
North of England +23 17 £350 +6.87% 9
North West +13 16 £350 +20.69% 6
Wales +9 7 £365 - 1
London -28 7 £413 +8.55% 6
Scotland +4 6 £250 -23.08% 1
East Midlands +12 5 - - 2
Midlands +11 5 - - 4
South East -35 5 £500 -13.04% 7
Yorkshire +8 1 £351 -12.38% 1

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 17 (24.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (17.39%) IIS
3 10 (14.49%) SharePoint
4 7 (10.14%) Confluence
5 3 (4.35%) Skype for Business
6 1 (1.45%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (1.45%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (1.45%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 10 (14.49%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (8.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (8.70%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.45%) Acrobat
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Fidessa
1 1 (1.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 17 (24.64%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (23.19%) Azure
3 8 (11.59%) Entra ID
4 7 (10.14%) OneDrive
5 4 (5.80%) AWS
6 2 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.90%) GitHub
7 1 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.45%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.45%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 23 (33.33%) DNS
2 22 (31.88%) DHCP
3 11 (15.94%) Firewall
3 11 (15.94%) VPN
4 10 (14.49%) SAN
5 7 (10.14%) Skype
6 6 (8.70%) LAN
7 4 (5.80%) Cisco ISE
7 4 (5.80%) HTTP
7 4 (5.80%) HTTPS
7 4 (5.80%) SSL
7 4 (5.80%) TCP/IP
8 3 (4.35%) VLAN
9 2 (2.90%) iSCSI
9 2 (2.90%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (2.90%) Wireless
10 1 (1.45%) VoIP
10 1 (1.45%) VRRP
10 1 (1.45%) WAN
10 1 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (10.14%) JIRA
2 2 (2.90%) Git
3 1 (1.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 25 (36.23%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.29%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (15.94%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (7.25%) Manufacturing
5 5 (7.25%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (5.80%) Finance
6 4 (5.80%) Legal
7 3 (4.35%) Banking
7 3 (4.35%) Military
8 2 (2.90%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.45%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.45%) Law
9 1 (1.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (11.59%) Administrator
2 8 (11.59%) Support Engineer
2 8 (11.59%) VMWare Administrator
2 8 (11.59%) Wintel Administrator
3 7 (10.14%) 2nd Line Support
4 6 (8.70%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 6 (8.70%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 6 (8.70%) Analyst
4 6 (8.70%) Desktop Support
4 6 (8.70%) Wintel Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
5 5 (7.25%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) Desktop Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) Senior
6 4 (5.80%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) IT Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Senior Wintel Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.90%) Flash
2 1 (1.45%) CSS
2 1 (1.45%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.29%) PKI
2 5 (7.25%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.25%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.35%) Clustering
3 3 (4.35%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.45%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.45%) CESG
4 1 (1.45%) CMDB
4 1 (1.45%) Equities
4 1 (1.45%) Eurex
4 1 (1.45%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.45%) PDA
4 1 (1.45%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 69 (100.00%) Windows
2 60 (86.96%) Windows Server
3 40 (57.97%) Windows Server 2016
4 31 (44.93%) Windows Server 2019
5 28 (40.58%) Windows 10
6 11 (15.94%) Windows Server 2008
7 10 (14.49%) Windows Server 2003
8 9 (13.04%) Linux
9 7 (10.14%) Windows XP
10 6 (8.70%) Windows 8
11 4 (5.80%) Unix
11 4 (5.80%) Windows 7
12 3 (4.35%) VMS
13 2 (2.90%) Solaris
14 1 (1.45%) Android
14 1 (1.45%) CentOS
14 1 (1.45%) Debian
14 1 (1.45%) Fedora
14 1 (1.45%) SUSE
14 1 (1.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (39.13%) ITIL
2 20 (28.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (15.94%) High Availability
5 10 (14.49%) Patch Management
6 9 (13.04%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (11.59%) Critical Thinking
7 8 (11.59%) Service Management
8 7 (10.14%) Agile
8 7 (10.14%) Migration
8 7 (10.14%) System Testing
9 6 (8.70%) Asset Management
9 6 (8.70%) NsoIT
9 6 (8.70%) Project Delivery
9 6 (8.70%) Time Management
10 5 (7.25%) Business Case
10 5 (7.25%) Infrastructure Monitoring
10 5 (7.25%) Proactive Maintenance
10 5 (7.25%) Resource Management
10 5 (7.25%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (23.19%) PowerShell
2 14 (20.29%) SQL
3 3 (4.35%) Python
3 3 (4.35%) VBScript
4 2 (2.90%) Java
5 1 (1.45%) Bash
5 1 (1.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 36 (52.17%) Security Cleared
2 26 (37.68%) SC Cleared
3 21 (30.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (18.84%) MCSE
5 10 (14.49%) DV Cleared
6 9 (13.04%) Degree
7 8 (11.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 6 (8.70%) MCSA
9 4 (5.80%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (4.35%) CCNA
10 3 (4.35%) Master's Degree
11 2 (2.90%) CCNP
12 1 (1.45%) A+ Certification
12 1 (1.45%) DBS Check
12 1 (1.45%) HNC
12 1 (1.45%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.14%) SLA
2 1 (1.45%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.45%) JSP 440
2 1 (1.45%) QA
System Software
1 62 (89.86%) Active Directory
2 30 (43.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (34.78%) Hyper-V
4 19 (27.54%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (14.49%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (8.70%) vSphere
7 4 (5.80%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (2.90%) Terminal Services
8 2 (2.90%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (2.90%) VMware NSX
9 1 (1.45%) Firmware
9 1 (1.45%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (1.45%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 23 (33.33%) SCCM
2 20 (28.99%) WSUS
3 17 (24.64%) vCenter Server
4 6 (8.70%) Microsoft Clustering
5 5 (7.25%) NetApp OnCommand
5 5 (7.25%) vMotion
6 3 (4.35%) Nessus
7 2 (2.90%) Ansible
7 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.90%) OPNET
7 2 (2.90%) Packer
7 2 (2.90%) SCOM
7 2 (2.90%) Terraform
8 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (1.45%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.45%) Rundeck
8 1 (1.45%) ServiceCenter
8 1 (1.45%) Sysprep
8 1 (1.45%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (1.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 42 (60.87%) Microsoft
2 38 (55.07%) VMware
3 14 (20.29%) Cisco
4 8 (11.59%) Citrix
5 5 (7.25%) Canon
6 3 (4.35%) Atlassian
6 3 (4.35%) Tenable
7 2 (2.90%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.90%) HP
7 2 (2.90%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.90%) Veeam
8 1 (1.45%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.45%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.45%) Commvault
8 1 (1.45%) Dell
8 1 (1.45%) EMC
8 1 (1.45%) Peregrine
8 1 (1.45%) Remedy
8 1 (1.45%) Reuters
8 1 (1.45%) Veritas