Windows Server 2019 Contracts

Microsoft Windows Server 2019
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 432 392 384
Rank change year-on-year -40 -8 +169
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2019 87 211 362
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.48% 0.61%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.13% 3.63% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 138 301
10th Percentile £303 £207 £223
25th Percentile £350 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +4.76% +17.98%
75th Percentile £606 £608 £623
90th Percentile £675 - £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -26.09% +4.55% +29.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 8
10th Percentile - £50.86 £19.33
25th Percentile - £56.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate - £59.80 £26.48
Median % change year-on-year - +125.83% +32.40%
75th Percentile - £61.60 £49.43
90th Percentile - - £61.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £59.80 £26.48
% change year-on-year - +125.83% +32.40%

All Operating Systems
UK

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.

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 2019
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Windows Server 2019 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2019 in the UK

Windows Server 2019
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2019.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2019 in the UK

Windows Server 2019
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2019 over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2019 in the UK

Windows Server 2019
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2019.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2019 in the UK

Windows Server 2019
Top 14 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 2019 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
England -57 72 £525 -6.67% 64
UK excluding London -33 66 £425 -26.09% 56
Work from Home +39 29 £500 -17.36% 24
North of England +35 21 £350 -10.26% 12
South East -40 20 £603 +4.78% 12
North West +25 19 £350 +59.09% 9
London +6 17 £525 +7.69% 9
South West +52 10 £525 +133.33% 9
Wales +8 7 £365 +65.91%
Scotland +9 5 £210 -56.92%
Midlands +8 3 £300 -14.29% 16
West Midlands +3 3 £300 -14.29% 5
East of England +28 2 £575 -11.54% 8
Yorkshire +9 2 £375 -33.29%

Windows Server 2019
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 19 (21.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (14.94%) SharePoint
3 9 (10.34%) IIS
4 6 (6.90%) Skype for Business
5 4 (4.60%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (2.30%) Confluence
6 2 (2.30%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (1.15%) Apache
7 1 (1.15%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (1.15%) DataSynapse
7 1 (1.15%) WinCC
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 30 (34.48%) Azure
2 20 (22.99%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (14.94%) Entra ID
4 9 (10.34%) AWS
5 7 (8.05%) Azure Monitor
5 7 (8.05%) OneDrive
6 5 (5.75%) GitHub
7 2 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.15%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.15%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.15%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.15%) Cohesity
8 1 (1.15%) IaaS
8 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.15%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.15%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.15%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (40.23%) DNS
2 22 (25.29%) DHCP
3 12 (13.79%) SAN
4 10 (11.49%) Firewall
5 7 (8.05%) VPN
6 6 (6.90%) Skype
6 6 (6.90%) TCP/IP
7 5 (5.75%) LAN
7 5 (5.75%) VSAN
8 4 (4.60%) Fibre Channel
8 4 (4.60%) Network Security
8 4 (4.60%) PSTN
8 4 (4.60%) SMTP
9 3 (3.45%) iSCSI
9 3 (3.45%) WAN
9 3 (3.45%) WLAN
10 2 (2.30%) NAS
10 2 (2.30%) SSL
11 1 (1.15%) NetScaler
11 1 (1.15%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.75%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.15%) GIS
5 1 (1.15%) MSDE
5 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (4.60%) JIRA
2 3 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.30%) Git
General
1 13 (14.94%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.64%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.75%) Legal
4 4 (4.60%) Finance
5 2 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.30%) Publishing
5 2 (2.30%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.15%) Banking
6 1 (1.15%) Front Office
6 1 (1.15%) Local Government
6 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.15%) Marketing
6 1 (1.15%) Military
6 1 (1.15%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (27.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (12.64%) Administrator
3 9 (10.34%) VMWare Administrator
4 8 (9.20%) Wintel Administrator
5 7 (8.05%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 7 (8.05%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (8.05%) Architect
5 7 (8.05%) Lead
6 5 (5.75%) Senior
7 4 (4.60%) Analyst
7 4 (4.60%) Collaboration Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Grid Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 4 (4.60%) IT Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Infrastructure Architect
8 3 (3.45%) Server Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Technical Architect
8 3 (3.45%) VMware Architect
8 3 (3.45%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.15%) .NET
1 1 (1.15%) ARM Templates
1 1 (1.15%) ASP.NET
1 1 (1.15%) LDAP
1 1 (1.15%) SOAP
1 1 (1.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.64%) Data Centre
2 8 (9.20%) PKI
3 5 (5.75%) Grid Computing
4 4 (4.60%) Blackberry
4 4 (4.60%) Clustering
4 4 (4.60%) Enterprise Storage
4 4 (4.60%) Handset
5 3 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.30%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.30%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.15%) CESG
7 1 (1.15%) CMDB
7 1 (1.15%) Equities
7 1 (1.15%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.15%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 83 (95.40%) Windows
2 75 (86.21%) Windows Server
3 45 (51.72%) Windows Server 2016
4 31 (35.63%) Windows Server 2012
5 25 (28.74%) Windows 10
6 20 (22.99%) Linux
7 6 (6.90%) Android
7 6 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (4.60%) Unix
8 4 (4.60%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (3.45%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (2.30%) Apple iOS
10 2 (2.30%) Mac OS
11 1 (1.15%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (1.15%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (1.15%) Rocky
11 1 (1.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (35.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (28.74%) ITIL
3 16 (18.39%) High Availability
4 12 (13.79%) Patch Management
4 12 (13.79%) Root Cause Analysis
5 10 (11.49%) Migration
5 10 (11.49%) Performance Tuning
5 10 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (10.34%) Analytics
7 7 (8.05%) Log Analytics
8 6 (6.90%) Performance Monitoring
8 6 (6.90%) Server Building
9 5 (5.75%) API Integration
9 5 (5.75%) Change Management
9 5 (5.75%) Identity Access Management
9 5 (5.75%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 5 (5.75%) Power Management
9 5 (5.75%) Problem Management
9 5 (5.75%) RBAC
9 5 (5.75%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (32.18%) PowerShell
2 12 (13.79%) SQL
3 8 (9.20%) Java
4 7 (8.05%) Python
5 6 (6.90%) C#
5 6 (6.90%) VBScript
6 5 (5.75%) C++
7 3 (3.45%) VB
8 1 (1.15%) Bicep
8 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (51.72%) Security Cleared
2 36 (41.38%) SC Cleared
3 15 (17.24%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (13.79%) DV Cleared
5 11 (12.64%) MCSE
6 8 (9.20%) Degree
7 7 (8.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (4.60%) MCSA
9 3 (3.45%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (3.45%) VCP5
9 3 (3.45%) VCP6
10 2 (2.30%) MCP
11 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
11 1 (1.15%) Citrix Certification
11 1 (1.15%) HNC
11 1 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (1.15%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.64%) SLA
2 4 (4.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.45%) QA
4 2 (2.30%) GDPR
4 2 (2.30%) NCSC
5 1 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.15%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.15%) IEC 61131
5 1 (1.15%) JSP 440
5 1 (1.15%) NIST
System Software
1 54 (62.07%) Active Directory
2 35 (40.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (26.44%) Hyper-V
4 19 (21.84%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (14.94%) vSphere
6 11 (12.64%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (6.90%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (4.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 4 (4.60%) NFS
8 4 (4.60%) Platform Symphony
9 3 (3.45%) Docker
10 2 (2.30%) BitLocker
10 2 (2.30%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (1.15%) Firmware
11 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (1.15%) Terminal Services
11 1 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (1.15%) VMware NSX
11 1 (1.15%) XenApp
11 1 (1.15%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 21 (24.14%) vCenter Server
2 17 (19.54%) WSUS
3 13 (14.94%) SCCM
4 7 (8.05%) Microsoft Clustering
5 6 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (5.75%) Ansible
6 5 (5.75%) Grafana
6 5 (5.75%) ITRS Geneos
6 5 (5.75%) Kibana
6 5 (5.75%) Kubernetes
6 5 (5.75%) NetApp OnCommand
6 5 (5.75%) Terraform
6 5 (5.75%) vMotion
7 4 (4.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (4.60%) NetBackup
7 4 (4.60%) Norton AntiVirus
8 3 (3.45%) Backup Exec
8 3 (3.45%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (2.30%) OPNET
9 2 (2.30%) Packer
Vendors
1 53 (60.92%) VMware
2 43 (49.43%) Microsoft
3 13 (14.94%) Citrix
4 10 (11.49%) Cisco
4 10 (11.49%) Symantec
5 9 (10.34%) HP
6 8 (9.20%) Veeam
7 7 (8.05%) Dell
8 6 (6.90%) NetApp
9 5 (5.75%) Juniper
9 5 (5.75%) NETGEAR
9 5 (5.75%) Red Hat
9 5 (5.75%) SolarWinds
9 5 (5.75%) Splunk
9 5 (5.75%) TIBCO
9 5 (5.75%) TP-LINK
10 4 (4.60%) 3PAR
10 4 (4.60%) IBM
10 4 (4.60%) McAfee
10 4 (4.60%) Ribbon
65 Windows Server 2019 jobs Nationwide