Windows Server 2019 Contracts

Microsoft Windows Server 2019
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Windows Server 2019 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server 2019 over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 368 552
Rank change year-on-year -7 +184 -88
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2019 211 367 316
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.61% 0.36%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.64% 3.76% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 304 238
10th Percentile £207 £223 £184
25th Percentile £363 £413 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £516 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% +14.72% +20.00%
75th Percentile £608 £623 £538
90th Percentile - £700 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £550 £425
% change year-on-year +4.55% +29.41% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 4
10th Percentile £50.86 £19.33 £17.20
25th Percentile £56.50 £20.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £59.80 £26.48 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.83% +32.40% -33.33%
75th Percentile £61.60 £49.43 £25.00
90th Percentile - £61.16 £34.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.80 £26.48 £20.00
% change year-on-year +125.83% +32.40% -20.00%

All Operating Systems
UK

Windows Server 2019 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 5,803 9,755 13,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.32% 16.27% 15.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,900 6,876 9,112
10th Percentile £185 £190 £174
25th Percentile £300 £330 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £590 £638 £613
90th Percentile £700 £718 £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 395 430 639
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.24 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.38 £17.73 £15.81
Median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +72.80% +24.57%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £30.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -28.33% +50.00% +19.40%

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 26 April 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Server 2019 over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows Server 2019 in the UK

Windows Server 2019
Top 16 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 26 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 +9 196 £563 +5.88% 109
UK excluding London +3 158 £575 +4.55% 96
South East +82 107 £575 +17.95% 30
London +66 46 £488 -2.50% 20
Work from Home +46 40 £605 +24.10% 37
Midlands +27 19 £350 +56.95% 14
West Midlands +37 16 £350 +27.27% 9
North of England +14 14 £390 -8.45% 22
Yorkshire +25 8 £563 +73.08% 6
East of England -33 7 £650 -7.14% 18
Scotland +20 5 £488 +29.65% 2
North West +6 5 £220 -54.87% 13
Wales +16 4 £220 -48.24% 2
South West -46 3 £225 -60.87% 9
East Midlands +14 2 - - 5
North East +17 1 £600 +280.95% 3

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 52 (24.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (6.64%) SharePoint
3 12 (5.69%) IIS
4 3 (1.42%) nginx
4 3 (1.42%) WordPress
5 2 (0.95%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (0.95%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (0.95%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 15 (7.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.84%) Teamcenter
2 3 (1.42%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 79 (37.44%) Azure
2 67 (31.75%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (14.69%) Entra ID
4 15 (7.11%) Azure Monitor
4 15 (7.11%) Azure Storage
5 14 (6.64%) OCI
6 11 (5.21%) OneDrive
7 6 (2.84%) Power Automate
7 6 (2.84%) Power Platform
7 6 (2.84%) PowerApps
8 5 (2.37%) AWS
8 5 (2.37%) WhatsApp
9 3 (1.42%) GCP
10 2 (0.95%) GitHub
10 2 (0.95%) Rubrik
11 1 (0.47%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.47%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.47%) IaaS
11 1 (0.47%) Mimecast
11 1 (0.47%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 71 (33.65%) DNS
2 60 (28.44%) Firewall
3 56 (26.54%) DHCP
4 34 (16.11%) SAN
5 20 (9.48%) VPN
6 13 (6.16%) LAN
6 13 (6.16%) WAN
7 12 (5.69%) Wireless
8 10 (4.74%) NAS
8 10 (4.74%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (3.79%) VLAN
9 8 (3.79%) VoIP
10 6 (2.84%) Unified Communications
11 5 (2.37%) Network Security
11 5 (2.37%) VSAN
12 4 (1.90%) Fibre Channel
12 4 (1.90%) SMTP
12 4 (1.90%) TCP/IP
13 3 (1.42%) iSCSI
13 3 (1.42%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (24.17%) SQL Server
2 11 (5.21%) MySQL
3 6 (2.84%) Power BI
4 4 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.90%) Big Data
4 4 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (6.64%) Robot Framework
1 14 (6.64%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (1.90%) JIRA
3 2 (0.95%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.95%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.47%) MSI
General
1 94 (44.55%) Social Skills
2 37 (17.54%) Public Sector
3 11 (5.21%) Finance
4 10 (4.74%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.27%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (0.95%) Back Office
7 2 (0.95%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.47%) Advertising
8 1 (0.47%) Legal
8 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.47%) Russian Language
Job Titles
1 63 (29.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 27 (12.80%) Support Engineer
2 27 (12.80%) Windows Engineer
3 21 (9.95%) Build Engineer
3 21 (9.95%) Windows Build Engineer
4 20 (9.48%) Wintel Engineer
5 15 (7.11%) Active Directory Support
5 15 (7.11%) Support Specialist
6 14 (6.64%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (6.64%) Architect
6 14 (6.64%) Azure Specialist
7 13 (6.16%) 2nd Line Support
7 13 (6.16%) Senior
8 12 (5.69%) Administrator
8 12 (5.69%) Security Architect
8 12 (5.69%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (5.21%) Systems Administrator
10 10 (4.74%) 1st/2nd Line Support
11 9 (4.27%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 9 (4.27%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.11%) ARM Templates
2 6 (2.84%) Itk
2 6 (2.84%) LDAP
3 4 (1.90%) CSS
3 4 (1.90%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (1.90%) HTML
3 4 (1.90%) HTML5
4 3 (1.42%) EDI
4 3 (1.42%) LAMP
5 2 (0.95%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 52 (24.64%) PKI
2 23 (10.90%) Replication
3 19 (9.00%) Data Centre
3 19 (9.00%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (8.06%) Clustering
5 6 (2.84%) Digital Signage
5 6 (2.84%) Driving Licence
5 6 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.90%) Fat Client
6 4 (1.90%) Thin Client
7 3 (1.42%) CCTV
7 3 (1.42%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.95%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.95%) CMDB
8 2 (0.95%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.47%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.47%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.47%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 205 (97.16%) Windows
2 175 (82.94%) Windows Server
3 151 (71.56%) Windows Server 2016
4 81 (38.39%) Windows Server 2012
5 69 (32.70%) Windows 10
6 61 (28.91%) Linux
7 22 (10.43%) Windows Server 2008
8 21 (9.95%) Windows NT
9 17 (8.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 13 (6.16%) Mac OS
10 13 (6.16%) Windows XP
11 11 (5.21%) Ubuntu
12 9 (4.27%) VMS
12 9 (4.27%) Windows 7
13 7 (3.32%) Windows Server 2003
14 6 (2.84%) CentOS
15 3 (1.42%) Android
16 2 (0.95%) OpenVMS
17 1 (0.47%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (35.07%) ITIL
2 68 (32.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 45 (21.33%) Service Management
4 43 (20.38%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (18.96%) Release Management
6 39 (18.48%) Migration
7 35 (16.59%) Customer Service
8 31 (14.69%) Agile
9 25 (11.85%) Deployment Automation
10 21 (9.95%) DevOps
10 21 (9.95%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 21 (9.95%) User Acceptance Testing
11 19 (9.00%) Disaster Recovery
12 17 (8.06%) CI/CD
13 16 (7.58%) Infrastructure as Code
14 15 (7.11%) Analytics
14 15 (7.11%) Identity Management
14 15 (7.11%) Privileged Identity Management
14 15 (7.11%) Project Management
14 15 (7.11%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 91 (43.13%) PowerShell
2 26 (12.32%) SQL
3 17 (8.06%) Python
4 16 (7.58%) VB
5 15 (7.11%) Bicep
5 15 (7.11%) C#
5 15 (7.11%) VBScript
6 7 (3.32%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.90%) Bash
7 4 (1.90%) C
7 4 (1.90%) C++
7 4 (1.90%) PHP
7 4 (1.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 129 (61.14%) Security Cleared
2 96 (45.50%) DV Cleared
3 46 (21.80%) Degree
3 46 (21.80%) SC Cleared
4 15 (7.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 13 (6.16%) CCNA
5 13 (6.16%) CCNP
5 13 (6.16%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (3.79%) DBS Check
7 5 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.95%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.95%) MCSE
9 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.47%) MCSA
9 1 (0.47%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.47%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.95%) QA
2 7 (3.32%) RMADS
3 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.42%) SLA
4 2 (0.95%) NIST
4 2 (0.95%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.47%) GDPR
System Software
1 173 (81.99%) Active Directory
2 72 (34.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (20.85%) Hyper-V
4 29 (13.74%) VMware ESXi
5 23 (10.90%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (9.95%) Firmware
7 18 (8.53%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (5.21%) vSphere
9 7 (3.32%) XenApp
10 6 (2.84%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (2.84%) Terminal Services
10 6 (2.84%) XenDesktop
11 4 (1.90%) BitLocker
12 3 (1.42%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 82 (38.86%) SCCM
2 63 (29.86%) WSUS
3 42 (19.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 41 (19.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 32 (15.17%) SCOM
6 25 (11.85%) vCenter Server
7 21 (9.95%) Sysprep
8 20 (9.48%) Ansible
9 18 (8.53%) Terraform
10 17 (8.06%) NetBackup
11 16 (7.58%) Kubernetes
12 13 (6.16%) EMC NetWorker
12 13 (6.16%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (4.27%) Failover Clustering
14 8 (3.79%) Jamf Pro
15 7 (3.32%) Nessus
16 6 (2.84%) Autotask
17 4 (1.90%) Red Hat Satellite
17 4 (1.90%) vMotion
17 4 (1.90%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 126 (59.72%) Microsoft
2 96 (45.50%) VMware
3 45 (21.33%) Veeam
4 26 (12.32%) Oracle
5 24 (11.37%) HP
6 22 (10.43%) Red Hat
7 21 (9.95%) Cisco
8 16 (7.58%) 3PAR
8 16 (7.58%) Dell
8 16 (7.58%) Palo Alto
9 15 (7.11%) EMC
9 15 (7.11%) Symantec
10 14 (6.64%) Juniper
11 13 (6.16%) Extreme Networks
12 12 (5.69%) Citrix
13 7 (3.32%) Apple
13 7 (3.32%) Aruba
13 7 (3.32%) NetApp
14 6 (2.84%) Datto
14 6 (2.84%) Nimble Storage
114 Windows Server 2019 jobs Nationwide