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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 419 380 395
Rank change year-on-year -39 +15 +158
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2019 102 196 334
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.46% 0.58%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.52% 3.46% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 129 269
10th Percentile £313 £200 £223
25th Percentile £354 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £597 £608 £623
90th Percentile £661 £616 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 4,054 5,658 9,258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.89% 13.30% 16.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,664 3,818 6,479
10th Percentile £200 £185 £190
25th Percentile £313 £300 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £470 £501
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% -6.09% +0.10%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £445 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -1.11% -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 390 404
10th Percentile £15.24 £12.73 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.31 £17.97
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -42.86% +67.39%
75th Percentile £57.50 £60.56 £64.50
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.59 £22.50 £29.30
% change year-on-year -4.04% -23.21% +46.50%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -25 88 £550 -4.35% 92
UK excluding London -20 81 £550 -4.35% 85
Work from Home +15 29 £500 -17.36% 34
South East -24 23 £605 +5.22% 26
North of England +26 22 £350 -10.26% 17
North West +23 20 £350 +59.09% 13
London +4 17 £525 +5.00% 11
East of England +33 15 £550 -15.38% 15
South West +49 9 £575 - 15
Wales +5 7 £365 +65.91%
Scotland +10 4 £210 - 3
Midlands -1 3 £300 -4.00% 16
West Midlands -2 3 £300 -4.00% 5
Yorkshire +8 2 £375 -33.29% 1

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 18 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (12.75%) SharePoint
3 9 (8.82%) IIS
4 6 (5.88%) Skype for Business
5 4 (3.92%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (1.96%) Confluence
6 2 (1.96%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.98%) Apache
7 1 (0.98%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.98%) DataSynapse
7 1 (0.98%) WinCC
Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 30 (29.41%) Azure
2 20 (19.61%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (13.73%) Cohesity
4 13 (12.75%) Entra ID
5 9 (8.82%) AWS
6 7 (6.86%) Azure Monitor
6 7 (6.86%) OneDrive
7 5 (4.90%) GitHub
8 2 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.98%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.98%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.98%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.98%) Azure Storage
9 1 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.98%) IaaS
9 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.98%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.98%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.98%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (46.08%) DNS
2 25 (24.51%) SAN
3 21 (20.59%) DHCP
4 9 (8.82%) Firewall
5 7 (6.86%) VPN
6 6 (5.88%) Fibre Channel
6 6 (5.88%) Skype
6 6 (5.88%) TCP/IP
7 5 (4.90%) iSCSI
7 5 (4.90%) LAN
7 5 (4.90%) VSAN
8 4 (3.92%) PSTN
8 4 (3.92%) SMTP
9 3 (2.94%) Network Security
9 3 (2.94%) WAN
9 3 (2.94%) WLAN
10 2 (1.96%) NAS
10 2 (1.96%) SSL
11 1 (0.98%) VRRP
11 1 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.84%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.90%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.98%) GIS
5 1 (0.98%) MSDE
5 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.92%) JIRA
2 3 (2.94%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.96%) Git
General
1 13 (12.75%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.78%) Public Sector
3 5 (4.90%) Legal
4 4 (3.92%) Finance
5 2 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.96%) Publishing
5 2 (1.96%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.98%) Banking
6 1 (0.98%) Front Office
6 1 (0.98%) Local Government
6 1 (0.98%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.98%) Marketing
6 1 (0.98%) Military
6 1 (0.98%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (11.76%) Administrator
3 10 (9.80%) VMWare Administrator
4 9 (8.82%) Architect
4 9 (8.82%) Wintel Administrator
5 7 (6.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 7 (6.86%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (6.86%) Lead
6 5 (4.90%) Infrastructure Architect
6 5 (4.90%) Senior
6 5 (4.90%) VMware Architect
7 4 (3.92%) Analyst
7 4 (3.92%) Collaboration Engineer
7 4 (3.92%) Grid Engineer
7 4 (3.92%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 4 (3.92%) IT Engineer
7 4 (3.92%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (2.94%) Industrial Engineer
8 3 (2.94%) Technical Architect
8 3 (2.94%) TIBCO Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.98%) .NET
1 1 (0.98%) ARM Templates
1 1 (0.98%) ASP.NET
1 1 (0.98%) LDAP
1 1 (0.98%) SOAP
1 1 (0.98%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.78%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.88%) PKI
3 5 (4.90%) Grid Computing
4 4 (3.92%) Blackberry
4 4 (3.92%) Clustering
4 4 (3.92%) Enterprise Storage
4 4 (3.92%) Handset
5 3 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.96%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.96%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.98%) CESG
7 1 (0.98%) CMDB
7 1 (0.98%) Equities
7 1 (0.98%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.98%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 98 (96.08%) Windows
2 90 (88.24%) Windows Server
3 59 (57.84%) Windows Server 2016
4 31 (30.39%) Windows Server 2012
5 24 (23.53%) Windows 10
6 20 (19.61%) Linux
7 6 (5.88%) Android
8 5 (4.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (3.92%) Unix
10 3 (2.94%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (1.96%) Apple iOS
11 2 (1.96%) Mac OS
11 2 (1.96%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.98%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.98%) CentOS
12 1 (0.98%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.98%) Rocky
12 1 (0.98%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.98%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (30.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (25.49%) ITIL
3 16 (15.69%) High Availability
4 15 (14.71%) Build Automation
4 15 (14.71%) Deployment Automation
4 15 (14.71%) SIEM
5 14 (13.73%) Operations Management
6 13 (12.75%) Root Cause Analysis
7 12 (11.76%) Patch Management
8 11 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (9.80%) Migration
9 10 (9.80%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (8.82%) Analytics
11 7 (6.86%) Log Analytics
12 6 (5.88%) Performance Monitoring
12 6 (5.88%) Server Building
13 5 (4.90%) Change Management
13 5 (4.90%) Performance Analysis
13 5 (4.90%) Problem Management
13 5 (4.90%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (40.20%) PowerShell
2 13 (12.75%) SQL
3 8 (7.84%) Java
4 7 (6.86%) Python
5 6 (5.88%) C#
5 6 (5.88%) VBScript
6 5 (4.90%) C++
7 3 (2.94%) VB
8 1 (0.98%) Bicep
8 1 (0.98%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (57.84%) Security Cleared
2 37 (36.27%) SC Cleared
3 26 (25.49%) DV Cleared
4 17 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (12.75%) MCSE
6 9 (8.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 7 (6.86%) Degree
8 5 (4.90%) VCP5
8 5 (4.90%) VCP6
9 4 (3.92%) MCSA
10 3 (2.94%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (1.96%) MCP
12 1 (0.98%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.98%) Citrix Certification
12 1 (0.98%) HNC
12 1 (0.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.98%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.78%) SLA
2 4 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.94%) QA
4 2 (1.96%) GDPR
4 2 (1.96%) NCSC
5 1 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.98%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.98%) IEC 61131
5 1 (0.98%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.98%) NIST
System Software
1 66 (64.71%) Active Directory
2 49 (48.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (22.55%) Hyper-V
4 21 (20.59%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (15.69%) vSphere
6 14 (13.73%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 14 (13.73%) Virtual Servers
7 11 (10.78%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (5.88%) NFS
8 6 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (3.92%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 4 (3.92%) Platform Symphony
10 3 (2.94%) Docker
11 2 (1.96%) BitLocker
11 2 (1.96%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.98%) Firmware
12 1 (0.98%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.98%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.98%) XenApp
12 1 (0.98%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 30 (29.41%) WSUS
2 26 (25.49%) SCCM
3 21 (20.59%) vCenter Server
4 18 (17.65%) Ansible
5 7 (6.86%) Microsoft Clustering
6 6 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (4.90%) Grafana
7 5 (4.90%) ITRS Geneos
7 5 (4.90%) Kibana
7 5 (4.90%) Kubernetes
7 5 (4.90%) NetApp OnCommand
7 5 (4.90%) Terraform
7 5 (4.90%) vMotion
8 4 (3.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (3.92%) NetBackup
8 4 (3.92%) Norton AntiVirus
9 3 (2.94%) Backup Exec
9 3 (2.94%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (1.96%) OPNET
10 2 (1.96%) Packer
Vendors
1 68 (66.67%) VMware
2 58 (56.86%) Microsoft
3 21 (20.59%) NetApp
4 20 (19.61%) Splunk
5 12 (11.76%) Citrix
6 10 (9.80%) Symantec
6 10 (9.80%) Veeam
7 9 (8.82%) Cisco
8 8 (7.84%) HP
9 7 (6.86%) Dell
10 6 (5.88%) Red Hat
11 5 (4.90%) Juniper
11 5 (4.90%) NETGEAR
11 5 (4.90%) SolarWinds
11 5 (4.90%) TIBCO
11 5 (4.90%) TP-LINK
12 4 (3.92%) 3PAR
12 4 (3.92%) IBM
12 4 (3.92%) McAfee
12 4 (3.92%) Ribbon
97 Windows Server 2019 jobs Nationwide