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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 388 554
Rank change year-on-year +4 +166 -71
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2019 209 362 312
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.61% 0.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.63% 3.74% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 297 234
10th Percentile £210 £223 £167
25th Percentile £363 £413 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £445
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +17.98% +18.67%
75th Percentile £608 £623 £538
90th Percentile - £700 £596
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £550 £425
% change year-on-year +4.55% +29.41% +15.25%
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 5,765 9,684 13,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.36% 16.37% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,887 6,796 9,089
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £300 £338 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% +1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £700 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 425 633
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.25 £13.38
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.72 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.08 £39.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.40% +73.33% +25.80%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.50 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% +50.00% +21.21%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +10 196 £563 +2.27% 115
UK excluding London -3 157 £575 +4.55% 97
South East +76 108 £575 +16.46% 31
London +58 45 £488 -2.50% 22
Work from Home +59 40 £605 +24.10% 39
Midlands +31 19 £350 +56.95% 20
West Midlands +33 16 £350 +21.74% 11
North of England +13 14 £390 -8.45% 19
Yorkshire +26 8 £563 +73.08% 7
East of England -36 7 £650 -7.14% 16
North West +5 5 £220 -54.87% 11
Wales +15 4 £220 -48.24% 2
Scotland +24 3 - -
South West -45 3 £225 -60.87% 11
East Midlands +16 2 - - 9
North East +15 1 £600 +280.95% 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 53 (25.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (6.70%) SharePoint
3 12 (5.74%) IIS
4 3 (1.44%) nginx
4 3 (1.44%) WordPress
5 2 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 14 (6.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.87%) Teamcenter
2 3 (1.44%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 81 (38.76%) Azure
2 67 (32.06%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (15.31%) Entra ID
4 16 (7.66%) Azure Monitor
4 16 (7.66%) Azure Storage
5 15 (7.18%) OCI
6 11 (5.26%) OneDrive
7 6 (2.87%) Power Automate
7 6 (2.87%) Power Platform
7 6 (2.87%) PowerApps
8 5 (2.39%) AWS
8 5 (2.39%) WhatsApp
9 3 (1.44%) GCP
9 3 (1.44%) GitHub
10 1 (0.48%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.48%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.48%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.48%) Rubrik
10 1 (0.48%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 70 (33.49%) DNS
2 62 (29.67%) Firewall
3 57 (27.27%) DHCP
4 33 (15.79%) SAN
5 20 (9.57%) VPN
6 13 (6.22%) LAN
6 13 (6.22%) WAN
7 11 (5.26%) Wireless
8 10 (4.78%) NAS
8 10 (4.78%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (3.83%) VLAN
9 8 (3.83%) VoIP
10 6 (2.87%) Unified Communications
11 5 (2.39%) Network Security
12 4 (1.91%) Fibre Channel
12 4 (1.91%) SMTP
12 4 (1.91%) TCP/IP
13 3 (1.44%) Cisco IOS
13 3 (1.44%) iSCSI
13 3 (1.44%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (22.97%) SQL Server
2 11 (5.26%) MySQL
3 6 (2.87%) Power BI
4 4 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.91%) Big Data
4 4 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (6.70%) Robot Framework
1 14 (6.70%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (1.91%) JIRA
3 2 (0.96%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.48%) MSI
General
1 93 (44.50%) Social Skills
2 35 (16.75%) Public Sector
3 11 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (5.26%) Finance
4 9 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (0.96%) Back Office
6 2 (0.96%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.48%) Advertising
7 1 (0.48%) Legal
7 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.48%) Russian Language
Job Titles
1 62 (29.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 27 (12.92%) Support Engineer
2 27 (12.92%) Windows Engineer
3 21 (10.05%) Build Engineer
3 21 (10.05%) Windows Build Engineer
4 19 (9.09%) Wintel Engineer
5 16 (7.66%) Active Directory Support
6 15 (7.18%) Support Specialist
7 14 (6.70%) Active Directory Specialist
7 14 (6.70%) Architect
7 14 (6.70%) Azure Specialist
8 13 (6.22%) Senior
9 12 (5.74%) 2nd Line Support
9 12 (5.74%) Administrator
9 12 (5.74%) Security Architect
10 11 (5.26%) Systems Administrator
10 11 (5.26%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (4.78%) 1st/2nd Line Support
11 10 (4.78%) Storage Engineer
12 9 (4.31%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.66%) ARM Templates
2 6 (2.87%) Itk
2 6 (2.87%) LDAP
3 4 (1.91%) CSS
3 4 (1.91%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (1.91%) HTML
3 4 (1.91%) HTML5
4 3 (1.44%) EDI
4 3 (1.44%) LAMP
5 2 (0.96%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 53 (25.36%) PKI
2 22 (10.53%) Replication
3 20 (9.57%) Data Centre
4 19 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (8.13%) Clustering
6 6 (2.87%) Digital Signage
6 6 (2.87%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.91%) Fat Client
7 4 (1.91%) Thin Client
8 3 (1.44%) CCTV
8 3 (1.44%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.96%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.96%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.48%) CMDB
10 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.48%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.48%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 203 (97.13%) Windows
2 173 (82.78%) Windows Server
3 149 (71.29%) Windows Server 2016
4 80 (38.28%) Windows Server 2012
5 69 (33.01%) Windows 10
6 62 (29.67%) Linux
7 21 (10.05%) Windows NT
7 21 (10.05%) Windows Server 2008
8 16 (7.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (6.70%) Windows XP
10 13 (6.22%) Mac OS
11 11 (5.26%) Ubuntu
12 9 (4.31%) VMS
12 9 (4.31%) Windows 7
13 7 (3.35%) Windows Server 2003
14 5 (2.39%) CentOS
15 3 (1.44%) Android
16 2 (0.96%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (35.89%) ITIL
2 66 (31.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 46 (22.01%) Service Management
4 43 (20.57%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (19.62%) Release Management
6 38 (18.18%) Migration
7 35 (16.75%) Customer Service
8 32 (15.31%) Agile
9 25 (11.96%) Deployment Automation
10 23 (11.00%) DevOps
11 22 (10.53%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 21 (10.05%) User Acceptance Testing
13 20 (9.57%) Disaster Recovery
14 19 (9.09%) CI/CD
15 17 (8.13%) Infrastructure as Code
16 16 (7.66%) Identity Management
16 16 (7.66%) Log Analytics
16 16 (7.66%) Privileged Identity Management
16 16 (7.66%) Project Management
16 16 (7.66%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 91 (43.54%) PowerShell
2 26 (12.44%) SQL
3 17 (8.13%) VB
4 16 (7.66%) Bicep
4 16 (7.66%) C#
4 16 (7.66%) Python
4 16 (7.66%) VBScript
5 7 (3.35%) Shell Script
6 4 (1.91%) Bash
6 4 (1.91%) C
6 4 (1.91%) C++
6 4 (1.91%) PHP
6 4 (1.91%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 127 (60.77%) Security Cleared
2 95 (45.45%) DV Cleared
3 48 (22.97%) Degree
4 47 (22.49%) SC Cleared
5 16 (7.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (6.70%) CCNA
6 14 (6.70%) CCNP
6 14 (6.70%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (3.35%) DBS Check
8 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.96%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.96%) MCSE
10 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.48%) MCSA
10 1 (0.48%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.48%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.05%) QA
2 7 (3.35%) RMADS
3 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.44%) SLA
4 2 (0.96%) NIST
4 2 (0.96%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.48%) GDPR
System Software
1 170 (81.34%) Active Directory
2 71 (33.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (21.53%) Hyper-V
4 28 (13.40%) VMware ESXi
5 24 (11.48%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (10.05%) Firmware
7 19 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (4.78%) vSphere
9 7 (3.35%) XenApp
10 6 (2.87%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (2.87%) Terminal Services
10 6 (2.87%) XenDesktop
11 4 (1.91%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.96%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 82 (39.23%) SCCM
2 63 (30.14%) WSUS
3 42 (20.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 41 (19.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 34 (16.27%) SCOM
6 25 (11.96%) vCenter Server
7 21 (10.05%) Sysprep
8 20 (9.57%) Ansible
9 18 (8.61%) NetBackup
9 18 (8.61%) Terraform
10 17 (8.13%) Kubernetes
11 14 (6.70%) EMC NetWorker
12 13 (6.22%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (4.31%) Failover Clustering
14 8 (3.83%) Jamf Pro
15 7 (3.35%) Nessus
16 6 (2.87%) Autotask
17 4 (1.91%) Red Hat Satellite
17 4 (1.91%) vMotion
17 4 (1.91%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 126 (60.29%) Microsoft
2 94 (44.98%) VMware
3 45 (21.53%) Veeam
4 27 (12.92%) Oracle
5 24 (11.48%) HP
6 22 (10.53%) Cisco
7 21 (10.05%) Red Hat
8 17 (8.13%) 3PAR
8 17 (8.13%) Dell
8 17 (8.13%) Palo Alto
9 16 (7.66%) Symantec
10 15 (7.18%) EMC
10 15 (7.18%) Juniper
11 14 (6.70%) Extreme Networks
12 12 (5.74%) Citrix
13 7 (3.35%) Aruba
14 6 (2.87%) Apple
14 6 (2.87%) Datto
14 6 (2.87%) Nimble Storage
15 5 (2.39%) NetApp