Windows Server 2012 Contracts

Microsoft Windows Server 2012
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Windows Server 2012 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server 2012 over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 344 422
Rank change year-on-year -18 +78 -88
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2012 234 418 504
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.72% 0.58%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.08% 4.42% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 303 370
10th Percentile £200 £190 £162
25th Percentile £285 £325 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £440 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.53% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £488
90th Percentile £608 £660 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +15.63% -5.88% +18.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 14
10th Percentile - £18.63 £17.38
25th Percentile - £21.72 £20.00
Median hourly rate - £24.32 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year - +18.61% -41.01%
75th Percentile - £49.06 £28.41
90th Percentile - £59.41 £36.52
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £36.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +83.75% -9.09%

All Operating Systems
UK

Windows Server 2012 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 5,729 9,462 13,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.31% 16.31% 15.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,874 6,626 8,882
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £300 £340 £342
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% +2.00% +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 390 418 613
10th Percentile £12.73 £13.89 £13.38
25th Percentile £15.31 £17.72 £15.93
Median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +67.39% +29.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.50 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £29.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -23.21% +46.50% +21.21%

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 9 May 2024.

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 15 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 9 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 -1 216 £409 -9.17% 89
UK excluding London -14 154 £463 +15.63% 73
South East +65 84 £575 +19.79% 23
London +18 70 £380 -15.56% 15
Work from Home +32 53 £350 -12.50% 28
North of England +4 22 £328 -18.13% 20
Midlands +23 18 £225 -40.00% 9
South West -28 18 £538 +19.44% 16
North West -1 14 £290 -38.95% 8
West Midlands +18 13 £225 -40.00% 7
Scotland +15 8 £325 +18.18%
Yorkshire +11 8 £400 +14.12% 10
Wales +19 3 £365 -22.34% 1
East Midlands +12 3 £210 -44.00% 2
East of England -8 2 £388 +19.23% 10

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 77 (32.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (11.97%) Exchange Server 2010
3 26 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2013
4 16 (6.84%) Confluence
5 15 (6.41%) SharePoint
6 13 (5.56%) IIS
7 12 (5.13%) Exchange Server 2007
7 12 (5.13%) Skype for Business
8 11 (4.70%) Exchange Server 2003
9 3 (1.28%) nginx
10 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
Applications
1 24 (10.26%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.85%) Remedy AR System
2 2 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 78 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 66 (28.21%) Azure
3 15 (6.41%) OCI
4 14 (5.98%) Entra ID
5 8 (3.42%) AWS
5 8 (3.42%) IaaS
6 5 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (1.71%) OneDrive
7 4 (1.71%) PaaS
8 3 (1.28%) Azure Storage
8 3 (1.28%) GitHub
8 3 (1.28%) SaaS
9 2 (0.85%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.85%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.85%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (0.85%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.85%) Route 53
9 2 (0.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.43%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.43%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 90 (38.46%) DNS
2 62 (26.50%) Firewall
3 59 (25.21%) DHCP
4 39 (16.67%) SAN
5 16 (6.84%) WAN
6 15 (6.41%) Skype
7 13 (5.56%) LAN
7 13 (5.56%) VPN
8 12 (5.13%) TCP/IP
9 11 (4.70%) VLAN
10 9 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (2.99%) Wireless
12 6 (2.56%) VoIP
13 4 (1.71%) Ethernet
13 4 (1.71%) Remote Desktop
13 4 (1.71%) Unified Communications
14 3 (1.28%) NAS
14 3 (1.28%) NetScaler
14 3 (1.28%) VSAN
14 3 (1.28%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.97%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.28%) MySQL
3 2 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.85%) Power BI
4 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.43%) Redis
4 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (10.68%) JIRA
2 3 (1.28%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (0.85%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.43%) Hudson
4 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 93 (39.74%) Social Skills
2 36 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (9.83%) Public Sector
4 20 (8.55%) Finance
5 15 (6.41%) Military
6 12 (5.13%) Banking
7 7 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.28%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.28%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.43%) Back Office
10 1 (0.43%) Electronics
10 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.43%) French Language
10 1 (0.43%) German Language
10 1 (0.43%) Law
10 1 (0.43%) Marketing
10 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (19.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 35 (14.96%) Support Engineer
3 31 (13.25%) Windows Engineer
4 25 (10.68%) Integration Engineer
5 20 (8.55%) Build Engineer
5 20 (8.55%) Windows Build Engineer
6 15 (6.41%) Administrator
6 15 (6.41%) Systems Administrator
6 15 (6.41%) Test and Integration Engineer
6 15 (6.41%) Test Engineer
7 13 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
7 13 (5.56%) Server Engineer
8 12 (5.13%) Analyst
9 10 (4.27%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 10 (4.27%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 10 (4.27%) Storage Engineer
10 9 (3.85%) 1st/2nd Line Support
10 9 (3.85%) Active Directory Engineer
10 9 (3.85%) IT Support
10 9 (3.85%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.28%) EDI
2 2 (0.85%) ADSI
2 2 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.43%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.83%) Data Centre
2 21 (8.97%) PKI
3 14 (5.98%) Video Conferencing
4 13 (5.56%) Clustering
5 10 (4.27%) NHS
6 7 (2.99%) Driving Licence
7 6 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.71%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.28%) CCTV
9 3 (1.28%) CMDB
9 3 (1.28%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.28%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.43%) Fat Client
11 1 (0.43%) Freedom of Information
11 1 (0.43%) Freedom of Information Act
11 1 (0.43%) LIMS
11 1 (0.43%) Replication
11 1 (0.43%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 234 (100.00%) Windows
2 195 (83.33%) Windows Server
3 101 (43.16%) Windows Server 2016
4 80 (34.19%) Windows 10
5 78 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 52 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
7 35 (14.96%) Linux
8 26 (11.11%) Windows 7
9 20 (8.55%) Windows NT
10 16 (6.84%) Windows Server 2003
11 14 (5.98%) Windows XP
12 9 (3.85%) CentOS
12 9 (3.85%) Mac OS
13 6 (2.56%) Debian
13 6 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 5 (2.14%) Ubuntu
15 4 (1.71%) VMS
16 3 (1.28%) Android
17 2 (0.85%) OpenVMS
18 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (25.21%) ITIL
2 58 (24.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 46 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (14.96%) Customer Service
4 35 (14.96%) Migration
5 32 (13.68%) Disaster Recovery
6 25 (10.68%) Release Management
6 25 (10.68%) Service Management
7 24 (10.26%) Deployment Automation
8 23 (9.83%) Agile
9 22 (9.40%) Project Management
10 20 (8.55%) User Acceptance Testing
11 19 (8.12%) Server Management
11 19 (8.12%) Storage Management
12 17 (7.26%) Change Management
12 17 (7.26%) Critical Thinking
13 16 (6.84%) Proactive Monitoring
14 15 (6.41%) Performance Tuning
14 15 (6.41%) Regression Testing
14 15 (6.41%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 67 (28.63%) PowerShell
2 45 (19.23%) SQL
3 3 (1.28%) Shell Script
4 2 (0.85%) Python
5 1 (0.43%) Bicep
5 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 101 (43.16%) Security Cleared
2 48 (20.51%) DV Cleared
3 47 (20.09%) SC Cleared
4 40 (17.09%) Degree
5 29 (12.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 25 (10.68%) MCSE
7 21 (8.97%) MCSA
8 20 (8.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 18 (7.69%) CCNA
9 18 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (6.41%) CCNP
11 6 (2.56%) RHCT
12 5 (2.14%) Azure Certification
13 3 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
14 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.55%) QA
2 4 (1.71%) SLA
3 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.85%) NIST
3 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 194 (82.91%) Active Directory
2 99 (42.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (17.95%) Hyper-V
4 25 (10.68%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (8.55%) Firmware
6 15 (6.41%) XenApp
7 9 (3.85%) vSphere
8 6 (2.56%) KVM
8 6 (2.56%) VMware NSX
8 6 (2.56%) XenDesktop
9 5 (2.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (1.28%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.85%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.85%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.43%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 83 (35.47%) SCCM
2 52 (22.22%) WSUS
3 23 (9.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (8.55%) SCOM
4 20 (8.55%) Sysprep
4 20 (8.55%) vCenter Server
5 18 (7.69%) NetBackup
6 14 (5.98%) EMC NetWorker
7 10 (4.27%) Autotask
8 8 (3.42%) Failover Clustering
9 7 (2.99%) Microsoft Clustering
9 7 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (2.56%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (2.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (2.14%) Terraform
12 4 (1.71%) Ansible
13 3 (1.28%) FortiGate
13 3 (1.28%) PaperCut
14 2 (0.85%) Packer
14 2 (0.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 130 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 120 (51.28%) VMware
3 44 (18.80%) Cisco
4 36 (15.38%) HP
5 35 (14.96%) Citrix
6 34 (14.53%) Veeam
7 30 (12.82%) EMC
8 19 (8.12%) Dell
9 18 (7.69%) Palo Alto
10 17 (7.26%) 3PAR
10 17 (7.26%) Juniper
10 17 (7.26%) Oracle
11 15 (6.41%) Symantec
12 14 (5.98%) Extreme Networks
13 13 (5.56%) Avaya
13 13 (5.56%) Red Hat
14 12 (5.13%) CheckPoint
15 9 (3.85%) Ivanti
16 7 (2.99%) Apple
17 6 (2.56%) Remedy