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

6 months to
10 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 379 390 537
Rank change year-on-year +11 +147 -60
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2019 207 347 313
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.60% 0.36%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.61% 3.68% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 284 234
10th Percentile £206 £223 £167
25th Percentile £363 £413 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.52% +16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £608 £623 £538
90th Percentile - £700 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £550 £425
% change year-on-year +4.55% +29.41% +17.24%
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 5,735 9,426 13,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.34% 16.28% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,878 6,596 8,865
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £300 £339 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.43% +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 393 419 615
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.99 £13.38
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.74 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +67.39% +29.50%
75th Percentile £60.75 £64.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £29.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -23.21% +46.50% +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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +12 193 £563 +2.27% 120
UK excluding London -6 156 £575 +4.55% 99
South East +78 108 £575 +17.95% 30
London +52 43 £488 -2.50% 24
Work from Home +49 39 £605 +24.10% 41
Midlands +29 19 £350 +56.95% 19
West Midlands +27 16 £350 +55.56% 12
North of England +25 14 £390 -13.33% 22
Yorkshire +26 8 £563 +73.08% 12
East of England -29 7 £650 -7.14% 17
North West +11 5 £220 -54.87% 9
Wales +17 4 £220 -48.24% 1
Scotland +23 3 - - 1
East Midlands +15 2 - - 7
South West -47 2 £225 -60.87% 11
North East +12 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 52 (25.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (6.76%) SharePoint
3 12 (5.80%) IIS
4 3 (1.45%) nginx
4 3 (1.45%) WordPress
5 2 (0.97%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (0.97%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (0.97%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 14 (6.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.90%) Teamcenter
2 3 (1.45%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 79 (38.16%) Azure
2 68 (32.85%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (15.46%) Entra ID
4 16 (7.73%) Azure Monitor
4 16 (7.73%) Azure Storage
5 15 (7.25%) OCI
6 11 (5.31%) OneDrive
7 6 (2.90%) AWS
7 6 (2.90%) Power Automate
7 6 (2.90%) Power Platform
7 6 (2.90%) PowerApps
8 5 (2.42%) WhatsApp
9 4 (1.93%) GitHub
10 3 (1.45%) GCP
11 2 (0.97%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.48%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.48%) IaaS
12 1 (0.48%) PaaS
12 1 (0.48%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 69 (33.33%) DNS
2 61 (29.47%) Firewall
3 57 (27.54%) DHCP
4 32 (15.46%) SAN
5 20 (9.66%) VPN
6 13 (6.28%) LAN
6 13 (6.28%) WAN
7 11 (5.31%) Wireless
8 10 (4.83%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (4.35%) NAS
10 8 (3.86%) VLAN
10 8 (3.86%) VoIP
11 6 (2.90%) Unified Communications
12 5 (2.42%) Network Security
13 4 (1.93%) Fibre Channel
13 4 (1.93%) SMTP
14 3 (1.45%) Cisco IOS
14 3 (1.45%) iSCSI
14 3 (1.45%) TCP/IP
14 3 (1.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 11 (5.31%) MySQL
3 6 (2.90%) Power BI
4 4 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.93%) Big Data
4 4 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (6.76%) Robot Framework
1 14 (6.76%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (1.93%) JIRA
3 2 (0.97%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.48%) MSI
General
1 92 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 34 (16.43%) Public Sector
3 12 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.31%) Finance
5 9 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (0.97%) Back Office
8 1 (0.48%) Advertising
8 1 (0.48%) Legal
8 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (28.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 28 (13.53%) Windows Engineer
3 27 (13.04%) Support Engineer
4 20 (9.66%) Build Engineer
4 20 (9.66%) Windows Build Engineer
5 18 (8.70%) Wintel Engineer
6 16 (7.73%) Active Directory Support
7 15 (7.25%) Support Specialist
8 14 (6.76%) Active Directory Specialist
8 14 (6.76%) Architect
8 14 (6.76%) Azure Specialist
9 13 (6.28%) Senior
10 12 (5.80%) 2nd Line Support
10 12 (5.80%) Administrator
10 12 (5.80%) Security Architect
11 11 (5.31%) Systems Administrator
12 10 (4.83%) 1st/2nd Line Support
12 10 (4.83%) Server Engineer
12 10 (4.83%) Storage Engineer
12 10 (4.83%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.73%) ARM Templates
2 6 (2.90%) Itk
3 5 (2.42%) LDAP
4 4 (1.93%) CSS
4 4 (1.93%) FIX Protocol
4 4 (1.93%) HTML
4 4 (1.93%) HTML5
5 3 (1.45%) EDI
5 3 (1.45%) LAMP
6 2 (0.97%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 53 (25.60%) PKI
2 21 (10.14%) Replication
3 20 (9.66%) Data Centre
4 19 (9.18%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (8.21%) Clustering
6 6 (2.90%) Digital Signage
6 6 (2.90%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.93%) Fat Client
7 4 (1.93%) Thin Client
8 3 (1.45%) CCTV
8 3 (1.45%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.97%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.48%) Client/Server
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
1 201 (97.10%) Windows
2 170 (82.13%) Windows Server
3 148 (71.50%) Windows Server 2016
4 78 (37.68%) Windows Server 2012
5 68 (32.85%) Windows 10
6 63 (30.43%) Linux
7 21 (10.14%) Windows Server 2008
8 20 (9.66%) Windows NT
9 16 (7.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (6.76%) Windows XP
11 13 (6.28%) Mac OS
12 11 (5.31%) Ubuntu
13 9 (4.35%) VMS
13 9 (4.35%) Windows 7
14 7 (3.38%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (2.42%) CentOS
16 3 (1.45%) Android
17 2 (0.97%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (35.27%) ITIL
2 64 (30.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 44 (21.26%) Service Management
4 43 (20.77%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (19.32%) Release Management
6 35 (16.91%) Migration
7 34 (16.43%) Customer Service
8 31 (14.98%) Agile
9 24 (11.59%) Deployment Automation
9 24 (11.59%) DevOps
10 22 (10.63%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 20 (9.66%) CI/CD
11 20 (9.66%) Disaster Recovery
11 20 (9.66%) User Acceptance Testing
12 17 (8.21%) Infrastructure as Code
13 16 (7.73%) Identity Management
13 16 (7.73%) Log Analytics
13 16 (7.73%) Privileged Identity Management
13 16 (7.73%) Project Management
13 16 (7.73%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 91 (43.96%) PowerShell
2 26 (12.56%) SQL
3 17 (8.21%) VB
4 16 (7.73%) Bicep
4 16 (7.73%) C#
4 16 (7.73%) Python
4 16 (7.73%) VBScript
5 7 (3.38%) Shell Script
6 4 (1.93%) Bash
6 4 (1.93%) C
6 4 (1.93%) C++
6 4 (1.93%) PHP
6 4 (1.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 125 (60.39%) Security Cleared
2 93 (44.93%) DV Cleared
3 47 (22.71%) Degree
3 47 (22.71%) SC Cleared
4 16 (7.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 14 (6.76%) CCNA
5 14 (6.76%) CCNP
5 14 (6.76%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (3.38%) DBS Check
7 5 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.97%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.97%) MCSE
9 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.48%) MCSA
9 1 (0.48%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.48%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.66%) QA
2 7 (3.38%) RMADS
3 3 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.45%) SLA
4 2 (0.97%) NIST
4 2 (0.97%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.48%) GDPR
System Software
1 166 (80.19%) Active Directory
2 72 (34.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (21.74%) Hyper-V
4 27 (13.04%) VMware ESXi
5 23 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (9.66%) Firmware
7 18 (8.70%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (4.83%) vSphere
9 6 (2.90%) Terminal Services
9 6 (2.90%) XenApp
10 5 (2.42%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (2.42%) XenDesktop
11 4 (1.93%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.97%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 81 (39.13%) SCCM
2 61 (29.47%) WSUS
3 42 (20.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 40 (19.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 33 (15.94%) SCOM
6 25 (12.08%) vCenter Server
7 20 (9.66%) Ansible
7 20 (9.66%) Sysprep
8 18 (8.70%) NetBackup
8 18 (8.70%) Terraform
9 17 (8.21%) Kubernetes
10 14 (6.76%) EMC NetWorker
11 13 (6.28%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (4.35%) Failover Clustering
13 8 (3.86%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (3.38%) Nessus
15 6 (2.90%) Autotask
16 4 (1.93%) Red Hat Satellite
16 4 (1.93%) vMotion
16 4 (1.93%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 124 (59.90%) Microsoft
2 95 (45.89%) VMware
3 44 (21.26%) Veeam
4 27 (13.04%) Oracle
5 24 (11.59%) HP
6 22 (10.63%) Cisco
7 21 (10.14%) Red Hat
8 17 (8.21%) 3PAR
8 17 (8.21%) Dell
8 17 (8.21%) Palo Alto
9 16 (7.73%) Symantec
10 15 (7.25%) EMC
10 15 (7.25%) Juniper
11 14 (6.76%) Extreme Networks
12 11 (5.31%) Citrix
13 7 (3.38%) Aruba
14 6 (2.90%) Apple
14 6 (2.90%) Datto
14 6 (2.90%) Nimble Storage
15 5 (2.42%) NetApp
124 Windows Server 2019 jobs Nationwide