Windows Server 2012 Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft Windows Server 2012
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Windows Server 2012 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 - 105
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2012 3 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.086% - 0.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.99% - 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £390
25th Percentile - - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +28.57%
75th Percentile - - £494
90th Percentile - - £528
England median daily rate £450 £350 £475
% change year-on-year +28.57% -26.32% +8.88%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

Windows Server 2012 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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 302 274 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.63% 15.04% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 203 184
10th Percentile £200 £160 £188
25th Percentile £313 £220 £271
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £450 £448
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +0.45% +12.00%
75th Percentile £538 £540 £583
90th Percentile £588 £614 £705
England median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 8
10th Percentile £17.53 £17.10 £14.63
25th Percentile £46.25 £20.06 £17.88
Median hourly rate £63.14 £25.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +152.54% +31.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £70.06 £30.00 £23.10
90th Percentile £70.55 £33.00 £39.13
England median hourly rate £36.36 £25.15 £56.75
% change year-on-year +44.55% -55.68% +23.68%

Windows Server 2012
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows Server 2012 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Windows Server 2012 job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Windows Server 2012
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Windows Server 2012.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Windows Server 2012

Windows Server 2012
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Windows Server 2012.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Windows Server 2012

Windows Server 2012
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 September 2026. 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
Warwickshire - 3 £450 -
Windows Server 2012
England

Windows Server 2012
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) IIS
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Server Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) PKI
2 2 (66.67%) Clustering
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (33.33%) CentOS
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Application Virtualisation
1 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Identity Management
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Patch Management
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
1 2 (66.67%) Runbook
1 2 (66.67%) Server Hardening
1 2 (66.67%) User Experience
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Environments
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) XenApp
2 2 (66.67%) XenDesktop
3 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Failover Clustering
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
1 2 (66.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) EMC
3 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 1 (33.33%) NetApp
3 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto