Windows Server 2019 Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Windows Server 2019
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 297 356 503
Rank change year-on-year +59 +147 -93
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2019 40 113 122
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.44% 0.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.53% 3.20% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 86 95
10th Percentile £312 £284 £285
25th Percentile £475 £403 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +24.10% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £531
90th Percentile - £650 £575
UK median daily rate £563 £525 £445
% change year-on-year +7.14% +17.98% +18.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £20.00 -
UK median hourly rate £59.80 £26.48 £20.00
% change year-on-year +125.83% +32.40% -33.33%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,578 3,526 5,465
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.42% 13.79% 12.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,103 2,482 3,858
10th Percentile £225 £250 £296
25th Percentile £350 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £601
90th Percentile £682 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £470 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -6.93% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 103 163
10th Percentile £13.05 £19.00 £14.30
25th Percentile £14.27 £39.05 £17.50
Median hourly rate £18.00 £55.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -67.27% +29.41% +14.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £22.08 £39.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -43.40% +73.33% +25.80%

Windows Server 2019
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Windows Server 2019 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Windows Server 2019 trend for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Server 2019
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Windows Server 2019.

Windows Server 2019 daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Server 2019
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Windows Server 2019 over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Windows Server 2019 daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Server 2019
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Windows Server 2019.

Windows Server 2019 hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Server 2019
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 24 (60.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (15.00%) IIS
3 1 (2.50%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (2.50%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.50%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 22 (55.00%) Azure
1 22 (55.00%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (42.50%) Entra ID
3 16 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
3 16 (40.00%) Azure Storage
4 2 (5.00%) GitHub
4 2 (5.00%) WhatsApp
5 1 (2.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 21 (52.50%) DNS
2 19 (47.50%) DHCP
3 17 (42.50%) Firewall
4 1 (2.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) Big Data
2 1 (2.50%) MySQL
2 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.00%) JIRA
1 2 (5.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 21 (52.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.50%) Back Office
5 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Legal
5 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (40.00%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (35.00%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (35.00%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (35.00%) Support Specialist
3 6 (15.00%) Wintel Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Migration Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Support Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Data Centre Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Data Migration Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Active Directory Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Administrator
6 3 (7.50%) Systems Administrator
7 2 (5.00%) Active Directory Support Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Consultant
7 2 (5.00%) Senior
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 2 (5.00%) Windows Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) 1st Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (40.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.50%) CSS
3 1 (2.50%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (2.50%) HTML
3 1 (2.50%) HTML5
3 1 (2.50%) Itk
Miscellaneous
1 16 (40.00%) PKI
1 16 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (10.00%) Clustering
2 4 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 40 (100.00%) Windows
2 36 (90.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 34 (85.00%) Windows Server
4 18 (45.00%) Linux
5 12 (30.00%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (17.50%) Windows 10
7 4 (10.00%) VMS
8 3 (7.50%) Windows 7
9 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (2.50%) CentOS
10 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) ITIL
2 18 (45.00%) CI/CD
3 17 (42.50%) Agile
3 17 (42.50%) DevOps
3 17 (42.50%) Release Management
4 16 (40.00%) Analytics
4 16 (40.00%) Identity Management
4 16 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (40.00%) Log Analytics
4 16 (40.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 16 (40.00%) Privileged Identity Management
4 16 (40.00%) RBAC
4 16 (40.00%) Service Management
5 8 (20.00%) Migration
6 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (7.50%) Change Management
7 3 (7.50%) Configuration Management
7 3 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (7.50%) Software Distribution
8 2 (5.00%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 16 (40.00%) Bicep
2 16 (40.00%) C#
2 16 (40.00%) VB
2 16 (40.00%) VBScript
3 6 (15.00%) SQL
4 1 (2.50%) Bash
4 1 (2.50%) C
4 1 (2.50%) C++
4 1 (2.50%) PHP
4 1 (2.50%) Python
4 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (52.50%) Security Cleared
2 18 (45.00%) Degree
2 18 (45.00%) SC Cleared
3 17 (42.50%) DV Cleared
4 16 (40.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.00%) NIST
1 2 (5.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 17 (42.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 16 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (10.00%) XenApp
4 4 (10.00%) XenDesktop
5 3 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (5.00%) Hyper-V
6 2 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (2.50%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (2.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (55.00%) SCCM
2 17 (42.50%) SCOM
2 17 (42.50%) WSUS
3 16 (40.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 16 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 16 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (7.50%) Terraform
5 2 (5.00%) Ansible
5 2 (5.00%) Kibana
5 2 (5.00%) logstash
5 2 (5.00%) Packer
6 1 (2.50%) Nessus
6 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (55.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.00%) Citrix
2 4 (10.00%) VMware
3 2 (5.00%) IBM
4 1 (2.50%) Qualys
4 1 (2.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.50%) SAP