Windows Server 2019 Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Windows Server 2019
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Windows Server 2019 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server 2019 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 305 365
Rank change year-on-year +30 +60 +146
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2019 29 40 112
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.29% 0.26% 0.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.46% 2.50% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 33 87
10th Percentile £350 £312 £289
25th Percentile £358 £450 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £605 £488
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% +24.10% +8.33%
75th Percentile £623 £608 £600
90th Percentile £700 - £650
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +17.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
75th Percentile - - £34.20
90th Percentile - - £42.72
UK median hourly rate - £59.80 £26.48
% change year-on-year - +125.83% +32.40%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

Windows Server 2019 falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,177 1,597 3,543
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.88% 10.41% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 1,113 2,503
10th Percentile £288 £218 £250
25th Percentile £388 £350 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.65% +4.00%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £680 £718
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 49 101
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.15 £19.00
25th Percentile £32.19 £14.27 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £18.30 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +241.53% -68.17% +35.29%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.53 £73.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

Windows Server 2019
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Windows Server 2019 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Windows Server 2019 trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Windows Server 2019 over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 3 (10.34%) IIS
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.90%) Confluence
2 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.90%) Skype for Business
3 1 (3.45%) DataSynapse
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (37.93%) Azure
2 5 (17.24%) AWS
3 4 (13.79%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (6.90%) GitHub
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Storage
6 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 17 (58.62%) DNS
2 15 (51.72%) DHCP
3 6 (20.69%) Firewall
3 6 (20.69%) TCP/IP
4 3 (10.34%) SAN
4 3 (10.34%) VPN
5 2 (6.90%) Skype
6 1 (3.45%) NetScaler
6 1 (3.45%) SSL
6 1 (3.45%) VLAN
6 1 (3.45%) VRRP
6 1 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.34%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Git
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.90%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.45%) Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Finance
4 1 (3.45%) Front Office
4 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (17.24%) Administrator
1 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (17.24%) Lead
1 5 (17.24%) VMWare Administrator
2 4 (13.79%) Wintel Administrator
3 3 (10.34%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Active Directory Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) Grid Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) IT Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Senior
4 2 (6.90%) TIBCO Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Cloud Specialist
5 1 (3.45%) ICT Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) SCCM Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Data Centre
2 4 (13.79%) Enterprise Storage
3 3 (10.34%) Grid Computing
3 3 (10.34%) PKI
4 2 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (6.90%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.45%) Equities
5 1 (3.45%) Fixed Income
5 1 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (100.00%) Windows
2 28 (96.55%) Windows Server
3 15 (51.72%) Windows Server 2016
4 13 (44.83%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (24.14%) Linux
6 4 (13.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (13.79%) Windows 10
7 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (27.59%) ITIL
3 7 (24.14%) Migration
4 6 (20.69%) Patch Management
5 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (17.24%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (17.24%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (13.79%) Analytics
6 4 (13.79%) DevSecOps
6 4 (13.79%) High Availability
6 4 (13.79%) Log Analytics
7 3 (10.34%) API Integration
7 3 (10.34%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (6.90%) Business Strategy
8 2 (6.90%) Identity Access Management
8 2 (6.90%) IT Strategy
8 2 (6.90%) Security Hardening
8 2 (6.90%) Server Building
8 2 (6.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (6.90%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) PowerShell
2 5 (17.24%) Java
2 5 (17.24%) Python
3 4 (13.79%) C#
3 4 (13.79%) SQL
4 3 (10.34%) C++
4 3 (10.34%) VBScript
5 1 (3.45%) Bicep
5 1 (3.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (48.28%) SC Cleared
1 14 (48.28%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) MCSA
2 2 (6.90%) MCSE
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 16 (55.17%) Active Directory
2 8 (27.59%) Hyper-V
2 8 (27.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (17.24%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (10.34%) vSphere
5 2 (6.90%) Platform Symphony
5 2 (6.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (3.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (3.45%) Docker
6 1 (3.45%) Firmware
6 1 (3.45%) Terminal Services
6 1 (3.45%) XenApp
6 1 (3.45%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (27.59%) SCCM
2 5 (17.24%) vCenter Server
3 4 (13.79%) Ansible
3 4 (13.79%) NetBackup
3 4 (13.79%) Terraform
3 4 (13.79%) WSUS
4 3 (10.34%) Grafana
4 3 (10.34%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (10.34%) Kibana
5 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
5 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (6.90%) OPNET
5 2 (6.90%) Packer
6 1 (3.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (3.45%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (58.62%) VMware
2 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
3 5 (17.24%) Citrix
3 5 (17.24%) Dell
3 5 (17.24%) HP
4 4 (13.79%) 3PAR
4 4 (13.79%) Red Hat
4 4 (13.79%) Veritas
5 3 (10.34%) Cisco
5 3 (10.34%) TIBCO
6 2 (6.90%) CyberArk
6 2 (6.90%) IBM
7 1 (3.45%) Commvault
7 1 (3.45%) NetApp
7 1 (3.45%) Palo Alto
7 1 (3.45%) Remedy
7 1 (3.45%) SonicWALL
7 1 (3.45%) Splunk
7 1 (3.45%) Tenable
7 1 (3.45%) Veeam