Windows Server Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Windows Server
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Windows Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server over the 6 months to 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 97 114
Rank change year-on-year +7 +17 -18
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 36 70 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.68% 2.01% 1.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.90% 14.52% 14.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 53 58
10th Percentile £408 £263 £209
25th Percentile £463 £461 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year +17.92% +0.95% +17.19%
75th Percentile £675 £645 £584
90th Percentile £681 £700 £606
Central London median daily rate £575 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +16.16% -1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £27.60
25th Percentile - - £44.25
Median hourly rate - - £76.00
75th Percentile - - £111.25
90th Percentile - - £130.00
Central London median hourly rate - - £76.00

All Operating Systems
City of London

Windows Server is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 279 482 527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.98% 13.82% 12.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 334 406
10th Percentile £218 £154 £179
25th Percentile £350 £263 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +7.50% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £613
90th Percentile £750 £738 £700
Central London median daily rate £450 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 10
10th Percentile - £37.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £21.25 £41.25 £15.94
Median hourly rate £24.38 £50.00 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year -51.25% +94.17% +83.93%
75th Percentile £27.59 £68.13 £46.25
90th Percentile £28.66 £77.50 £85.13
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 £42.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year -45.88% +60.38% +87.61%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the City of London

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in the City of London

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in the City of London

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in the City of London

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 8 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.56%) Apache
2 2 (5.56%) Exchange Server 2013
2 2 (5.56%) IIS
2 2 (5.56%) JBoss
2 2 (5.56%) nginx
2 2 (5.56%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.78%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 19 (52.78%) Azure
2 8 (22.22%) Entra ID
3 7 (19.44%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (16.67%) AWS
5 5 (13.89%) GitHub
6 4 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (11.11%) IaaS
7 3 (8.33%) Mimecast
8 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (5.56%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (5.56%) GCP
8 2 (5.56%) WhatsApp
9 1 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (2.78%) Azure API Management
9 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (33.33%) Firewall
2 10 (27.78%) DNS
3 4 (11.11%) WAN
4 3 (8.33%) SAN
4 3 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (5.56%) Internet
5 2 (5.56%) MPLS
5 2 (5.56%) NAS
5 2 (5.56%) SSL
6 1 (2.78%) LAN
6 1 (2.78%) Network Security
6 1 (2.78%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (2.78%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.78%) Skype
6 1 (2.78%) Unified Communications
6 1 (2.78%) VPN
6 1 (2.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.78%) SQL Server
2 4 (11.11%) RDBMS
2 4 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 3 (8.33%) MySQL
4 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.78%) Metadata
4 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.11%) JIRA
3 3 (8.33%) GitLab
3 3 (8.33%) TeamCity
4 2 (5.56%) Git
4 2 (5.56%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (5.56%) Subversion
4 2 (5.56%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.78%) AppScan
5 1 (2.78%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.78%) Burp Suite
5 1 (2.78%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 12 (33.33%) Finance
2 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Banking
4 2 (5.56%) French Language
4 2 (5.56%) Front Office
4 2 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Back Office
5 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Law
5 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Analyst
2 8 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) IT Analyst
4 5 (13.89%) Operations Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Senior
4 5 (13.89%) Senior Analyst
4 5 (13.89%) Senior Systems Analyst
4 5 (13.89%) Systems Analyst
5 4 (11.11%) IT Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Site Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Administrator
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Security Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Server Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Systems Administrator
7 2 (5.56%) Windows Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Migration Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) ARM Templates
1 2 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (5.56%) IBM Integration Bus
2 1 (2.78%) .NET
2 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.78%) CSS
2 1 (2.78%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (2.78%) HTML
2 1 (2.78%) HTML5
2 1 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 3 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (5.56%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (2.78%) Clustering
3 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.78%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.78%) HP Storage
3 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.78%) PKI
3 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.78%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 36 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (30.56%) Linux
3 6 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (13.89%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (8.33%) Unix
7 2 (5.56%) Windows 10
7 2 (5.56%) Windows 7
7 2 (5.56%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (2.78%) CentOS
8 1 (2.78%) OpenVMS
8 1 (2.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) DevOps
2 11 (30.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 6 (16.67%) Identity Management
4 5 (13.89%) Incident Management
4 5 (13.89%) Information Security
4 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (13.89%) Scrum
5 4 (11.11%) Agile
5 4 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
5 4 (11.11%) IT Strategy
5 4 (11.11%) ITIL
5 4 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (11.11%) Time Management
5 4 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
6 3 (8.33%) Configuration Management
6 3 (8.33%) Migration
6 3 (8.33%) OWASP
6 3 (8.33%) Patch Management
6 3 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (63.89%) PowerShell
2 11 (30.56%) Python
3 10 (27.78%) SQL
4 3 (8.33%) Bash
4 3 (8.33%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.56%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.78%) PHP
6 1 (2.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.78%) Degree
3 1 (2.78%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.78%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) QA
2 3 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (8.33%) PCI DSS
3 2 (5.56%) COBIT
3 2 (5.56%) GDPR
3 2 (5.56%) NCSC
4 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.78%) NIST
4 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (41.67%) Active Directory
2 9 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (11.11%) Hyper-V
3 4 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (8.33%) Docker
5 1 (2.78%) KVM
5 1 (2.78%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (19.44%) SCCM
2 6 (16.67%) Terraform
3 4 (11.11%) Ansible
4 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (8.33%) Progress Chef
4 3 (8.33%) Puppet
5 2 (5.56%) CASB
5 2 (5.56%) Grafana
5 2 (5.56%) Graylog
5 2 (5.56%) Nagios
5 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.56%) SCOrch
5 2 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (5.56%) WSUS
6 1 (2.78%) Kibana
6 1 (2.78%) Nessus
6 1 (2.78%) NetBackup
6 1 (2.78%) Rancher
6 1 (2.78%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 20 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 12 (33.33%) VMware
3 5 (13.89%) Citrix
3 5 (13.89%) Red Hat
4 4 (11.11%) Oracle
5 3 (8.33%) Dell
5 3 (8.33%) IBM
5 3 (8.33%) Okta
6 2 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (5.56%) HP
6 2 (5.56%) Imperva
6 2 (5.56%) Netskope
6 2 (5.56%) Palo Alto
6 2 (5.56%) Splunk
6 2 (5.56%) Temenos
7 1 (2.78%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.78%) Guidewire
7 1 (2.78%) iManage
7 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.78%) Veracode