Windows Server Contracts in London

Microsoft Windows Server
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 132 134 175
Rank change year-on-year +2 +41 -7
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 329 500 656
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.86% 1.91% 1.71%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.68% 13.23% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 378 515
10th Percentile £263 £231 £256
25th Percentile £366 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £594 £603 £594
90th Percentile £688 £721 £663
England median daily rate £470 £500 £427
% change year-on-year -6.00% +17.10% +6.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 12 13
10th Percentile - £22.64 £17.30
25th Percentile £16.00 £24.44 £20.00
Median hourly rate £20.93 £25.36 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.46% +5.65% -52.94%
75th Percentile £33.34 £35.50 £46.50
90th Percentile £47.83 £55.75 £63.72
England median hourly rate £46.75 £34.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +37.50% +51.11% -10.00%

All Operating Systems
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 London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,098 3,779 5,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.89% 14.41% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,499 2,759 3,797
10th Percentile £200 £213 £225
25th Percentile £350 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £675 £669
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
England median daily rate £470 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 62 99
10th Percentile £14.79 £18.93 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.04 £22.94 £21.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +75.00% -41.52%
75th Percentile £25.07 £68.38 £49.38
90th Percentile £60.00 £82.30 £73.35
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £22.14
% change year-on-year -41.33% +69.38% +24.59%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in London

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in London

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in London

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in London

Windows Server
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Server in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows Server in London

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server within the London region 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
Central London +6 41 £575 +16.16% 12
East London +9 13 £440 +25.71% 10
West London +13 6 - - 7
South London +7 4 £190 -15.56% 5
North London 0 2 £250 +5.26%
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 63 (19.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (7.60%) Exchange Server 2013
3 24 (7.29%) Exchange Server 2010
4 17 (5.17%) SharePoint
5 15 (4.56%) IIS
6 10 (3.04%) Exchange Server 2007
7 9 (2.74%) Confluence
7 9 (2.74%) Exchange Server 2003
7 9 (2.74%) Skype for Business
8 5 (1.52%) Apache
8 5 (1.52%) JBoss
8 5 (1.52%) nginx
8 5 (1.52%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.30%) IBM Domino
9 1 (0.30%) IBM Notes
9 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (5.78%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.52%) Temenos T24
2 3 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.61%) Remedy AR System
4 1 (0.30%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.30%) Eikon
4 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.30%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 126 (38.30%) Azure
2 103 (31.31%) Microsoft 365
3 66 (20.06%) AWS
4 50 (15.20%) Entra ID
5 28 (8.51%) IaaS
6 19 (5.78%) GCP
7 18 (5.47%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (4.26%) Cloud Computing
8 14 (4.26%) PaaS
9 11 (3.34%) SaaS
10 10 (3.04%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (3.04%) Nutanix
10 10 (3.04%) OneDrive
11 9 (2.74%) Rubrik
12 8 (2.43%) Amazon S3
13 7 (2.13%) GitHub
13 7 (2.13%) Mimecast
14 6 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (1.82%) Azure AKS
15 5 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 84 (25.53%) DNS
2 77 (23.40%) Firewall
3 34 (10.33%) DHCP
4 28 (8.51%) VPN
5 27 (8.21%) WAN
6 25 (7.60%) LAN
7 23 (6.99%) SAN
8 22 (6.69%) NAS
9 16 (4.86%) TCP/IP
10 13 (3.95%) MPLS
11 12 (3.65%) VLAN
12 11 (3.34%) Skype
13 10 (3.04%) Wireless
14 9 (2.74%) Kerberos
15 8 (2.43%) Network Security
16 6 (1.82%) BGP
17 5 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
18 4 (1.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 4 (1.22%) iSCSI
18 4 (1.22%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (20.36%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (2.74%) MySQL
2 9 (2.74%) Relational Database
3 7 (2.13%) RDBMS
4 6 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.61%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.61%) Looker
8 2 (0.61%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.30%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.30%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.30%) Metadata
9 1 (0.30%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.30%) Power BI
9 1 (0.30%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (8.51%) Jenkins
2 19 (5.78%) JIRA
3 17 (5.17%) Git
4 12 (3.65%) Subversion
4 12 (3.65%) TeamCity
5 10 (3.04%) Artifactory
6 6 (1.82%) GitLab
7 3 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.61%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.30%) AppScan
9 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.30%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.30%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.30%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 73 (22.19%) Finance
2 68 (20.67%) Social Skills
3 41 (12.46%) Public Sector
4 30 (9.12%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.34%) Mandarin Language
6 10 (3.04%) Banking
7 8 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.82%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.52%) French Language
9 5 (1.52%) Legal
9 5 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.22%) Front Office
11 3 (0.91%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.91%) Law
11 3 (0.91%) Marketing
11 3 (0.91%) Multimedia
11 3 (0.91%) Retail
12 2 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 32 (9.73%) Analyst
2 32 (9.73%) Senior
3 27 (8.21%) Administrator
3 27 (8.21%) Support Engineer
4 22 (6.69%) Azure Engineer
5 19 (5.78%) Windows Engineer
5 19 (5.78%) Wintel Engineer
6 18 (5.47%) IT Engineer
7 16 (4.86%) Systems Administrator
8 15 (4.56%) Cloud Engineer
9 13 (3.95%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (3.95%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (3.95%) Senior Analyst
10 12 (3.65%) Desktop Support
10 12 (3.65%) Infrastructure Specialist
11 11 (3.34%) IT Analyst
11 11 (3.34%) Senior Systems Analyst
11 11 (3.34%) Systems Analyst
12 10 (3.04%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.99%) .NET
2 15 (4.56%) Middleware
3 13 (3.95%) LDAP
4 7 (2.13%) ASP.NET
5 5 (1.52%) CSS
5 5 (1.52%) IBM Integration Bus
5 5 (1.52%) YAML
6 4 (1.22%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (1.22%) HTML
6 4 (1.22%) HTML5
7 3 (0.91%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.61%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.61%) SAML
9 1 (0.30%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.30%) EDI
9 1 (0.30%) Node.js
9 1 (0.30%) REST
9 1 (0.30%) WinForms
9 1 (0.30%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.12%) Replication
2 22 (6.69%) Data Centre
3 17 (5.17%) PKI
4 11 (3.34%) Clustering
4 11 (3.34%) Management Information System
4 11 (3.34%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (2.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 7 (2.13%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.82%) NHS
7 5 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.52%) Smartphone
8 4 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.22%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.91%) CCTV
9 3 (0.91%) Client/Server
9 3 (0.91%) Hedge funds
9 3 (0.91%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 327 (99.39%) Windows
2 59 (17.93%) Linux
3 52 (15.81%) Windows Server 2012
4 47 (14.29%) Windows 10
5 40 (12.16%) Windows Server 2016
6 36 (10.94%) Windows Server 2019
7 28 (8.51%) Windows Server 2008
8 20 (6.08%) Windows 7
9 17 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (3.65%) Unix
11 11 (3.34%) VMS
12 9 (2.74%) Mac OS
12 9 (2.74%) Oracle Linux
12 9 (2.74%) Windows Server 2003
13 8 (2.43%) Solaris
14 6 (1.82%) CentOS
15 5 (1.52%) Ubuntu
16 2 (0.61%) OpenVMS
17 1 (0.30%) Android
17 1 (0.30%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (27.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 60 (18.24%) Migration
3 59 (17.93%) DevOps
4 45 (13.68%) ITIL
5 34 (10.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 33 (10.03%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (9.42%) Customer Service
8 29 (8.81%) Vulnerability Management
9 25 (7.60%) Infrastructure as Code
10 23 (6.99%) Agile
10 23 (6.99%) Server Management
11 22 (6.69%) Time Management
12 21 (6.38%) High Availability
13 18 (5.47%) Configuration Management
14 16 (4.86%) Analytics
14 16 (4.86%) CI/CD
14 16 (4.86%) Cybersecurity
14 16 (4.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 16 (4.86%) Storage Management
14 16 (4.86%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 107 (32.52%) PowerShell
2 48 (14.59%) Python
2 48 (14.59%) SQL
3 22 (6.69%) Bash
4 16 (4.86%) C#
5 11 (3.34%) Java
6 10 (3.04%) Shell Script
7 9 (2.74%) C++
8 6 (1.82%) T-SQL
8 6 (1.82%) VB
9 4 (1.22%) Bicep
9 4 (1.22%) PHP
10 3 (0.91%) F#
10 3 (0.91%) VBA
11 2 (0.61%) Korn
11 2 (0.61%) Perl
11 2 (0.61%) Ruby
12 1 (0.30%) C
12 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 68 (20.67%) Security Cleared
2 35 (10.64%) DV Cleared
3 27 (8.21%) SC Cleared
4 24 (7.29%) Degree
5 21 (6.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.82%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (1.82%) MCSA
7 5 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.22%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.91%) CCNA
9 3 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.91%) MCSE
10 2 (0.61%) CCNP
10 2 (0.61%) MCITP
10 2 (0.61%) MCSD
10 2 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.30%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.86%) SLA
2 11 (3.34%) GDPR
3 9 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.43%) QA
4 8 (2.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.91%) NIST
6 2 (0.61%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 195 (59.27%) Active Directory
2 72 (21.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (6.69%) Hyper-V
4 20 (6.08%) vSphere
5 19 (5.78%) Docker
6 12 (3.65%) VMware NSX
7 10 (3.04%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (3.04%) Virtual Servers
8 6 (1.82%) Firmware
9 4 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.91%) KVM
10 3 (0.91%) NFS
11 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.30%) vCloud
11 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 56 (17.02%) SCCM
2 34 (10.33%) Ansible
3 28 (8.51%) Terraform
4 24 (7.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 22 (6.69%) Kubernetes
6 19 (5.78%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (3.65%) SCOM
8 10 (3.04%) Puppet
9 9 (2.74%) BladeLogic
9 9 (2.74%) ITRS Geneos
10 8 (2.43%) EMC NetWorker
10 8 (2.43%) Netcool
10 8 (2.43%) Tivoli
10 8 (2.43%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 7 (2.13%) Progress Chef
11 7 (2.13%) Prometheus
11 7 (2.13%) WSUS
12 5 (1.52%) Grafana
13 4 (1.22%) Kibana
13 4 (1.22%) Nagios
Vendors
1 141 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 120 (36.47%) VMware
3 40 (12.16%) Citrix
4 34 (10.33%) Veeam
5 26 (7.90%) Cisco
6 24 (7.29%) Dell
7 21 (6.38%) Oracle
8 20 (6.08%) HP
8 20 (6.08%) ServiceNow
9 19 (5.78%) Qualys
10 18 (5.47%) Red Hat
11 15 (4.56%) IBM
12 14 (4.26%) Splunk
13 12 (3.65%) CA
14 11 (3.34%) Dynatrace
15 9 (2.74%) Altiris
15 9 (2.74%) CyberArk
15 9 (2.74%) EMC
15 9 (2.74%) Google
15 9 (2.74%) Palo Alto