Windows Server 2019 Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows Server 2019
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 251 249 323
Rank change year-on-year -2 +74 -11
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2019 148 217 195
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.73% 0.94% 0.64%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.62% 4.94% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 172 146
10th Percentile £200 £223 £166
25th Percentile £350 £413 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +29.41% +17.24%
75th Percentile £608 £636 £480
90th Percentile - £700 £570
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £450
% change year-on-year +9.52% +16.67% +18.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 4
10th Percentile £50.86 £19.10 £17.20
25th Percentile £56.50 £23.24 £19.00
Median hourly rate £59.80 £26.48 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.83% +32.40% -20.00%
75th Percentile £61.60 £50.45 £25.00
90th Percentile - £64.05 £34.00
UK median hourly rate £59.80 £26.48 £20.00
% change year-on-year +125.83% +32.40% -33.33%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,201 4,390 5,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.77% 19.08% 19.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,133 3,041 3,829
10th Percentile £175 £163 £150
25th Percentile £263 £250 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £540
90th Percentile £672 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £469 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.20% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 316 451
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.83
25th Percentile £14.27 £17.25 £15.02
Median hourly rate £22.50 £29.65 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.11% +48.25% +21.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.25 £49.51
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.74 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.08 £39.05 £23.00
% change year-on-year -43.47% +69.78% +31.43%

Windows Server 2019
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Windows Server 2019 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2019 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2019
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2019 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2019 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2019
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2019 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2019 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2019
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2019 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2019 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2019
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Server 2019 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows Server 2019 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2019
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2019 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
South East +68 102 £575 +19.48% 24
Midlands +29 18 £313 +40.13% 22
West Midlands +35 16 £313 +38.89% 13
North of England +20 14 £390 -20.00% 20
Yorkshire +21 8 £563 +73.08% 12
East of England -28 7 £650 -7.14% 16
North West +9 5 £220 -54.87% 7
Wales +18 4 £220 -48.24% 1
Scotland +18 2 - - 1
East Midlands +6 2 - - 9
North East +8 1 £600 +266.41% 1
South West -55 1 - - 13
Windows Server 2019
UK

Windows Server 2019
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 37 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (7.43%) SharePoint
3 7 (4.73%) IIS
4 2 (1.35%) WordPress
5 1 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 12 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.05%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.68%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 63 (42.57%) Azure
2 50 (33.78%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (19.59%) Entra ID
4 17 (11.49%) Azure Monitor
4 17 (11.49%) Azure Storage
5 15 (10.14%) OCI
6 9 (6.08%) OneDrive
7 6 (4.05%) Power Automate
7 6 (4.05%) Power Platform
7 6 (4.05%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.68%) AWS
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Stack
8 1 (0.68%) GCP
8 1 (0.68%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 58 (39.19%) DNS
2 52 (35.14%) DHCP
2 52 (35.14%) Firewall
3 26 (17.57%) SAN
4 14 (9.46%) VPN
5 9 (6.08%) LAN
6 8 (5.41%) NAS
6 8 (5.41%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (4.73%) WAN
8 6 (4.05%) Unified Communications
8 6 (4.05%) VLAN
8 6 (4.05%) VoIP
9 5 (3.38%) Network Security
9 5 (3.38%) Wireless
10 3 (2.03%) Fibre Channel
10 3 (2.03%) SMTP
10 3 (2.03%) TCP/IP
11 2 (1.35%) iSCSI
11 2 (1.35%) NetScaler
11 2 (1.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.84%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.05%) Power BI
3 4 (2.70%) Big Data
3 4 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.70%) MySQL
3 4 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (9.46%) Robot Framework
1 14 (9.46%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (1.35%) JIRA
3 1 (0.68%) MSI
General
1 79 (53.38%) Social Skills
2 10 (6.76%) Public Sector
3 7 (4.73%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.70%) Finance
5 1 (0.68%) Advertising
5 1 (0.68%) Back Office
5 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 24 (16.22%) Windows Engineer
3 20 (13.51%) Support Engineer
4 19 (12.84%) Build Engineer
4 19 (12.84%) Windows Build Engineer
5 17 (11.49%) Active Directory Support
6 14 (9.46%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (9.46%) Architect
6 14 (9.46%) Azure Specialist
6 14 (9.46%) Support Specialist
7 12 (8.11%) Security Architect
8 11 (7.43%) Administrator
8 11 (7.43%) Senior
9 10 (6.76%) Storage Engineer
9 10 (6.76%) Systems Administrator
10 9 (6.08%) 1st/2nd Line Support
10 9 (6.08%) 2nd Line Support
10 9 (6.08%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 8 (5.41%) Infrastructure Support
11 8 (5.41%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.49%) ARM Templates
2 6 (4.05%) Itk
3 3 (2.03%) LDAP
4 2 (1.35%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 50 (33.78%) PKI
2 19 (12.84%) Data Centre
3 17 (11.49%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (9.46%) Clustering
5 6 (4.05%) Digital Signage
5 6 (4.05%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.70%) Fat Client
6 4 (2.70%) Thin Client
7 2 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.35%) Replication
8 1 (0.68%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.68%) CMDB
8 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.68%) LIMS
8 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.68%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 142 (95.95%) Windows
2 125 (84.46%) Windows Server
3 107 (72.30%) Windows Server 2016
4 58 (39.19%) Windows 10
5 57 (38.51%) Windows Server 2012
6 48 (32.43%) Linux
7 19 (12.84%) Windows NT
8 14 (9.46%) Windows XP
9 12 (8.11%) Windows Server 2008
10 10 (6.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 8 (5.41%) Mac OS
12 7 (4.73%) Windows 7
13 6 (4.05%) Ubuntu
13 6 (4.05%) VMS
14 4 (2.70%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (43.24%) ITIL
2 43 (29.05%) Service Management
3 40 (27.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 37 (25.00%) Release Management
5 36 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (21.62%) Agile
7 31 (20.95%) Customer Service
8 23 (15.54%) Deployment Automation
8 23 (15.54%) DevOps
8 23 (15.54%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 19 (12.84%) User Acceptance Testing
10 17 (11.49%) Analytics
10 17 (11.49%) CI/CD
10 17 (11.49%) Disaster Recovery
10 17 (11.49%) Identity Management
10 17 (11.49%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (11.49%) Log Analytics
10 17 (11.49%) Privileged Identity Management
10 17 (11.49%) RBAC
11 15 (10.14%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (51.35%) PowerShell
2 18 (12.16%) VB
3 17 (11.49%) Bicep
3 17 (11.49%) C#
3 17 (11.49%) VBScript
4 16 (10.81%) Python
5 13 (8.78%) SQL
6 4 (2.70%) C
6 4 (2.70%) C++
7 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 92 (62.16%) Security Cleared
2 70 (47.30%) DV Cleared
3 42 (28.38%) Degree
4 38 (25.68%) SC Cleared
5 17 (11.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (9.46%) CCNA
6 14 (9.46%) CCNP
6 14 (9.46%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (3.38%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.35%) MCSE
8 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.68%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.84%) QA
2 7 (4.73%) RMADS
3 3 (2.03%) SLA
4 1 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.68%) GDPR
System Software
1 120 (81.08%) Active Directory
2 63 (42.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 24 (16.22%) VMware ESXi
5 23 (15.54%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (12.84%) Firmware
6 19 (12.84%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (4.73%) vSphere
8 5 (3.38%) Terminal Services
8 5 (3.38%) XenApp
9 4 (2.70%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (2.70%) XenDesktop
10 3 (2.03%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 72 (48.65%) SCCM
2 58 (39.19%) WSUS
3 34 (22.97%) Microsoft Intune
3 34 (22.97%) SCOM
4 23 (15.54%) vCenter Server
5 22 (14.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 19 (12.84%) Sysprep
7 18 (12.16%) Ansible
8 17 (11.49%) Kubernetes
9 15 (10.14%) NetBackup
10 14 (9.46%) EMC NetWorker
10 14 (9.46%) Terraform
11 8 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (4.73%) Failover Clustering
13 6 (4.05%) Autotask
13 6 (4.05%) Jamf Pro
13 6 (4.05%) Nessus
14 4 (2.70%) Red Hat Satellite
14 4 (2.70%) ZABBIX
15 3 (2.03%) vMotion
Vendors
1 107 (72.30%) Microsoft
2 76 (51.35%) VMware
3 26 (17.57%) Oracle
4 20 (13.51%) Veeam
5 18 (12.16%) Cisco
6 17 (11.49%) HP
7 16 (10.81%) Dell
7 16 (10.81%) Palo Alto
7 16 (10.81%) Symantec
8 15 (10.14%) 3PAR
8 15 (10.14%) EMC
8 15 (10.14%) Juniper
9 14 (9.46%) Extreme Networks
10 11 (7.43%) Red Hat
11 8 (5.41%) Citrix
12 6 (4.05%) Apple
12 6 (4.05%) Datto
13 3 (2.03%) Aruba
13 3 (2.03%) Infoblox
13 3 (2.03%) NetApp