Windows Server 2012 Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Windows Server 2012
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 2012 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server 2012 over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 295 322 414
Rank change year-on-year +27 +92 -87
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2012 55 146 214
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.37% 0.58% 0.49%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.53% 4.27% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 103 163
10th Percentile £175 £163 £206
25th Percentile £275 £271 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.63% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £461 £507 £488
90th Percentile £522 £695 £585
UK median daily rate £405 £438 £425
% change year-on-year -7.43% +2.94% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £19.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate - £21.00 £28.41
Median % change year-on-year - -26.08% -51.44%
75th Percentile - £23.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £26.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year - +26.83% -6.82%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

Windows Server 2012 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 1,560 3,419 5,347
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.37% 13.66% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,096 2,409 3,780
10th Percentile £225 £243 £300
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 £607
90th Percentile £685 £725 £676
UK median daily rate £468 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -7.43% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 103 152
10th Percentile £12.80 £19.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £14.27 £30.36 £19.63
Median hourly rate £17.69 £55.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.84% +22.22% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.50 £62.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £68.17
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% +67.39% +29.50%

Windows Server 2012
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Windows Server 2012 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Windows Server 2012 trend for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Server 2012
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 2012.

Windows Server 2012 daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Server 2012
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Windows Server 2012 over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Windows Server 2012 daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Server 2012
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 2012.

Windows Server 2012 hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Server 2012
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 29 (52.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (23.64%) Exchange Server 2010
3 11 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 11 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
4 10 (18.18%) Exchange Server 2013
4 10 (18.18%) Skype for Business
5 6 (10.91%) IIS
6 3 (5.45%) SharePoint
7 1 (1.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (50.91%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (30.91%) Azure
3 4 (7.27%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.64%) AWS
4 2 (3.64%) GitHub
4 2 (3.64%) OneDrive
4 2 (3.64%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.82%) IaaS
5 1 (1.82%) Mimecast
5 1 (1.82%) Route 53
5 1 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (25.45%) Firewall
2 12 (21.82%) DNS
3 11 (20.00%) SAN
3 11 (20.00%) Skype
4 10 (18.18%) DHCP
5 3 (5.45%) VLAN
6 2 (3.64%) NAS
6 2 (3.64%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (3.64%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.64%) VPN
6 2 (3.64%) Wireless
7 1 (1.82%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.82%) LAN
7 1 (1.82%) MPLS
7 1 (1.82%) NetScaler
7 1 (1.82%) SNMP
7 1 (1.82%) SSL
7 1 (1.82%) WAN
7 1 (1.82%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.45%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.64%) Power BI
3 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (7.27%) JIRA
2 2 (3.64%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.64%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 13 (23.64%) Finance
2 11 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 8 (14.55%) Banking
4 7 (12.73%) Social Skills
5 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.82%) Electronics
7 1 (1.82%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.82%) Marketing
7 1 (1.82%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (18.18%) Support Engineer
2 7 (12.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (12.73%) Infrastructure Technician
3 6 (10.91%) Server Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Wintel Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Windows Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Active Directory Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Windows Server Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) IT Support
7 2 (3.64%) Network Engineer
8 1 (1.82%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 1 (1.82%) Active Directory Migration Engineer
8 1 (1.82%) Citrix Technical Consultant
8 1 (1.82%) Infrastructure Support
8 1 (1.82%) IT Technician
8 1 (1.82%) Risk Business Analyst
8 1 (1.82%) Risk Support Analyst
8 1 (1.82%) SCCM Specialist
8 1 (1.82%) Windows Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.64%) ADSI
1 2 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.55%) NHS
1 8 (14.55%) Video Conferencing
2 3 (5.45%) Clustering
3 2 (3.64%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.64%) PKI
4 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 55 (100.00%) Windows
2 35 (63.64%) Windows Server
3 28 (50.91%) Windows Server 2016
4 15 (27.27%) Windows Server 2008
5 14 (25.45%) Windows Server 2003
6 11 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (16.36%) Windows 10
8 4 (7.27%) Linux
8 4 (7.27%) Windows 7
9 2 (3.64%) CentOS
9 2 (3.64%) VMS
10 1 (1.82%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.73%) Migration
2 15 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (16.36%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (14.55%) Business Continuity
4 8 (14.55%) Network Management
5 6 (10.91%) Computer Science
6 5 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (7.27%) Change Management
7 4 (7.27%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (5.45%) Configuration Management
8 3 (5.45%) Identity Access Management
8 3 (5.45%) ITIL
8 3 (5.45%) Line Management
8 3 (5.45%) Network Load Balancing
8 3 (5.45%) Software Distribution
9 2 (3.64%) CI/CD
9 2 (3.64%) Critical Thinking
9 2 (3.64%) Due Diligence
9 2 (3.64%) Server Management
9 2 (3.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (9.09%) SQL
3 1 (1.82%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (21.82%) SC Cleared
1 12 (21.82%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.27%) Degree
3 3 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.45%) MCSE
3 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.82%) MCSA
4 1 (1.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.64%) NIST
1 2 (3.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (72.73%) Active Directory
2 8 (14.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (9.09%) Hyper-V
4 4 (7.27%) XenApp
4 4 (7.27%) XenDesktop
5 3 (5.45%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (5.45%) vSphere
6 2 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.82%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (1.82%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 18 (32.73%) SCCM
2 4 (7.27%) SCOM
2 4 (7.27%) Terraform
3 3 (5.45%) Ansible
3 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (5.45%) WSUS
4 2 (3.64%) Kibana
4 2 (3.64%) logstash
4 2 (3.64%) Nessus
4 2 (3.64%) Packer
4 2 (3.64%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.82%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.82%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.82%) Puppet
5 1 (1.82%) SCOrch
5 1 (1.82%) SCVMM
5 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.82%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 18 (32.73%) Microsoft
1 18 (32.73%) VMware
2 13 (23.64%) Citrix
3 10 (18.18%) Cisco
3 10 (18.18%) HP
4 9 (16.36%) Avaya
5 8 (14.55%) CheckPoint
5 8 (14.55%) EMC
5 8 (14.55%) Veeam
6 2 (3.64%) Commvault
6 2 (3.64%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (3.64%) Huawei
6 2 (3.64%) IBM
6 2 (3.64%) Juniper
6 2 (3.64%) Qualys
6 2 (3.64%) Trend Micro
6 2 (3.64%) Varonis
7 1 (1.82%) Apple
7 1 (1.82%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.82%) SAP