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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 114 175
Rank change year-on-year -30 +61 +4
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 308 537 638
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.75% 2.13% 1.65%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.68% 14.60% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 418 516
10th Percentile £256 £263 £240
25th Percentile £359 £408 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £516 £485
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +6.44% +5.72%
75th Percentile £569 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £663
England median daily rate £482 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -3.60% +17.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 6
10th Percentile - £22.69 £17.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £23.31 £24.75
Median hourly rate £20.93 £25.36 £46.79
Median % change year-on-year -17.46% -45.81% -24.23%
75th Percentile £33.34 £36.43 £62.77
90th Percentile £47.83 £61.50 £105.00
England median hourly rate £38.50 £33.75 £22.75
% change year-on-year +14.07% +48.35% -9.00%

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 3,679 5,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.95% 14.63% 13.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,480 2,681 3,754
10th Percentile £208 £215 £225
25th Percentile £348 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £621 £666 £667
90th Percentile £750 £775 £759
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 61 83
10th Percentile £15.19 £16.13 £15.00
25th Percentile £18.13 £22.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £47.50 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -53.68% +98.66% -40.23%
75th Percentile £27.59 £64.50 £44.69
90th Percentile £60.43 £83.00 £62.25
England median hourly rate £22.50 £43.93 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.78% +104.33% +22.86%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -2 42 £560 +12.56% 17
East London +10 17 £380 +43.40% 7
West London +22 7 £180 -66.90% 10
South London +5 2 £190 -67.38% 4
North London +2 2 £250 -20.00% 2
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 62 (20.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (7.14%) Exchange Server 2013
3 21 (6.82%) Exchange Server 2010
4 17 (5.52%) SharePoint
5 11 (3.57%) IIS
6 10 (3.25%) Exchange Server 2007
7 9 (2.92%) Exchange Server 2003
7 9 (2.92%) Skype for Business
8 6 (1.95%) Confluence
9 5 (1.62%) Apache
9 5 (1.62%) JBoss
9 5 (1.62%) nginx
9 5 (1.62%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.32%) IBM Domino
10 1 (0.32%) IBM Notes
10 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (6.17%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.62%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.32%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.32%) Eikon
2 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.32%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 114 (37.01%) Azure
2 102 (33.12%) Microsoft 365
3 49 (15.91%) Entra ID
4 44 (14.29%) AWS
5 26 (8.44%) IaaS
6 14 (4.55%) GCP
7 12 (3.90%) PaaS
8 11 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (3.25%) WhatsApp
10 9 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (2.92%) OneDrive
10 9 (2.92%) SaaS
11 7 (2.27%) Azure Storage
11 7 (2.27%) Mimecast
11 7 (2.27%) Nutanix
12 6 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.95%) GitHub
13 5 (1.62%) Rubrik
14 4 (1.30%) ShareGate
15 2 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 80 (25.97%) DNS
2 67 (21.75%) Firewall
3 33 (10.71%) DHCP
4 23 (7.47%) WAN
5 22 (7.14%) VPN
6 19 (6.17%) LAN
7 17 (5.52%) SAN
8 16 (5.19%) NAS
9 14 (4.55%) TCP/IP
10 11 (3.57%) MPLS
11 10 (3.25%) Skype
12 9 (2.92%) VLAN
13 8 (2.60%) Network Security
14 7 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (1.95%) Kerberos
15 6 (1.95%) Wireless
16 5 (1.62%) NetScaler
16 5 (1.62%) Remote Desktop
17 4 (1.30%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 4 (1.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (20.45%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.25%) MySQL
2 10 (3.25%) Relational Database
3 9 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (2.27%) RDBMS
5 6 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.65%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.65%) Looker
8 2 (0.65%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.32%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.32%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.32%) Metadata
9 1 (0.32%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.32%) Power BI
9 1 (0.32%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (7.47%) Jenkins
2 18 (5.84%) JIRA
3 12 (3.90%) Subversion
4 11 (3.57%) Git
5 10 (3.25%) Artifactory
6 9 (2.92%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.97%) GitLab
7 3 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.65%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.32%) AppScan
9 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.32%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.32%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.32%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 76 (24.68%) Finance
2 61 (19.81%) Social Skills
3 35 (11.36%) Public Sector
4 28 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (4.87%) Banking
6 10 (3.25%) Mandarin Language
7 7 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.27%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.30%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.30%) Legal
9 4 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.97%) Law
11 2 (0.65%) Advertising
11 2 (0.65%) Cantonese Language
11 2 (0.65%) French Language
11 2 (0.65%) Local Government
11 2 (0.65%) Marketing
11 2 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 67 (21.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 30 (9.74%) Analyst
2 30 (9.74%) Support Engineer
3 24 (7.79%) Administrator
4 23 (7.47%) Senior
5 21 (6.82%) IT Engineer
6 19 (6.17%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (5.84%) Windows Engineer
8 13 (4.22%) IT Support
8 13 (4.22%) Systems Administrator
9 12 (3.90%) Desktop Support
9 12 (3.90%) Wintel Engineer
10 11 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (3.57%) IT Analyst
10 11 (3.57%) Senior Analyst
10 11 (3.57%) Senior Systems Analyst
10 11 (3.57%) Systems Analyst
11 10 (3.25%) Server Administrator
11 10 (3.25%) Server Engineer
12 9 (2.92%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.14%) .NET
2 15 (4.87%) Middleware
3 10 (3.25%) LDAP
4 8 (2.60%) CSS
5 7 (2.27%) ASP.NET
5 7 (2.27%) HTML
6 5 (1.62%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (1.62%) HTML5
6 5 (1.62%) IBM Integration Bus
7 4 (1.30%) REST
8 3 (0.97%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.65%) JSP
9 2 (0.65%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.65%) SOAP
9 2 (0.65%) XML
10 1 (0.32%) EDI
10 1 (0.32%) Node.js
10 1 (0.32%) WPF
10 1 (0.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.82%) Replication
2 19 (6.17%) Data Centre
3 14 (4.55%) PKI
4 13 (4.22%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.25%) Video Conferencing
6 8 (2.60%) Clustering
6 8 (2.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 6 (1.95%) NHS
7 6 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.62%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.62%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.30%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.30%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 2 (0.65%) CCTV
11 2 (0.65%) iPad
11 2 (0.65%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.65%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 308 (100.00%) Windows
2 52 (16.88%) Linux
3 49 (15.91%) Windows 10
3 49 (15.91%) Windows Server 2012
4 40 (12.99%) Windows Server 2016
5 32 (10.39%) Windows Server 2019
6 25 (8.12%) Windows Server 2008
7 19 (6.17%) Windows 7
8 14 (4.55%) Unix
9 13 (4.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 10 (3.25%) Mac OS
10 10 (3.25%) VMS
11 9 (2.92%) Windows Server 2003
12 6 (1.95%) Oracle Linux
13 5 (1.62%) CentOS
13 5 (1.62%) Solaris
14 2 (0.65%) Android
14 2 (0.65%) OpenVMS
14 2 (0.65%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.32%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (26.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 55 (17.86%) Migration
3 47 (15.26%) DevOps
4 44 (14.29%) ITIL
5 33 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
6 30 (9.74%) Vulnerability Management
7 29 (9.42%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (9.09%) Customer Service
9 21 (6.82%) Server Management
9 21 (6.82%) Time Management
10 19 (6.17%) Agile
10 19 (6.17%) Infrastructure as Code
11 18 (5.84%) Cybersecurity
12 17 (5.52%) Analytics
13 16 (5.19%) Configuration Management
13 16 (5.19%) High Availability
13 16 (5.19%) Virtual Infrastructure
14 14 (4.55%) Information Security
15 13 (4.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 12 (3.90%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 108 (35.06%) PowerShell
2 51 (16.56%) SQL
3 42 (13.64%) Python
4 17 (5.52%) Bash
5 16 (5.19%) C#
5 16 (5.19%) Java
6 11 (3.57%) Shell Script
7 10 (3.25%) T-SQL
8 9 (2.92%) C++
9 6 (1.95%) VB
10 5 (1.62%) PHP
11 4 (1.30%) Perl
12 3 (0.97%) F#
12 3 (0.97%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.97%) VBA
13 2 (0.65%) Bicep
13 2 (0.65%) JavaScript
14 1 (0.32%) C
14 1 (0.32%) Go
14 1 (0.32%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 53 (17.21%) Security Cleared
2 28 (9.09%) DV Cleared
3 24 (7.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 21 (6.82%) Degree
5 20 (6.49%) SC Cleared
6 7 (2.27%) MCSA
7 6 (1.95%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.95%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.30%) MCSE
10 3 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.65%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.65%) CCNA
11 2 (0.65%) CCNP
11 2 (0.65%) CESG Certified Professional
11 2 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.65%) Citrix Certification
11 2 (0.65%) MCSD
12 1 (0.32%) HNC
12 1 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.55%) SLA
2 10 (3.25%) GDPR
3 8 (2.60%) QA
4 7 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.30%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.97%) NIST
8 2 (0.65%) COBIT
8 2 (0.65%) NCSC
9 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
System Software
1 186 (60.39%) Active Directory
2 66 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (8.12%) Hyper-V
4 22 (7.14%) vSphere
5 12 (3.90%) Docker
6 11 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (2.92%) Virtual Servers
8 8 (2.60%) VMware NSX
9 6 (1.95%) Firmware
10 5 (1.62%) XenDesktop
11 4 (1.30%) Microsoft App-V
11 4 (1.30%) XenApp
12 3 (0.97%) KVM
12 3 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.32%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 1 (0.32%) NFS
13 1 (0.32%) vCloud
13 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 54 (17.53%) SCCM
2 28 (9.09%) Ansible
3 23 (7.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (6.82%) Terraform
5 14 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 13 (4.22%) Kubernetes
7 12 (3.90%) SCOM
8 9 (2.92%) BladeLogic
8 9 (2.92%) ITRS Geneos
9 6 (1.95%) WSUS
10 5 (1.62%) EMC NetWorker
10 5 (1.62%) Grafana
10 5 (1.62%) Netcool
10 5 (1.62%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.62%) Prometheus
10 5 (1.62%) Puppet
10 5 (1.62%) Tivoli
10 5 (1.62%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 4 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.97%) Nessus
Vendors
1 147 (47.73%) Microsoft
2 108 (35.06%) VMware
3 41 (13.31%) Citrix
4 30 (9.74%) Veeam
5 22 (7.14%) Dell
6 21 (6.82%) Cisco
7 19 (6.17%) Oracle
8 18 (5.84%) ServiceNow
9 17 (5.52%) Qualys
10 16 (5.19%) HP
11 15 (4.87%) CA
12 14 (4.55%) Red Hat
13 12 (3.90%) IBM
14 10 (3.25%) Dynatrace
15 9 (2.92%) Altiris
15 9 (2.92%) Juniper
15 9 (2.92%) Splunk
16 7 (2.27%) Apple
16 7 (2.27%) Fortinet
16 7 (2.27%) Palo Alto