Windows Server 2019 Contracts

Microsoft Windows Server 2019
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 394 545
Rank change year-on-year +18 +151 -50
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2019 206 316 315
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.56% 0.36%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.56% 3.48% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 246 240
10th Percentile £206 £244 £166
25th Percentile £363 £413 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £530 £445
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% +19.10% +11.25%
75th Percentile £608 £623 £526
90th Percentile £627 £700 £576
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £550 £425
% change year-on-year +4.55% +29.41% +17.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 3
10th Percentile £50.86 £19.33 £16.80
25th Percentile £56.50 £20.00 £18.00
Median hourly rate £59.80 £26.48 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.83% +32.40% -33.33%
75th Percentile £61.60 £49.43 -
90th Percentile - £61.16 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.80 £26.48 £20.00
% change year-on-year +125.83% +32.40% -20.00%

All Operating Systems
UK

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 with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,784 9,075 12,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.43% 16.19% 14.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,888 6,324 8,810
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £300 £340 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £700 £718 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £465 £425
% change year-on-year -3.12% +9.29% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 404 391 567
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.29 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.06 £15.76
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +93.18% +25.71%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.79 £38.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -40.81% +92.50% +21.21%

Windows Server 2019
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Windows Server 2019 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2019 in the UK

Windows Server 2019
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2019.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2019 in the UK

Windows Server 2019
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2019 over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2019 in the UK

Windows Server 2019
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2019.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2019 in the UK

Windows Server 2019
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Server 2019 over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows Server 2019 in the UK

Windows Server 2019
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +16 193 £575 +4.55% 84
UK excluding London -1 162 £575 +4.55% 74
South East +68 108 £605 +22.53% 16
Work from Home +63 45 £605 +26.70% 28
London +50 35 £513 +2.50% 11
Midlands +30 23 £350 +56.25% 17
West Midlands +27 20 £350 -6.67% 15
North of England +25 14 £390 -8.24% 18
South West -50 8 £575 - 11
Yorkshire - 8 £563 - 12
East of England -33 7 £650 -7.14% 13
Wales +20 5 £220 -48.24% 1
North West +18 5 £220 -57.59% 3
East Midlands +6 3 £450 +101.79% 2
Scotland +19 1 - - 1
North East +9 1 £600 +266.41% 3

Windows Server 2019
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 50 (24.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (6.31%) SharePoint
3 9 (4.37%) IIS
4 4 (1.94%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.97%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (0.97%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (0.97%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (7.28%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.91%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.49%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 76 (36.89%) Azure
2 65 (31.55%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (16.99%) Entra ID
4 22 (10.68%) Azure Monitor
5 20 (9.71%) Azure Storage
6 15 (7.28%) OCI
7 9 (4.37%) OneDrive
8 6 (2.91%) AWS
8 6 (2.91%) Power Automate
8 6 (2.91%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.91%) PowerApps
9 5 (2.43%) WhatsApp
10 4 (1.94%) GitHub
11 2 (0.97%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.97%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.97%) GCP
11 2 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.49%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (32.04%) DNS
2 59 (28.64%) Firewall
3 57 (27.67%) DHCP
4 26 (12.62%) SAN
5 17 (8.25%) VPN
6 12 (5.83%) LAN
6 12 (5.83%) Remote Desktop
7 11 (5.34%) VLAN
8 10 (4.85%) WAN
8 10 (4.85%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (3.88%) NAS
9 8 (3.88%) VoIP
10 7 (3.40%) Wireless
11 6 (2.91%) TCP/IP
11 6 (2.91%) Unified Communications
12 4 (1.94%) Network Security
13 3 (1.46%) Fibre Channel
13 3 (1.46%) NetScaler
14 2 (0.97%) iSCSI
14 2 (0.97%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (20.87%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.37%) MySQL
3 6 (2.91%) Power BI
4 4 (1.94%) Big Data
4 4 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (7.28%) Robot Framework
1 15 (7.28%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (2.43%) JIRA
3 2 (0.97%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.97%) MSI
3 2 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.49%) InstallShield
General
1 87 (42.23%) Social Skills
2 31 (15.05%) Public Sector
3 17 (8.25%) Finance
4 11 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.37%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (0.97%) Back Office
6 2 (0.97%) Financial Institution
6 2 (0.97%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.49%) Advertising
7 1 (0.49%) Banking
7 1 (0.49%) Electronics
7 1 (0.49%) Local Government
7 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.49%) Marketing
7 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (25.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 30 (14.56%) Support Engineer
3 26 (12.62%) Windows Engineer
4 20 (9.71%) Active Directory Support
5 18 (8.74%) Architect
6 17 (8.25%) Build Engineer
6 17 (8.25%) Windows Build Engineer
6 17 (8.25%) Wintel Engineer
7 16 (7.77%) Security Architect
8 14 (6.80%) Active Directory Specialist
8 14 (6.80%) Azure Specialist
8 14 (6.80%) Senior
8 14 (6.80%) Support Specialist
9 13 (6.31%) 2nd Line Support
9 13 (6.31%) Administrator
10 12 (5.83%) Systems Administrator
11 11 (5.34%) Server Engineer
12 10 (4.85%) 1st/2nd Line Support
12 10 (4.85%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 10 (4.85%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.71%) ARM Templates
2 6 (2.91%) Itk
3 5 (2.43%) CSS
3 5 (2.43%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (2.43%) HTML
3 5 (2.43%) HTML5
4 3 (1.46%) LDAP
5 2 (0.97%) LAMP
5 2 (0.97%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 56 (27.18%) PKI
2 22 (10.68%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (9.22%) Data Centre
4 17 (8.25%) Replication
5 15 (7.28%) Clustering
6 7 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.91%) Digital Signage
7 6 (2.91%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.94%) Fat Client
8 4 (1.94%) Thin Client
9 2 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.97%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.97%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.49%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.49%) LIMS
10 1 (0.49%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 199 (96.60%) Windows
2 173 (83.98%) Windows Server
3 143 (69.42%) Windows Server 2016
4 68 (33.01%) Windows Server 2012
5 63 (30.58%) Linux
6 62 (30.10%) Windows 10
7 17 (8.25%) Windows NT
8 15 (7.28%) Windows Server 2008
9 14 (6.80%) Windows XP
10 12 (5.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 10 (4.85%) Mac OS
12 8 (3.88%) VMS
13 7 (3.40%) Ubuntu
14 6 (2.91%) Windows 7
15 5 (2.43%) CentOS
15 5 (2.43%) Windows Server 2003
16 2 (0.97%) OpenVMS
16 2 (0.97%) Unix
17 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (33.50%) ITIL
2 57 (27.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 44 (21.36%) Service Management
4 43 (20.87%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (18.93%) Release Management
6 37 (17.96%) Agile
7 33 (16.02%) Migration
8 32 (15.53%) Customer Service
9 28 (13.59%) DevOps
10 27 (13.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 24 (11.65%) CI/CD
12 22 (10.68%) Deployment Automation
13 21 (10.19%) Identity Management
13 21 (10.19%) Infrastructure as Code
14 20 (9.71%) Analytics
14 20 (9.71%) Log Analytics
14 20 (9.71%) Privileged Identity Management
14 20 (9.71%) RBAC
15 17 (8.25%) Disaster Recovery
15 17 (8.25%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 107 (51.94%) PowerShell
2 23 (11.17%) SQL
3 21 (10.19%) Python
3 21 (10.19%) VB
4 20 (9.71%) Bicep
4 20 (9.71%) C#
4 20 (9.71%) VBScript
5 8 (3.88%) T-SQL
6 6 (2.91%) Shell Script
7 5 (2.43%) Bash
7 5 (2.43%) PHP
8 4 (1.94%) C
8 4 (1.94%) C++
9 3 (1.46%) Java
9 3 (1.46%) Perl
Qualifications
1 125 (60.68%) Security Cleared
2 93 (45.15%) DV Cleared
3 51 (24.76%) SC Cleared
4 49 (23.79%) Degree
5 20 (9.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (6.80%) CCNA
6 14 (6.80%) CCNP
6 14 (6.80%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.43%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.97%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.97%) MCSE
10 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.49%) CCA
10 1 (0.49%) Citrix Certification
10 1 (0.49%) MCSA
10 1 (0.49%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.25%) QA
2 7 (3.40%) RMADS
3 3 (1.46%) SLA
4 2 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.97%) NIST
4 2 (0.97%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.49%) GDPR
System Software
1 157 (76.21%) Active Directory
2 81 (39.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (20.87%) Hyper-V
4 36 (17.48%) VMware ESXi
5 34 (16.50%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (11.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (8.25%) Firmware
8 9 (4.37%) VMFS
8 9 (4.37%) vSphere
9 4 (1.94%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (1.94%) Terminal Services
10 3 (1.46%) XenApp
11 2 (0.97%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.97%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.49%) Citrix Presentation Server
12 1 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.49%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 78 (37.86%) SCCM
2 64 (31.07%) WSUS
3 40 (19.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 40 (19.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 38 (18.45%) SCOM
5 23 (11.17%) vCenter Server
6 21 (10.19%) Ansible
6 21 (10.19%) Kubernetes
7 19 (9.22%) Terraform
8 17 (8.25%) Sysprep
9 16 (7.77%) NetBackup
10 14 (6.80%) EMC NetWorker
11 10 (4.85%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (4.37%) Failover Clustering
12 9 (4.37%) Nessus
13 8 (3.88%) Jamf Pro
14 6 (2.91%) Autotask
15 4 (1.94%) Red Hat Satellite
15 4 (1.94%) ZABBIX
16 2 (0.97%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 124 (60.19%) Microsoft
2 100 (48.54%) VMware
3 37 (17.96%) Veeam
4 28 (13.59%) Oracle
5 19 (9.22%) Cisco
5 19 (9.22%) HP
6 17 (8.25%) Dell
6 17 (8.25%) Symantec
7 16 (7.77%) Palo Alto
8 15 (7.28%) 3PAR
8 15 (7.28%) EMC
8 15 (7.28%) Juniper
8 15 (7.28%) Red Hat
9 14 (6.80%) Extreme Networks
10 9 (4.37%) Citrix
11 7 (3.40%) Apple
12 6 (2.91%) Datto
13 4 (1.94%) Qualys
14 3 (1.46%) Aruba
14 3 (1.46%) SolarWinds