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

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 120 174
Rank change year-on-year -19 +54 +9
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 310 537 652
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.76% 2.12% 1.67%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.68% 14.52% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 419 522
10th Percentile £256 £259 £241
25th Percentile £359 £400 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £503 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.54% +5.89% +4.40%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £595
90th Percentile £675 £750 £663
England median daily rate £475 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -5.00% +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 £22.50
% change year-on-year +14.07% +50.00% -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 2,111 3,699 5,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.96% 14.60% 13.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,491 2,704 3,786
10th Percentile £208 £217 £225
25th Percentile £342 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £669 £663
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
England median daily rate £475 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -5.94% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 60 83
10th Percentile £15.19 £16.13 £15.15
25th Percentile £18.13 £22.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £48.75 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.87% +103.13% -48.39%
75th Percentile £27.59 £64.50 £47.54
90th Percentile £60.43 £83.08 £62.90
England median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +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 6 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 6 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 6 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 0 41 £555 +12.12% 21
East London +10 17 £380 +43.40% 6
West London +19 7 £180 -66.90% 11
South London +7 3 £190 -52.94% 4
North London +2 2 £250 -20.00% 3
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 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (7.10%) Exchange Server 2013
3 21 (6.77%) Exchange Server 2010
4 18 (5.81%) SharePoint
5 11 (3.55%) IIS
6 10 (3.23%) Exchange Server 2007
7 9 (2.90%) Exchange Server 2003
7 9 (2.90%) Skype for Business
8 6 (1.94%) Confluence
9 5 (1.61%) Apache
9 5 (1.61%) JBoss
9 5 (1.61%) nginx
9 5 (1.61%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.32%) IBM Domino
10 1 (0.32%) IBM Notes
10 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (6.13%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.61%) Temenos T24
2 3 (0.97%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.65%) Remedy AR System
4 1 (0.32%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.32%) Eikon
4 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.32%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 113 (36.45%) Azure
2 102 (32.90%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (15.48%) Entra ID
4 44 (14.19%) AWS
5 25 (8.06%) IaaS
6 14 (4.52%) GCP
7 12 (3.87%) PaaS
8 11 (3.55%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (3.23%) WhatsApp
10 9 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (2.90%) OneDrive
10 9 (2.90%) SaaS
11 7 (2.26%) Azure Storage
11 7 (2.26%) Nutanix
12 6 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.94%) GitHub
12 6 (1.94%) Mimecast
13 5 (1.61%) Rubrik
14 4 (1.29%) ShareGate
15 2 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 80 (25.81%) DNS
2 67 (21.61%) Firewall
3 34 (10.97%) DHCP
4 24 (7.74%) WAN
5 22 (7.10%) VPN
6 20 (6.45%) LAN
7 17 (5.48%) SAN
8 16 (5.16%) NAS
9 15 (4.84%) TCP/IP
10 11 (3.55%) Skype
11 10 (3.23%) MPLS
12 9 (2.90%) VLAN
13 8 (2.58%) Network Security
14 7 (2.26%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (1.94%) Kerberos
15 6 (1.94%) Wireless
16 5 (1.61%) NetScaler
16 5 (1.61%) Remote Desktop
17 4 (1.29%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 4 (1.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (20.97%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.23%) MySQL
2 10 (3.23%) Relational Database
3 9 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (2.26%) RDBMS
5 6 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.61%) 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%) Power BI
9 1 (0.32%) Redis
9 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (7.42%) Jenkins
2 18 (5.81%) JIRA
3 12 (3.87%) Subversion
4 11 (3.55%) Git
5 10 (3.23%) Artifactory
6 9 (2.90%) 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 (24.52%) Finance
2 62 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 35 (11.29%) Public Sector
4 28 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (4.84%) Banking
6 10 (3.23%) Mandarin Language
7 7 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.26%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.29%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.29%) Legal
9 4 (1.29%) 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 (21.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 31 (10.00%) Analyst
3 30 (9.68%) Support Engineer
4 24 (7.74%) Administrator
5 23 (7.42%) Senior
6 21 (6.77%) IT Engineer
7 18 (5.81%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (5.81%) Windows Engineer
8 13 (4.19%) IT Support
8 13 (4.19%) Systems Administrator
8 13 (4.19%) Wintel Engineer
9 12 (3.87%) Desktop Support
10 11 (3.55%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (3.55%) IT Analyst
10 11 (3.55%) Senior Analyst
10 11 (3.55%) Senior Systems Analyst
10 11 (3.55%) Systems Analyst
11 10 (3.23%) Server Administrator
12 9 (2.90%) Security Engineer
12 9 (2.90%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.10%) .NET
2 15 (4.84%) Middleware
3 10 (3.23%) LDAP
4 8 (2.58%) CSS
5 7 (2.26%) ASP.NET
5 7 (2.26%) HTML
6 5 (1.61%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (1.61%) HTML5
6 5 (1.61%) IBM Integration Bus
7 4 (1.29%) 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%) WinForms
10 1 (0.32%) WPF
10 1 (0.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.77%) Replication
2 19 (6.13%) Data Centre
3 15 (4.84%) PKI
4 13 (4.19%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.23%) Video Conferencing
6 8 (2.58%) Clustering
6 8 (2.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 6 (1.94%) NHS
7 6 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.61%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.61%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.29%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.29%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 2 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.65%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 310 (100.00%) Windows
2 52 (16.77%) Linux
3 51 (16.45%) Windows Server 2012
4 50 (16.13%) Windows 10
5 40 (12.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 32 (10.32%) Windows Server 2019
7 25 (8.06%) Windows Server 2008
8 19 (6.13%) Windows 7
9 14 (4.52%) Unix
10 13 (4.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 10 (3.23%) Mac OS
11 10 (3.23%) VMS
12 9 (2.90%) Windows Server 2003
13 6 (1.94%) Oracle Linux
14 5 (1.61%) CentOS
14 5 (1.61%) Solaris
15 2 (0.65%) Android
15 2 (0.65%) OpenVMS
15 2 (0.65%) Ubuntu
16 1 (0.32%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (25.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 55 (17.74%) Migration
3 47 (15.16%) DevOps
3 47 (15.16%) ITIL
4 34 (10.97%) Disaster Recovery
5 30 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (9.68%) Vulnerability Management
6 28 (9.03%) Customer Service
7 21 (6.77%) Server Management
8 20 (6.45%) Agile
8 20 (6.45%) Time Management
9 19 (6.13%) Infrastructure as Code
10 18 (5.81%) Configuration Management
10 18 (5.81%) Cybersecurity
10 18 (5.81%) High Availability
11 17 (5.48%) Analytics
12 16 (5.16%) Virtual Infrastructure
13 14 (4.52%) Information Security
14 13 (4.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 12 (3.87%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 109 (35.16%) PowerShell
2 54 (17.42%) SQL
3 42 (13.55%) Python
4 17 (5.48%) Bash
5 16 (5.16%) C#
5 16 (5.16%) Java
6 11 (3.55%) Shell Script
7 10 (3.23%) T-SQL
8 9 (2.90%) C++
9 6 (1.94%) VB
10 5 (1.61%) PHP
11 4 (1.29%) 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%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 54 (17.42%) Security Cleared
2 28 (9.03%) DV Cleared
3 24 (7.74%) Degree
3 24 (7.74%) Microsoft Certification
4 21 (6.77%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.26%) MCSA
6 6 (1.94%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.94%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.29%) MCSE
9 3 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.65%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.65%) CCNA
10 2 (0.65%) CCNP
10 2 (0.65%) CESG Certified Professional
10 2 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.65%) Citrix Certification
10 2 (0.65%) MCSD
11 1 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.32%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.84%) SLA
2 10 (3.23%) GDPR
3 8 (2.58%) QA
4 7 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.29%) 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 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 66 (21.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (8.06%) Hyper-V
4 22 (7.10%) vSphere
5 12 (3.87%) Docker
6 11 (3.55%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (3.23%) Virtual Servers
8 8 (2.58%) VMware NSX
9 6 (1.94%) Firmware
10 5 (1.61%) XenDesktop
11 4 (1.29%) Microsoft App-V
11 4 (1.29%) XenApp
12 3 (0.97%) KVM
12 3 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
13 2 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
14 1 (0.32%) Job Entry Subsystem
14 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.32%) NFS
14 1 (0.32%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 56 (18.06%) SCCM
2 28 (9.03%) Ansible
3 22 (7.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (6.77%) Terraform
5 15 (4.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 13 (4.19%) Kubernetes
6 13 (4.19%) SCOM
7 9 (2.90%) BladeLogic
7 9 (2.90%) ITRS Geneos
8 6 (1.94%) WSUS
9 5 (1.61%) EMC NetWorker
9 5 (1.61%) Grafana
9 5 (1.61%) Netcool
9 5 (1.61%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.61%) Prometheus
9 5 (1.61%) Puppet
9 5 (1.61%) Tivoli
9 5 (1.61%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 4 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.97%) Nessus
Vendors
1 149 (48.06%) Microsoft
2 108 (34.84%) VMware
3 40 (12.90%) Citrix
4 30 (9.68%) Veeam
5 22 (7.10%) Dell
6 21 (6.77%) Cisco
7 19 (6.13%) Oracle
8 18 (5.81%) ServiceNow
9 17 (5.48%) Qualys
10 16 (5.16%) HP
11 15 (4.84%) CA
12 14 (4.52%) Red Hat
13 12 (3.87%) IBM
14 10 (3.23%) Dynatrace
15 9 (2.90%) Altiris
15 9 (2.90%) Juniper
15 9 (2.90%) Splunk
16 7 (2.26%) Apple
16 7 (2.26%) Palo Alto
16 7 (2.26%) TOWER Software