Windows Server 2012 Contracts

Microsoft Windows Server 2012
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 357 348 427
Rank change year-on-year -9 +79 -94
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2012 224 400 512
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.70% 0.59%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.96% 4.32% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 285 373
10th Percentile £197 £185 £161
25th Percentile £285 £325 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £495
90th Percentile £608 £675 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +17.19% -5.88% +19.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 14
10th Percentile - £18.50 £17.38
25th Percentile - £20.82 £20.00
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year - +26.83% -41.01%
75th Percentile - £49.38 £28.41
90th Percentile - £62.55 £36.52
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £36.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +83.75% -42.45%

All Operating Systems
UK

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 requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,658 9,258 13,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.30% 16.21% 14.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,818 6,479 8,883
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £300 £331 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +0.10% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £700 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 404 604
10th Percentile £12.73 £14.25 £13.38
25th Percentile £15.31 £17.97 £16.08
Median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +67.39% +29.50%
75th Percentile £60.56 £64.50 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £29.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -23.21% +46.50% +21.21%

Windows Server 2012
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Windows Server 2012 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2012 in the UK

Windows Server 2012
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2012.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2012 in the UK

Windows Server 2012
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2012 over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2012 in the UK

Windows Server 2012
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2012.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2012 in the UK

Windows Server 2012
Top 15 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 2012 within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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
England -10 208 £409 -9.66% 89
UK excluding London -18 148 £469 +17.19% 74
South East +52 79 £575 +19.79% 23
London +37 67 £380 -19.32% 16
Work from Home +40 54 £358 -10.63% 30
North of England -3 22 £328 -20.61% 19
South West -22 19 £520 +15.56% 12
Midlands +18 16 £210 -44.00% 10
North West +3 14 £290 -38.95% 5
West Midlands +14 12 £225 -40.00% 7
Scotland +21 8 £325 +18.18% 2
Yorkshire +13 8 £400 +10.27% 13
East Midlands +3 3 £210 -44.00% 3
Wales +22 2 £278 -40.96% 1
East of England -2 2 £388 +24.00% 10

Windows Server 2012
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 75 (33.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
3 26 (11.61%) Exchange Server 2013
4 18 (8.04%) Confluence
5 13 (5.80%) IIS
5 13 (5.80%) SharePoint
6 12 (5.36%) Exchange Server 2007
6 12 (5.36%) Skype for Business
7 11 (4.91%) Exchange Server 2003
8 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (11.16%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.89%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Remedy AR System
1 2 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 71 (31.70%) Microsoft 365
2 59 (26.34%) Azure
3 15 (6.70%) OCI
4 11 (4.91%) Entra ID
5 7 (3.13%) IaaS
6 5 (2.23%) AWS
7 4 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (1.79%) PaaS
8 3 (1.34%) Azure Storage
8 3 (1.34%) GitHub
8 3 (1.34%) SaaS
9 2 (0.89%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (0.89%) OneDrive
9 2 (0.89%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.89%) WhatsApp
10 1 (0.45%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.45%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.45%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.45%) Serverless
10 1 (0.45%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 91 (40.63%) DNS
2 61 (27.23%) DHCP
3 57 (25.45%) Firewall
4 34 (15.18%) SAN
5 16 (7.14%) Skype
6 13 (5.80%) WAN
7 12 (5.36%) LAN
8 11 (4.91%) TCP/IP
8 11 (4.91%) VLAN
9 10 (4.46%) VPN
10 9 (4.02%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (2.68%) VoIP
12 5 (2.23%) Unified Communications
13 4 (1.79%) Ethernet
13 4 (1.79%) Remote Desktop
14 3 (1.34%) NAS
15 2 (0.89%) NetScaler
15 2 (0.89%) VSAN
15 2 (0.89%) Wireless
16 1 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.59%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.89%) Power BI
3 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.45%) Redis
3 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (12.05%) JIRA
2 3 (1.34%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (0.89%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.45%) Hudson
4 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 91 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 35 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (10.27%) Public Sector
4 19 (8.48%) Finance
5 17 (7.59%) Military
6 12 (5.36%) Banking
7 7 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.34%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.89%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.45%) Back Office
10 1 (0.45%) Electronics
10 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.45%) French Language
10 1 (0.45%) German Language
10 1 (0.45%) Law
10 1 (0.45%) Marketing
10 1 (0.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 45 (20.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 34 (15.18%) Support Engineer
3 30 (13.39%) Windows Engineer
4 25 (11.16%) Integration Engineer
5 19 (8.48%) Build Engineer
5 19 (8.48%) Windows Build Engineer
6 17 (7.59%) Test Engineer
7 16 (7.14%) Test and Integration Engineer
8 15 (6.70%) Administrator
8 15 (6.70%) Systems Administrator
9 13 (5.80%) 2nd Line Support
9 13 (5.80%) Server Engineer
10 12 (5.36%) Analyst
11 10 (4.46%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 10 (4.46%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 10 (4.46%) Storage Engineer
12 9 (4.02%) 1st/2nd Line Support
12 9 (4.02%) Active Directory Engineer
12 9 (4.02%) Architect
12 9 (4.02%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.89%) ADSI
1 2 (0.89%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (0.45%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.71%) PKI
2 22 (9.82%) Data Centre
3 14 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
4 13 (5.80%) Clustering
5 10 (4.46%) NHS
6 7 (3.13%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.79%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.34%) CMDB
9 3 (1.34%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.45%) EPoS
10 1 (0.45%) Fat Client
10 1 (0.45%) Freedom of Information
10 1 (0.45%) Freedom of Information Act
10 1 (0.45%) LIMS
10 1 (0.45%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.45%) Replication
10 1 (0.45%) Smartphone
10 1 (0.45%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 224 (100.00%) Windows
2 191 (85.27%) Windows Server
3 95 (42.41%) Windows Server 2016
4 76 (33.93%) Windows 10
5 69 (30.80%) Windows Server 2019
6 49 (21.88%) Windows Server 2008
7 29 (12.95%) Linux
8 25 (11.16%) Windows 7
9 19 (8.48%) Windows NT
10 16 (7.14%) Windows Server 2003
11 14 (6.25%) Windows XP
12 8 (3.57%) CentOS
13 6 (2.68%) Debian
13 6 (2.68%) Mac OS
14 4 (1.79%) VMS
15 2 (0.89%) OpenVMS
16 1 (0.45%) Android
16 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
16 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (24.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 55 (24.55%) ITIL
2 41 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (15.18%) Customer Service
4 32 (14.29%) Migration
5 30 (13.39%) Disaster Recovery
6 25 (11.16%) Service Management
7 23 (10.27%) Deployment Automation
8 22 (9.82%) Agile
8 22 (9.82%) Release Management
9 20 (8.93%) Critical Thinking
10 19 (8.48%) Project Management
10 19 (8.48%) Server Management
10 19 (8.48%) User Acceptance Testing
11 17 (7.59%) Change Management
11 17 (7.59%) Regression Testing
11 17 (7.59%) Storage Management
11 17 (7.59%) Test Scripting
12 16 (7.14%) Proactive Monitoring
13 15 (6.70%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 66 (29.46%) PowerShell
2 45 (20.09%) SQL
3 2 (0.89%) Python
4 1 (0.45%) Bicep
4 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 98 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 47 (20.98%) DV Cleared
3 45 (20.09%) SC Cleared
4 39 (17.41%) Degree
5 33 (14.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (12.50%) MCSE
7 23 (10.27%) MCSA
8 22 (9.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 18 (8.04%) CCNA
9 18 (8.04%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (6.70%) CCNP
11 6 (2.68%) RHCT
12 5 (2.23%) Azure Certification
13 3 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
14 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.48%) QA
2 4 (1.79%) SLA
3 2 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.89%) NIST
3 2 (0.89%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 187 (83.48%) Active Directory
2 99 (44.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (18.30%) Hyper-V
4 24 (10.71%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (8.48%) Firmware
6 13 (5.80%) XenApp
7 7 (3.13%) vSphere
8 6 (2.68%) KVM
9 5 (2.23%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (2.23%) VMware NSX
10 4 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (1.79%) XenDesktop
11 3 (1.34%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.89%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.45%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.45%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 78 (34.82%) SCCM
2 50 (22.32%) WSUS
3 20 (8.93%) SCOM
3 20 (8.93%) vCenter Server
4 19 (8.48%) Sysprep
5 18 (8.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (7.14%) NetBackup
7 14 (6.25%) EMC NetWorker
8 10 (4.46%) Autotask
9 8 (3.57%) Failover Clustering
10 7 (3.13%) Microsoft Clustering
10 7 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (2.68%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (1.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (1.34%) Terraform
13 2 (0.89%) Ansible
13 2 (0.89%) Kibana
13 2 (0.89%) logstash
13 2 (0.89%) Packer
13 2 (0.89%) VxRail
Vendors
1 130 (58.04%) Microsoft
2 116 (51.79%) VMware
3 37 (16.52%) Cisco
4 33 (14.73%) Citrix
5 32 (14.29%) Veeam
6 30 (13.39%) HP
7 29 (12.95%) EMC
8 18 (8.04%) Dell
8 18 (8.04%) Juniper
9 16 (7.14%) Oracle
10 15 (6.70%) 3PAR
11 14 (6.25%) Extreme Networks
11 14 (6.25%) Palo Alto
11 14 (6.25%) Symantec
12 13 (5.80%) Avaya
13 12 (5.36%) CheckPoint
14 9 (4.02%) Ivanti
14 9 (4.02%) Red Hat
15 7 (3.13%) Apple
16 6 (2.68%) Remedy