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 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 380 395 553
Rank change year-on-year +15 +158 -73
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2019 196 334 314
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.58% 0.36%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.46% 3.61% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 269 236
10th Percentile £200 £223 £175
25th Percentile £363 £413 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +16.67% +18.42%
75th Percentile £608 £623 £538
90th Percentile £616 £700 £588
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 4
10th Percentile £50.86 £19.33 £17.20
25th Percentile £56.50 £20.00 £19.00
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 £25.00
90th Percentile - £61.16 £34.00
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 5,658 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 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 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 +7 182 £575 +4.55% 111
UK excluding London -5 149 £575 +4.55% 93
South East +74 102 £575 +19.48% 30
London +58 40 £500 - 21
Work from Home +60 39 £605 +24.10% 33
Midlands +34 18 £313 +40.13% 19
West Midlands +28 16 £313 +38.89% 11
North of England +14 14 £390 -20.00% 20
Yorkshire +27 8 £563 +73.08% 11
East of England -26 7 £650 -7.14% 14
North West +9 5 £220 -54.87% 8
Wales +23 4 £220 -48.24% 1
Scotland +31 3 - - 1
East Midlands +8 2 - - 8
North East +8 1 £600 +280.95% 1
South West -48 1 - - 12

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 48 (24.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (6.12%) SharePoint
3 10 (5.10%) IIS
4 3 (1.53%) WordPress
5 2 (1.02%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (1.02%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (1.02%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 14 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (3.06%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 75 (38.27%) Azure
2 64 (32.65%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (16.33%) Entra ID
4 17 (8.67%) Azure Monitor
4 17 (8.67%) Azure Storage
5 15 (7.65%) OCI
6 10 (5.10%) OneDrive
7 6 (3.06%) Power Automate
7 6 (3.06%) Power Platform
7 6 (3.06%) PowerApps
8 4 (2.04%) AWS
8 4 (2.04%) GitHub
8 4 (2.04%) WhatsApp
9 2 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.02%) GCP
9 2 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.51%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.51%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.51%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.51%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 66 (33.67%) DNS
2 58 (29.59%) Firewall
3 56 (28.57%) DHCP
4 27 (13.78%) SAN
5 19 (9.69%) VPN
6 12 (6.12%) LAN
7 10 (5.10%) WAN
7 10 (5.10%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (4.59%) NAS
9 8 (4.08%) VLAN
9 8 (4.08%) VoIP
10 7 (3.57%) Wireless
11 6 (3.06%) Unified Communications
12 5 (2.55%) Network Security
13 4 (2.04%) Fibre Channel
13 4 (2.04%) SMTP
14 3 (1.53%) iSCSI
14 3 (1.53%) Remote Desktop
14 3 (1.53%) TCP/IP
15 2 (1.02%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (21.94%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.08%) MySQL
3 6 (3.06%) Power BI
4 4 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.04%) Big Data
4 4 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (7.14%) Robot Framework
1 14 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (2.04%) JIRA
3 2 (1.02%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.02%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.51%) MSI
General
1 88 (44.90%) Social Skills
2 33 (16.84%) Public Sector
3 13 (6.63%) Finance
4 9 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.59%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.02%) Back Office
6 1 (0.51%) Advertising
6 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (29.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 27 (13.78%) Windows Engineer
3 26 (13.27%) Support Engineer
4 19 (9.69%) Build Engineer
4 19 (9.69%) Windows Build Engineer
5 17 (8.67%) Active Directory Support
5 17 (8.67%) Wintel Engineer
6 14 (7.14%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (7.14%) Architect
6 14 (7.14%) Azure Specialist
6 14 (7.14%) Support Specialist
7 13 (6.63%) Senior
8 12 (6.12%) 2nd Line Support
8 12 (6.12%) Administrator
8 12 (6.12%) Security Architect
9 11 (5.61%) Systems Administrator
10 10 (5.10%) 1st/2nd Line Support
10 10 (5.10%) Server Engineer
10 10 (5.10%) Storage Engineer
11 9 (4.59%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.67%) ARM Templates
2 6 (3.06%) Itk
3 5 (2.55%) LDAP
4 4 (2.04%) CSS
4 4 (2.04%) FIX Protocol
4 4 (2.04%) HTML
4 4 (2.04%) HTML5
5 3 (1.53%) LAMP
6 2 (1.02%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 53 (27.04%) PKI
2 20 (10.20%) Replication
3 19 (9.69%) Data Centre
4 18 (9.18%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (8.67%) Clustering
6 6 (3.06%) Digital Signage
6 6 (3.06%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.04%) Fat Client
8 4 (2.04%) Thin Client
9 3 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.02%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.51%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.51%) CMDB
11 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Storage
11 1 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.51%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.51%) LIMS
11 1 (0.51%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 190 (96.94%) Windows
2 165 (84.18%) Windows Server
3 142 (72.45%) Windows Server 2016
4 69 (35.20%) Windows Server 2012
5 65 (33.16%) Windows 10
6 59 (30.10%) Linux
7 19 (9.69%) Windows NT
8 17 (8.67%) Windows Server 2008
9 14 (7.14%) Windows XP
10 11 (5.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 10 (5.10%) Mac OS
12 9 (4.59%) VMS
13 8 (4.08%) Ubuntu
13 8 (4.08%) Windows 7
14 7 (3.57%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (2.04%) CentOS
16 2 (1.02%) OpenVMS
16 2 (1.02%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (34.18%) ITIL
2 61 (31.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 43 (21.94%) Service Management
4 39 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (19.39%) Release Management
6 34 (17.35%) Migration
7 32 (16.33%) Agile
7 32 (16.33%) Customer Service
8 25 (12.76%) DevOps
9 23 (11.73%) Deployment Automation
9 23 (11.73%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 21 (10.71%) CI/CD
11 19 (9.69%) User Acceptance Testing
12 18 (9.18%) Infrastructure as Code
13 17 (8.67%) Analytics
13 17 (8.67%) Disaster Recovery
13 17 (8.67%) Identity Management
13 17 (8.67%) Log Analytics
13 17 (8.67%) Privileged Identity Management
13 17 (8.67%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 93 (47.45%) PowerShell
2 25 (12.76%) SQL
3 18 (9.18%) Python
3 18 (9.18%) VB
4 17 (8.67%) Bicep
4 17 (8.67%) C#
4 17 (8.67%) VBScript
5 6 (3.06%) T-SQL
6 5 (2.55%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.04%) Bash
7 4 (2.04%) C
7 4 (2.04%) C++
7 4 (2.04%) PHP
8 2 (1.02%) Java
8 2 (1.02%) Perl
Qualifications
1 118 (60.20%) Security Cleared
2 92 (46.94%) DV Cleared
3 44 (22.45%) Degree
4 43 (21.94%) SC Cleared
5 17 (8.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (7.14%) CCNA
6 14 (7.14%) CCNP
6 14 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (3.06%) DBS Check
8 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.02%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.02%) MCSE
10 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.51%) MCSA
10 1 (0.51%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.69%) QA
2 7 (3.57%) RMADS
3 3 (1.53%) SLA
4 2 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.02%) NIST
4 2 (1.02%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.51%) GDPR
System Software
1 158 (80.61%) Active Directory
2 70 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (21.94%) Hyper-V
4 27 (13.78%) VMware ESXi
5 23 (11.73%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (9.69%) Firmware
6 19 (9.69%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (4.08%) vSphere
8 6 (3.06%) Terminal Services
9 5 (2.55%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (2.55%) XenApp
10 4 (2.04%) BitLocker
10 4 (2.04%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 77 (39.29%) SCCM
2 60 (30.61%) WSUS
3 40 (20.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 39 (19.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 34 (17.35%) SCOM
6 25 (12.76%) vCenter Server
7 20 (10.20%) Ansible
8 19 (9.69%) Sysprep
9 18 (9.18%) Kubernetes
9 18 (9.18%) Terraform
10 16 (8.16%) NetBackup
11 14 (7.14%) EMC NetWorker
12 13 (6.63%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (4.59%) Failover Clustering
14 8 (4.08%) Jamf Pro
15 7 (3.57%) Nessus
16 6 (3.06%) Autotask
17 4 (2.04%) Red Hat Satellite
17 4 (2.04%) vMotion
17 4 (2.04%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 121 (61.73%) Microsoft
2 89 (45.41%) VMware
3 40 (20.41%) Veeam
4 27 (13.78%) Oracle
5 19 (9.69%) Cisco
6 18 (9.18%) HP
7 17 (8.67%) Dell
7 17 (8.67%) Palo Alto
8 16 (8.16%) Symantec
9 15 (7.65%) 3PAR
9 15 (7.65%) EMC
9 15 (7.65%) Juniper
9 15 (7.65%) Red Hat
10 14 (7.14%) Extreme Networks
11 10 (5.10%) Citrix
12 6 (3.06%) Apple
12 6 (3.06%) Datto
13 4 (2.04%) Aruba
13 4 (2.04%) Infoblox
14 3 (1.53%) ProCurve
114 Windows Server 2019 jobs Nationwide