Windows Server Contracts in Central London

Microsoft Windows Server
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 90 109
Rank change year-on-year -7 +19 -5
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 39 85 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.63% 2.28% 2.02%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.46% 15.43% 15.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 67 73
10th Percentile £395 £231 £175
25th Percentile £427 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.16% -1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £670 £600 £550
90th Percentile £677 £700 £598
London median daily rate £450 £502 £485
% change year-on-year -10.27% +3.41% +6.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £27.60
25th Percentile - - £44.25
Median hourly rate - - £76.00
75th Percentile - - £111.25
90th Percentile - - £130.00
London median hourly rate £20.93 £25.36 £46.79
% change year-on-year -17.46% -45.81% -24.23%

All Operating Systems
Central 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 Central London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 313 551 582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 13.11% 14.77% 12.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 384 454
10th Percentile £195 £158 £175
25th Percentile £308 £250 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £651 £652 £600
90th Percentile £726 £738 £688
London median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 11
10th Percentile - £28.00 £13.88
25th Percentile £21.25 £32.50 £16.13
Median hourly rate £23.00 £42.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.88% +60.38% +87.61%
75th Percentile £27.00 £60.31 £45.75
90th Percentile £28.43 £74.38 £78.75
London median hourly rate £22.00 £50.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -56.00% +108.33% -48.39%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Central London

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Central London

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Central London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Central London

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Central London

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 3 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
City of London +7 36 £625 +17.92% 9
Windows Server
London

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 8 (20.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.13%) Apache
2 2 (5.13%) Exchange Server 2013
2 2 (5.13%) IIS
2 2 (5.13%) JBoss
2 2 (5.13%) nginx
2 2 (5.13%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.56%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 21 (53.85%) Azure
2 10 (25.64%) Entra ID
3 7 (17.95%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (15.38%) AWS
5 5 (12.82%) GitHub
6 4 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (10.26%) IaaS
7 3 (7.69%) Mimecast
8 2 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (5.13%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (5.13%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (5.13%) GCP
8 2 (5.13%) WhatsApp
9 1 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (2.56%) Azure API Management
9 1 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (30.77%) Firewall
2 10 (25.64%) DNS
3 4 (10.26%) WAN
4 3 (7.69%) SAN
4 3 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (5.13%) Internet
5 2 (5.13%) MPLS
5 2 (5.13%) NAS
5 2 (5.13%) SSL
6 1 (2.56%) LAN
6 1 (2.56%) Network Security
6 1 (2.56%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (2.56%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.56%) Skype
6 1 (2.56%) Unified Communications
6 1 (2.56%) VPN
6 1 (2.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (28.21%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.26%) RDBMS
2 4 (10.26%) Relational Database
3 3 (7.69%) MySQL
4 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.56%) Metadata
4 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.26%) JIRA
3 3 (7.69%) GitLab
3 3 (7.69%) TeamCity
4 2 (5.13%) Git
4 2 (5.13%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (5.13%) Subversion
4 2 (5.13%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.56%) AppScan
5 1 (2.56%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.56%) Burp Suite
5 1 (2.56%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (2.56%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 14 (35.90%) Finance
2 10 (25.64%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Banking
4 2 (5.13%) French Language
4 2 (5.13%) Front Office
4 2 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Back Office
5 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Japanese Language
5 1 (2.56%) Law
5 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (23.08%) Analyst
2 8 (20.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (15.38%) IT Analyst
4 5 (12.82%) Operations Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Senior
4 5 (12.82%) Senior Analyst
4 5 (12.82%) Senior Systems Analyst
4 5 (12.82%) Systems Analyst
5 4 (10.26%) IT Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Server Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Site Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Windows Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Administrator
7 2 (5.13%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Security Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Support Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Systems Administrator
8 1 (2.56%) Hyper-V Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) ARM Templates
1 2 (5.13%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (5.13%) IBM Integration Bus
2 1 (2.56%) .NET
2 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.56%) CSS
2 1 (2.56%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (2.56%) HTML
2 1 (2.56%) HTML5
2 1 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (2.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (5.13%) Hedge funds
3 2 (5.13%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.56%) Clustering
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.56%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.56%) HP Storage
4 1 (2.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.56%) PKI
4 1 (2.56%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.56%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 39 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (28.21%) Linux
3 6 (15.38%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (12.82%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (10.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (7.69%) Unix
7 2 (5.13%) Windows 10
7 2 (5.13%) Windows 7
7 2 (5.13%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (2.56%) CentOS
8 1 (2.56%) OpenVMS
8 1 (2.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.77%) DevOps
2 11 (28.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 6 (15.38%) Identity Management
4 5 (12.82%) Incident Management
4 5 (12.82%) Information Security
4 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (12.82%) Scrum
5 4 (10.26%) Agile
5 4 (10.26%) Data Loss Prevention
5 4 (10.26%) IT Strategy
5 4 (10.26%) ITIL
5 4 (10.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (10.26%) Time Management
5 4 (10.26%) Vulnerability Management
5 4 (10.26%) Wealth Management
6 3 (7.69%) Configuration Management
6 3 (7.69%) OWASP
6 3 (7.69%) Patch Management
6 3 (7.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 25 (64.10%) PowerShell
2 11 (28.21%) Python
2 11 (28.21%) SQL
3 3 (7.69%) Bash
3 3 (7.69%) Shell Script
4 2 (5.13%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.56%) PHP
5 1 (2.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.56%) Degree
3 1 (2.56%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) QA
2 3 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.69%) PCI DSS
3 2 (5.13%) COBIT
3 2 (5.13%) GDPR
3 2 (5.13%) NCSC
4 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.56%) NIST
4 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (43.59%) Active Directory
2 9 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (10.26%) Hyper-V
3 4 (10.26%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (7.69%) Docker
5 1 (2.56%) KVM
5 1 (2.56%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (17.95%) SCCM
2 6 (15.38%) Terraform
3 4 (10.26%) Ansible
4 3 (7.69%) Kubernetes
4 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (7.69%) Progress Chef
4 3 (7.69%) Puppet
5 2 (5.13%) CASB
5 2 (5.13%) Grafana
5 2 (5.13%) Graylog
5 2 (5.13%) Nagios
5 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.13%) SCOrch
5 2 (5.13%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (5.13%) WSUS
6 1 (2.56%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (2.56%) Nessus
6 1 (2.56%) Rancher
Vendors
1 22 (56.41%) Microsoft
2 12 (30.77%) VMware
3 5 (12.82%) Citrix
3 5 (12.82%) Oracle
3 5 (12.82%) Red Hat
4 3 (7.69%) Dell
4 3 (7.69%) IBM
4 3 (7.69%) Okta
5 2 (5.13%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (5.13%) HP
5 2 (5.13%) Imperva
5 2 (5.13%) Netskope
5 2 (5.13%) Palo Alto
5 2 (5.13%) Splunk
5 2 (5.13%) Temenos
6 1 (2.56%) Aruba
6 1 (2.56%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.56%) Guidewire
6 1 (2.56%) iManage
6 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow