Windows Server 2012 Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows Server 2012
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 251 237 228
Rank change year-on-year -14 -9 +9
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2012 148 231 321
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.71% 1.01% 1.05%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.46% 5.30% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 152 243
10th Percentile £186 £163 £159
25th Percentile £278 £292 £234
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £575 £506 £475
90th Percentile £608 £575 £538
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 12
10th Percentile - £18.38 £16.27
25th Percentile - £20.75 £19.12
Median hourly rate - £36.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +83.75% -1.23%
75th Percentile - £49.69 £28.41
90th Percentile - £65.69 -
UK median hourly rate - £26.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +30.00% -4.76%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,316 4,355 5,805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.91% 19.00% 18.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,200 2,993 3,840
10th Percentile £175 £165 £150
25th Percentile £275 £250 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% +9.29% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £540
90th Percentile £675 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 307 433
10th Percentile £12.28 £13.29 £12.51
25th Percentile £14.41 £17.50 £15.04
Median hourly rate £22.58 £38.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.35% +92.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.89
% change year-on-year -47.06% +94.15% +25.09%

Windows Server 2012
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Windows Server 2012 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2012 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2012
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2012 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server 2012 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2012
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2012 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server 2012 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2012
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2012 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server 2012 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2012
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East +42 78 £575 +19.79% 25
South West -26 22 £495 +4.21% 9
North of England +8 21 £328 -12.67% 21
Midlands +10 16 £210 -44.00% 10
North West +4 13 £290 -38.95% 6
West Midlands +7 11 £225 -40.00% 6
Yorkshire +13 8 £400 +14.12% 15
Scotland +15 6 £325 +40.54% 3
East Midlands 0 4 £210 -44.00% 4
Wales +16 3 £190 -36.13% 2
East of England -10 2 £388 +1.64% 11
Windows Server 2012
UK

Windows Server 2012
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 31 (20.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (12.16%) Confluence
3 11 (7.43%) SharePoint
4 8 (5.41%) IIS
5 3 (2.03%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.68%) nginx
6 1 (0.68%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.68%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 19 (12.84%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 43 (29.05%) Microsoft 365
2 38 (25.68%) Azure
3 15 (10.14%) OCI
4 5 (3.38%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.70%) AWS
6 3 (2.03%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.35%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.35%) IaaS
7 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.68%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Stack
8 1 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.68%) GitHub
8 1 (0.68%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.68%) PaaS
8 1 (0.68%) Serverless
8 1 (0.68%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 65 (43.92%) DNS
2 54 (36.49%) DHCP
3 37 (25.00%) Firewall
4 20 (13.51%) SAN
5 10 (6.76%) VPN
5 10 (6.76%) WAN
6 9 (6.08%) LAN
6 9 (6.08%) VLAN
7 7 (4.73%) TCP/IP
7 7 (4.73%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (4.05%) VoIP
9 5 (3.38%) Skype
10 4 (2.70%) Ethernet
11 2 (1.35%) NAS
11 2 (1.35%) NetScaler
11 2 (1.35%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (1.35%) Unified Communications
12 1 (0.68%) Cisco IOS
12 1 (0.68%) Network Security
12 1 (0.68%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.68%) Redis
2 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (14.86%) JIRA
2 1 (0.68%) Hudson
2 1 (0.68%) InstallShield
2 1 (0.68%) MSI
2 1 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 71 (47.97%) Social Skills
2 24 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (12.16%) Military
4 7 (4.73%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (3.38%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.03%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.35%) Finance
7 2 (1.35%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.68%) Back Office
8 1 (0.68%) Electronics
8 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.68%) Law
8 1 (0.68%) Local Government
8 1 (0.68%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 38 (25.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 25 (16.89%) Integration Engineer
3 23 (15.54%) Windows Engineer
4 21 (14.19%) Support Engineer
5 18 (12.16%) Test Engineer
6 17 (11.49%) Build Engineer
6 17 (11.49%) Windows Build Engineer
7 16 (10.81%) Test and Integration Engineer
8 12 (8.11%) 2nd Line Support
9 11 (7.43%) Architect
10 10 (6.76%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 10 (6.76%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 10 (6.76%) Storage Engineer
11 8 (5.41%) 1st/2nd Line Support
11 8 (5.41%) 3rd Line Support
11 8 (5.41%) Server Engineer
12 7 (4.73%) Analyst
12 7 (4.73%) Infrastructure Technician
12 7 (4.73%) Senior
13 6 (4.05%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.35%) ADSI
2 1 (0.68%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.22%) PKI
2 20 (13.51%) Data Centre
3 10 (6.76%) NHS
4 8 (5.41%) Clustering
5 7 (4.73%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.03%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.35%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.68%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.68%) CMDB
8 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.68%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.68%) Freedom of Information Act
8 1 (0.68%) LIMS
8 1 (0.68%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.68%) Replication
8 1 (0.68%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 148 (100.00%) Windows
2 136 (91.89%) Windows Server
3 69 (46.62%) Windows 10
4 64 (43.24%) Windows Server 2016
5 58 (39.19%) Windows Server 2019
6 25 (16.89%) Linux
7 17 (11.49%) Windows NT
7 17 (11.49%) Windows Server 2008
8 14 (9.46%) Windows XP
9 8 (5.41%) CentOS
10 7 (4.73%) Windows 7
11 6 (4.05%) Debian
11 6 (4.05%) Mac OS
12 2 (1.35%) VMS
12 2 (1.35%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.68%) Android
13 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.68%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (31.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 46 (31.08%) ITIL
3 28 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (14.86%) Customer Service
4 22 (14.86%) Deployment Automation
5 20 (13.51%) Critical Thinking
5 20 (13.51%) Service Management
6 19 (12.84%) Agile
7 18 (12.16%) Project Management
7 18 (12.16%) Regression Testing
7 18 (12.16%) Release Management
7 18 (12.16%) Test Scripting
8 17 (11.49%) Disaster Recovery
8 17 (11.49%) Migration
8 17 (11.49%) Server Management
8 17 (11.49%) User Acceptance Testing
9 15 (10.14%) Performance Tuning
9 15 (10.14%) Proactive Monitoring
10 14 (9.46%) Break/Fix
10 14 (9.46%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 47 (31.76%) PowerShell
2 29 (19.59%) SQL
3 2 (1.35%) Python
4 1 (0.68%) Bicep
4 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 71 (47.97%) Security Cleared
2 38 (25.68%) DV Cleared
3 34 (22.97%) SC Cleared
4 31 (20.95%) Degree
5 30 (20.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 27 (18.24%) MCSE
7 24 (16.22%) MCSA
8 22 (14.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 17 (11.49%) CCNA
9 17 (11.49%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (9.46%) CCNP
11 6 (4.05%) RHCT
12 3 (2.03%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.49%) QA
2 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 122 (82.43%) Active Directory
2 81 (54.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (25.68%) Hyper-V
4 21 (14.19%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (11.49%) Firmware
6 11 (7.43%) XenApp
7 6 (4.05%) KVM
8 5 (3.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (3.38%) vSphere
9 3 (2.03%) BitLocker
9 3 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (1.35%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (1.35%) Terminal Services
10 2 (1.35%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.68%) Citrix Presentation Server
11 1 (0.68%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.68%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 51 (34.46%) SCCM
2 48 (32.43%) WSUS
3 18 (12.16%) vCenter Server
4 17 (11.49%) Sysprep
5 16 (10.81%) SCOM
6 15 (10.14%) NetBackup
7 14 (9.46%) EMC NetWorker
8 13 (8.78%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (6.76%) Autotask
10 6 (4.05%) Failover Clustering
10 6 (4.05%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Clustering
11 2 (1.35%) Nessus
11 2 (1.35%) SCDPM
11 2 (1.35%) SCVMM
11 2 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.68%) Backup Exec
12 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.68%) VxRail
Vendors
1 107 (72.30%) Microsoft
2 95 (64.19%) VMware
3 23 (15.54%) Cisco
3 23 (15.54%) Veeam
4 19 (12.84%) Citrix
5 17 (11.49%) HP
5 17 (11.49%) Oracle
6 16 (10.81%) EMC
7 15 (10.14%) 3PAR
7 15 (10.14%) Dell
7 15 (10.14%) Symantec
8 14 (9.46%) Extreme Networks
8 14 (9.46%) Juniper
8 14 (9.46%) Palo Alto
9 10 (6.76%) Red Hat
10 9 (6.08%) Ivanti
11 7 (4.73%) Apple
12 6 (4.05%) Datto
13 4 (2.70%) Remedy
14 3 (2.03%) NetApp