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

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 398 409 555
Rank change year-on-year +11 +146 -59
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2019 205 306 311
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.55% 0.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.52% 3.41% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 237 237
10th Percentile £210 £224 £166
25th Percentile £375 £413 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +16.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £608 £623 £530
90th Percentile £628 £700 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £540 £425
% change year-on-year +6.48% +27.06% +17.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 3
10th Percentile £50.86 £19.33 £16.80
25th Percentile £56.50 £20.00 £18.00
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 -
90th Percentile - £61.16 -
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 5,829 8,984 12,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.46% 16.13% 14.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,891 6,255 8,890
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £309 £338 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £615
90th Percentile £700 £715 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £425
% change year-on-year -2.70% +8.82% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 407 393 572
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.42 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.08 £15.86
Median hourly rate £22.50 £43.75 £22.25
Median % change year-on-year -48.57% +96.63% +27.14%
75th Percentile £62.25 £65.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £39.05 £20.00
% change year-on-year -38.08% +95.25% +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 8 June 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 8 June 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 8 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
England +30 191 £575 +6.24% 79
UK excluding London 0 160 £575 +6.48% 66
South East +62 107 £605 +24.10% 19
Work from Home +69 47 £605 +25.06% 28
London +35 35 £513 +2.50% 14
Midlands +26 24 £350 +56.25% 12
West Midlands +22 20 £350 -6.67% 9
North of England +25 12 £390 +0.65% 16
South West -42 8 £575 - 11
East of England -30 7 £650 -7.14% 9
Yorkshire - 6 £563 - 9
Wales +20 5 £220 -37.14% 2
North West +14 5 £220 -53.07% 4
East Midlands +6 4 £450 +101.79% 3
Scotland +21 1 - -
North East +9 1 £600 +266.41% 3

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 50 (24.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (6.34%) SharePoint
3 9 (4.39%) IIS
4 4 (1.95%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.98%) WordPress
6 1 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 16 (7.80%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.93%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 74 (36.10%) Azure
2 63 (30.73%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (16.59%) Entra ID
4 22 (10.73%) Azure Monitor
5 20 (9.76%) Azure Storage
6 14 (6.83%) OCI
7 9 (4.39%) OneDrive
8 6 (2.93%) Power Automate
8 6 (2.93%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.93%) PowerApps
9 5 (2.44%) AWS
9 5 (2.44%) WhatsApp
10 4 (1.95%) GitHub
11 2 (0.98%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.98%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.98%) GCP
11 2 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.49%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (32.20%) DNS
2 58 (28.29%) Firewall
3 57 (27.80%) DHCP
4 26 (12.68%) SAN
5 17 (8.29%) VPN
6 12 (5.85%) Remote Desktop
6 12 (5.85%) VLAN
7 11 (5.37%) LAN
8 9 (4.39%) WAN
8 9 (4.39%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (3.90%) NAS
9 8 (3.90%) VoIP
10 7 (3.41%) Wireless
11 6 (2.93%) TCP/IP
11 6 (2.93%) Unified Communications
12 3 (1.46%) Fibre Channel
12 3 (1.46%) Network Security
13 2 (0.98%) iSCSI
13 2 (0.98%) NetScaler
13 2 (0.98%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (19.51%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.39%) MySQL
3 6 (2.93%) Power BI
4 4 (1.95%) Big Data
4 4 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (7.80%) Robot Framework
1 16 (7.80%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (2.44%) JIRA
3 2 (0.98%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.98%) MSI
3 2 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.49%) InstallShield
General
1 86 (41.95%) Social Skills
2 30 (14.63%) Public Sector
3 17 (8.29%) Finance
4 10 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (0.98%) Financial Institution
6 2 (0.98%) Local Government
6 2 (0.98%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.49%) Advertising
7 1 (0.49%) Back Office
7 1 (0.49%) Banking
7 1 (0.49%) Electronics
7 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.49%) Marketing
7 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (25.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 29 (14.15%) Support Engineer
3 25 (12.20%) Windows Engineer
4 20 (9.76%) Active Directory Support
5 19 (9.27%) Architect
6 17 (8.29%) Security Architect
7 16 (7.80%) Build Engineer
7 16 (7.80%) Windows Build Engineer
7 16 (7.80%) Wintel Engineer
8 14 (6.83%) Active Directory Specialist
8 14 (6.83%) Administrator
8 14 (6.83%) Azure Specialist
8 14 (6.83%) Senior
8 14 (6.83%) Support Specialist
9 13 (6.34%) 2nd Line Support
9 13 (6.34%) Systems Administrator
10 11 (5.37%) Server Engineer
10 11 (5.37%) Storage Engineer
11 10 (4.88%) 1st/2nd Line Support
11 10 (4.88%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.76%) ARM Templates
2 6 (2.93%) Itk
3 5 (2.44%) CSS
3 5 (2.44%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (2.44%) HTML
3 5 (2.44%) HTML5
4 3 (1.46%) LDAP
5 2 (0.98%) LAMP
5 2 (0.98%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 57 (27.80%) PKI
2 22 (10.73%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (9.27%) Data Centre
4 16 (7.80%) Replication
5 15 (7.32%) Clustering
6 7 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.93%) Digital Signage
7 6 (2.93%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.95%) Fat Client
8 4 (1.95%) Thin Client
9 2 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.98%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.98%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.49%) CMDB
10 1 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 198 (96.59%) Windows
2 174 (84.88%) Windows Server
3 140 (68.29%) Windows Server 2016
4 67 (32.68%) Windows Server 2012
5 63 (30.73%) Linux
6 61 (29.76%) Windows 10
7 16 (7.80%) Windows NT
8 14 (6.83%) Windows XP
9 13 (6.34%) Windows Server 2008
10 12 (5.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 10 (4.88%) Mac OS
12 8 (3.90%) VMS
13 7 (3.41%) Ubuntu
14 6 (2.93%) Windows 7
15 5 (2.44%) CentOS
16 4 (1.95%) Windows Server 2003
17 2 (0.98%) OpenVMS
17 2 (0.98%) Unix
18 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (33.17%) ITIL
2 56 (27.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 44 (21.46%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (20.98%) Service Management
5 38 (18.54%) Agile
5 38 (18.54%) Release Management
6 32 (15.61%) Migration
7 31 (15.12%) Customer Service
8 28 (13.66%) DevOps
9 27 (13.17%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 24 (11.71%) CI/CD
11 21 (10.24%) Deployment Automation
11 21 (10.24%) Identity Management
11 21 (10.24%) Infrastructure as Code
12 20 (9.76%) Analytics
12 20 (9.76%) Log Analytics
12 20 (9.76%) Privileged Identity Management
12 20 (9.76%) RBAC
13 17 (8.29%) Disaster Recovery
13 17 (8.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 109 (53.17%) PowerShell
2 22 (10.73%) Python
3 21 (10.24%) SQL
3 21 (10.24%) VB
4 20 (9.76%) Bicep
4 20 (9.76%) C#
4 20 (9.76%) VBScript
5 8 (3.90%) T-SQL
6 6 (2.93%) Shell Script
7 5 (2.44%) Bash
7 5 (2.44%) PHP
8 4 (1.95%) C
8 4 (1.95%) C++
9 3 (1.46%) Java
9 3 (1.46%) Perl
Qualifications
1 125 (60.98%) Security Cleared
2 92 (44.88%) DV Cleared
3 51 (24.88%) SC Cleared
4 50 (24.39%) Degree
5 20 (9.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (6.83%) CCNA
6 14 (6.83%) CCNP
6 14 (6.83%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.44%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.98%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.98%) MCSE
10 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.49%) CCA
10 1 (0.49%) Citrix Certification
10 1 (0.49%) HNC
10 1 (0.49%) MCSA
10 1 (0.49%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.80%) QA
2 7 (3.41%) RMADS
3 3 (1.46%) SLA
4 2 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.98%) NIST
4 2 (0.98%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.49%) GDPR
System Software
1 157 (76.59%) Active Directory
2 82 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (20.98%) Hyper-V
4 37 (18.05%) VMware ESXi
5 34 (16.59%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (11.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (7.80%) Firmware
8 9 (4.39%) VMFS
9 8 (3.90%) vSphere
10 4 (1.95%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (1.95%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.98%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.98%) XenApp
11 2 (0.98%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.49%) Citrix Presentation Server
12 1 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.49%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 77 (37.56%) SCCM
2 63 (30.73%) WSUS
3 40 (19.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 39 (19.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 39 (19.02%) SCOM
5 23 (11.22%) vCenter Server
6 22 (10.73%) Ansible
7 21 (10.24%) Kubernetes
8 20 (9.76%) Terraform
9 16 (7.80%) NetBackup
9 16 (7.80%) Sysprep
10 14 (6.83%) EMC NetWorker
11 10 (4.88%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (4.39%) Failover Clustering
12 9 (4.39%) Nessus
13 8 (3.90%) Jamf Pro
14 6 (2.93%) Autotask
15 4 (1.95%) Red Hat Satellite
15 4 (1.95%) ZABBIX
16 2 (0.98%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 123 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 102 (49.76%) VMware
3 36 (17.56%) Veeam
4 27 (13.17%) Oracle
5 19 (9.27%) HP
6 18 (8.78%) Cisco
7 17 (8.29%) Dell
7 17 (8.29%) Symantec
8 16 (7.80%) Palo Alto
9 15 (7.32%) 3PAR
9 15 (7.32%) EMC
9 15 (7.32%) Juniper
9 15 (7.32%) Red Hat
10 14 (6.83%) Extreme Networks
11 8 (3.90%) Citrix
12 7 (3.41%) Apple
13 6 (2.93%) Datto
14 4 (1.95%) Qualys
14 4 (1.95%) SolarWinds
15 3 (1.46%) Veritas