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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 387 560
Rank change year-on-year +1 +173 -76
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 2019 196 333 315
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.58% 0.36%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.45% 3.60% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 266 240
10th Percentile £200 £224 £166
25th Percentile £363 £413 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +16.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £608 £623 £538
90th Percentile - £700 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £550 £425
% change year-on-year +4.55% +29.41% +15.25%
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 5,687 9,251 13,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.37% 16.16% 14.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,850 6,458 8,915
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £300 £338 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £503 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% +0.57% +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 393 404 594
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.08 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.74 £15.89
Median hourly rate £22.15 £39.05 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.28% +73.56% +28.57%
75th Percentile £60.75 £64.13 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% +50.00% +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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +25 183 £575 +4.55% 118
UK excluding London -6 149 £575 +4.55% 97
South East +72 102 £575 +17.95% 27
London +58 40 £500 - 24
Work from Home +50 39 £605 +26.04% 42
Midlands +21 19 £350 +56.95% 17
West Midlands +30 16 £313 +38.89% 11
North of England +26 14 £390 -16.80% 21
Yorkshire +26 8 £563 +73.08% 12
East of England -27 7 £650 -7.14% 17
North West +8 5 £220 -54.87% 8
Wales +20 4 £220 -48.24%
East Midlands +11 3 £450 +101.79% 6
Scotland +24 2 - - 2
North East +10 1 £600 +266.41% 1
South West -56 1 - - 16

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 15 (7.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (3.06%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 74 (37.76%) Azure
2 65 (33.16%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (15.82%) 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 67 (34.18%) DNS
2 57 (29.08%) DHCP
2 57 (29.08%) Firewall
3 27 (13.78%) SAN
4 18 (9.18%) VPN
5 12 (6.12%) LAN
6 10 (5.10%) WAN
6 10 (5.10%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (4.59%) NAS
7 9 (4.59%) VLAN
8 8 (4.08%) VoIP
9 7 (3.57%) Wireless
10 6 (3.06%) Unified Communications
11 5 (2.55%) Network Security
12 4 (2.04%) Fibre Channel
12 4 (2.04%) TCP/IP
13 3 (1.53%) iSCSI
13 3 (1.53%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (1.53%) SMTP
14 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%) Big Data
4 4 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
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 35 (17.86%) 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%) Local Government
6 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (29.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 28 (14.29%) 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
6 16 (8.16%) Wintel Engineer
7 14 (7.14%) Active Directory Specialist
7 14 (7.14%) Architect
7 14 (7.14%) Azure Specialist
7 14 (7.14%) Support Specialist
8 13 (6.63%) Senior
9 12 (6.12%) 2nd Line Support
9 12 (6.12%) Administrator
9 12 (6.12%) Security Architect
10 11 (5.61%) Server Engineer
10 11 (5.61%) Systems Administrator
11 10 (5.10%) 1st/2nd Line Support
11 10 (5.10%) Storage Engineer
12 9 (4.59%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.67%) ARM Templates
2 6 (3.06%) Itk
3 4 (2.04%) CSS
3 4 (2.04%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (2.04%) HTML
3 4 (2.04%) HTML5
3 4 (2.04%) LDAP
4 3 (1.53%) LAMP
5 2 (1.02%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 52 (26.53%) PKI
2 20 (10.20%) Replication
3 19 (9.69%) Data Centre
4 18 (9.18%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (8.16%) 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%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.51%) LIMS
11 1 (0.51%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 191 (97.45%) Windows
2 166 (84.69%) Windows Server
3 143 (72.96%) Windows Server 2016
4 70 (35.71%) Windows Server 2012
5 66 (33.67%) 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 6 (3.06%) 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 62 (31.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 43 (21.94%) Service Management
4 40 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (19.39%) Release Management
6 35 (17.86%) 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 94 (47.96%) 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
1 117 (59.69%) Security Cleared
2 91 (46.43%) DV Cleared
3 44 (22.45%) Degree
4 42 (21.43%) 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 71 (36.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (21.94%) Hyper-V
4 26 (13.27%) VMware ESXi
5 23 (11.73%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (10.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (9.69%) Firmware
8 8 (4.08%) vSphere
9 5 (2.55%) Terminal Services
9 5 (2.55%) XenApp
10 4 (2.04%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (2.04%) XenDesktop
11 3 (1.53%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 77 (39.29%) SCCM
2 60 (30.61%) WSUS
3 41 (20.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 39 (19.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 35 (17.86%) SCOM
6 24 (12.24%) 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%) ZABBIX
18 3 (1.53%) vMotion
Vendors
1 120 (61.22%) 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
10 14 (7.14%) Extreme Networks
10 14 (7.14%) Red Hat
11 10 (5.10%) Citrix
12 6 (3.06%) Apple
12 6 (3.06%) Datto
13 4 (2.04%) Aruba
14 3 (1.53%) Infoblox
14 3 (1.53%) SolarWinds
120 Windows Server 2019 jobs Nationwide