Windows Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Windows
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 18 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 +14
Contract jobs citing Windows 190 309 326
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 8.63% 8.50% 7.70%
As % of the Operating Systems category 66.43% 61.31% 58.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 221 256
10th Percentile £147 £140 £163
25th Percentile £250 £213 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% +6.98%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £663 £685
Central London median daily rate £400 £400 £419
% change year-on-year - -4.48% -6.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 14
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.75 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £16.50 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -20.48% +48.21%
75th Percentile £25.38 £17.25 £33.19
90th Percentile £26.35 - £70.13
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £16.50 £20.75
% change year-on-year +36.36% -20.48% +48.21%

All Operating Systems
City of London

Windows 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 City of London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 286 504 554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.99% 13.86% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 360 423
10th Percentile £195 £157 £197
25th Percentile £313 £263 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +2.38% +7.69%
75th Percentile £653 £658 £625
90th Percentile £725 £730 £700
Central London median daily rate £450 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 15
10th Percentile £19.63 £21.53 -
25th Percentile £20.67 £30.19 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +42.86% +75.00%
75th Percentile £24.56 £47.19 £31.38
90th Percentile £26.03 £69.13 £67.25
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% +22.45% +75.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the City of London

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Windows in the City of London

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in the City of London

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows in the City of London

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 36 (18.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (5.79%) IIS
3 7 (3.68%) BizTalk Server
3 7 (3.68%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.63%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 4 (2.11%) Apache
6 3 (1.58%) Exchange Server 2013
6 3 (1.58%) nginx
6 3 (1.58%) Tomcat
7 2 (1.05%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (1.05%) JBoss
7 2 (1.05%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.53%) Confluence
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (11.05%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.58%) Adobe Premiere
3 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.53%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.53%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.53%) Front Arena
2 1 (0.53%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 63 (33.16%) Azure
2 56 (29.47%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (10.53%) AWS
3 20 (10.53%) Entra ID
4 12 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (5.79%) Mimecast
6 9 (4.74%) IaaS
6 9 (4.74%) PaaS
7 7 (3.68%) Power Platform
8 6 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (3.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (3.16%) Azure Functions
8 6 (3.16%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (3.16%) Azure Storage
8 6 (3.16%) Serverless
9 5 (2.63%) GitHub
10 4 (2.11%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.58%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.58%) GCP
11 3 (1.58%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 39 (20.53%) Firewall
2 16 (8.42%) SAN
3 15 (7.89%) DNS
4 8 (4.21%) VPN
5 6 (3.16%) Internet
5 6 (3.16%) Network Security
6 5 (2.63%) WAN
7 4 (2.11%) Cisco IOS
7 4 (2.11%) FTP
7 4 (2.11%) LAN
7 4 (2.11%) MPLS
8 3 (1.58%) H.323
8 3 (1.58%) SSL
8 3 (1.58%) Wireless
9 2 (1.05%) NAS
9 2 (1.05%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.53%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (0.53%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.53%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.53%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.11%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.74%) MongoDB
3 7 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (3.68%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.11%) Hadoop
4 4 (2.11%) MySQL
4 4 (2.11%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.58%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.05%) KDB
6 2 (1.05%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.05%) Power BI
7 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.53%) DB2
7 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.53%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.53%) Metadata
7 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (6.32%) Git
2 10 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 10 (5.26%) JIRA
3 7 (3.68%) TeamCity
4 5 (2.63%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.63%) GitLab
5 2 (1.05%) Subversion
5 2 (1.05%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.53%) AppScan
6 1 (0.53%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.53%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.53%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.53%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.53%) Maven
6 1 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.53%) Selenium
6 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 53 (27.89%) Finance
2 48 (25.26%) Social Skills
3 34 (17.89%) Banking
4 13 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.74%) Investment Banking
6 8 (4.21%) Front Office
6 8 (4.21%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.68%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.63%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.63%) French Language
9 5 (2.63%) Law
10 4 (2.11%) Legal
11 3 (1.58%) Agriculture
11 3 (1.58%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.05%) Advertising
12 2 (1.05%) Italian Language
12 2 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.05%) Retail
13 1 (0.53%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 33 (17.37%) Analyst
2 31 (16.32%) Support Engineer
3 20 (10.53%) Desktop Support
4 17 (8.95%) IT Support
5 15 (7.89%) Desktop Engineer
6 13 (6.84%) IT Engineer
7 12 (6.32%) Developer
7 12 (6.32%) IT Analyst
8 11 (5.79%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 9 (4.74%) Architect
9 9 (4.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.21%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (4.21%) IT Support Engineer
10 8 (4.21%) Lead
10 8 (4.21%) Support Analyst
11 7 (3.68%) Windows Engineer
12 6 (3.16%) 2nd Line Support
12 6 (3.16%) Applications Support
12 6 (3.16%) Full Stack Developer
12 6 (3.16%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.95%) .NET
2 8 (4.21%) .NET Core
3 7 (3.68%) ASP.NET
4 6 (3.16%) .NET Framework
4 6 (3.16%) Blazor
4 6 (3.16%) Web Services
5 4 (2.11%) LDAP
6 3 (1.58%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.05%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.05%) IBM Integration Bus
7 2 (1.05%) JSON
7 2 (1.05%) Middleware
7 2 (1.05%) XML
8 1 (0.53%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (0.53%) HTML5
8 1 (0.53%) OAuth
8 1 (0.53%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.53%) TIBCO EMS
8 1 (0.53%) WebSphere MQ
8 1 (0.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.05%) Video Conferencing
2 14 (7.37%) Blackberry
3 10 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.74%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.16%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.16%) Replication
6 4 (2.11%) iPhone
6 4 (2.11%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.58%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.05%) IoT
8 2 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.05%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.53%) Clustering
9 1 (0.53%) Handset
9 1 (0.53%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 39 (20.53%) Linux
2 38 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 36 (18.95%) Windows 10
4 19 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 18 (9.47%) Windows Server 2016
6 15 (7.89%) Unix
7 14 (7.37%) Android
8 11 (5.79%) Mac OS
8 11 (5.79%) Windows 7
9 8 (4.21%) Mac OS X
10 6 (3.16%) Apple iOS
10 6 (3.16%) Windows 8
10 6 (3.16%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (1.58%) VMS
11 3 (1.58%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.53%) CentOS
12 1 (0.53%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (14.21%) DevOps
2 24 (12.63%) Migration
3 23 (12.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 22 (11.58%) Customer Service
4 22 (11.58%) Disaster Recovery
5 19 (10.00%) Agile
5 19 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (9.47%) ITIL
7 16 (8.42%) CI/CD
8 15 (7.89%) Asset Management
8 15 (7.89%) SDLC
8 15 (7.89%) Software Engineering
9 13 (6.84%) Business Continuity
10 11 (5.79%) Information Security
11 8 (4.21%) Computer Science
11 8 (4.21%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (4.21%) Microservices
11 8 (4.21%) Software Deployment
11 8 (4.21%) Test Automation
12 7 (3.68%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 43 (22.63%) PowerShell
2 35 (18.42%) Python
3 29 (15.26%) SQL
4 13 (6.84%) C#
5 12 (6.32%) C++
6 10 (5.26%) T-SQL
7 8 (4.21%) PL/SQL
8 7 (3.68%) JavaScript
9 6 (3.16%) Bash
9 6 (3.16%) Go
10 5 (2.63%) Java
10 5 (2.63%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.58%) VBScript
12 1 (0.53%) Perl
12 1 (0.53%) PHP
12 1 (0.53%) VB
12 1 (0.53%) VC++
12 1 (0.53%) XPath
Qualifications
1 14 (7.37%) Degree
2 11 (5.79%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.68%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.16%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.11%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.11%) ISTQB
5 4 (2.11%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.58%) ISEB
6 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.05%) A+ Certification
7 2 (1.05%) CCNA
7 2 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.05%) GCIA
7 2 (1.05%) GCIH
7 2 (1.05%) GIAC
7 2 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.05%) MCSE
8 1 (0.53%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.32%) QA
2 5 (2.63%) SLA
3 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.53%) COBIT
4 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.53%) MiFID
4 1 (0.53%) NIST
4 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.53%) PMO
System Software
1 69 (36.32%) Active Directory
2 11 (5.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.68%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.63%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.11%) HDFS
5 4 (2.11%) NFS
5 4 (2.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.58%) Docker
7 1 (0.53%) iptables
7 1 (0.53%) KVM
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (19.47%) SCCM
2 25 (13.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (5.79%) Kubernetes
4 8 (4.21%) Ansible
4 8 (4.21%) Terraform
5 7 (3.68%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (2.11%) Puppet
7 3 (1.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.58%) Nessus
8 2 (1.05%) CSIRT
8 2 (1.05%) Grafana
8 2 (1.05%) Graylog
8 2 (1.05%) Nagios
8 2 (1.05%) Packer
8 2 (1.05%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.05%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.05%) QRadar
8 2 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.53%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.53%) Kibana
Vendors
1 57 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 36 (18.95%) Citrix
3 24 (12.63%) Oracle
4 21 (11.05%) Cisco
5 17 (8.95%) VMware
6 16 (8.42%) HP
7 15 (7.89%) Avaya
8 13 (6.84%) Apple
8 13 (6.84%) CheckPoint
8 13 (6.84%) EMC
9 10 (5.26%) Adobe
9 10 (5.26%) ServiceNow
10 8 (4.21%) Bloomberg
10 8 (4.21%) IBM
11 6 (3.16%) MuleSoft
11 6 (3.16%) Red Hat
12 5 (2.63%) Ivanti
12 5 (2.63%) Okta
13 4 (2.11%) iManage
13 4 (2.11%) Isilon