Windows Contracts in England

Microsoft Windows
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 17 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Windows 3,236 5,095 6,824
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.75% 10.08% 9.59%
As % of the Operating Systems category 64.14% 61.68% 60.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,238 3,669 4,721
10th Percentile £160 £163 £150
25th Percentile £213 £228 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 281 423
10th Percentile £11.80 £13.29 £12.64
25th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £14.91
Median hourly rate £17.72 £22.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.24% +12.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £25.00 £50.42 £31.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £68.75 £59.50
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +12.50% +21.21%

All Operating Systems
England

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 England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,045 8,260 11,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.65% 16.34% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,433 5,890 7,674
10th Percentile £181 £190 £170
25th Percentile £285 £325 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £470 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -6.93% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 367 390 559
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £14.95 £17.73 £15.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.33% +74.42% +19.44%
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.75 £22.28
% change year-on-year -43.23% +73.92% +23.78%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in England

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows in England.

Daily rate trend for Windows in England

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows in England

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows in England.

Hourly rate trend for Windows in England

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in England

Windows
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London -5 1,224 £400 -20.00% 405
South East 0 702 £425 +6.25% 363
North of England -1 455 £350 -6.67% 321
South West -3 334 £495 +10.00% 219
Midlands +1 317 £350 -6.67% 265
North West -4 253 £350 -17.65% 183
West Midlands -1 187 £400 -9.60% 165
Yorkshire 0 171 £325 -3.70% 108
East of England -14 144 £290 -3.33% 194
East Midlands +2 126 £210 -35.38% 100
North East +14 32 £423 +78.11% 35
Windows
UK

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 402 (12.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 219 (6.77%) SharePoint
3 100 (3.09%) Confluence
4 82 (2.53%) IIS
5 37 (1.14%) Apache
6 36 (1.11%) Exchange Server 2010
7 35 (1.08%) SharePoint Server
7 35 (1.08%) Skype for Business
8 34 (1.05%) Exchange Server 2013
9 31 (0.96%) Tomcat
10 23 (0.71%) Exchange Server 2007
11 17 (0.53%) CMS
12 15 (0.46%) JBoss
12 15 (0.46%) nginx
13 14 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2003
14 12 (0.37%) BizTalk Server
15 10 (0.31%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
16 5 (0.15%) IBM Notes
17 4 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2000
17 4 (0.12%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 406 (12.55%) Microsoft Office
2 107 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.093%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.062%) Acrobat
8 2 (0.062%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.062%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.031%) Simulink
9 1 (0.031%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (0.28%) Loan IQ
3 7 (0.22%) Teamcenter
3 7 (0.22%) Temenos T24
4 5 (0.15%) Shopify
5 4 (0.12%) LabWindows
5 4 (0.12%) SystmOne
6 3 (0.093%) Eikon
6 3 (0.093%) ION MarketView
6 3 (0.093%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.093%) OPENHousing
6 3 (0.093%) Sage X3
7 2 (0.062%) Advent Geneva
7 2 (0.062%) assyst
7 2 (0.062%) BusinessWorks
7 2 (0.062%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.062%) Front Arena
7 2 (0.062%) Remedy AR System
7 2 (0.062%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.031%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 917 (28.34%) Microsoft 365
2 750 (23.18%) Azure
3 254 (7.85%) AWS
4 225 (6.95%) Entra ID
5 84 (2.60%) OneDrive
6 72 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
7 64 (1.98%) IaaS
8 58 (1.79%) PaaS
9 51 (1.58%) SaaS
10 40 (1.24%) Azure Monitor
11 38 (1.17%) Azure Stack
11 38 (1.17%) GitHub
11 38 (1.17%) WhatsApp
12 37 (1.14%) Power Platform
13 35 (1.08%) Azure Storage
14 31 (0.96%) GCP
15 29 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
15 29 (0.90%) Serverless
16 26 (0.80%) Mimecast
17 21 (0.65%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 401 (12.39%) Firewall
2 359 (11.09%) DNS
3 246 (7.60%) VPN
4 225 (6.95%) DHCP
5 174 (5.38%) LAN
6 158 (4.88%) WAN
7 150 (4.64%) SAN
8 130 (4.02%) TCP/IP
9 114 (3.52%) Wireless
10 77 (2.38%) Network Security
11 74 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
12 55 (1.70%) VLAN
13 54 (1.67%) Internet
14 47 (1.45%) BGP
14 47 (1.45%) NAS
15 46 (1.42%) Skype
16 33 (1.02%) VoIP
17 30 (0.93%) Remote Desktop
18 28 (0.87%) MPLS
19 26 (0.80%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (6.80%) SQL Server
2 42 (1.30%) Relational Database
3 39 (1.21%) MySQL
4 31 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
5 27 (0.83%) MongoDB
6 25 (0.77%) Oracle Database
6 25 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
7 24 (0.74%) Power BI
7 24 (0.74%) RDBMS
8 22 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
9 19 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (0.53%) Big Data
11 14 (0.43%) Hadoop
12 7 (0.22%) DB2
13 5 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.15%) KDB
13 5 (0.15%) NoSQL
14 4 (0.12%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.12%) MariaDB
14 4 (0.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 174 (5.38%) JIRA
2 103 (3.18%) Git
3 82 (2.53%) Jenkins
4 40 (1.24%) Bitbucket
5 32 (0.99%) GitLab
5 32 (0.99%) TeamCity
6 31 (0.96%) Visual Studio
7 28 (0.87%) Robot Framework
8 27 (0.83%) Artifactory
9 26 (0.80%) MSI
10 22 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
10 22 (0.68%) Subversion
11 17 (0.53%) Eclipse
12 16 (0.49%) Selenium
13 12 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
14 9 (0.28%) GoogleTest
15 8 (0.25%) Hudson
15 8 (0.25%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 7 (0.22%) Mercurial
General
1 927 (28.65%) Social Skills
2 460 (14.22%) Finance
3 285 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
4 279 (8.62%) Public Sector
5 154 (4.76%) Banking
6 134 (4.14%) Organisational Skills
7 108 (3.34%) Telecoms
8 86 (2.66%) Manufacturing
9 79 (2.44%) Marketing
10 73 (2.26%) Legal
11 69 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
12 58 (1.79%) Front Office
13 55 (1.70%) Electronics
14 51 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
15 42 (1.30%) Investment Banking
16 37 (1.14%) Retail
17 34 (1.05%) Financial Institution
18 30 (0.93%) Military
19 27 (0.83%) Law
20 25 (0.77%) French Language
Job Titles
1 447 (13.81%) Support Engineer
2 406 (12.55%) Analyst
3 271 (8.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 251 (7.76%) IT Support
5 223 (6.89%) Desktop Support
6 220 (6.80%) Architect
7 202 (6.24%) Senior
8 185 (5.72%) IT Engineer
9 177 (5.47%) Desktop Engineer
10 155 (4.79%) Administrator
11 151 (4.67%) Service Analyst
11 151 (4.67%) Windows Engineer
12 142 (4.39%) 2nd Line Support
12 142 (4.39%) Service Desk Analyst
13 138 (4.26%) Desktop Support Engineer
14 113 (3.49%) IT Support Engineer
14 113 (3.49%) Support Analyst
15 103 (3.18%) Systems Administrator
16 98 (3.03%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 91 (2.81%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (3.24%) .NET
2 57 (1.76%) Node.js
3 42 (1.30%) LDAP
4 40 (1.24%) Middleware
5 33 (1.02%) XML
6 32 (0.99%) Web Services
7 30 (0.93%) .NET Framework
8 28 (0.87%) REST
9 27 (0.83%) JSON
10 25 (0.77%) Elastic Stack
10 25 (0.77%) HTML
11 24 (0.74%) Apache NiFi
11 24 (0.74%) ASP.NET
12 22 (0.68%) ARM Templates
13 21 (0.65%) CSS
14 20 (0.62%) SAML
15 18 (0.56%) React
16 16 (0.49%) .NET Core
17 15 (0.46%) Software Packaging
17 15 (0.46%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 159 (4.91%) PKI
2 131 (4.05%) Management Information System
3 126 (3.89%) Data Centre
4 90 (2.78%) Video Conferencing
5 84 (2.60%) Replication
6 82 (2.53%) Driving Licence
7 74 (2.29%) Public Cloud
8 70 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
9 66 (2.04%) Clustering
10 60 (1.85%) NHS
11 44 (1.36%) Client/Server
12 43 (1.33%) Onboarding
13 42 (1.30%) Private Cloud
14 41 (1.27%) iPhone
15 35 (1.08%) iPad
16 30 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
16 30 (0.93%) Smartphone
17 27 (0.83%) Security Operations Centre
18 26 (0.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
19 25 (0.77%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 897 (27.72%) Windows Server
2 826 (25.53%) Windows 10
3 746 (23.05%) Linux
4 220 (6.80%) Windows 7
5 217 (6.71%) Windows Server 2012
6 204 (6.30%) Unix
7 190 (5.87%) Windows Server 2019
8 185 (5.72%) Windows Server 2016
9 182 (5.62%) Apple iOS
10 161 (4.98%) Android
11 120 (3.71%) Mac OS
12 112 (3.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 66 (2.04%) Windows Server 2008
14 40 (1.24%) VMS
15 39 (1.21%) Ubuntu
16 32 (0.99%) Mac OS X
17 29 (0.90%) Solaris
17 29 (0.90%) Windows Server 2003
18 22 (0.68%) Windows Vista
19 21 (0.65%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 529 (16.35%) Customer Service
2 511 (15.79%) ITIL
3 495 (15.30%) Problem-Solving
4 366 (11.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 311 (9.61%) Migration
6 302 (9.33%) Agile
7 295 (9.12%) DevOps
8 192 (5.93%) CI/CD
9 165 (5.10%) Cybersecurity
10 160 (4.94%) Change Management
10 160 (4.94%) Service Management
11 149 (4.60%) Mobile Device Management
12 144 (4.45%) Disaster Recovery
13 132 (4.08%) Service Delivery
14 124 (3.83%) ITSM
15 115 (3.55%) Risk Management
16 108 (3.34%) Release Management
17 102 (3.15%) Analytics
18 101 (3.12%) Asset Management
19 98 (3.03%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 544 (16.81%) PowerShell
2 313 (9.67%) SQL
3 271 (8.37%) Python
4 152 (4.70%) C#
5 89 (2.75%) C++
6 87 (2.69%) Java
7 70 (2.16%) Bash
8 68 (2.10%) JavaScript
9 56 (1.73%) VBScript
10 45 (1.39%) VB
11 41 (1.27%) T-SQL
12 34 (1.05%) Shell Script
13 32 (0.99%) PL/SQL
14 25 (0.77%) Perl
15 24 (0.74%) VBA
16 21 (0.65%) Bicep
16 21 (0.65%) C
17 20 (0.62%) Go
18 13 (0.40%) Ruby
19 12 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 913 (28.21%) Security Cleared
2 447 (13.81%) SC Cleared
3 435 (13.44%) DV Cleared
4 353 (10.91%) Degree
5 133 (4.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 66 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
7 62 (1.92%) CCNA
8 61 (1.89%) MCSE
9 58 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
10 44 (1.36%) Azure Certification
11 41 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
12 40 (1.24%) A+ Certification
13 38 (1.17%) MCP
14 37 (1.14%) MCSA
15 35 (1.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 31 (0.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 25 (0.77%) CCNP
18 24 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
18 24 (0.74%) Master's Degree
19 21 (0.65%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (6.06%) SLA
2 98 (3.03%) QA
3 37 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 35 (1.08%) Government Security Classifications
4 35 (1.08%) NIST
5 29 (0.90%) GDPR
6 27 (0.83%) Disclosure Scotland
7 20 (0.62%) PCI DSS
8 15 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
9 14 (0.43%) Accessibility
10 13 (0.40%) ISO 9001
11 11 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.31%) ISO 9000
13 9 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.22%) RMADS
15 5 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 5 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 4 (0.12%) NCSC
16 4 (0.12%) PMO
System Software
1 1,300 (40.17%) Active Directory
2 386 (11.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 146 (4.51%) Hyper-V
4 86 (2.66%) Virtual Machines
5 79 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
6 66 (2.04%) Docker
6 66 (2.04%) Firmware
7 63 (1.95%) vSphere
8 61 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
9 49 (1.51%) VMware NSX
10 36 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
10 36 (1.11%) XenApp
11 23 (0.71%) VMware Workstation
12 21 (0.65%) XenDesktop
13 18 (0.56%) NFS
14 14 (0.43%) BitLocker
15 13 (0.40%) HDFS
16 10 (0.31%) iptables
16 10 (0.31%) KVM
16 10 (0.31%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 524 (16.19%) SCCM
2 291 (8.99%) Microsoft Intune
3 158 (4.88%) Ansible
4 114 (3.52%) WSUS
5 109 (3.37%) Kubernetes
6 105 (3.24%) Terraform
7 104 (3.21%) SCOM
8 65 (2.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 65 (2.01%) vCenter Server
9 63 (1.95%) Jamf Pro
10 55 (1.70%) NetBackup
10 55 (1.70%) Puppet
11 34 (1.05%) EMC NetWorker
12 29 (0.90%) Progress Chef
13 28 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
14 23 (0.71%) Grafana
15 21 (0.65%) Sysprep
16 20 (0.62%) ITRS Geneos
16 20 (0.62%) Microsoft Clustering
17 19 (0.59%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1,345 (41.56%) Microsoft
2 563 (17.40%) VMware
3 244 (7.54%) Citrix
4 185 (5.72%) Cisco
5 181 (5.59%) ServiceNow
6 166 (5.13%) Apple
7 152 (4.70%) Oracle
8 139 (4.30%) HP
9 102 (3.15%) Veeam
10 91 (2.81%) Red Hat
11 82 (2.53%) Dell
12 80 (2.47%) SAP
13 79 (2.44%) Splunk
14 66 (2.04%) Atlassian
15 65 (2.01%) EMC
16 55 (1.70%) IBM
17 51 (1.58%) Google
18 42 (1.30%) Palo Alto
19 40 (1.24%) Avaya
20 38 (1.17%) NetApp