Windows Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows
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 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 10 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing Windows 2,137 3,096 4,091
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.41% 13.17% 13.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 66.14% 68.31% 69.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,474 2,147 2,714
10th Percentile £155 £159 £138
25th Percentile £205 £203 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £325
Median % change year-on-year - +23.08% -7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £488
90th Percentile £665 £650 £613
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 250 365
10th Percentile £11.07 £13.16 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.60 £20.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% +6.67% +17.19%
75th Percentile £26.69 £49.52 £28.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.25 £55.80
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £22.46 £20.40
% change year-on-year -19.84% +10.07% +24.58%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,231 4,532 5,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.74% 19.28% 19.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,147 3,149 3,853
10th Percentile £175 £163 £150
25th Percentile £256 £250 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £675 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £468 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -8.24% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 336 459
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.58
25th Percentile £14.27 £17.29 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £29.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +46.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £61.90 £60.64 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.49 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -42.86% +71.11% +26.76%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South East +1 692 £425 +6.25% 377
North of England -1 435 £325 -16.13% 327
South West -2 331 £495 +7.03% 228
Midlands 0 321 £338 -10.00% 270
North West -5 235 £350 -17.65% 181
West Midlands +1 183 £375 -15.25% 153
Scotland -5 174 £420 +11.87% 90
Yorkshire 0 173 £325 -7.28% 116
East of England -11 146 £290 -3.33% 201
East Midlands +3 135 £215 -33.85% 117
Wales -6 32 £350 -17.65% 28
North East +7 28 £441 +85.47% 34
Northern Ireland -9 10 £400 +135.29% 19
Windows
UK

Windows
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
1 248 (11.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 152 (7.11%) SharePoint
3 81 (3.79%) Confluence
4 35 (1.64%) SharePoint Server
5 33 (1.54%) IIS
6 17 (0.80%) CMS
7 15 (0.70%) Apache
8 12 (0.56%) Skype for Business
9 10 (0.47%) Tomcat
10 8 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2007
11 7 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2013
12 6 (0.28%) JBoss
12 6 (0.28%) nginx
13 5 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
13 5 (0.23%) SAS
14 4 (0.19%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 4 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2000
14 4 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2003
15 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
16 2 (0.094%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 269 (12.59%) Microsoft Office
2 41 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.094%) Acrobat
6 2 (0.094%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.094%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.094%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.047%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.047%) Simulink
7 1 (0.047%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
1 7 (0.33%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.19%) LabWindows
3 3 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
3 3 (0.14%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.094%) assyst
4 2 (0.094%) Shopify
4 2 (0.094%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.047%) Primavera
5 1 (0.047%) RMDS
5 1 (0.047%) Sage 50
5 1 (0.047%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 565 (26.44%) Microsoft 365
2 425 (19.89%) Azure
3 112 (5.24%) Entra ID
4 111 (5.19%) AWS
5 52 (2.43%) OneDrive
6 40 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
7 37 (1.73%) Azure Stack
8 30 (1.40%) Azure Monitor
9 28 (1.31%) Power Platform
10 26 (1.22%) OpenShift
11 23 (1.08%) IaaS
12 18 (0.84%) OCI
13 16 (0.75%) Azure Storage
13 16 (0.75%) SaaS
14 14 (0.66%) Serverless
15 13 (0.61%) PaaS
16 11 (0.51%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (0.51%) Amazon S3
16 11 (0.51%) Azure Functions
17 10 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 278 (13.01%) Firewall
2 247 (11.56%) DNS
3 182 (8.52%) DHCP
4 171 (8.00%) VPN
5 134 (6.27%) LAN
6 116 (5.43%) WAN
7 112 (5.24%) SAN
8 92 (4.31%) TCP/IP
9 60 (2.81%) Wireless
10 58 (2.71%) Wi-Fi
11 50 (2.34%) Network Security
12 40 (1.87%) VLAN
13 35 (1.64%) BGP
14 34 (1.59%) Remote Desktop
15 27 (1.26%) Internet
16 24 (1.12%) Fibre Channel
17 23 (1.08%) Ethernet
17 23 (1.08%) NAS
18 22 (1.03%) VoIP
19 20 (0.94%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (4.63%) SQL Server
2 21 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
2 21 (0.98%) MySQL
3 19 (0.89%) Power BI
3 19 (0.89%) Relational Database
4 17 (0.80%) Big Data
5 16 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (0.66%) RDBMS
7 12 (0.56%) Oracle Database
7 12 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
9 8 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (0.33%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.28%) DB2
12 3 (0.14%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.14%) Tableau
13 2 (0.094%) CouchDB
13 2 (0.094%) Data Hub
13 2 (0.094%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.094%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 116 (5.43%) JIRA
2 65 (3.04%) Git
3 37 (1.73%) Jenkins
4 28 (1.31%) Robot Framework
4 28 (1.31%) Visual Studio
5 26 (1.22%) Bitbucket
6 22 (1.03%) Eclipse
7 21 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
8 16 (0.75%) MSI
9 14 (0.66%) GitLab
10 11 (0.51%) Artifactory
10 11 (0.51%) Rational DOORS
10 11 (0.51%) Selenium
11 10 (0.47%) Maven
12 9 (0.42%) GoogleTest
13 8 (0.37%) SonarQube
14 7 (0.33%) Gradle
15 6 (0.28%) Mercurial
15 6 (0.28%) Subversion
16 5 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 685 (32.05%) Social Skills
2 202 (9.45%) Public Sector
3 185 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
4 151 (7.07%) Finance
5 104 (4.87%) Organisational Skills
6 70 (3.28%) Telecoms
7 67 (3.14%) Manufacturing
8 48 (2.25%) Marketing
9 38 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
10 35 (1.64%) Electronics
11 34 (1.59%) Legal
12 33 (1.54%) Banking
12 33 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
12 33 (1.54%) Military
13 23 (1.08%) Retail
14 16 (0.75%) Aerospace
15 15 (0.70%) Law
16 11 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 10 (0.47%) Automotive
18 9 (0.42%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 279 (13.06%) Support Engineer
2 261 (12.21%) Analyst
3 188 (8.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 176 (8.24%) Architect
5 173 (8.10%) IT Support
6 136 (6.36%) Desktop Support
7 126 (5.90%) Senior
8 121 (5.66%) Desktop Engineer
9 120 (5.62%) IT Engineer
10 117 (5.47%) Service Analyst
11 113 (5.29%) Administrator
12 111 (5.19%) Service Desk Analyst
13 96 (4.49%) Desktop Support Engineer
13 96 (4.49%) Windows Engineer
14 94 (4.40%) 2nd Line Support
15 76 (3.56%) Systems Administrator
16 74 (3.46%) IT Technician
17 73 (3.42%) Support Analyst
18 72 (3.37%) 2nd Line Engineer
19 66 (3.09%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (2.67%) Node.js
2 27 (1.26%) .NET
2 27 (1.26%) Elastic Stack
3 22 (1.03%) Apache NiFi
3 22 (1.03%) REST
4 20 (0.94%) Web Services
5 19 (0.89%) Middleware
6 17 (0.80%) ARM Templates
7 15 (0.70%) LDAP
7 15 (0.70%) XML
8 14 (0.66%) HTML
9 13 (0.61%) Kafka
10 12 (0.56%) CSS
11 11 (0.51%) RESTful
12 10 (0.47%) React
12 10 (0.47%) SOAP
13 9 (0.42%) Spring Boot
14 8 (0.37%) SAML
14 8 (0.37%) Software Packaging
14 8 (0.37%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 147 (6.88%) PKI
2 87 (4.07%) Data Centre
3 80 (3.74%) Driving Licence
4 61 (2.85%) Public Cloud
5 52 (2.43%) Management Information System
6 46 (2.15%) Clustering
7 43 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
8 41 (1.92%) NHS
9 39 (1.82%) Private Cloud
10 37 (1.73%) Client/Server
10 37 (1.73%) Replication
11 33 (1.54%) Video Conferencing
12 28 (1.31%) iPhone
13 26 (1.22%) Onboarding
14 23 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
15 21 (0.98%) Product Ownership
16 20 (0.94%) iPad
17 19 (0.89%) Cyberattack
18 17 (0.80%) CMDB
19 16 (0.75%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 606 (28.36%) Windows Server
2 603 (28.22%) Windows 10
3 504 (23.58%) Linux
4 155 (7.25%) Windows Server 2012
5 151 (7.07%) Windows Server 2019
6 146 (6.83%) Apple iOS
7 145 (6.79%) Windows Server 2016
8 143 (6.69%) Windows 7
9 112 (5.24%) Unix
10 95 (4.45%) Android
11 81 (3.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 62 (2.90%) Mac OS
13 35 (1.64%) Windows Server 2008
14 34 (1.59%) Ubuntu
15 21 (0.98%) Windows Server 2003
15 21 (0.98%) Windows Vista
16 20 (0.94%) Windows NT
16 20 (0.94%) Windows XP
17 18 (0.84%) VMS
18 14 (0.66%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (18.48%) Customer Service
2 369 (17.27%) ITIL
3 349 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
4 255 (11.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 235 (11.00%) Agile
6 176 (8.24%) DevOps
7 166 (7.77%) Migration
8 130 (6.08%) Service Management
9 124 (5.80%) CI/CD
10 115 (5.38%) Cybersecurity
11 108 (5.05%) Change Management
11 108 (5.05%) Mobile Device Management
12 96 (4.49%) Service Delivery
13 77 (3.60%) ITSM
14 71 (3.32%) Decision-Making
15 69 (3.23%) Security Architecture
16 68 (3.18%) Network Management
17 65 (3.04%) Project Management
17 65 (3.04%) Release Management
18 64 (2.99%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 322 (15.07%) PowerShell
2 134 (6.27%) SQL
3 129 (6.04%) Python
4 85 (3.98%) C#
5 58 (2.71%) C++
6 48 (2.25%) VBScript
7 44 (2.06%) Java
8 43 (2.01%) JavaScript
9 39 (1.82%) Bash
10 29 (1.36%) VB
11 20 (0.94%) Shell Script
12 19 (0.89%) Perl
13 17 (0.80%) Bicep
14 15 (0.70%) C
15 9 (0.42%) Ruby
16 8 (0.37%) R
17 7 (0.33%) Groovy
18 4 (0.19%) F#
18 4 (0.19%) VB.NET
18 4 (0.19%) VB6
Qualifications
1 757 (35.42%) Security Cleared
2 381 (17.83%) DV Cleared
3 358 (16.75%) SC Cleared
4 256 (11.98%) Degree
5 102 (4.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 59 (2.76%) MCSE
7 54 (2.53%) CCNA
7 54 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
8 40 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 32 (1.50%) MCSA
9 32 (1.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 31 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
11 30 (1.40%) MCP
12 28 (1.31%) A+ Certification
13 27 (1.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 23 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
14 23 (1.08%) CCNP
15 22 (1.03%) Master's Degree
16 16 (0.75%) DBS Check
17 15 (0.70%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (5.99%) SLA
2 63 (2.95%) QA
3 37 (1.73%) Disclosure Scotland
4 35 (1.64%) Government Security Classifications
5 21 (0.98%) NIST
6 17 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (0.75%) GDPR
8 14 (0.66%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
9 13 (0.61%) ISO 9001
10 10 (0.47%) ISO 9000
11 7 (0.33%) Accessibility
11 7 (0.33%) RMADS
12 5 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 4 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.094%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.094%) NCSC
16 1 (0.047%) HIPAA
16 1 (0.047%) PMO
System Software
1 885 (41.41%) Active Directory
2 288 (13.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 117 (5.47%) Hyper-V
4 89 (4.16%) VMware ESXi
5 51 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
6 49 (2.29%) Firmware
7 43 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
7 43 (2.01%) vSphere
8 39 (1.82%) Docker
9 37 (1.73%) VMware NSX
10 36 (1.68%) XenApp
11 24 (1.12%) BitLocker
12 23 (1.08%) Virtual Servers
13 21 (0.98%) VMware Workstation
14 19 (0.89%) XenDesktop
15 13 (0.61%) KVM
16 11 (0.51%) Terminal Services
17 10 (0.47%) Microsoft App-V
18 9 (0.42%) iptables
19 8 (0.37%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 372 (17.41%) SCCM
2 185 (8.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 100 (4.68%) WSUS
4 95 (4.45%) Ansible
5 75 (3.51%) SCOM
6 72 (3.37%) vCenter Server
7 66 (3.09%) Kubernetes
8 59 (2.76%) Terraform
9 56 (2.62%) NetBackup
10 39 (1.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 27 (1.26%) Jamf Pro
12 26 (1.22%) Puppet
13 25 (1.17%) EMC NetWorker
14 21 (0.98%) Sysprep
15 19 (0.89%) Nagios
16 17 (0.80%) Kibana
17 16 (0.75%) Grafana
18 15 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
18 15 (0.70%) WMI
19 14 (0.66%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 958 (44.83%) Microsoft
2 411 (19.23%) VMware
3 125 (5.85%) Cisco
4 122 (5.71%) Citrix
5 120 (5.62%) Apple
6 99 (4.63%) HP
7 98 (4.59%) ServiceNow
8 79 (3.70%) Oracle
9 61 (2.85%) Veeam
10 59 (2.76%) Atlassian
11 58 (2.71%) Splunk
12 53 (2.48%) Red Hat
13 51 (2.39%) SAP
14 45 (2.11%) Dell
15 42 (1.97%) NetApp
16 39 (1.82%) EMC
17 36 (1.68%) Symantec
18 33 (1.54%) Veritas
19 26 (1.22%) Google
20 25 (1.17%) Palo Alto