Windows Contracts in Central London

Microsoft Windows
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 16 16
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 0
Contract jobs citing Windows 150 215 359
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 7.61% 9.09% 9.68%
As % of the Operating Systems category 57.69% 66.36% 65.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 156 255
10th Percentile £215 £171 £140
25th Percentile £263 £257 £197
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £413 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -2.94% +9.68%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £560
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
London median daily rate £440 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -20.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £24.35 £21.95 -
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £26.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +16.67% +21.62%
75th Percentile £108.88 £27.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £156.05 £28.43 -
London median hourly rate £23.00 £22.00 £25.71
% change year-on-year +4.55% -14.43% +7.53%

All Operating Systems
Central London

Windows falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 260 324 545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 13.19% 13.71% 14.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 235 383
10th Percentile £246 £213 £153
25th Percentile £350 £350 £244
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £650 £648 £638
90th Percentile £711 £725 £728
London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 4
10th Percentile £24.35 £21.95 £22.38
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.00 £24.06
Median hourly rate £28.50 £26.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -30.00% +87.50%
75th Percentile £108.88 £27.00 £60.31
90th Percentile £156.05 £28.43 £74.38
London median hourly rate £24.00 £22.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -56.00% +109.12%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Central London

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Central London

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Central London over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Central London

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Central London

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in Central London over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in Central London

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 2 July 2025. 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
City of London -9 131 £433 +1.76% 280
West End of London +7 8 £250 +70.65% 8
City of Westminster 0 4 £450 +12.50% 12
Camden - 1 £580 - 1
Windows
London

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 11 (7.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 11 (7.33%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.00%) CMS
3 4 (2.67%) Confluence
4 2 (1.33%) IIS
Applications
1 15 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.67%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.67%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 4 (2.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.33%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 51 (34.00%) Microsoft 365
2 47 (31.33%) Azure
3 19 (12.67%) AWS
4 18 (12.00%) Entra ID
5 6 (4.00%) OneDrive
6 5 (3.33%) GitHub
6 5 (3.33%) IaaS
6 5 (3.33%) SaaS
7 4 (2.67%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (2.67%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.67%) GCP
8 3 (2.00%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.00%) Azure AKS
8 3 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.00%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.33%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.33%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.33%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (15.33%) Firewall
2 22 (14.67%) DNS
3 13 (8.67%) DHCP
4 11 (7.33%) VPN
5 8 (5.33%) TCP/IP
6 7 (4.67%) LAN
7 6 (4.00%) WAN
8 4 (2.67%) Network Security
8 4 (2.67%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (2.00%) HTTP
9 3 (2.00%) MPLS
9 3 (2.00%) VLAN
9 3 (2.00%) VoIP
10 2 (1.33%) NetScaler
10 2 (1.33%) SAN
11 1 (0.67%) Internet
11 1 (0.67%) Intranet
11 1 (0.67%) Multicast
11 1 (0.67%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.67%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (2.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.33%) MySQL
3 2 (1.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.67%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (6.00%) JIRA
2 4 (2.67%) Git
3 3 (2.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.00%) MSI
4 2 (1.33%) JMeter
5 1 (0.67%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.67%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.67%) Gatling
5 1 (0.67%) GitLab
5 1 (0.67%) Hamcrest
5 1 (0.67%) JUnit
5 1 (0.67%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.67%) Postman
5 1 (0.67%) Selenium
5 1 (0.67%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (0.67%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.67%) Subversion
5 1 (0.67%) TeamCity
General
1 71 (47.33%) Finance
2 47 (31.33%) Social Skills
3 27 (18.00%) Banking
4 13 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.67%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.33%) Law
7 4 (2.67%) Front Office
7 4 (2.67%) International Banking
7 4 (2.67%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.00%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.33%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.33%) Japanese Language
9 2 (1.33%) Legal
9 2 (1.33%) Retail
9 2 (1.33%) Spanish Language
9 2 (1.33%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.67%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 29 (19.33%) Analyst
2 17 (11.33%) Support Engineer
3 16 (10.67%) Support Analyst
3 16 (10.67%) Windows Engineer
4 14 (9.33%) IT Support
5 13 (8.67%) Desktop Engineer
6 11 (7.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (6.67%) IT Engineer
8 9 (6.00%) Desktop Support
8 9 (6.00%) Senior
9 8 (5.33%) IT Analyst
10 7 (4.67%) Applications Support
10 7 (4.67%) IT Support Engineer
11 6 (4.00%) Architect
11 6 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (4.00%) Service Analyst
11 6 (4.00%) Service Desk Analyst
12 5 (3.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (3.33%) Consultant
12 5 (3.33%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.67%) .NET
2 3 (2.00%) WPF
3 2 (1.33%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.33%) Azure Blueprints
3 2 (1.33%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (1.33%) WebSockets
4 1 (0.67%) Kafka
4 1 (0.67%) Middleware
4 1 (0.67%) REST
4 1 (0.67%) Web Services
4 1 (0.67%) WinForms
4 1 (0.67%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (3.33%) iPad
2 5 (3.33%) iPhone
3 4 (2.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (2.00%) Equities
4 3 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.00%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.00%) Reinsurance
4 3 (2.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (1.33%) Clustering
5 2 (1.33%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.33%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.33%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.33%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (1.33%) Wiki
6 1 (0.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 43 (28.67%) Windows Server
2 30 (20.00%) Windows 10
3 29 (19.33%) Linux
4 9 (6.00%) Mac OS
5 7 (4.67%) Apple iOS
5 7 (4.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (3.33%) Unix
6 5 (3.33%) Windows 7
7 3 (2.00%) Android
8 2 (1.33%) AIX
8 2 (1.33%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.67%) CentOS
9 1 (0.67%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.67%) VMS
9 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (19.33%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (18.67%) Migration
3 24 (16.00%) ITIL
4 13 (8.67%) Customer Service
4 13 (8.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (8.00%) Asset Management
6 11 (7.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (6.67%) Agile
7 10 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (6.67%) DevOps
8 8 (5.33%) ITSM
8 8 (5.33%) Project Management
9 7 (4.67%) Change Management
9 7 (4.67%) CI/CD
9 7 (4.67%) Data Protection
9 7 (4.67%) Service Management
9 7 (4.67%) SIEM
9 7 (4.67%) Time Management
10 6 (4.00%) Incident Response
10 6 (4.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 37 (24.67%) PowerShell
2 17 (11.33%) Python
3 11 (7.33%) SQL
4 9 (6.00%) Bash
5 6 (4.00%) C#
6 5 (3.33%) Java
7 4 (2.67%) VBScript
8 3 (2.00%) Bicep
9 1 (0.67%) C
9 1 (0.67%) C++
9 1 (0.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.33%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.67%) Degree
4 4 (2.67%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.67%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.33%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.33%) VCAP
6 2 (1.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.67%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.67%) CCNA
7 1 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.67%) MCSA
7 1 (0.67%) MCSE
7 1 (0.67%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.00%) QA
2 5 (3.33%) SLA
3 4 (2.67%) GDPR
4 2 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.33%) NIST
4 2 (1.33%) PMO
4 2 (1.33%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.67%) HIPAA
System Software
1 54 (36.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.00%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (2.67%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.00%) BitLocker
5 3 (2.00%) Docker
5 3 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.33%) XenApp
6 2 (1.33%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.67%) Platform Symphony
7 1 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (16.00%) SCCM
2 20 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (4.00%) Ansible
3 6 (4.00%) Terraform
4 5 (3.33%) WSUS
5 4 (2.67%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.00%) Kubernetes
6 3 (2.00%) Puppet
7 2 (1.33%) AirWatch
7 2 (1.33%) CASB
7 2 (1.33%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.33%) HP ALM
7 2 (1.33%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (1.33%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
8 1 (0.67%) Control-M
8 1 (0.67%) Grafana
8 1 (0.67%) Kibana
8 1 (0.67%) QRadar
Vendors
1 51 (34.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.33%) Citrix
3 15 (10.00%) VMware
4 9 (6.00%) ServiceNow
5 7 (4.67%) Bloomberg
5 7 (4.67%) Oracle
6 6 (4.00%) Splunk
7 4 (2.67%) Cisco
7 4 (2.67%) HP
7 4 (2.67%) Reuters
8 3 (2.00%) Apple
8 3 (2.00%) CyberArk
8 3 (2.00%) Databricks
8 3 (2.00%) F5
8 3 (2.00%) Google
8 3 (2.00%) Refinitiv
8 3 (2.00%) Symantec
8 3 (2.00%) Tradeweb
9 2 (1.33%) BeyondTrust
9 2 (1.33%) Mellanox