Windows Contract Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft Windows
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Windows skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 24 17
Rank change year-on-year -38 -7 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows 80 152 200
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.20% 8.00% 8.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 50.00% 60.80% 63.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 107 144
10th Percentile £181 £215 £157
25th Percentile £196 £263 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +18.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £575
90th Percentile £672 £675 £675
London median daily rate £430 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -4.44% +12.50% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile £19.41 £22.00 -
25th Percentile £19.64 £23.13 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.88 £26.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.20% +15.22% -
75th Percentile £22.72 £69.56 £27.00
90th Percentile £23.31 £140.33 £28.43
London median hourly rate £23.71 £24.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -3.23% +11.36% -14.43%

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 160 250 315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 6.39% 13.15% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 181 221
10th Percentile £188 £244 £195
25th Percentile £235 £350 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £518 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% +15.00% -13.46%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £675 £711 £725
London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile £19.41 £22.00 -
25th Percentile £19.64 £23.13 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.88 £26.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.20% +15.22% -45.88%
75th Percentile £22.72 £69.56 £27.00
90th Percentile £23.31 £140.33 £28.43
London median hourly rate £27.00 £24.66 £22.00
% change year-on-year +9.49% +12.09% -56.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Windows job vacancy trend in Central London

Windows
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Windows.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Windows

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Central London over the 6 months to 30 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Central London

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Windows.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Windows

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 30 May 2026. 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 -39 69 £325 -26.14% 33
West End of London -7 3 £575 -0.86% 2
Southwark +2 1 £188 -21.33%
Windows
London

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (7.50%) SharePoint
2 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.25%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (8.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 29 (36.25%) Microsoft 365
2 26 (32.50%) Azure
3 13 (16.25%) Entra ID
4 12 (15.00%) AWS
5 5 (6.25%) GitHub
5 5 (6.25%) OneDrive
6 4 (5.00%) GCP
7 3 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.75%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (3.75%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (3.75%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.75%) SaaS
8 2 (2.50%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.50%) Serverless
9 1 (1.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (1.25%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.00%) DNS
2 9 (11.25%) DHCP
3 6 (7.50%) VPN
4 5 (6.25%) TCP/IP
5 4 (5.00%) Firewall
6 2 (2.50%) LAN
6 2 (2.50%) Unified Communications
6 2 (2.50%) WAN
7 1 (1.25%) HTTP
7 1 (1.25%) IPv4
7 1 (1.25%) IPv6
7 1 (1.25%) NetScaler
7 1 (1.25%) Network Security
7 1 (1.25%) SAN
7 1 (1.25%) VLAN
7 1 (1.25%) VSAN
7 1 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.00%) Oracle Database
2 4 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.75%) DB2
3 3 (3.75%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.50%) Power BI
4 2 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 6 (7.50%) JIRA
2 2 (2.50%) git-flow
2 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.50%) MSI
3 1 (1.25%) Fiddler
3 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.50%) Finance
3 6 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.50%) Banking
4 4 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.50%) Publishing
7 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.25%) International Banking
7 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.25%) Law
7 1 (1.25%) Legal
7 1 (1.25%) Mandarin Language
7 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.25%) Military
7 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (22.50%) Support Engineer
2 12 (15.00%) Analyst
3 10 (12.50%) Desktop Support
3 10 (12.50%) IT Support
4 7 (8.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (8.75%) Support Analyst
5 6 (7.50%) IT Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) IT Support Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Developer
6 5 (6.25%) IT Analyst
6 5 (6.25%) Senior
7 4 (5.00%) Citrix Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Consultant
7 4 (5.00%) IT Support Analyst
7 4 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Service Analyst
7 4 (5.00%) Service Desk Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Active Directory Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.50%) .NET
2 4 (5.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (3.75%) AngularJS
3 3 (3.75%) Backbone.js
3 3 (3.75%) Bootstrap
3 3 (3.75%) Ember.js
3 3 (3.75%) Hugging Face
3 3 (3.75%) jQuery
3 3 (3.75%) Keras
3 3 (3.75%) PyTorch
3 3 (3.75%) React
3 3 (3.75%) TensorFlow
4 2 (2.50%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 2 (2.50%) COM
4 2 (2.50%) Qt
4 2 (2.50%) REST
4 2 (2.50%) Web Services
5 1 (1.25%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.25%) gRPC
5 1 (1.25%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 5 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (3.75%) PKI
5 2 (2.50%) BYOD
5 2 (2.50%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.50%) Clustering
5 2 (2.50%) iPhone
5 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.50%) Life Science
5 2 (2.50%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.25%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.25%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.25%) Device Driver
6 1 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.25%) PACS
6 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.25%) Replication
6 1 (1.25%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 18 (22.50%) Windows Server
2 13 (16.25%) Mac OS
3 11 (13.75%) Windows 10
4 10 (12.50%) Linux
5 5 (6.25%) Android
6 4 (5.00%) Apple iOS
6 4 (5.00%) VMS
7 2 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.25%) Mac OS X
8 1 (1.25%) SUSE
8 1 (1.25%) Windows 7
8 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (16.25%) ITIL
1 13 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (13.75%) Migration
3 10 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (11.25%) Customer Service
5 8 (10.00%) DevOps
6 6 (7.50%) AI
6 6 (7.50%) Analytics
6 6 (7.50%) Application Packaging
6 6 (7.50%) Change Management
6 6 (7.50%) Mentoring
6 6 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (6.25%) CI/CD
7 5 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (6.25%) Runbook
8 4 (5.00%) Change Control
8 4 (5.00%) High Availability
8 4 (5.00%) Roadmaps
8 4 (5.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (16.25%) PowerShell
2 12 (15.00%) SQL
3 9 (11.25%) C#
4 3 (3.75%) C++
4 3 (3.75%) PL/SQL
4 3 (3.75%) Python
4 3 (3.75%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.50%) VBA
6 1 (1.25%) Bash
6 1 (1.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (10.00%) Degree
1 8 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.75%) Azure Certification
3 3 (3.75%) CCNA
3 3 (3.75%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (3.75%) PhD
4 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.50%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.50%) MCSE
5 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.25%) CCA
5 1 (1.25%) CESG Certified Professional
5 1 (1.25%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.25%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) QA
1 4 (5.00%) SLA
2 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.50%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.25%) DICOM
4 1 (1.25%) GDPR
4 1 (1.25%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.25%) HL7
4 1 (1.25%) NIST
4 1 (1.25%) NIST 800
System Software
1 30 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (5.00%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.50%) Firmware
5 2 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.50%) vSphere
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (1.25%) XenApp
6 1 (1.25%) XenDesktop
6 1 (1.25%) zsh
Systems Management
1 13 (16.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (7.50%) SCCM
3 4 (5.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.75%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (3.75%) Terraform
5 2 (2.50%) Ansible
6 1 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.25%) Autotask
6 1 (1.25%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.25%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.25%) SCVMM
6 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.25%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.25%) VxRail
6 1 (1.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 39 (48.75%) Microsoft
2 13 (16.25%) Citrix
3 8 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 8 (10.00%) VMware
4 6 (7.50%) Oracle
5 3 (3.75%) Apple
5 3 (3.75%) Bloomberg
5 3 (3.75%) Cisco
6 2 (2.50%) Adobe
6 2 (2.50%) Dell
6 2 (2.50%) EMC
6 2 (2.50%) HP
7 1 (1.25%) Charles River
7 1 (1.25%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.25%) F5
7 1 (1.25%) Freshdesk
7 1 (1.25%) Google
7 1 (1.25%) IBM
7 1 (1.25%) Isilon
7 1 (1.25%) RedGate