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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 24 18
Rank change year-on-year -10 -6 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows 116 176 271
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.17% 7.57% 9.07%
As % of the Operating Systems category 54.21% 59.26% 63.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 117 179
10th Percentile £188 £169 £165
25th Percentile £263 £321 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £550
90th Percentile £685 £659 £650
London median daily rate £438 £405 £462
% change year-on-year +8.02% -12.39% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £19.85 £24.29 -
25th Percentile £21.31 £26.03 £21.25
Median hourly rate £24.50 £69.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.75% +208.89% +13.92%
75th Percentile £27.75 £112.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £29.25 - -
London median hourly rate £23.00 £26.63 £26.00
% change year-on-year -13.62% +2.40% +4.00%

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 214 297 430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.39% 12.78% 14.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 199 295
10th Percentile £200 £244 £179
25th Percentile £313 £350 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £650 £631 £621
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 3
10th Percentile £20.82 £24.29 £19.39
25th Percentile £23.75 £26.03 £20.09
Median hourly rate £27.50 £69.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.43% +208.89% +12.50%
75th Percentile £29.50 £112.00 £38.13
90th Percentile £29.95 - £46.75
London median hourly rate £25.15 £53.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -52.99% +42.67% +50.00%

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 4 November 2025.

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 4 November 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 -11 103 £450 - 235
City of Westminster +4 8 £475 -2.56% 3
West End of London +6 3 £215 +32.31% 7
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 8 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.17%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.45%) Confluence
4 1 (0.86%) CICS
Applications
1 7 (6.03%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.86%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.86%) Eikon
2 1 (0.86%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 37 (31.90%) Microsoft 365
2 30 (25.86%) Azure
3 12 (10.34%) AWS
4 9 (7.76%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.31%) IaaS
6 4 (3.45%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.59%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (2.59%) GCP
7 3 (2.59%) PaaS
7 3 (2.59%) SaaS
8 2 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.72%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.72%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.86%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.86%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.86%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.86%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.86%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.86%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.86%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (13.79%) Firewall
2 11 (9.48%) DNS
3 8 (6.90%) DHCP
3 8 (6.90%) WAN
4 7 (6.03%) LAN
4 7 (6.03%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (5.17%) VPN
6 4 (3.45%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.72%) IP Telephony
7 2 (1.72%) MPLS
7 2 (1.72%) NetScaler
7 2 (1.72%) Network Security
7 2 (1.72%) Softphone
7 2 (1.72%) SSH
7 2 (1.72%) Wireless
8 1 (0.86%) DKIM
8 1 (0.86%) DMARC
8 1 (0.86%) Multicast
8 1 (0.86%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.86%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.03%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.59%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.86%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.86%) Apache Hive
3 1 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.86%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.86%) Impala
3 1 (0.86%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.86%) MySQL
3 1 (0.86%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.86%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (4.31%) JIRA
2 2 (1.72%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.86%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.86%) JUnit
3 1 (0.86%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.86%) TeamCity
General
1 49 (42.24%) Finance
2 41 (35.34%) Social Skills
3 16 (13.79%) Banking
4 15 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.03%) Front Office
6 3 (2.59%) International Banking
6 3 (2.59%) Japanese Language
6 3 (2.59%) Retail
6 3 (2.59%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.72%) French Language
7 2 (1.72%) Games
7 2 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.72%) Marketing
7 2 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.72%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.86%) Automotive
8 1 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (17.24%) Analyst
2 17 (14.66%) Support Engineer
3 12 (10.34%) Support Analyst
4 11 (9.48%) Desktop Support
5 10 (8.62%) Senior
6 9 (7.76%) IT Engineer
7 8 (6.90%) Windows Engineer
8 7 (6.03%) 2nd Line Support
8 7 (6.03%) IT Support
9 6 (5.17%) Desktop Analyst
9 6 (5.17%) Desktop Support Analyst
9 6 (5.17%) Security Engineer
9 6 (5.17%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (5.17%) Senior Desktop Analyst
9 6 (5.17%) Senior Desktop Support
9 6 (5.17%) Senior Desktop Support Analyst
9 6 (5.17%) Senior Support Analyst
10 5 (4.31%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Desktop Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.59%) .NET
2 2 (1.72%) Middleware
2 2 (1.72%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 2 (1.72%) WPF
3 1 (0.86%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.86%) Bazel
3 1 (0.86%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.86%) Hibernate
3 1 (0.86%) JPA
3 1 (0.86%) React
3 1 (0.86%) Regular Expression
3 1 (0.86%) Spring
3 1 (0.86%) Spring Batch
3 1 (0.86%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.86%) Swing
3 1 (0.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.90%) iPad
2 7 (6.03%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.17%) iPhone
4 5 (4.31%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.59%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (2.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.59%) Hedge funds
6 3 (2.59%) Replication
7 2 (1.72%) 3D Graphics
7 2 (1.72%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.72%) Fat Client
7 2 (1.72%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.72%) Thin Client
7 2 (1.72%) Virtual Reality
7 2 (1.72%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.72%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 23 (19.83%) Windows 10
2 21 (18.10%) Windows Server
3 20 (17.24%) Linux
4 12 (10.34%) Mac OS
5 5 (4.31%) Unix
6 3 (2.59%) Mac OS X
6 3 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.59%) Windows 7
7 2 (1.72%) Android
7 2 (1.72%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.72%) Solaris
7 2 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.86%) AIX
8 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (27.59%) ITIL
2 31 (26.72%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (12.93%) Migration
4 13 (11.21%) Customer Service
5 10 (8.62%) Service Management
6 9 (7.76%) Incident Response
6 9 (7.76%) Investment Management
7 8 (6.90%) Agile
7 8 (6.90%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (6.90%) ITSM
7 8 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (6.03%) Change Management
8 7 (6.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (6.03%) Service Delivery
8 7 (6.03%) SIEM
9 6 (5.17%) Analytics
9 6 (5.17%) Project Management
10 5 (4.31%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (4.31%) Incident Management
10 5 (4.31%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 22 (18.97%) PowerShell
2 15 (12.93%) Python
3 13 (11.21%) SQL
4 6 (5.17%) C#
4 6 (5.17%) Java
5 5 (4.31%) Bash
6 2 (1.72%) C
6 2 (1.72%) C++
6 2 (1.72%) PHP
7 1 (0.86%) COBOL
7 1 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.86%) Perl
7 1 (0.86%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (11.21%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (8.62%) Degree
3 8 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.90%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.59%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.59%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (2.59%) MCSA
5 2 (1.72%) A+ Certification
5 2 (1.72%) CCNA
5 2 (1.72%) CISSP
5 2 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (1.72%) MCITP
5 2 (1.72%) MCSE
6 1 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.86%) CSPO
6 1 (0.86%) GCIA
6 1 (0.86%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.17%) SLA
2 3 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.59%) QA
3 2 (1.72%) NIST
3 2 (1.72%) PMO
4 1 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.86%) GDPR
4 1 (0.86%) HIPAA
System Software
1 40 (34.48%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.45%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.59%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (1.72%) Docker
6 1 (0.86%) Firmware
6 1 (0.86%) HDFS
6 1 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.86%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.86%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.86%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 19 (16.38%) SCCM
2 17 (14.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (4.31%) Ansible
4 3 (2.59%) NetBackup
4 3 (2.59%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
4 3 (2.59%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 2 (1.72%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (1.72%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (1.72%) SCOM
5 2 (1.72%) WSUS
6 1 (0.86%) Kibana
6 1 (0.86%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.86%) QRadar
6 1 (0.86%) Terraform
6 1 (0.86%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 52 (44.83%) Microsoft
2 18 (15.52%) VMware
3 14 (12.07%) Citrix
4 11 (9.48%) ServiceNow
5 6 (5.17%) Apple
6 5 (4.31%) Cisco
6 5 (4.31%) HP
6 5 (4.31%) Oracle
7 4 (3.45%) Altiris
7 4 (3.45%) IBM
7 4 (3.45%) Splunk
7 4 (3.45%) Symantec
8 3 (2.59%) Dell
8 3 (2.59%) Ivanti
8 3 (2.59%) Polycom
8 3 (2.59%) Tenable
8 3 (2.59%) Veeam
9 2 (1.72%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.72%) Remedy
9 2 (1.72%) Reuters