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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 25 19
Rank change year-on-year -34 -6 -4
Contract jobs citing Windows 86 150 201
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.36% 7.89% 8.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 50.59% 60.98% 63.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 106 146
10th Percentile £179 £215 £155
25th Percentile £196 £263 £251
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £451 £400
Median % change year-on-year -27.98% +12.81% -5.88%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £570
90th Percentile £669 £675 £675
London median daily rate £428 £440 £400
% change year-on-year -2.84% +10.00% -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 £24.00 £24.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 170 246 319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 6.65% 12.95% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 180 227
10th Percentile £187 £237 £202
25th Percentile £244 £350 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% +8.42% -9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £654
90th Percentile £670 £712 £738
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 £26.08 £24.34 £22.00
% change year-on-year +7.13% +10.64% -53.68%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -37 71 £300 -31.82% 37
West End of London -7 4 £575 -0.86% 3
City of Westminster -3 2 £600 +33.33% 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 8 (9.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (6.98%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.16%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (9.30%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (8.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 32 (37.21%) Microsoft 365
2 27 (31.40%) Azure
3 15 (17.44%) Entra ID
4 14 (16.28%) AWS
5 6 (6.98%) GCP
5 6 (6.98%) GitHub
6 5 (5.81%) OneDrive
7 4 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (3.49%) Azure AKS
8 3 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.49%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (3.49%) IaaS
8 3 (3.49%) PaaS
8 3 (3.49%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.49%) SaaS
9 2 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.33%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (17.44%) DNS
2 11 (12.79%) DHCP
3 9 (10.47%) VPN
4 6 (6.98%) Firewall
4 6 (6.98%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.33%) LAN
5 2 (2.33%) SMTP
5 2 (2.33%) Unified Communications
5 2 (2.33%) WAN
6 1 (1.16%) Internet
6 1 (1.16%) IPv4
6 1 (1.16%) IPv6
6 1 (1.16%) NetScaler
6 1 (1.16%) Network Security
6 1 (1.16%) SAN
6 1 (1.16%) VLAN
6 1 (1.16%) VSAN
6 1 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.16%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.28%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.65%) Db2
2 4 (4.65%) MongoDB
2 4 (4.65%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.49%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.33%) Big Data
4 2 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.33%) Power BI
4 2 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 6 (6.98%) JIRA
2 2 (2.33%) git-flow
2 2 (2.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.33%) MSI
3 1 (1.16%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.16%) Fiddler
3 1 (1.16%) Gradle
3 1 (1.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (36.05%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.44%) Finance
3 8 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.81%) Banking
5 4 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.33%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.33%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.33%) Publishing
7 1 (1.16%) Front Office
7 1 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.16%) International Banking
7 1 (1.16%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.16%) Law
7 1 (1.16%) Legal
7 1 (1.16%) Mandarin Language
7 1 (1.16%) Military
7 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (24.42%) Support Engineer
2 13 (15.12%) Analyst
3 10 (11.63%) Desktop Support
3 10 (11.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (11.63%) IT Support
4 7 (8.14%) Support Analyst
5 6 (6.98%) Developer
5 6 (6.98%) IT Analyst
5 6 (6.98%) IT Engineer
5 6 (6.98%) IT Support Engineer
6 5 (5.81%) Senior
7 4 (4.65%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 4 (4.65%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (4.65%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 4 (4.65%) Citrix Engineer
7 4 (4.65%) Consultant
7 4 (4.65%) Infrastructure Support
7 4 (4.65%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 4 (4.65%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 4 (4.65%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.98%) .NET
2 5 (5.81%) .NET Framework
3 3 (3.49%) AngularJS
3 3 (3.49%) Backbone.js
3 3 (3.49%) Bootstrap
3 3 (3.49%) Ember.js
3 3 (3.49%) Hugging Face
3 3 (3.49%) jQuery
3 3 (3.49%) Keras
3 3 (3.49%) PyTorch
3 3 (3.49%) React
3 3 (3.49%) TensorFlow
4 2 (2.33%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 2 (2.33%) COM
4 2 (2.33%) Qt
4 2 (2.33%) Web Services
5 1 (1.16%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.16%) Blazor
5 1 (1.16%) Software Packaging
5 1 (1.16%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.14%) Onboarding
2 5 (5.81%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (5.81%) PKI
2 5 (5.81%) Video Conferencing
3 4 (4.65%) Clustering
3 4 (4.65%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.33%) BYOD
4 2 (2.33%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.33%) iPhone
4 2 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.33%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.16%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.16%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.16%) CMDB
5 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.16%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.16%) Life Science
5 1 (1.16%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.16%) Replication
5 1 (1.16%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 19 (22.09%) Windows Server
2 14 (16.28%) Mac OS
3 13 (15.12%) Linux
4 10 (11.63%) Windows 10
5 5 (5.81%) Android
6 4 (4.65%) Apple iOS
6 4 (4.65%) VMS
7 1 (1.16%) Mac OS X
7 1 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.16%) SUSE
7 1 (1.16%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.16%) Unix
7 1 (1.16%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (16.28%) ITIL
3 13 (15.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (15.12%) Migration
4 11 (12.79%) Customer Service
5 10 (11.63%) DevOps
6 9 (10.47%) AI
7 8 (9.30%) CI/CD
8 7 (8.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (8.14%) Mentoring
9 6 (6.98%) Analytics
9 6 (6.98%) Application Packaging
9 6 (6.98%) Change Management
9 6 (6.98%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (5.81%) Change Control
10 5 (5.81%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (5.81%) High Availability
10 5 (5.81%) Machine Learning
10 5 (5.81%) Runbook
11 4 (4.65%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.60%) PowerShell
2 12 (13.95%) SQL
3 10 (11.63%) C#
4 5 (5.81%) Python
5 3 (3.49%) C++
5 3 (3.49%) PL/SQL
5 3 (3.49%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.33%) VBA
7 1 (1.16%) Bash
7 1 (1.16%) Java
7 1 (1.16%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.47%) Degree
3 5 (5.81%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.65%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.49%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.49%) CCNA
5 3 (3.49%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.49%) PhD
6 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.33%) MCSE
7 1 (1.16%) BC Cleared
7 1 (1.16%) CCA
7 1 (1.16%) CISA
7 1 (1.16%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (1.16%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.16%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.65%) QA
1 4 (4.65%) SLA
2 2 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.16%) GDPR
3 1 (1.16%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 34 (39.53%) Active Directory
2 8 (9.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.98%) Hyper-V
3 6 (6.98%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (6.98%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (4.65%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.49%) BitLocker
5 3 (3.49%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (2.33%) Docker
6 2 (2.33%) Firmware
6 2 (2.33%) Terminal Services
6 2 (2.33%) vSphere
7 1 (1.16%) XenApp
7 1 (1.16%) XenDesktop
7 1 (1.16%) zsh
Systems Management
1 14 (16.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (10.47%) Kubernetes
3 8 (9.30%) SCCM
4 5 (5.81%) Terraform
5 4 (4.65%) Ansible
6 3 (3.49%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (3.49%) vCenter Server
7 2 (2.33%) Nagios
7 2 (2.33%) Puppet
7 2 (2.33%) vMotion
8 1 (1.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.16%) Autotask
8 1 (1.16%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (1.16%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.16%) SCVMM
8 1 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.16%) VxRail
8 1 (1.16%) WSUS
Vendors
1 44 (51.16%) Microsoft
2 16 (18.60%) Citrix
3 11 (12.79%) VMware
4 8 (9.30%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.65%) Apple
5 4 (4.65%) Bloomberg
5 4 (4.65%) HP
5 4 (4.65%) Oracle
6 3 (3.49%) Cisco
6 3 (3.49%) Google
7 2 (2.33%) Adobe
7 2 (2.33%) Dell
7 2 (2.33%) EMC
7 2 (2.33%) IBM
7 2 (2.33%) Symantec
8 1 (1.16%) Charles River
8 1 (1.16%) ION Trading
8 1 (1.16%) Isilon
8 1 (1.16%) Reuters
8 1 (1.16%) Sybase