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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 23 16
Rank change year-on-year -15 -7 +1
Contract jobs citing Windows 109 174 249
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.49% 7.39% 9.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 51.17% 58.78% 61.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 120 175
10th Percentile £185 £165 £167
25th Percentile £258 £263 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £437 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% -2.82% -
75th Percentile £628 £588 £542
90th Percentile £762 £625 £650
London median daily rate £425 £423 £450
% change year-on-year +0.59% -6.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £44.00 £19.16
25th Percentile - £69.50 £19.51
Median hourly rate £18.87 £112.00 £20.72
Median % change year-on-year -83.15% +440.67% +3.58%
75th Percentile - - £22.55
90th Percentile - - £23.27
London median hourly rate £22.00 £27.00 £30.75
% change year-on-year -18.52% -12.20% +23.00%

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 213 296 403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.72% 12.58% 14.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 200 298
10th Percentile £200 £210 £184
25th Percentile £333 £350 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £614 £600
90th Percentile £775 £696 £700
London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £20.35 £44.00 -
25th Percentile £22.56 £69.50 -
Median hourly rate £27.50 £112.00 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -75.45% +491.65% -7.66%
75th Percentile £29.13 - £21.34
90th Percentile £29.35 - £22.79
London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.71 £32.50
% change year-on-year -20.67% -2.45% +30.00%

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 17 December 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 17 December 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 -14 96 £450 - 30
City of Westminster - 9 £475 - 2
West End of London +5 2 - - 1
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 (7.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (6.42%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.83%) Confluence
4 1 (0.92%) CICS
Applications
1 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.92%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.92%) Eikon
2 1 (0.92%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 35 (32.11%) Microsoft 365
2 32 (29.36%) Azure
3 15 (13.76%) AWS
4 10 (9.17%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.59%) IaaS
6 4 (3.67%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.75%) GCP
7 3 (2.75%) PaaS
7 3 (2.75%) SaaS
8 2 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.83%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.83%) Nutanix
8 2 (1.83%) OCI
9 1 (0.92%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.92%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.92%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.92%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (14.68%) Firewall
2 6 (5.50%) DNS
2 6 (5.50%) VPN
2 6 (5.50%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (3.67%) DHCP
4 3 (2.75%) LAN
4 3 (2.75%) WAN
5 2 (1.83%) MPLS
5 2 (1.83%) Softphone
5 2 (1.83%) SSH
5 2 (1.83%) Wireless
6 1 (0.92%) BGP
6 1 (0.92%) HTTP
6 1 (0.92%) IP Telephony
6 1 (0.92%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.92%) Multicast
6 1 (0.92%) NAS
6 1 (0.92%) Network Security
6 1 (0.92%) OSPF
6 1 (0.92%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.67%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.83%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.92%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.92%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.92%) Impala
4 1 (0.92%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.92%) MySQL
4 1 (0.92%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.92%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (3.67%) JIRA
2 3 (2.75%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.83%) Git
4 1 (0.92%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.92%) JUnit
4 1 (0.92%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.92%) TeamCity
General
1 47 (43.12%) Social Skills
2 41 (37.61%) Finance
3 12 (11.01%) Banking
4 11 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.67%) Front Office
5 4 (3.67%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.75%) International Banking
6 3 (2.75%) Japanese Language
6 3 (2.75%) Retail
7 2 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.83%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.83%) Games
7 2 (1.83%) Law
7 2 (1.83%) Marketing
7 2 (1.83%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.92%) Automotive
8 1 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.92%) Legal
8 1 (0.92%) Military
8 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (17.43%) Support Engineer
2 14 (12.84%) Analyst
3 10 (9.17%) IT Support
3 10 (9.17%) Senior
3 10 (9.17%) Support Analyst
4 9 (8.26%) IT Engineer
5 8 (7.34%) Desktop Support
5 8 (7.34%) IT Support Engineer
6 7 (6.42%) 2nd Line Support
6 7 (6.42%) Consultant
6 7 (6.42%) Lead
7 6 (5.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 6 (5.50%) Desktop Analyst
7 6 (5.50%) Desktop Support Analyst
7 6 (5.50%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (5.50%) Senior Desktop Analyst
7 6 (5.50%) Senior Desktop Support
7 6 (5.50%) Senior Desktop Support Analyst
7 6 (5.50%) Senior Support Analyst
7 6 (5.50%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.67%) .NET
2 3 (2.75%) REST
3 2 (1.83%) Middleware
3 2 (1.83%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 1 (0.92%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.92%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.92%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.92%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.92%) Hibernate
4 1 (0.92%) JPA
4 1 (0.92%) React
4 1 (0.92%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.92%) RESTful
4 1 (0.92%) Spring
4 1 (0.92%) Spring Batch
4 1 (0.92%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.92%) Swing
4 1 (0.92%) WinForms
4 1 (0.92%) WPF
4 1 (0.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.17%) Data Centre
2 9 (8.26%) Onboarding
3 8 (7.34%) iPad
4 6 (5.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (5.50%) iPhone
5 5 (4.59%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (3.67%) Hedge funds
7 3 (2.75%) Replication
8 2 (1.83%) 3D Graphics
8 2 (1.83%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.83%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.83%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.83%) Virtual Reality
8 2 (1.83%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.83%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.92%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.92%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 30 (27.52%) Windows Server
2 22 (20.18%) Windows 10
3 18 (16.51%) Linux
4 11 (10.09%) Mac OS
5 5 (4.59%) Unix
6 4 (3.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (2.75%) Android
8 2 (1.83%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.83%) Mac OS X
8 2 (1.83%) Solaris
8 2 (1.83%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.83%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.83%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.92%) AIX
9 1 (0.92%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (25.69%) ITIL
2 24 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (14.68%) Migration
4 14 (12.84%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (11.93%) Customer Service
6 11 (10.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (7.34%) Agile
7 8 (7.34%) DevOps
7 8 (7.34%) Investment Management
7 8 (7.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (7.34%) User Experience
8 7 (6.42%) CI/CD
8 7 (6.42%) ITSM
8 7 (6.42%) Project Delivery
8 7 (6.42%) Service Delivery
8 7 (6.42%) Service Management
9 6 (5.50%) Change Control
9 6 (5.50%) Change Management
9 6 (5.50%) Software Engineering
10 5 (4.59%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (17.43%) PowerShell
2 17 (15.60%) SQL
3 9 (8.26%) Python
4 6 (5.50%) C#
5 5 (4.59%) Java
6 2 (1.83%) Bash
6 2 (1.83%) C++
6 2 (1.83%) PHP
7 1 (0.92%) C
7 1 (0.92%) COBOL
7 1 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 12 (11.01%) Degree
1 12 (11.01%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (8.26%) SC Cleared
2 9 (8.26%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.67%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.75%) CCNA
5 2 (1.83%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.83%) CESG Certified Professional
5 2 (1.83%) CISSP
5 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.83%) MCITP
5 2 (1.83%) MCSA
6 1 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.92%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.92%) CSPO
6 1 (0.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.92%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (5.50%) QA
2 5 (4.59%) SLA
3 3 (2.75%) GDPR
3 3 (2.75%) NIST
4 2 (1.83%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.92%) DICOM
5 1 (0.92%) HL7
5 1 (0.92%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.92%) PMO
5 1 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 40 (36.70%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.83%) Docker
3 2 (1.83%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.92%) Firmware
4 1 (0.92%) HDFS
4 1 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.92%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.92%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (0.92%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 19 (17.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (14.68%) SCCM
3 8 (7.34%) Ansible
4 4 (3.67%) Terraform
5 3 (2.75%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (2.75%) NetBackup
5 3 (2.75%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
5 3 (2.75%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 2 (1.83%) SCOM
7 1 (0.92%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.92%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.92%) Kibana
7 1 (0.92%) Packer
7 1 (0.92%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.92%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 49 (44.95%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.68%) VMware
3 10 (9.17%) ServiceNow
4 9 (8.26%) Citrix
5 6 (5.50%) Apple
5 6 (5.50%) Oracle
6 4 (3.67%) Altiris
6 4 (3.67%) Cisco
6 4 (3.67%) HP
6 4 (3.67%) IBM
6 4 (3.67%) Symantec
6 4 (3.67%) Veeam
7 3 (2.75%) CyberArk
7 3 (2.75%) Ivanti
8 2 (1.83%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.83%) Dell
8 2 (1.83%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.83%) Polycom
8 2 (1.83%) Remedy
8 2 (1.83%) Reuters