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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 21 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 -8 +3
Contract jobs citing Windows 128 192 309
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 6.56% 8.28% 9.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 56.89% 62.54% 65.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 126 215
10th Percentile £200 £154 £154
25th Percentile £264 £340 £214
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.28% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £556 £585 £558
90th Percentile £676 £675 £650
London median daily rate £425 £400 £494
% change year-on-year +6.25% -18.99% +3.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £19.85 £23.90 -
25th Percentile £21.31 £25.06 £21.25
Median hourly rate £24.50 £27.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% +20.00% +12.50%
75th Percentile £27.75 £28.19 £23.75
90th Percentile £29.25 £28.90 -
London median hourly rate £23.00 £24.15 £25.86
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.59% +8.13%

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 225 307 470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.53% 13.23% 14.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 202 330
10th Percentile £250 £250 £170
25th Percentile £325 £363 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.79% +3.00% -
75th Percentile £663 £638 £638
90th Percentile £696 £725 £725
London median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £20.33 £23.90 £23.88
25th Percentile £22.53 £25.06 £27.81
Median hourly rate £26.00 £27.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -25.52% +79.01%
75th Percentile £29.13 £28.19 £45.31
90th Percentile £29.80 £28.90 £49.63
London median hourly rate £25.15 £27.00 £41.92
% change year-on-year -6.85% -35.59% +75.31%

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
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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -11 111 £408 -9.44% 41
City of Westminster +5 10 £475 -2.56% 2
West End of London +2 5 £215 +38.71% 4
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 (8.59%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.13%) Confluence
4 3 (2.34%) CMS
5 1 (0.78%) CICS
5 1 (0.78%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (7.03%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.78%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 35 (27.34%) Microsoft 365
2 34 (26.56%) Azure
3 12 (9.38%) AWS
4 10 (7.81%) Entra ID
5 6 (4.69%) OneDrive
6 5 (3.91%) IaaS
7 4 (3.13%) GCP
8 3 (2.34%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.34%) PaaS
8 3 (2.34%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.34%) SaaS
9 2 (1.56%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.56%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.56%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.78%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.78%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.78%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (14.06%) Firewall
2 15 (11.72%) DNS
3 12 (9.38%) DHCP
4 9 (7.03%) VPN
5 8 (6.25%) WAN
6 7 (5.47%) LAN
7 6 (4.69%) TCP/IP
7 6 (4.69%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (2.34%) VLAN
9 2 (1.56%) IP Telephony
9 2 (1.56%) MPLS
9 2 (1.56%) NetScaler
9 2 (1.56%) Network Security
9 2 (1.56%) Softphone
9 2 (1.56%) SSH
9 2 (1.56%) VoIP
9 2 (1.56%) Wireless
10 1 (0.78%) Multicast
10 1 (0.78%) NAS
10 1 (0.78%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.03%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.34%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.56%) MySQL
4 1 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.78%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.78%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.78%) Impala
4 1 (0.78%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.78%) Power BI
4 1 (0.78%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (4.69%) JIRA
2 3 (2.34%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.56%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.56%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.78%) JMeter
4 1 (0.78%) JUnit
4 1 (0.78%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.78%) MSI
4 1 (0.78%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.78%) Subversion
General
1 58 (45.31%) Finance
2 44 (34.38%) Social Skills
3 22 (17.19%) Banking
4 16 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.47%) Front Office
5 7 (5.47%) International Banking
6 5 (3.91%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.34%) Japanese Language
7 3 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.34%) Retail Banking
7 3 (2.34%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.56%) Games
8 2 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.56%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.56%) Law
9 1 (0.78%) Automotive
9 1 (0.78%) Back Office
9 1 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 28 (21.88%) Analyst
2 19 (14.84%) Support Analyst
3 15 (11.72%) Windows Engineer
4 14 (10.94%) Desktop Support
4 14 (10.94%) Support Engineer
5 11 (8.59%) Desktop Engineer
6 9 (7.03%) 2nd Line Support
6 9 (7.03%) IT Support
6 9 (7.03%) Senior
7 7 (5.47%) Desktop Analyst
7 7 (5.47%) Desktop Support Analyst
7 7 (5.47%) IT Analyst
7 7 (5.47%) IT Engineer
8 6 (4.69%) IT Support Analyst
8 6 (4.69%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (4.69%) Senior Desktop Analyst
8 6 (4.69%) Senior Desktop Support
8 6 (4.69%) Senior Desktop Support Analyst
8 6 (4.69%) Senior Support Analyst
9 5 (3.91%) Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.34%) .NET
1 3 (2.34%) WPF
2 2 (1.56%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (1.56%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 1 (0.78%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.78%) Bazel
3 1 (0.78%) Hibernate
3 1 (0.78%) JPA
3 1 (0.78%) Middleware
3 1 (0.78%) React
3 1 (0.78%) Spring
3 1 (0.78%) Spring Batch
3 1 (0.78%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.78%) Swing
3 1 (0.78%) WebSockets
3 1 (0.78%) WinForms
3 1 (0.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.81%) iPad
2 8 (6.25%) iPhone
3 7 (5.47%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (3.91%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (3.13%) Hedge funds
6 4 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.34%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (2.34%) Equities
7 3 (2.34%) Replication
8 2 (1.56%) 3D Graphics
8 2 (1.56%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.56%) Fat Client
8 2 (1.56%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.56%) Thin Client
8 2 (1.56%) Virtual Reality
8 2 (1.56%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 26 (20.31%) Windows 10
2 24 (18.75%) Linux
3 23 (17.97%) Windows Server
4 12 (9.38%) Mac OS
5 4 (3.13%) Unix
6 3 (2.34%) Apple iOS
6 3 (2.34%) Windows 7
7 2 (1.56%) AIX
7 2 (1.56%) Mac OS X
7 2 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.78%) Android
8 1 (0.78%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.78%) Solaris
8 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (25.00%) ITIL
1 32 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (17.19%) Migration
3 13 (10.16%) Service Management
4 12 (9.38%) Customer Service
5 11 (8.59%) Change Management
5 11 (8.59%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (8.59%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (7.81%) Asset Management
6 10 (7.81%) Investment Management
7 9 (7.03%) Agile
7 9 (7.03%) Incident Response
7 9 (7.03%) ITSM
8 8 (6.25%) Service Delivery
9 7 (5.47%) Project Management
10 6 (4.69%) CI/CD
10 6 (4.69%) DevOps
10 6 (4.69%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (4.69%) Incident Management
10 6 (4.69%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 26 (20.31%) PowerShell
2 14 (10.94%) Python
3 11 (8.59%) SQL
4 7 (5.47%) Java
5 6 (4.69%) C#
6 4 (3.13%) Bash
7 3 (2.34%) VBScript
8 2 (1.56%) C
8 2 (1.56%) C++
8 2 (1.56%) PHP
9 1 (0.78%) COBOL
9 1 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.78%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (9.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (8.59%) Degree
3 7 (5.47%) Security Cleared
4 6 (4.69%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.34%) CCNA
6 3 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.34%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (2.34%) MCSA
7 2 (1.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.56%) MCITP
7 2 (1.56%) MCSE
8 1 (0.78%) CCNP
8 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.78%) GCFA
8 1 (0.78%) GCIA
8 1 (0.78%) GCIH
8 1 (0.78%) MCP
8 1 (0.78%) MOS
8 1 (0.78%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.69%) SLA
2 4 (3.13%) QA
3 3 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.56%) NIST
4 2 (1.56%) PMO
5 1 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.78%) GDPR
5 1 (0.78%) HIPAA
System Software
1 39 (30.47%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.13%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.34%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (1.56%) Docker
5 2 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.78%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.78%) Firmware
6 1 (0.78%) HDFS
6 1 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.78%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.78%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.78%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 22 (17.19%) SCCM
2 16 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.34%) Ansible
3 3 (2.34%) NetBackup
3 3 (2.34%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
3 3 (2.34%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 3 (2.34%) WSUS
4 2 (1.56%) CASB
4 2 (1.56%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (1.56%) SCOM
5 1 (0.78%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.78%) Kibana
5 1 (0.78%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.78%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.78%) QRadar
5 1 (0.78%) Terraform
5 1 (0.78%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 52 (40.63%) Microsoft
2 20 (15.63%) Citrix
3 18 (14.06%) VMware
4 9 (7.03%) ServiceNow
5 7 (5.47%) Cisco
5 7 (5.47%) Oracle
6 6 (4.69%) HP
7 5 (3.91%) Apple
8 4 (3.13%) Bloomberg
8 4 (3.13%) IBM
8 4 (3.13%) Reuters
8 4 (3.13%) Splunk
8 4 (3.13%) Symantec
9 3 (2.34%) Altiris
9 3 (2.34%) Google
9 3 (2.34%) Ivanti
9 3 (2.34%) Polycom
9 3 (2.34%) Refinitiv
9 3 (2.34%) Veeam
10 2 (1.56%) Tenable