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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 22 19
Rank change year-on-year -34 -3 -4
Contract jobs citing Windows 86 157 207
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.89% 7.75% 8.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 53.42% 56.88% 62.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 115 151
10th Percentile £181 £208 £150
25th Percentile £199 £263 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +33.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £544
90th Percentile £735 £662 £675
London median daily rate £440 £421 £400
% change year-on-year +4.64% +5.13% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £48.48 £19.63
25th Percentile £20.82 £89.31 £20.67
Median hourly rate £22.27 £112.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -80.12% +397.78% +15.38%
75th Percentile £23.71 £130.88 £23.75
90th Percentile - £164.85 -
London median hourly rate £22.00 £24.42 £22.00
% change year-on-year -9.91% +11.00% -12.00%

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 161 276 329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 7.29% 13.63% 12.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 198 241
10th Percentile £187 £236 £181
25th Percentile £275 £363 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +15.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £639 £594
90th Percentile £753 £710 £700
London median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.50% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile £21.39 £48.48 -
25th Percentile £22.24 £89.31 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.13 £112.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -77.56% +397.78% -4.26%
75th Percentile £28.05 £130.88 £23.75
90th Percentile £28.92 £164.85 -
London median hourly rate £23.00 £26.54 £22.00
% change year-on-year -13.32% +20.61% -14.43%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -35 75 £450 -10.00% 48
City of Westminster - 3 £475 - 1
West End of London +2 2 £575 -2.54% 2
Southwark +1 1 £188 -43.61%
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 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (3.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.16%) Eikon
1 1 (1.16%) Fidessa
1 1 (1.16%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 28 (32.56%) Microsoft 365
2 21 (24.42%) Azure
3 13 (15.12%) AWS
4 9 (10.47%) Entra ID
5 5 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.49%) GCP
6 3 (3.49%) GitHub
6 3 (3.49%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.33%) OCI
7 2 (2.33%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.33%) Serverless
8 1 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.16%) IBM Cloud
8 1 (1.16%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.16%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.81%) DNS
1 5 (5.81%) VPN
2 3 (3.49%) Firewall
2 3 (3.49%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (2.33%) DHCP
4 1 (1.16%) HTTP
4 1 (1.16%) IPv4
4 1 (1.16%) IPv6
4 1 (1.16%) LAN
4 1 (1.16%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.16%) SAN
4 1 (1.16%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.16%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.16%) WAN
4 1 (1.16%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.49%) DB2
1 3 (3.49%) MongoDB
1 3 (3.49%) NoSQL
1 3 (3.49%) Oracle Database
1 3 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (3.49%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.16%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (5.81%) JIRA
2 3 (3.49%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.33%) Git
3 2 (2.33%) git-flow
4 1 (1.16%) MSI
General
1 45 (52.33%) Social Skills
2 26 (30.23%) Finance
3 9 (10.47%) Banking
4 8 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.49%) Financial Institution
5 3 (3.49%) Publishing
6 2 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.33%) Front Office
6 2 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.33%) Law
6 2 (2.33%) Legal
6 2 (2.33%) Marketing
6 2 (2.33%) Military
6 2 (2.33%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.33%) Retail
6 2 (2.33%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.16%) International Banking
7 1 (1.16%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.16%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.16%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 20 (23.26%) Support Engineer
2 11 (12.79%) IT Support
3 10 (11.63%) IT Engineer
3 10 (11.63%) IT Support Engineer
4 7 (8.14%) Consultant
5 6 (6.98%) Analyst
5 6 (6.98%) Developer
5 6 (6.98%) Lead
6 5 (5.81%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 5 (5.81%) 2nd Line Support
6 5 (5.81%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 5 (5.81%) Architect
6 5 (5.81%) Citrix Engineer
7 4 (4.65%) Senior
7 4 (4.65%) Service Analyst
7 4 (4.65%) Service Desk Analyst
8 3 (3.49%) C# Developer
8 3 (3.49%) Data Scientist
8 3 (3.49%) Programme Manager
8 3 (3.49%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.81%) .NET
2 3 (3.49%) AngularJS
2 3 (3.49%) Backbone.js
2 3 (3.49%) Bootstrap
2 3 (3.49%) Ember.js
2 3 (3.49%) Hugging Face
2 3 (3.49%) jQuery
2 3 (3.49%) Keras
2 3 (3.49%) PyTorch
2 3 (3.49%) React
2 3 (3.49%) REST
2 3 (3.49%) TensorFlow
3 2 (2.33%) .NET Framework
3 2 (2.33%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 2 (2.33%) COM
3 2 (2.33%) Middleware
3 2 (2.33%) Qt
3 2 (2.33%) Web Services
4 1 (1.16%) Software Packaging
4 1 (1.16%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.47%) Onboarding
2 6 (6.98%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.49%) Hedge funds
4 3 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.33%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.33%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (1.16%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.16%) BYOD
6 1 (1.16%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.16%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.16%) Device Driver
6 1 (1.16%) PACS
6 1 (1.16%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.16%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.16%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.16%) Robotics
6 1 (1.16%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (22.09%) Windows 10
2 17 (19.77%) Windows Server
3 15 (17.44%) Linux
4 9 (10.47%) Mac OS
5 5 (5.81%) Android
6 4 (4.65%) Apple iOS
7 3 (3.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (3.49%) Unix
8 2 (2.33%) Mac OS X
9 1 (1.16%) Solaris
9 1 (1.16%) VMS
9 1 (1.16%) Windows 7
9 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (19.77%) ITIL
2 16 (18.60%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (17.44%) Migration
4 14 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (15.12%) DevOps
6 12 (13.95%) Customer Service
7 9 (10.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (8.14%) Analytics
9 6 (6.98%) Application Packaging
9 6 (6.98%) Change Management
9 6 (6.98%) CI/CD
9 6 (6.98%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (6.98%) Roadmaps
10 5 (5.81%) Change Control
10 5 (5.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (5.81%) Project Delivery
10 5 (5.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 5 (5.81%) User Experience
11 4 (4.65%) Mentoring
11 4 (4.65%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 15 (17.44%) SQL
2 13 (15.12%) PowerShell
3 8 (9.30%) C#
4 4 (4.65%) Python
5 2 (2.33%) Bash
5 2 (2.33%) C++
5 2 (2.33%) VBA
6 1 (1.16%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (12.79%) Degree
2 7 (8.14%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.98%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.65%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.49%) CCNA
5 3 (3.49%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.49%) PhD
6 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.33%) CESG Certified Professional
6 2 (2.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.16%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.16%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.16%) CCA
7 1 (1.16%) CISSP
7 1 (1.16%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (1.16%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.16%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.16%) MCSA
7 1 (1.16%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.14%) QA
2 6 (6.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.49%) GDPR
3 3 (3.49%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.33%) NIST
4 2 (2.33%) NIST 800
4 2 (2.33%) SLA
5 1 (1.16%) DICOM
5 1 (1.16%) HL7
5 1 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (31.40%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.81%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.33%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.16%) Docker
4 1 (1.16%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.16%) XenApp
4 1 (1.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 14 (16.28%) SCCM
2 13 (15.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (8.14%) Ansible
4 5 (5.81%) Terraform
5 2 (2.33%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (2.33%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.16%) AirWatch
6 1 (1.16%) Autotask
6 1 (1.16%) Packer
6 1 (1.16%) SCVMM
6 1 (1.16%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (34.88%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.47%) Citrix
3 8 (9.30%) ServiceNow
4 6 (6.98%) VMware
5 4 (4.65%) Oracle
6 3 (3.49%) Apple
6 3 (3.49%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.33%) Adobe
8 1 (1.16%) Altiris
8 1 (1.16%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.16%) Bomgar
8 1 (1.16%) Canon
8 1 (1.16%) Dell
8 1 (1.16%) Google
8 1 (1.16%) HP
8 1 (1.16%) Qualys
8 1 (1.16%) Reuters
8 1 (1.16%) Symantec
8 1 (1.16%) Tanium
8 1 (1.16%) Veeam