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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 25 18
Rank change year-on-year -17 -7 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows 120 149 207
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.63% 7.25% 9.01%
As % of the Operating Systems category 56.07% 57.75% 68.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 97 146
10th Percentile £172 £217 £151
25th Percentile £200 £263 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £413 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% -2.94% -5.56%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £575
90th Percentile £668 £681 £654
London median daily rate £424 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -0.24% +6.25% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £19.28 £24.35 £23.90
25th Percentile £19.31 £25.25 £25.06
Median hourly rate £20.25 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +5.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile £21.81 £108.88 £28.19
90th Percentile £22.23 £156.05 £28.90
London median hourly rate £21.00 £23.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -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 214 258 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 8.26% 12.56% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 179 213
10th Percentile £183 £250 £174
25th Percentile £268 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £661 £638
90th Percentile £675 £725 £725
London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £19.28 £24.50 £23.90
25th Percentile £19.31 £25.63 £25.06
Median hourly rate £20.25 £28.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.68% +3.70% -28.00%
75th Percentile £21.81 £69.56 £28.19
90th Percentile £22.23 £140.33 £28.90
London median hourly rate £21.00 £24.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year -13.40% +10.23% -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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -24 99 £414 -4.06% 36
West End of London -10 2 £453 +94.62% 3
City of Westminster -13 2 £600 +33.33% 2
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 £150 -
Southwark - 1 £188 -
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 19 (15.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.67%) Confluence
3 2 (1.67%) IIS
4 1 (0.83%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 9 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (4.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 43 (35.83%) Microsoft 365
2 32 (26.67%) Azure
3 22 (18.33%) Entra ID
4 13 (10.83%) AWS
5 9 (7.50%) OneDrive
6 8 (6.67%) GitHub
7 7 (5.83%) GCP
7 7 (5.83%) SaaS
8 5 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (4.17%) Power Platform
9 4 (3.33%) Azure AKS
9 4 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.33%) IaaS
9 4 (3.33%) PaaS
10 3 (2.50%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (2.50%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.67%) Serverless
12 1 (0.83%) IBM Cloud
12 1 (0.83%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 29 (24.17%) DNS
2 22 (18.33%) DHCP
3 17 (14.17%) VPN
4 14 (11.67%) Firewall
5 12 (10.00%) TCP/IP
6 6 (5.00%) LAN
7 5 (4.17%) WAN
7 5 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (2.50%) SMTP
8 3 (2.50%) Unified Communications
9 2 (1.67%) DMZ
9 2 (1.67%) VLAN
9 2 (1.67%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.83%) BGP
10 1 (0.83%) Internet
10 1 (0.83%) MPLS
10 1 (0.83%) Network Security
10 1 (0.83%) OSPF
10 1 (0.83%) SSL
10 1 (0.83%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (17.50%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.17%) Oracle Database
3 4 (3.33%) Db2
3 4 (3.33%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.33%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.33%) Power BI
3 4 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.50%) Big Data
4 3 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 14 (11.67%) JIRA
2 4 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.50%) MSI
4 2 (1.67%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.67%) Fiddler
4 2 (1.67%) Git
4 2 (1.67%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.83%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.83%) Gradle
5 1 (0.83%) Subversion
General
1 39 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 24 (20.00%) Finance
3 13 (10.83%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.67%) Banking
5 4 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.50%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.67%) Front Office
7 2 (1.67%) Law
7 2 (1.67%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (0.83%) Military
8 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (28.33%) Support Engineer
2 17 (14.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 15 (12.50%) IT Support
4 13 (10.83%) Analyst
5 12 (10.00%) IT Engineer
6 11 (9.17%) IT Support Engineer
7 10 (8.33%) Desktop Support
8 9 (7.50%) Support Analyst
9 8 (6.67%) Developer
10 6 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support
10 6 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 6 (5.00%) IT Analyst
10 6 (5.00%) Senior
11 5 (4.17%) 2nd Line Support
11 5 (4.17%) Active Directory Engineer
11 5 (4.17%) C# Developer
11 5 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (4.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.17%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 4 (3.33%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.00%) .NET
2 8 (6.67%) .NET Framework
3 3 (2.50%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.50%) Backbone.js
3 3 (2.50%) Bootstrap
3 3 (2.50%) Ember.js
3 3 (2.50%) Hugging Face
3 3 (2.50%) jQuery
3 3 (2.50%) Keras
3 3 (2.50%) PyTorch
3 3 (2.50%) React
3 3 (2.50%) TensorFlow
4 2 (1.67%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.67%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 2 (1.67%) COM
4 2 (1.67%) Qt
4 2 (1.67%) Web Services
5 1 (0.83%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.83%) LDAP
5 1 (0.83%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 9 (7.50%) Video Conferencing
3 7 (5.83%) Clustering
3 7 (5.83%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.83%) PKI
4 5 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.33%) iPhone
6 3 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.50%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.67%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.67%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.83%) BYOD
8 1 (0.83%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.83%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.83%) iPad
8 1 (0.83%) Life Science
8 1 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.83%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 35 (29.17%) Windows Server
2 18 (15.00%) Linux
3 17 (14.17%) Mac OS
4 14 (11.67%) Windows 10
5 7 (5.83%) Android
6 5 (4.17%) Apple iOS
7 4 (3.33%) VMS
7 4 (3.33%) Windows 7
7 4 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.67%) Unix
9 2 (1.67%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.83%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.83%) OpenVMS
10 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.83%) SUSE
10 1 (0.83%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (28.33%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (18.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 21 (17.50%) Migration
4 19 (15.83%) ITIL
5 14 (11.67%) Customer Service
6 11 (9.17%) High Availability
6 11 (9.17%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (8.33%) AI
7 10 (8.33%) Service Delivery
8 9 (7.50%) DevOps
8 9 (7.50%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (6.67%) Asset Management
9 8 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (6.67%) ITSM
9 8 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (5.83%) Analytics
10 7 (5.83%) CI/CD
10 7 (5.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (5.83%) Incident Management
10 7 (5.83%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (24.17%) PowerShell
2 20 (16.67%) SQL
3 14 (11.67%) C#
4 10 (8.33%) Python
5 5 (4.17%) C++
5 5 (4.17%) PL/SQL
5 5 (4.17%) T-SQL
6 4 (3.33%) Java
7 3 (2.50%) Bash
8 2 (1.67%) VBA
9 1 (0.83%) Korn
9 1 (0.83%) Perl
9 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.83%) VB
Qualifications
1 24 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.17%) Degree
4 7 (5.83%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.33%) A+ Certification
5 4 (3.33%) CCNA
5 4 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.50%) PhD
7 1 (0.83%) CCA
7 1 (0.83%) CCNP
7 1 (0.83%) CESG Certified Professional
7 1 (0.83%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.83%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.83%) MCSE
7 1 (0.83%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.17%) SLA
2 8 (6.67%) QA
3 2 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.67%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.83%) GDPR
4 1 (0.83%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.83%) GRC
System Software
1 56 (46.67%) Active Directory
2 18 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (5.83%) Hyper-V
5 7 (5.83%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (4.17%) vSphere
7 4 (3.33%) BitLocker
7 4 (3.33%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (2.50%) Docker
8 3 (2.50%) Terminal Services
9 2 (1.67%) Firmware
10 1 (0.83%) UAG
10 1 (0.83%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.83%) XenApp
10 1 (0.83%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.83%) zsh
Systems Management
1 24 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 11 (9.17%) SCCM
4 10 (8.33%) vCenter Server
5 8 (6.67%) Ansible
5 8 (6.67%) Terraform
6 4 (3.33%) Puppet
7 3 (2.50%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (2.50%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (2.50%) Nagios
7 3 (2.50%) vMotion
8 2 (1.67%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.67%) Nessus
8 2 (1.67%) SCOM
8 2 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.67%) WSUS
9 1 (0.83%) Autotask
9 1 (0.83%) VxRail
9 1 (0.83%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 61 (50.83%) Microsoft
2 24 (20.00%) VMware
3 22 (18.33%) Citrix
4 18 (15.00%) ServiceNow
5 9 (7.50%) Oracle
6 7 (5.83%) Apple
6 7 (5.83%) Cisco
7 5 (4.17%) Bloomberg
7 5 (4.17%) HP
7 5 (4.17%) Remedy
8 4 (3.33%) Google
9 3 (2.50%) EMC
9 3 (2.50%) F5
9 3 (2.50%) ION Trading
9 3 (2.50%) Splunk
9 3 (2.50%) Symantec
9 3 (2.50%) Zscaler
10 2 (1.67%) BMC
10 2 (1.67%) Dell
10 2 (1.67%) Dynatrace