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

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 26 16
Rank change year-on-year -9 -10 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows 115 178 258
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.81% 7.43% 9.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 53.00% 59.73% 62.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 122 181
10th Percentile £185 £165 £173
25th Percentile £258 £278 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £449 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.22% -0.22% +3.45%
75th Percentile £575 £576 £550
90th Percentile £726 £638 £650
London median daily rate £425 £425 £450
% change year-on-year - -5.56% -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 £29.50
% change year-on-year -18.52% -8.47% +18.00%

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 217 298 413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.96% 12.43% 14.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 203 302
10th Percentile £200 £206 £185
25th Percentile £325 £350 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £478
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +4.71% -4.50%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £600
90th Percentile £775 £710 £700
London median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -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 £57.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -56.26% +76.92% +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 8 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 8 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 -11 101 £450 - 36
City of Westminster - 9 £475 -
West End of London +7 3 £215 -52.12%
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 9 (7.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (6.09%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.61%) Confluence
4 1 (0.87%) CICS
Applications
1 6 (5.22%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.87%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.87%) Eikon
2 1 (0.87%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 36 (31.30%) Microsoft 365
2 32 (27.83%) Azure
3 15 (13.04%) AWS
4 10 (8.70%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.35%) IaaS
6 4 (3.48%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.61%) GCP
7 3 (2.61%) PaaS
7 3 (2.61%) SaaS
8 2 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.74%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.74%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.87%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.87%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.87%) OCI
9 1 (0.87%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.87%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (13.91%) Firewall
2 9 (7.83%) DNS
3 7 (6.09%) DHCP
4 6 (5.22%) VPN
4 6 (5.22%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (2.61%) LAN
5 3 (2.61%) WAN
6 2 (1.74%) MPLS
6 2 (1.74%) NetScaler
6 2 (1.74%) Softphone
6 2 (1.74%) SSH
6 2 (1.74%) Wireless
7 1 (0.87%) BGP
7 1 (0.87%) DKIM
7 1 (0.87%) DMARC
7 1 (0.87%) Multicast
7 1 (0.87%) OSPF
7 1 (0.87%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.87%) VSAN
7 1 (0.87%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.22%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.48%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.87%) Apache Hive
3 1 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.87%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.87%) Impala
3 1 (0.87%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.87%) MySQL
3 1 (0.87%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.87%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.87%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (3.48%) JIRA
2 3 (2.61%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.74%) Git
4 1 (0.87%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.87%) JUnit
4 1 (0.87%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.87%) TeamCity
General
1 49 (42.61%) Social Skills
2 45 (39.13%) Finance
3 14 (12.17%) Banking
4 11 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.48%) Front Office
5 4 (3.48%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.61%) International Banking
6 3 (2.61%) Japanese Language
6 3 (2.61%) Retail
7 2 (1.74%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.74%) Games
7 2 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.74%) Law
7 2 (1.74%) Marketing
7 2 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.74%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.74%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.87%) Legal
8 1 (0.87%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (17.39%) Support Engineer
2 16 (13.91%) Analyst
3 11 (9.57%) IT Support
3 11 (9.57%) Support Analyst
4 10 (8.70%) Senior
5 9 (7.83%) IT Engineer
6 8 (6.96%) Desktop Support
6 8 (6.96%) IT Support Engineer
7 7 (6.09%) 2nd Line Support
7 7 (6.09%) Consultant
8 6 (5.22%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 6 (5.22%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 6 (5.22%) Desktop Analyst
8 6 (5.22%) Desktop Support Analyst
8 6 (5.22%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (5.22%) Senior Desktop Analyst
8 6 (5.22%) Senior Desktop Support
8 6 (5.22%) Senior Desktop Support Analyst
8 6 (5.22%) Senior Support Analyst
8 6 (5.22%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.61%) .NET
2 2 (1.74%) Middleware
2 2 (1.74%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 1 (0.87%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.87%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.87%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.87%) Bazel
3 1 (0.87%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.87%) Hibernate
3 1 (0.87%) JPA
3 1 (0.87%) React
3 1 (0.87%) Regular Expression
3 1 (0.87%) REST
3 1 (0.87%) RESTful
3 1 (0.87%) Spring
3 1 (0.87%) Spring Batch
3 1 (0.87%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.87%) WinForms
3 1 (0.87%) WPF
3 1 (0.87%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.70%) Data Centre
2 8 (6.96%) iPad
2 8 (6.96%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (5.22%) iPhone
4 5 (4.35%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (3.48%) Hedge funds
6 3 (2.61%) Replication
7 2 (1.74%) 3D Graphics
7 2 (1.74%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.74%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.74%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.74%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.74%) Virtual Reality
7 2 (1.74%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.74%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 29 (25.22%) Windows Server
2 24 (20.87%) Windows 10
3 17 (14.78%) Linux
4 11 (9.57%) Mac OS
5 5 (4.35%) Unix
6 3 (2.61%) Android
6 3 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.74%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.74%) Mac OS X
7 2 (1.74%) Solaris
7 2 (1.74%) Windows 7
7 2 (1.74%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.74%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.74%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.87%) AIX
8 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (26.09%) ITIL
2 26 (22.61%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (14.78%) Migration
4 15 (13.04%) Customer Service
5 14 (12.17%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (7.83%) Agile
7 9 (7.83%) Service Management
8 8 (6.96%) Investment Management
8 8 (6.96%) ITSM
8 8 (6.96%) User Experience
9 7 (6.09%) CI/CD
9 7 (6.09%) DevOps
9 7 (6.09%) Project Delivery
9 7 (6.09%) Service Delivery
9 7 (6.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (5.22%) Change Control
10 6 (5.22%) Change Management
11 5 (4.35%) Incident Management
11 5 (4.35%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (17.39%) PowerShell
2 16 (13.91%) SQL
3 9 (7.83%) Python
4 5 (4.35%) C#
4 5 (4.35%) Java
5 2 (1.74%) Bash
5 2 (1.74%) C++
5 2 (1.74%) PHP
6 1 (0.87%) C
6 1 (0.87%) COBOL
6 1 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.87%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (10.43%) Degree
1 12 (10.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (7.83%) SC Cleared
2 9 (7.83%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.48%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.61%) CCNA
5 2 (1.74%) A+ Certification
5 2 (1.74%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.74%) CISSP
5 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.74%) MCITP
5 2 (1.74%) MCSA
6 1 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.87%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.87%) CESG Certified Professional
6 1 (0.87%) CSPO
6 1 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.22%) QA
1 6 (5.22%) SLA
2 5 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.61%) GDPR
4 2 (1.74%) NIST
4 2 (1.74%) PMO
5 1 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.87%) DICOM
5 1 (0.87%) HL7
5 1 (0.87%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.87%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (37.39%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.74%) Docker
3 2 (1.74%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.74%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.87%) Firmware
4 1 (0.87%) HDFS
4 1 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.87%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.87%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (0.87%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 20 (17.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (15.65%) SCCM
3 8 (6.96%) Ansible
4 4 (3.48%) Terraform
5 3 (2.61%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (2.61%) NetBackup
5 3 (2.61%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
5 3 (2.61%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 2 (1.74%) SCOM
7 1 (0.87%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.87%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.87%) Kibana
7 1 (0.87%) Packer
7 1 (0.87%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.87%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 52 (45.22%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.91%) VMware
3 11 (9.57%) Citrix
4 10 (8.70%) ServiceNow
5 6 (5.22%) Apple
6 5 (4.35%) Oracle
7 4 (3.48%) Altiris
7 4 (3.48%) Cisco
7 4 (3.48%) HP
7 4 (3.48%) IBM
7 4 (3.48%) Symantec
7 4 (3.48%) Veeam
8 3 (2.61%) Ivanti
9 2 (1.74%) Bloomberg
9 2 (1.74%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.74%) Dell
9 2 (1.74%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.74%) Polycom
9 2 (1.74%) Remedy
9 2 (1.74%) Reuters