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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 27 18
Rank change year-on-year -11 -9 -3
Contract jobs citing Windows 136 132 205
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.45% 6.64% 8.87%
As % of the Operating Systems category 58.87% 57.14% 65.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 86 139
10th Percentile £167 £216 £152
25th Percentile £219 £264 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £408 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.91% -9.44% -1.96%
75th Percentile £625 £563 £576
90th Percentile £668 £680 £653
London median daily rate £425 £425 £400
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £19.30 £19.85 £23.90
25th Percentile £19.38 £21.31 £25.06
Median hourly rate £21.00 £24.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -9.26% +20.00%
75th Percentile £23.25 £27.75 £28.19
90th Percentile £23.70 £29.25 £28.90
London median hourly rate £21.00 £23.00 £22.90
% change year-on-year -8.70% +0.44% -10.93%

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 231 231 314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.25% 11.63% 13.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 161 211
10th Percentile £175 £250 £210
25th Percentile £283 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £496 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -0.90% -0.10%
75th Percentile £636 £664 £638
90th Percentile £679 £696 £725
London median daily rate £475 £479 £500
% change year-on-year -0.89% -4.15% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £19.30 £20.33 £23.90
25th Percentile £19.38 £22.53 £25.06
Median hourly rate £21.00 £26.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -3.70% -25.52%
75th Percentile £23.25 £29.13 £28.19
90th Percentile £23.70 £29.80 £28.90
London median hourly rate £21.00 £25.15 £23.98
% change year-on-year -16.50% +4.90% -35.79%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -14 110 £450 +10.43% 56
City of Westminster -11 6 £350 -22.22% 7
Kensington and Chelsea - 3 £150 -
West End of London -11 2 £453 +110.47% 4
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 27 (19.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (10.29%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.21%) Confluence
4 2 (1.47%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (1.47%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (8.09%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (4.41%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 48 (35.29%) Microsoft 365
2 40 (29.41%) Azure
3 27 (19.85%) Entra ID
4 14 (10.29%) AWS
5 12 (8.82%) OneDrive
6 10 (7.35%) SaaS
7 7 (5.15%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (5.15%) GitHub
8 6 (4.41%) Azure AKS
8 6 (4.41%) GCP
8 6 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.68%) IaaS
9 5 (3.68%) OpenShift
9 5 (3.68%) PaaS
9 5 (3.68%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.47%) Serverless
12 1 (0.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 1 (0.74%) Azure Key Vault
12 1 (0.74%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 37 (27.21%) DNS
2 27 (19.85%) DHCP
3 20 (14.71%) Firewall
3 20 (14.71%) VPN
4 16 (11.76%) TCP/IP
5 6 (4.41%) LAN
5 6 (4.41%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (3.68%) WAN
7 4 (2.94%) Unified Communications
7 4 (2.94%) VLAN
8 3 (2.21%) SMTP
9 2 (1.47%) BGP
9 2 (1.47%) DMZ
9 2 (1.47%) Network Security
9 2 (1.47%) SAN
9 2 (1.47%) SSL
9 2 (1.47%) Value-Added Service
9 2 (1.47%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.74%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.74%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (19.12%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (3.68%) Oracle Database
3 5 (3.68%) Power BI
4 4 (2.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.21%) Big Data
5 3 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.74%) Db2
7 1 (0.74%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.74%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 14 (10.29%) JIRA
2 6 (4.41%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.21%) Artifactory
3 3 (2.21%) Git
3 3 (2.21%) GitLab
3 3 (2.21%) MSI
4 2 (1.47%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.47%) Fiddler
4 2 (1.47%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.74%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.74%) Gradle
5 1 (0.74%) Subversion
General
1 44 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 29 (21.32%) Finance
3 16 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.88%) Banking
5 4 (2.94%) Front Office
5 4 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.21%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.47%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.47%) Law
7 2 (1.47%) Military
7 2 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.47%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.74%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.74%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 40 (29.41%) Support Engineer
2 18 (13.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 17 (12.50%) IT Support
4 15 (11.03%) Analyst
4 15 (11.03%) IT Engineer
5 13 (9.56%) IT Support Engineer
6 12 (8.82%) Desktop Support
7 11 (8.09%) Support Analyst
8 8 (5.88%) Desktop Engineer
9 6 (4.41%) Active Directory Engineer
9 6 (4.41%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (4.41%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 6 (4.41%) Developer
9 6 (4.41%) Infrastructure Support
9 6 (4.41%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 6 (4.41%) IT Analyst
9 6 (4.41%) Senior
9 6 (4.41%) Windows Engineer
10 5 (3.68%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.68%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.56%) .NET
1 13 (9.56%) Terraform
2 7 (5.15%) .NET Framework
3 3 (2.21%) REST
4 2 (1.47%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.47%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.47%) ASP.NET
4 2 (1.47%) Kafka
4 2 (1.47%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (1.47%) PCRE
4 2 (1.47%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.74%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (0.74%) Blazor
5 1 (0.74%) LDAP
5 1 (0.74%) OAuth
5 1 (0.74%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.74%) Spring
5 1 (0.74%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.71%) Onboarding
2 14 (10.29%) Video Conferencing
3 11 (8.09%) Data Centre
4 8 (5.88%) Clustering
4 8 (5.88%) PKI
5 4 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.94%) iPhone
5 4 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.21%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.47%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.47%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.47%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.47%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.74%) Life Science
8 1 (0.74%) Replication
8 1 (0.74%) Thin Client
8 1 (0.74%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 42 (30.88%) Windows Server
2 24 (17.65%) Mac OS
3 21 (15.44%) Linux
4 20 (14.71%) Windows 10
5 7 (5.15%) Android
6 6 (4.41%) VMS
6 6 (4.41%) Windows 7
7 5 (3.68%) Apple iOS
7 5 (3.68%) Unix
7 5 (3.68%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (2.21%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (2.21%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.47%) OpenVMS
10 1 (0.74%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.74%) SUSE
10 1 (0.74%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (19.12%) Migration
3 24 (17.65%) ITIL
4 23 (16.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 18 (13.24%) Customer Service
5 18 (13.24%) ITSM
6 13 (9.56%) CI/CD
6 13 (9.56%) DevOps
6 13 (9.56%) High Availability
7 12 (8.82%) Service Management
7 12 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (8.09%) Asset Management
8 11 (8.09%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (8.09%) Service Delivery
9 10 (7.35%) Change Control
9 10 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (7.35%) Incident Management
9 10 (7.35%) Root Cause Analysis
10 9 (6.62%) AI
10 9 (6.62%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (27.94%) PowerShell
2 20 (14.71%) SQL
3 13 (9.56%) C#
4 12 (8.82%) Python
5 6 (4.41%) Bash
6 5 (3.68%) Java
7 4 (2.94%) PL/SQL
7 4 (2.94%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.21%) C++
9 2 (1.47%) Perl
10 1 (0.74%) Korn
10 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.74%) VB
Qualifications
1 31 (22.79%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.24%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.88%) Degree
3 8 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.68%) A+ Certification
5 3 (2.21%) CCNA
5 3 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.47%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.74%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.74%) CCNP
7 1 (0.74%) CISA
7 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.74%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.74%) MCSE
7 1 (0.74%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.74%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.74%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.76%) SLA
2 8 (5.88%) QA
3 2 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.47%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.47%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.74%) GDPR
4 1 (0.74%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.74%) GRC
System Software
1 69 (50.74%) Active Directory
2 21 (15.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (8.82%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (6.62%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (5.15%) Hyper-V
5 7 (5.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (3.68%) Docker
6 5 (3.68%) vSphere
7 4 (2.94%) BitLocker
7 4 (2.94%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (2.21%) Terminal Services
9 2 (1.47%) Firmware
10 1 (0.74%) UAG
10 1 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.74%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.74%) zsh
Systems Management
1 32 (23.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (12.50%) SCCM
3 15 (11.03%) Kubernetes
4 10 (7.35%) Ansible
4 10 (7.35%) vCenter Server
5 5 (3.68%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (2.94%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Clustering
6 4 (2.94%) Puppet
6 4 (2.94%) SCOM
6 4 (2.94%) WSUS
7 3 (2.21%) Nagios
7 3 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.21%) vMotion
8 2 (1.47%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.47%) Grafana
8 2 (1.47%) Nessus
8 2 (1.47%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.47%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.74%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 77 (56.62%) Microsoft
2 29 (21.32%) VMware
3 25 (18.38%) ServiceNow
4 17 (12.50%) Citrix
5 12 (8.82%) Cisco
6 11 (8.09%) Apple
6 11 (8.09%) Oracle
7 7 (5.15%) Bloomberg
8 6 (4.41%) Google
8 6 (4.41%) Remedy
9 5 (3.68%) Dynatrace
9 5 (3.68%) HP
9 5 (3.68%) Splunk
9 5 (3.68%) Symantec
10 4 (2.94%) ION Trading
11 3 (2.21%) Adobe
11 3 (2.21%) BMC
11 3 (2.21%) Commvault
11 3 (2.21%) Dell
11 3 (2.21%) EMC