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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 27 19
Rank change year-on-year -21 -8 -3
Contract jobs citing Windows 112 153 212
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.24% 7.47% 8.93%
As % of the Operating Systems category 52.83% 56.88% 67.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 103 149
10th Percentile £175 £216 £156
25th Percentile £200 £263 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £638 £594 £575
90th Percentile £668 £693 £660
London median daily rate £415 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -7.72% +12.50% -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 212 269 312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 8.03% 13.13% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 190 220
10th Percentile £186 £250 £195
25th Percentile £306 £359 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £473
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +11.05% -5.45%
75th Percentile £638 £662 £638
90th Percentile £675 £720 £725
London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
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% -28.00%
75th Percentile £21.81 £108.88 £28.19
90th Percentile £22.23 £156.05 £28.90
London median hourly rate £21.50 £24.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -10.42% +9.09% -56.18%

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 18 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 18 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 -26 92 £406 -9.72% 25
West End of London -10 2 £453 +81.00% 2
City of Westminster -12 2 £600 +33.33% 1
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 14 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (9.82%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.79%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (8.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (4.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 40 (35.71%) Microsoft 365
2 29 (25.89%) Azure
3 21 (18.75%) Entra ID
4 13 (11.61%) AWS
5 8 (7.14%) OneDrive
6 7 (6.25%) GCP
6 7 (6.25%) GitHub
7 6 (5.36%) SaaS
8 5 (4.46%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (3.57%) Azure AKS
9 4 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.57%) IaaS
9 4 (3.57%) PaaS
10 3 (2.68%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (2.68%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.68%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.79%) Serverless
12 1 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.89%) IBM Cloud
12 1 (0.89%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 26 (23.21%) DNS
2 20 (17.86%) DHCP
3 14 (12.50%) Firewall
3 14 (12.50%) VPN
4 11 (9.82%) TCP/IP
5 6 (5.36%) LAN
6 5 (4.46%) WAN
7 4 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (2.68%) SMTP
8 3 (2.68%) Unified Communications
9 2 (1.79%) DMZ
9 2 (1.79%) VLAN
9 2 (1.79%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.89%) BGP
10 1 (0.89%) Internet
10 1 (0.89%) Network Security
10 1 (0.89%) SAN
10 1 (0.89%) VoIP
10 1 (0.89%) Wireless
10 1 (0.89%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.96%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.46%) Oracle Database
3 4 (3.57%) Db2
3 4 (3.57%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.57%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.68%) Big Data
4 3 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.79%) Power BI
5 2 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.89%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (0.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (8.93%) JIRA
2 4 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.68%) MSI
4 2 (1.79%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.79%) Fiddler
4 2 (1.79%) Git
4 2 (1.79%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.89%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.89%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.89%) Gradle
5 1 (0.89%) Subversion
General
1 40 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.75%) Finance
3 12 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.04%) Banking
5 4 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.79%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.79%) Law
6 2 (1.79%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.89%) Front Office
7 1 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.89%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.89%) Legal
7 1 (0.89%) Mandarin Language
7 1 (0.89%) Military
7 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (26.79%) Support Engineer
2 15 (13.39%) Analyst
3 14 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (12.50%) IT Support
4 11 (9.82%) IT Engineer
5 10 (8.93%) Desktop Support
5 10 (8.93%) IT Support Engineer
6 9 (8.04%) Support Analyst
7 8 (7.14%) Developer
8 6 (5.36%) IT Analyst
8 6 (5.36%) Senior
9 5 (4.46%) Active Directory Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) C# Developer
9 5 (4.46%) Infrastructure Support
9 5 (4.46%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Service Analyst
9 5 (4.46%) Service Desk Analyst
10 4 (3.57%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 4 (3.57%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.82%) .NET
2 8 (7.14%) .NET Framework
3 3 (2.68%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.68%) Backbone.js
3 3 (2.68%) Bootstrap
3 3 (2.68%) Ember.js
3 3 (2.68%) Hugging Face
3 3 (2.68%) jQuery
3 3 (2.68%) Keras
3 3 (2.68%) PyTorch
3 3 (2.68%) React
3 3 (2.68%) TensorFlow
4 2 (1.79%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.79%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 2 (1.79%) COM
4 2 (1.79%) Qt
4 2 (1.79%) Web Services
5 1 (0.89%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.89%) LDAP
5 1 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.71%) Onboarding
2 9 (8.04%) Video Conferencing
3 7 (6.25%) PKI
4 5 (4.46%) Clustering
4 5 (4.46%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.46%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.57%) iPhone
6 3 (2.68%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.79%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.89%) BYOD
8 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.89%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.89%) iPad
8 1 (0.89%) Life Science
8 1 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.89%) Replication
8 1 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.89%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 31 (27.68%) Windows Server
2 17 (15.18%) Linux
2 17 (15.18%) Mac OS
3 12 (10.71%) Windows 10
4 6 (5.36%) Android
5 4 (3.57%) Apple iOS
5 4 (3.57%) VMS
6 3 (2.68%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.89%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.89%) SUSE
8 1 (0.89%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.89%) Unix
8 1 (0.89%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.89%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (16.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 17 (15.18%) Migration
4 16 (14.29%) ITIL
5 12 (10.71%) Customer Service
6 10 (8.93%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (8.04%) AI
7 9 (8.04%) Asset Management
7 9 (8.04%) DevOps
7 9 (8.04%) High Availability
7 9 (8.04%) Service Delivery
8 8 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (6.25%) Analytics
9 7 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (6.25%) ITSM
9 7 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (5.36%) Change Control
10 6 (5.36%) CI/CD
10 6 (5.36%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 25 (22.32%) PowerShell
2 16 (14.29%) SQL
3 13 (11.61%) C#
4 9 (8.04%) Python
5 5 (4.46%) C++
5 5 (4.46%) PL/SQL
5 5 (4.46%) T-SQL
6 4 (3.57%) Java
7 3 (2.68%) Bash
8 2 (1.79%) VBA
9 1 (0.89%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.89%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.93%) Degree
3 9 (8.04%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.36%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.57%) CCNA
5 4 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.68%) PhD
7 2 (1.79%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.89%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.89%) CCA
8 1 (0.89%) CCNP
8 1 (0.89%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (0.89%) CISA
8 1 (0.89%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (0.89%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.89%) MCSE
8 1 (0.89%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.14%) SLA
2 6 (5.36%) QA
3 3 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.79%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.89%) GDPR
5 1 (0.89%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.89%) GRC
System Software
1 48 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 14 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (9.82%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (6.25%) Hyper-V
6 4 (3.57%) BitLocker
6 4 (3.57%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (3.57%) vSphere
7 3 (2.68%) Docker
7 3 (2.68%) Terminal Services
8 2 (1.79%) Firmware
9 1 (0.89%) UAG
9 1 (0.89%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.89%) XenApp
9 1 (0.89%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.89%) zsh
Systems Management
1 22 (19.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (10.71%) Kubernetes
3 10 (8.93%) SCCM
3 10 (8.93%) vCenter Server
4 6 (5.36%) Ansible
4 6 (5.36%) Terraform
5 4 (3.57%) Puppet
6 3 (2.68%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (2.68%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (2.68%) Nagios
6 3 (2.68%) vMotion
7 2 (1.79%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.79%) Nessus
7 2 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.89%) Autotask
8 1 (0.89%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.89%) Grafana
8 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.89%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.89%) VxRail
Vendors
1 57 (50.89%) Microsoft
2 22 (19.64%) Citrix
3 19 (16.96%) VMware
4 16 (14.29%) ServiceNow
5 8 (7.14%) Oracle
6 7 (6.25%) Apple
6 7 (6.25%) Cisco
7 5 (4.46%) HP
8 4 (3.57%) Bloomberg
8 4 (3.57%) Google
9 3 (2.68%) F5
9 3 (2.68%) ION Trading
9 3 (2.68%) Symantec
9 3 (2.68%) Zscaler
10 2 (1.79%) Dell
10 2 (1.79%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.79%) EMC
10 2 (1.79%) Remedy
10 2 (1.79%) Splunk
10 2 (1.79%) Tenable